User blog:Pelinal Whitestrake/The current state of the Wiki and a reflection on past events

This blog's primary reason for existance is to analyze what led to the currently 'dead' state of this Wiki and maybe give some insight as to how the community can prevent such a thing to happen in the future.

As some of you readers may already know, today (1/16/15) our two only active system operators, Ghost Anubis and EbonySkyrim resigned.

This marks an unfortunate and sad day for the Wiki. Even though I have only been here for roughly a year, I have met several other Users who were significantly earlier already active. I know of them that the Wiki used to be in a somewhat chaotic state previously, something which calmed a bit down towards late 2013 and early 2014. When I first joined, the only really noticeable drama was