Forum:Is the wiki dying?

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I really do hate to say it, but the wiki is dieing. The only cure is to get an influx of users, and the only way for that to happen is for a new Pikmin game to be released. While the thought of Pikmin 3 soon is promising, I am curious if they are doing anything with Pikmin on the 3DS. I mean if it can run Metal Gear Solid 3 it can easily run a Pikmin game.

As for everyone leaving, I think it has to do with losing interest. Remember that most of the potential users here are the 9-13 years old youngins that have a short attention span. We need to have more interesting stuff here to keep their attention. In order to do that, we need more users. And the only way to get them is to have interesting content.

I am extremely guilty of not being active here, and I really do regret that. It was about the time that Volatile Dweevil and Gamefreak left that this started. If only they had stayed, then maybe we would be a better, more active wiki. Oh well, gotta move on and keep looking forward. I'm not going to make a promise about how I will be more active here or something, because we know it's not going to be kept. However I will at least try to try to be active.Sir Pikmin, Your Bold Pikmin Knight! ^{Contributions}

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Thank you for the message, Sir Pikmin. You are right, most people here are younger. We need an attraction, which is why Pikmin 3 will do us well. And excuse me for being cynical, but I think NIWA doesn't help us with traffic one bit. It's us that helps us with traffic, and this is a primitive system at large. I can compare this to the times before 1900 when small businesses ruled the market independently. Although they can have a better grip on what the people need, the larger corporations have surplus attention to every aspect of the rising market called advertising. In other words, Pikmin Fanon is too small to gain advertising because we would run out of things to promote and staff to handle these wiki-wide ads and deals. If we were to be taken in by a larger organization (NIWA does count, but we already have membership) that doesn't just say "You are a member now!" and instead says "Here is this and this and this to help you get going better", it might benefit us. I am not saying we leave NIWA, for that would surely plunge us into an inactive "dead zone", I am saying we take action. Get better at writing. Get better at coding. Get better. That's the main point. We have to Get Better. Somehow this must be achieved because a thousand "thrown-together" articles won't help, yet one hundred quality articles will. Sorry if this is a confusing post, but here I'll sum it up:

• We need to improve all of our writing and coding, presenting things in a unique way
• We need to have less better-quality articles than more bad-quality articles
• We need to find a better way to promote the users' more "creative" things
• We need more traffic
• We need to become active to do all of this
  • An active community is more likely to spawn new users and more creative content, at the same time prompting other sites to want to promote our work

I hope you all can handle these things, and to do it you can continue making your fan games, but just try to improve 10 articles instead of making 10 new ones. That is a short-term goal that I think we all can handle, and so I leave off with that. User:Peanut64/sig 19:46, 2 February 2012 (EST)

AgreedSir Pikmin, Your Bold Pikmin Knight! ^{Contributions}