Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20141001194150/@comment-4544033-20141002211504

I want to take a side to this, but I am unsure how to handle this, and to be honest, that worries me. I also want to say that this may become long and rant like, and I am sorry, I want to get my ideas on this out on this and this is one of the few ways I can.

This wiki is the first wiki community I joined, This was back when we used the IRC instead of a chat and had no real forums. They opened up the chat to bring the community together, at the cost of the IRC. When I came back here after being gone so long, I has happy to see to faces who stepped up and became parts of the wiki. Although the one part that worried me was the forums.

It was not that I didn't like them being on the wiki, it was that some of the people I saw where immature, and to many people with the kind of behavior I saw can pull DOWN a community instead of making it stronger. This is of course only a few people, and not the forum based community as a whole.

I lean to supporting the RP being moved, there are those here who feel it is a problem, but I see a different risk then they do. This wiki community is large, and a growing part of it is the RP, and they feel they are being attack by those who stay on the mainspace, who claim the RP clogs the recent edits. To be honest, I do miss being able to go through the recent edits to patrol and make sure everything is clean. Now I have a RP, and while I am impressed with how much energy they put into it, I can not ignore it when going through edits, it is a part of this wiki, and I patrol this the best I can to make sure it is going well.

I mentioned a compromise, two in fact, with the hopes it would lead to discussion on how the RP could have their own community (away from what a few described as a dying husk) yet still be connected. This is where I oppose the spit. As much as the RP annoys me at times, it is here, and at times once a door is opened it can not be shut. We cannot just remove the RP anymore, it is to large. It can be altered and molded into something stronger, but that would take both sides playing nice. I support there being a separate RP wiki, where they can house all of their past adventures, and create the majority of their new ones. From here they can reach out, and not only build their community, but build up the other RP wikis (if they wish). This wiki would host links leading to the RP wiki, while maybe even host one or two "official TESW RP's". This idea would only work if both parts of the community agreed.

We say we are a community, but at times that is debatable, people here act like they are at war at times, and I hate it. I started editing because I needed a break from stress, and now I am leaving here at times more stressed then I should be over a site that doesn't pay me enough to be stressed over it.

Both sides here are right, the RP is a part of the community, but having their own Wiki could be a good thing, and if it is taken care of and maintain and seeks new ways to grow, it will thrive. I have little doubt a RP wiki with our community would die, they are creative and dedicated and could find new ways to assure they would thrive and grow even more then they can while directly attached to us as they are now. If we do split, I would help any way I could. I wouldn't support this split if I wasn't going to help.

I am sorry for my long comment, but this is what is on my mind. I hope that no-matter what we do, we do what is best for the wiki or wiki's.