User blog:ProblematicPeriwinklePlum/My proposal for a reform of the Wiki

It may or may not come as a surprise to some within the Cookie Run community that as of September 17th, 2022, there are officially no active admins on the Cookie Run Wiki, also known as the General Cookie Run Wiki colloquially. PassionatePubli was demoted by fandom staff on September 12th and Tetoraquest was personally self demoted on September 17th. The only user with admin rights on the Wiki is PepSodaBot, a bot account for automated edits by PeppermintSoda, a former Wiki admin and has not been active for years as PeppermintSoda personally chose to leave the Wiki. With no bureaucrats or active admins, the Wiki is officially in shambles as there are virtually no users with local rights.

But not all hope is lost! FANDOM, the host of the Cookie Run Wiki, has a program to "adopt" wikis, which gives a user Bureaucrat rights in an otherwise inactive community. This will allow an opprotunity for the Wiki to regrow and rejuvinate after years of neglect to accept change. But first, we need to come to an agreement that the Wiki needs to be changed. And how should it be changed, one may ask?

1. Unlock the locked pages.

It's no secret that the Cookie Run Wiki is infamous for it's outdated info for having it's pages locked by admins who then proceed to forget about such page locks. This is especially egregious for pages on recent content. Characters who are nonbinary will invariably have pages locked and at one point, a headcanon that Strawberry Crepe Cookie being presented as a demiboy was in their page's infobox and was treated as a fact. This caused FANDOM staff to intervein. A majority of pages are in desperate need of being unlocked.

2. Too much fluff, merge it together.

Individual Magic Candy ingredients do not need their own pages. However, a single large page of something like "List of C Grade Magic Laboratory ingredients" page could be made to host all of the info about them. I also believe that individual costumes do not need their own pages, but that is a much more contestable opinion. If we are to have a page on Primeval Jungle for example, we can have a page hub describing things like the environment and lore for a page simply titled "Primeval Jungle" and then have the info for the stage itself in LINE Cookie Run as "Primeval Jungle (Sweet Escape Adventure)". Wait, what's the deal with the subtitle? More on that later.

3. There is not enough info on more general topics.

The Wiki prioritizes gameplay info over actual in-game lore and such. Pages for recurring species such as the Roll Cake Squirrels, Durianeers, and more do not exist. There are no pages for general locations.

4. There is no such thing as "LINE Cookie Run".

...Well, if I phrase it that way, I'm obviously wrong because it is definetly real. Or, at least was. What I mean is that LINE Cookie Run was not the only variant of itself, as Cookie Run for Kakao predates the existence of LINE Cookie Run by a year as well as a more obscure version of the game released in Mainland China titled "Cookie Run for QQ" was also released. Officially, Devsisters titles this game when referring to it in modern materials as "Kakao" or "LINE/Kakao", though instances of simply "Kakao" outnumber the times they call it LINE.

However, there is a unifying quality to LINE, Kakao, and QQ. They all share the same subtitle on their logos: "Sweet Escape Adventure". My proposition is that we decide to cover all current "LINE Cookie Run" content on the Wiki and change all instances of "LINE" to "Sweet Escape Adventure" as it is a much more general blanket term when referring to info that could have come from 3 distinct games. We can still call the game by "LINE" and such when referring to specific things for that localized version of the game, such as release dates and patches. I think that this will unify those looking for content on LINE Cookie Run and hiw it was compared to Cookie Run for Kakao, of which newer fans are much more familiar with as it remains the only active version of Sweet Escape Adventure today.

5. Take advantage of the fact that we are a general Wiki.

One of the most baffling decisions in my eyes on the Cookie Run Wiki is to only cover game content released in English. Later on when the staff were less active and didn't care, this was enforced less. However, a variety of content such as comics and merchandise are completely neglected. "But the comics aren't canon" is likely going to be one of the largest rebuttals. However, I don't see this as a problem. You can simply put a template on the top of the page stating that the content within the page is self-contained and only applies to that canon, as there are a variety of Cookie Run comics out there, not just one series. Besides, OvenBreak and Kingdom aren't even really canon to each other and each Cookie Run game has it's own contained canon, so why is this suddenly a problem? There are a number of English-speaking Cookie Run fans who are very curious avout the comics and struggle to find accurate info on the Comics and I hope that having the Wiki document such info would help. This would also include documenting Comic-exclusive characters such as Marian and Centennial Tree Cookie.

6. Have a larger admin team

It's not hard to see that the old admin gave people admin under the guise of nepotism; people who were friends were preferred to be given admin rights over people who were qualified (RanRan111 was the only real exception to this) Some of these users would simply reach a certain point and give up. Having a balanced admin team would be incredibly useful.

In my opinion, a healthy administration team consists of:

2 Bureaucrats (aka head admins)

2 Admins

3 Content Moderators (Can delete pages and vandalism but can't ban users or change themes and such)

4 Discussions Moderators (People who can ban people from Discussions as well as edit and delete comments)

Naturally, a means of communication between users must be established, cue...

7. Open an official Discord Server.

The previous ownership of the Wiki had a Disocrd server advertise. but really it was just a promotion to the Dragon's Nest Discord Server, a notoriously toxic and rather unwelcoming fan Discord server for Cookie run which only had a single dedicated channel to discuss the channel which was leter renamed and therefore the "burden" was removed.

Having a Discord server can unite people to discuss the manners of the Wiki as well as have users ping Admins and Content Moderators in the event of vandalism.

8. Revamp the rules

The rules are horribly outdated and were inconsitently enforced. They will need to be rewritten entirely. They are short but many users have been banned for no reason (such as being banned on the Dragon's Nest Discord server)

These are my propositions for the Cookie Run Wiki if it were to become adopted to rejuvinate and once again be a reliable and trustworthy source for the Cookie Run community. Many fans of Cookie Run community consider the general Cookie Run Wiki to be an unreliable, outdated mess with bad moderation, but now that the bad apples behind the reputation are gone, we can take the helm and make the Wiki a great source for info related to everything Cookie Run, be it games, games of the past, developers and staff, merchandise, and the comics. I hope you enjoyed my explanation and I encourage you to spread the word about this!

I have also set up a Discord server to centralize those who are interested in rehabilitating the Wiki and seeing it grow once again. I know that advertising stuff like this is *technically* against the Wiki's rules, but without anyone to enfore the rules at the moment I see it as a necessary evil. Join here: https://discord.gg/aatnQYDMvU