User blog comment:LostInRiverview/The Sims Wiki News - 7th February 2016/@comment-7040864-20160207105524

I consider that the reason why the focus article tends to get ignored is because of the time that we don’t have to take the article on.

The busy lives that we all live get in the way at some point. Most of us don’t get the chance to edit the wiki during the work week leaving it overlooked until late Friday evening and the weekend.

A focus article is a great notion and I strongly believe that it should stick around. It’s quite hard to find an article on this wiki that needs a great deal of work to be completed. Giving new and returning users a chance to prove their skills on editing is also a great reason for it to stick around.

The main issue is time which is a rare resource to for anyone in the modern world.

Discussing the problem isn’t the way to solve the problem however, my suggestions;

The length of time the focus article is doubled to 2 weeks. This gives everyone plenty of time for people the edit the article and to remind them to do so. As shown by Dresser few weeks ago everyone completely ignored the article until the second reminder where suddenly everyone began working together on it.

A reminder is added/updated to editor notices on Wiki activity. I notice that Luxury Party Stuff (Which was a focus article a few weeks from now) is still on there. It needs to be updated to remind editors about the focus article. Even if we keep the 1 week format it will pay off in the end.

These are just my ideas that I’m sure could be improved upon by others with more smarts and power than me. The focus article, like I said earlier is a great idea for new users and it is 100% worth it staying around in my opinion.