User blog comment:Sir.Anonymous/Slowly Dying/@comment-24108228-20150419205131

I'm not entirely sure how you would fix the wiki by this point. Yes, we can sustain the community, if we all work together, and the new editors that join because of this would likely counteract the old who forcibly leave, due to life issues. If we're in an ideal world, and if everyone tries their hardest, I reakon this wiki has at least 6 months of life left in it.

However, we're starting to serve an non-existant community. If scar put up well funded ads we could revive this wiki in a few days, and because of that we'd have an influx of potential contributors and certainly readers ("MIENCRAFT WITHOUT THE PAYING? UNG YES, IMA PLAY THIS! NOW TO SPEM CHAT UNTIL SOMEONE TEACHES ME HOW TO DO STUFF!").

I've been in a lot of communities like this, you need a big, front page game, to supply a wiki on a ROBLOX game, and even then it's difficult. This entire operation is only possible thanks to the wonderful editors who came before us, and this wiki is an absolute statistical miricle. This wiki should never have advanced beyond 15 pages, and should never have had more than 1 contributors at any one time. Somehow, thanks to the dedication and fantastic administration of the old community, we pulled through, and we got what I call The Old Wiki, a work in progress where pages still needed work, vandals popped up more frequently, and you could easily make 100 constructive edits in a day, given you had the time. But more importantly, it had multiple forumites posting each day, and in some cases, threads where two or more people could actively talk to each other, given the right circumstances. It was great.

Then people stopped posting as often, roughly around a couple days after the babysitting policy came out, and let's just leave it at that because we've been over this topic before and it very nearly resulted in a flame war. Basically, the wiki has been unnoticeably slowly deteriorating since then, and it's about this point when we're realising what just happened.

What scares me most is that, when I left for a fortnight due to Irl complications, the wiki's forum basically entered "Shutdown Mode" and got about 2 posts, concerning the lack of forum activity. I'm actually considering the possibility of some sort of community migration, where we find a new topic similar to this one and join that. It's fairly clear this isn't going anywhere.