User blog:CK/2018 Review



Hey, CPFW users. If you're reading this, you care at least marginally about what I have to say, so I'll try not to waste your time with endless rambling as I usually do. Any comments about the WoF proposal or otherwise can be left on the talk page. Thanks for your time, and happy 2019. --  C  K   Admin  20:49, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Wiki
This isn't really a "State of the Wiki" address, it's more of a "state of me" address. I think 2018 was a pretty good year for the wiki, a lot of good new articles were made, many articles were saved, new records set, and some old articles deleted to clean up the wiki. Although our search function borked, the network itself didn't face nearly as much downtime as in 2017, which I'm happy about (thank you Kermit). Speaking of Kermit, I'm happy with the amount of editing I did in 2018, although I could have done more. Although I had over 2,400 edits in 2018, an average of 7 per day (rounded up), and not including deletions, a lot of those were working towards making the wiki better, through rating articles, fixing double redirects, removing redlinks, and work for Delet this, which I will continue to do into 2019.

I didn't get to write a story again this year, but I did have time to make a few articles and contributions I'm proud of. Kermit was made from a place of love with the help of friends, as the wiki's hero and an article that was open to good contributions, although unfortunately some people had to be negative about it and try to ruin the fun. An article made out frustration was Scrubbypingu, but over time it's become something I can enjoy and use to vent some of my frustration. An article intended to be so bad that it's secretly SPLASH! I just checked, and most of the work on List of South Pole Council Delegates was done in December 2017, but I'll include it here too; it was more of a mundane, boring article that I don't expect anyone to ever read or contribute to, but it was something I wanted to do at the time that I could sink my time into. Recently, I wrote some stuff on Yowien Revolution as well, trying to flesh out an idea I've had simmering for five years but could never write into stories. I also contributed to some of Swiss Ninja's older articles to try to improve them since he left them to me years ago, and I hope to continue that in 2019 as well. I've also greatly enjoyed brainstorming and contributing to Super Smash Mates U.B.E.R., despite not having played a Smash game since Melee on the Gamecube.

Some other great articles have sprouted up over the year too or been expanded, and some that I've enjoyed seeing include Ghostlia sprouting into an HQA thanks to PPD's expert edits, Hockey Manlet having a ton of expansion, Orion Initiative, Yours Truly, Crow, A great revamp of the Finipines by ARB, and although I didn't like it at all at first because of what I feared to be more drama dragged in-universe, Penstubal Post. In addition to articles, our wiki has been graced by the return of Bro, both in editing and to adminship, as well as the promotion of ARB, both of whom I look forward to working with.

As always, I've also been continuing work of various topics over the year in my two sandboxes, including some neat wiki records and statistics in the latter.

Personal
For about a month I've been trying to avoid wiki drama more than normal, and I'd like to continue that. My editing has also slowed down somewhat. The reason for those is that my mom passed away almost a month ago, and I've just been trying to edit what I want at my own pace, and keep to myself and my group of friends. I don't say that for pity, I don't need pity. I also considered not editing at all for a while, resigning my post, or retiring from the wiki altogether, but I decided against those because I do still enjoy this place and the people, there's still more work to be done, and I feel like I'm serving a purpose here. With that being said, I'm going to keep trying to stay out of drama, because I'm really sick and tired of getting upset over things, and I'm going to continue editing things that interest me, at my own pace. That may exclude administrative upkeep that I've handled for a long while, such as the Council and Main Page templates.

I had a lot going on around Christmas, hence me forgetting to reply to all of the Christmas messages I received, but I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas, or whatever holiday you celebrate, and a Happy New Year, and I wish everybody a good 2019.

Wall of Fame revamp
With all of that rambling out of the way, I'd also like to get your opinions on a new design for the Wall of Fame that I've been cooking in my sandbox for a while. It has the colors of our current WoF, but the design is based on the CPW's Wall. Before I put it forward on the Council to have it officially replaced, I'd like to get feedback/constructive criticism from everyone who's willing to take a few minutes out of their day to comment.

I added images for many and will try to add decent images for the rest based on their articles- with a mention on the Wall that all a WoF member would need to do to have the image changed is contact an administrator with specifics. I also added the dates of their induction in a column and switched them to alphabetical order to be more like the CPW, but with the current form I can't make it sortable by date unfortunately. I also wish to have a skilled writer, maybe ARB, write up new and modernized descriptions for the entire wall, neutral to time, as well as update the header with better images/text. I'll have those done before I propose it to the council. The colors are based on the current WoF, but they could easily be changed too if someone comes up with a better color scheme.

What improvements would you suggest? Any outside of what I already mentioned? I'd also like to make a page for WoF nominee submissions when I propose the new design, so what are your suggestions for that as well? What do you think the requirements should be for a user to be on this wiki's Wall of Fame? I appreciate any help or feedback you can provide, and please do so on the talk page. Thanks.

Click "Expand" to see my new WoF draft