User blog comment:Bakerychaz/The Sims Wiki/@comment-26744861-20120701130403

There are times when this wiki can be highly active yet there are other times when it can seem quiet in comparison.

A large percentage of our community are actually in education and at this time of year, they're either currently doing exams or finishing up for the summer - it's really down to the variations of the education system in different countries.

Usually during school holidays, summer, winter and weekends, the wiki does appear to be livelier and that does make sense. Everyone has to prioritise real life over the wiki which is why some users may randomly disappear and reappear from time to time.

Another thing worth mentioning is timezones. It's about 2pm in England right now and the Americans are just waking up. The 12 hour morning period for me always seems dry mainly because we don't have as many Asia/Oceania based users as we do with Americans - I think most of our userbase consists of Americans. My evening clashes with the afternoon in America and the early morning in Asia/Oceania.

The IRC channel is usually pretty lively, particularly in the evening (UTC/GMT) per the timezone clashes mentioned above. If there's something you may need immediate help with, I'd try there by pinging (typing the name of a user) someone for their attention.

I'd expect activity to rise over the coming months, what with summer and The Sims 3: Supernatural being released but to sum things up, a lot can get in the way of activity on this wiki and sometimes, there's literally nothing we can do about it.