Forum:Forum:Is this wiki dying?

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It seems like this wiki is low key dying. There doesn't seem to be much activity on it. A good amount of pages seem to be going out of date. And just recently, on December 16th, I saw a huge amount of spam users created in the recent changes section. If this wiki is dying, it is truly a shame because it was this very one that helped me discover my first furmeet. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dunked0n (talkcontribs) .

I don't think anyone can deny that the wiki is a little bit on life support right now. It's ticking over, people are keeping it clean, but no real growth or improvement is happening. The spam and dozens of junk registrations that happen everyday certainly aren't fun to deal with either.
Part of the issue may just be that there isn't that much to really add anymore. The large communities and big names are already well documented, and the niche communities and smaller fry are rather dependent on the people close to them to provide any meaningful content. There is some content the wiki is missing (recent spaceman MeepsKitten is a great candidate for an article), but once you've hit a certain point there isn't really much more to say until a large, material change occurs. Unlike Wikipedia, which has notability requirements that supplement the requirement for lots of outside/secondary sources, WikiFur's nicher scope is largely dependent on primary sources—convention staff and attendees, community administrators, craftspeople, etc.—and if those aren't forthcoming, we can't really add more than a sentence or two of info, and that's assuming we ever become aware of the convention/group/person existing in the first place.
I did make a recent proposition to expand the wiki to include brony media, conventions and the like (because that's still anthropomorphic animal fandom, in a sense), but it was decided that it was out of WikiFur's scope, and my attempts to drum up interest in a dedicated wiki for it fell flat. Wikis are community driven, and it's pretty hard to run one with a disengaged community! — beeps (talk, contribs) 11:23, 17 December 2021 (EST)