User blog comment:LostInRiverview/Community Chat 2: November 25, 2015/@comment-4568327-20151125223637


 * Successful, as in, it works? Definitely. Successful, as in, we're getting backlogs cleared, fixing issues as quickly or quicker than we tag them, having an engaged, enthusiastic community, and coverage on The Sims 4? No. Especially on the latter point; we're having some serious difficulty creating quality articles on The Sims 4. Many of our articles are barely stubs, others containing only lengthy tables with little prose.
 * I want to see coverage on The Sims 4 greatly improved, a community that isn't shy or cocky or unwilling to go outside of the confines of chat or the fanon namespace, and a revamp of the wiki policies. It may also help to have some more local help pages too.
 * We seem to be pretty strong fanon-wise. Recent fanon isn't exactly of the utmost quality, but it's active and being developed. Our IRC channel is also doing fairly well, with the addition of a new bot, a new non-admin chanop, and a fresh new contact (not to be arrogant, but that's me), and is generally able to deal with spam or issues in a reasonable amount of time. The one thing that we do need to improve on is, as I mentioned, coverage of The Sims 4, and most importantly, quality. Let's also not forget Caption this!, which died out almost immediately after we moved it out of blogs, so we should probably think about moving it back into blogs as it seems that the format of blogs is more familiar and comfortable to users, rather than clicking on an "Edit" button and be greeted with the text that told them to click the button in a text editor. Also, the community is too shy and introverted at times, like the last Community Chat blog having only two comments; something needs to be done to get the community going, although I'm not quite sure what.
 * The mission of the wiki should be "To provide a freely accessible website of information about The Sims series", and that has always been our mission. The mission of the community, however, should be to "Maintain, develop, protect, and honor The Sims Wiki in its mission in a collaborative, friendly, and mature manner". I believe this should be our main goal.