Board Thread:Wiki Management/@comment-4356266-20150723033535/@comment-4356266-20150724081906

Yhynerson is drafted for his ability with CSS and JS, and to take care of those in the event that I'm unavailable (and I was for a few months).

I was about ready to leave everything in his hands and watch his activity, and the rest of the community's inactivity, to slowly kill the wiki but in the end I couldn't leave this wiki, which I've poured so much effort into, go downhill.

Knowledge with JS and CSS doesn't mean you can just implement stuffs out of the blue. It's not all for show, it has to have function. The youtube link popup for example adds function, and it's highly relevant. So is the contests portal. The skinned buttons - not so much.

Additionally, for all of the stuffs I implemented I discussed the idea with some admins (I can only think of blake for some reason :P ) before implementing. After it's implemented I'd make it known to the public with a blog post, forum thread or something similar to let people know what has changed, and to let people report any bugs.

A case in point: the auto-updating views and subs is a good idea, but one poorly discussed with no consensus and poorly executed. What was previously a fine thing - having slightly outdated stats - is now a hit or miss thing. You are either lucky that the thing runs properly, or you get a useless spinner with no default data, due to no thought being put into redundancy.

Yhynerson is a person of talent, but the rest of us should have a say to what is added/changed wiki-wide. It shouldn't be treated as a private canvas/testpad of some sort. Remember that the wiki is a collaborative effort. Feedback is inevitable and is the measuring stick of whether your ideas work or not with others.