User blog:Wetstream/New Year's Problems

As a new year approaches, I have realized some problems going on that are being ignored.

January 20th, 2014 wil mark my 4th year on this account. November 28th of 2014 will mark my 5th year on the wikia, since I moved from WarriorAraheart to Wetstream.

In my first year, I experienced wikia drama. One of our admins left and another lost their rights. It was extremely chaotic and people thought WFW was going to shut down. Luckily, we managed to pull through with staff that weren't even active.

2010 was probably the most fun year. I created a roleplaying site on Piczo called "MistClan101", and many users joined. We roleplayed on that site nearly everyday, and it was extremely active. The wikia was also pretty active, with users editing dozens of times every hour. We met many friends and people enjoyed writing, reading, and commenting. It wasn't forced.

Then Forestpaw13 adopted the wikia. She took complete charge over the wikia, taking the place of the inactive staff. We got new staff members like Icestorm123 and Artimas Hunter. I also became staff, replacing Icy later on, but I lost those rights quickly.

More staff were added, such as Birdpaw and Zaffie. They lasted long as admins, but again, lost the rights due to a whole fiasco with this user (who is now banned).

2012 finally came, and with that year, many new users joined. Arti and Forest were trying to take care of the wikia as the people flowed in. They had to go over the rules, teach them the right ways to do things, and go over the basics many times. It was like a revamped WFW, for it had grown inactive before that time.

With that inflow of users came RedPandaPotter, and with Forest leaving, Arti made Red and I rollbacks. Arti slowly grew inactive, and we were appointed admins to help out with the wikia when Arti was gone.

Now here comes the problem.

I've been an admin for a while, and I've helped out many users. I still continue to help out users. Rainy's become a rollback, and she's excellent at her job. She's a great staff member along with Red.

However, our activity has dropped. When I say dropped, I mean new users are leaving on their first week. If that doesn't show you how inactive we're getting, then I don't know what will.

I know I've complained about NightClan Roleplaying Wikia before. I love the wikia, I enjoy roleplaying there, and I'm not trying to take away their users at all. What I'm saying is that plenty of our users have left to go there.

Half those users barely roleplay on there. They just talk on chat the entire day or comment on blogs. That doesn't help fulfill the purpose of the wikia.

On WFW, hours can go by before there's an actual edit, and usually it's just a blog comment, not a mainstream edit. Mainstream edits are edits on articles, like adding onto fanfictions and such.

June 25th, 2008 was when this wikia was created. It is currently nearing its 6th year. 6 whole years of growing and adapting to changes.

I'd hate to say it, but at this rate, I don't think it'll last half as long as 6 years after 2014.

I don't think people know you can do other things besides writing. You can comment on blogs, chat with people, read stories, comment on stories, join the Editing Team, join Clans, etc. It's Warriors Fanfiction Wikia, not Warriors All-Writing wikia.

We're going to need more staff soon, but all our senior users/yearly users keep ditching us for NCRP. We do not have any user that qualifies for User rights and that is active.

Do you think I want to watch our wikia slowly become inactive? Do you think I want it to go back to how it was in late 2011-early 2012 where there weren't edits for days?

We try so hard to please users. We try so hard to keep them acting and not quit. We can't do everything, we need you guys to help.

So please, let this be your "New Years Resolution", cause we can't help WFW without our users.

Wet stream  21:24, December 27, 2013 (UTC)