User blog:TreeIsLife/How-To on Wikis - Work on Wikis

Oh hi!

Today, I wanna discuss work, that is on wikis.

Introduction
Well. Working on the wiki is hard. The wiki must be up-to-date, it must be organized, it needs to have a good community and helpful. Many users are not doing the same, which is not good (or at least when more things are not correct). There are solutions from these problems


 * No up-to-date information - try to update it by yourself
 * Not organized wiki - this can be a problem but don't worry! This thing only happens, when there is no admin on wiki. If this is true then you can request admin rights on wiki. But check, if you can adopt it.
 * Good community - Community is the key to your wiki progress. Getting a community is difficult but on the other hand useful. This can be done by promoting wiki and active talks with contributors. This is the step to community and then to a good community.
 * Helpful - This includes discussion, help when something is wrong, etc.

Solution
So wiki needs to have its "progress". And this progress repeats. This thing is called the "Wiki Ecosystem". It is a system of things, that repeats forever.

Simple Wiki Ecosystem is made by 3 things - View page, Found mistake/missing information, Edit Page (new contributor). Repeating [View --> Mistake/Missing info --> Edit] But the wiki is working more complicated and it is not so easy to know every element of it.

For now, I think I've said enough. Even I could say about more things, I won't, because I will be writing about more How-Tos, so you can except it.

What to know
So what is important? I think the most important thing is to know, that these things affects, how many edits are on wikis. And do not worry, when you see, that your wikis have not so many contributors. If 0.1% of fans of that game/movie/tv/... will be editing there, you can be really happy. And if it is above 1%, your wiki is then really popular.

OK, that's all. I was writing this really long, so there can be mistakes, but I hope they will not be there. Bye.