The State of the Wiki

[Doom]

I was thinking about what we should do with the Wiki. Here are my hopes. What are your thoughts?

Use request list for all non-custom covers. Use individual pages for each system. (List of Wii Requests, List of Atari 2600 Requests) Sort the requests by type: Covers, Covers without Raw Scans, Labels, Labels without Raw Scans.

Renovate the request forum. Use it exclusively for new requests (delete old threads after 7 days with no posts) and custom requests (leave them as long as needed).

Keep the list of requests lean. When a user doesn't need a request any more (cover got posted or whatever), make them delete the item(s) from the list.

Move the list of requests to "Old list of requests" (already completed). It's irrelevant.

Possible: Use those fancy wiki tables that let a user sort by username, date of request, alphabetical, region on the list of requests.

For those "master game lists", save some effort. Start with a list from Wikipedia and format it as needed. Consoles with games still being made are volatile. Don't bother with those lists. They're a maintenance nightmare.

[AppleQueso]

You could probably do some scripts or something for a lot of that I'm sure.

[Doom]

I think I can nuke the request forum right now and make a new one in its place. I wouldn't do so without fair warning, of course, and I'd probably move and hide the old one instead of nuking it.

[juan0tron]

Starting a new one wouldn't be so terrible. I'll be waiting for that fair warning though, I've got a request list I'm still in the process of going through

[Doom]

I doubt I'd delete the request forum, just move it and hide it. You could still access it with the link.

[Snowcone]

Yeah, just "archive" it.