User blog:Bossbutch/So I'm Inactive (Also, Unionize)

hey so i havent edited since the migration around ~october 20. the added inconvenience was enough to turn me off completely. i completed my to-do list on my user page, more or less, and it was a lot. all the mechanics articles that no one reads anyway exist. so i feel good about that. half the treasures and a good number of pets still don't have articles. I made a page for Forbidden Manuscript on like my second or third day on the wiki, and it was instantly deleted for having the "wrong format", and it has not been replaced. What the "right format" is, I still don't know, because the already existing treasure pages are inconsistent and policies are not written down anywhere. which is why I left treasure pages alone. This has been a running theme, of pages being entirely deleted, or constructive edits undone, for breaking invisible policies, for reasons that could be solved in a simple edit. Sometimes they'll be remade again after being deleted, more or less the same but with the original poster's contribution removed from the page history.

making every link go to a disambiguation page is annoying as sin, and that whole system needs something better. Maybe a new type of tabview, maybe disambiguations at the top of ovenbreak pages rather than a separate page, maybe sectioning off the LINE articles and the crap spinoff articles from the ovenbreak pages, I don't know or really care as long as it's not this.

Relatedly, it's not really a secret that I haven't gotten along well with the admin. But we're comrades and had the same goal, and I'm fine working with someone I don't get along with. That's an important skill to have. But even if I loved Publi, or even if it was me in that spot, I still wouldn't think they or anyone else should be the sole admin and decision maker for a wiki. The inactive admins like Pep Soda don't count, and neither does making your partner (??) a sysop. Wikis are inherently a community effort, and the community of regular contributors should have a bigger say in how it operates. Or at the bare minimum, be allowed to edit all those locked Cookie articles!

If I were to nominate anyone from the wiki for promotion, it'd be Lazychestnuts and SG. But there's plenty of people who I always saw in the recent edits making good contributions. Yosafat, Cleffa, Ginger Bun, and surely others I don't remember. In the spirit of community, I'd say start a discussion and let people nominate folks for it and maybe vote or something.

wouldnt that be nice. and with more admins, vandalism would be less of a problem, and less pages would be locked. I'm not even saying Publi shouldn't be admin, he does a lot of good work! Too much work. Other people can handle the work if you let them. But not JUST the "I made a template, now you follow it" kind of work. There will never be pages for each title, each Magic Candy, or every single Jelly skin. You don't want to make those pages, no one does, no one wants to read them either, and there's not enough content there for individual pages anyway. Sorry for being a jerk about this.

ok gripes and suggestions aside, i was never that Into cookie run, it's a daily distraction from my illness and a routine but i really hate the way mobile games have psychological manipulation as a core feature and i wouldnt say its a Good game. do you still enjoy playing cookie run? but despite everything, i enjoyed editing the wiki, and maybe i'll be back, if the place becomes more welcoming. more likely, i'll find another wiki which covers something i actually care about. hugs n kisses, wish u all (and the wiki) the best.

oh also don't forget to change the version number on the main OB page when it changes. also the Guild run seasons and season recipes. also categories could be way better, check my Sandbox for examples. ignore the "jump activated" and "slide activated" ones though those are dumb. also the darn cookie trials. someone please pick that up as their Project like i did with mechanics and lazy and yosafat do with events and publi does with cookies. they're all mostly the same so can be made pretty quickly, but there's still something fun to write about with each one, a little blurb about the level and new mechanics etc, and youll be a hero. also pomegranates page says shes terrible and doesnt reflect that rework she got and should really mention how frequently she's required in champions league or guild runs and such and also where are the affection jelly skins they used to be in the cookies infobox and i cant see them anywhere. also when you write a reward like x20 it looks nicer if you use the multiply symbol × instead of the letter x, it's alt+0215 on the numpad or you can copypaste it or use the built in character map the editor has now, it's not a big deal, and also you're really not supposed to just use the icon because this makes it unreadable to people using screen readers, its also nbd because i dont imagine many blind people are interested in cookie run but like something to consider is all, and yes i get the irony of talking about accessibility when typing like this. also remember the special candy ingredients?