Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27407250-20160214011132

Introduction
First of all I would like to just let everyone on the wiki know how grateful I am for their contributions. It has been thanks to the ongoing efforts of everyone here that we can share in such a great source of knowledge. Every type of edit that you make helps us all, whether it be writing pages of content, revising existing information, spell checking, adding categories, or uploading photos. Every edit counts.

Sadly however, I have noticed a very prominent decline in our rate of growth. We have pages pertaining to recent game additions with under a paragraph of information. For example, we have had the ability to collect Acacia wood for over a week and yet we have failed ourselves when we compare the content on Acacia wood to the content on any other type of wood in the game.

I know that through the course of these last rather contentious several days we have seen declarations of abandonment from some of the top contributers and we have seen conflict among our members. But despite these hardships we must find and set ourselves and our community towards a goal; progress. In order to reach progress we need to answer some questions about the nature of our wiki;

What type of wiki is this?
Are we really satisfied to let unprofessionalism run rampant though our pages or might we aim higher and strive to ensure pages have relevant content? To give you an idea of what I'm trying to get at here, let me give you two examples or pages on the wiki. One is great and the other is not.

First is the page for wood r us. This is an ideal page and it has several things about it that are very good; It has detailed yet relevant information, clean organized info boxes, a map, and pleasing organization of content. This page is a great example of what we should aim for our wiki pages to look like.

Now lets take a look at another page from our wiki; Islander. I assume you will find it quite easy to see some things that are obviously wrong with this page; there is an off site link to an image (which we could host here), the content is severely lacking includes grammatical errors, and the page is obviously outdated and needs to be deleted. (I have only left it here this long to let it be an example of what not to do)

Taking Action
Now, having shown you some issues we need to confront, I would like to draw your attention to how we can overcome these stumbling blocks together and emerge a better community for it. To do this I have come up with a few strategies to help us all improve our wiki when we go to contribute.

Content

​When making content, ensure that what you are writing is relevant to the page or category that you are writing it in. If what you are writing is something that is already written about in another area of the wiki then compare the two places that this information could reside and try to put it in the best place. Once you are certain that what you are adding is relevant, you should make sure that the manner in which you are making it is as proffesional as you can manage.

This means you should have proper spelling, punctuation, grammar, and be sure that you are sepperating your writing into paragraphs.

Even if you do happen to make mistakes it's okay because we are all here to improve upon the work of each other.

'''Page? Blog? Forum?'''

​One of the great things about this wiki is that it isn't only a place for information, it is also a great environment for players of Lumber Tycoon 2 to meet, exchange services, hang out, and collaborate. Unfortunately the varity of things you can do on the wiki does sometimes lead to people getting confused. Let me give you a couple helpful tips to hopefully ease this confusion if you are experiencing it.

If you want to share with everyone on this wiki what a great cool new idea for a building you have or a contest that you are going to host, then that is wonderful. But you also need to pick how you will share this information with everyone.

Remember; Pages are places for posting information related to Lumber Tycoon 2, Blogs are great ways for you to share an idea with everyone here, and Forums are perfect spots for dissucions to arise.

Additional Help

I hope to see you all get out there and do all you can to make this wiki better, to help do this I have tried to make a group of some pages that could really use your improvement. I will be working on these myself when I can find the time but we can really only make this work well if we all pitch in together. So be sure to check out pages that are Lacking Content

If you have any more questions or ideas please don't hesitate to message me on my wall or in the comments here.

-Jerricks  