Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24351229-20140921012959

This wiki is dying, admit it. Most of our fun users have left, and the rest us of us don't even come on chat because "I'm gonna be the only one on chat all day", which isn't a good reason. I wasn't on for a while because my computer mouse broke... Anyways, we need to revive this wiki, and I think I, along with all of you should help.

1) REVIVE OUR COMMUNITY

What made BTFF so great? The series-making, the crossovers, the movies, Planet Chaturn! All that because of the people. We're just sitting here like "Uh, maybe the old users might come back". We'll I'm sorry to tell you this, but face facts! NickFusi0n, Kross, or any of the old users we know and love probably aren't coming back! We can't just wait for users to randomly find our wiki, either! We need to find people to come to us.

How should we do that? I don't really know. How about this... we find other websites were Ben 10 Fanfiction takes place, or just simply go to Fan Fiction sites and find people that like to draw fanfiction aliens, or write stories about them, *cough*DeviantArt*cough*. Even other wikis that don't even do Ben 10, we could introduce them, because hell I wasn't doing Ben 10 before I found this wiki. Even people who willing just to make 25 edits and simply chat to us all day.

What I'm saying is, let's not sit on our butts and wait for things happen...

2) THE LAYOUT

I miss the old Ben 10 Fan Fiction layout... the one with the character portal with Heatblast's picture on the aliens category, Vilgax for villains, and etc. The new slider thing doesn't look right, the BTFF Logo doesn't need to be on the front of the page if it's already on the upper left corner of the screen, the recent activity's alright but that animation of the flowing omnitrix symbols doesn't need to be there anymore, it doesn't look as good as when I made it, it belongs at the top of the page as a second logo instead of a copy of the logo already set as the Wiki Wordmark. Why is Summer 2014 Fanon Con still being talked about on the main page? I don't like how The first image on the slider is simply saying "Welcome to the Wiki!", and "Read More", what happen to when there was actually a sub heading that said "Welcome", then actually gave a summary of what our wiki is about. I don't think the slider heading that talks about contributing is needed, we can just have a sub heading that explained the page creation-portal and link to it in the middle of the main page. Basically, I'm saying the slider just isn't as cool as it used to be. The possible new generation of BTFFians deserve a the layout we got to see back in 2011, when things were simple. However, I don't expect a change in the Wiki Wordmark, it's fine as it is...

2.5) THE MAIN 52

Yah, the universe template, isn't going to well either. We need a new universal template that will manage the new series, and they have to link to actual universe pages, not series. What I mean by that is, what if I make a series titled Man X, then make a sequel to it titled "Man X: Evolution", i don't want to replace Man X with Man X E, I just want to link a page to the Earth XV Universe, or whatever I renamed it to, a page where it would describe the universe and list series that part in this universe, or even crossover series-universes like: Man X/Super X Crossover Universe. If you don't get it, explain why.

I mean, Template: Universe just listed series... I think that belongs in the Category:Series, just saying.

3) ADMIN/CHATMOD REQUEST

Yes, I finally did it Brandon... I wanna help this wiki, and most of the Community Team (Admins and Chatmods) are becoming inactive. So I'd like to be become part of the Community Team as an Admin, help around with the wiki.

I also think Brandon, Ahmad and Steve should become chatmods. They are on chat more often than anyone I now, and they're around to see alot of what goes on. Brandon's the only person who I've seen tell user about the Chat/25 edits rule in months :/.

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So, if you agree with me, tell me why. If you disagree, tell me why. If you are confused about a subject, tell me what it is you are confused about, and as always, thanks for reading.

01:29, September 21, 2014 (UTC) 