Board Thread:Wiki - General Discussion/@comment-32271932-20190702065226

Hello there, fellow wikians, PC04 here. Today is July 1st, which means that we are now in the second half of 2019. The first half of the year on the wiki was…something

I’m going to try not to make this sound like a rant too much XD

The wiki is not in its best shape this year. In terms of activity I think it only beats 2018, which isn’t saying much considering how difficult that year was for the wiki itself. Users were retiring left and right, usually because of real-life interests, but there were always other reasons as well and if you’ve been following the wiki or at least the game lately, then you probably already know what I’m talking about.

I started playing this game in May 2013. I remember the 2013-2014 days, when the game was incredibly popular and it was gaining players daily. It was a simpler game and that’s exactly what made it fun. There weren’t many levels and new ones weren’t released all that often. We were taking our time to complete them in a raw manner, we had our patience and it didn’t take long to complete each level (Not when it comes to notorious levels such as 70, 147, 305, 323, 350, 461, 500, etc.). Redesigns were unusual, very rare, they only redesigned levels if a number of players complained.

Fast forward 5-6 years later and levels are redesigned like crazy, 30 new levels are released every week, and the game has just reached 5000 (!!!) levels. Later levels are pretty hard, sometimes just UNFAIR, and they’re handing out boosters like candy. As a result, boosters have become the norm. Players have lost their motivation. With every milestone comes a new set of players quitting the game. And it is damaging to the wiki as well.

The wiki took 3 major hits last year. The first one happened in January of 2018, when jelly-timed levels were removed. They barely even existed, there were only a few dozens of them, their removal was basically on the same level as the removal of toffee tornadoes.

The wiki took its second hit in the period of February-May 2018, when timed levels themselves were slowly removed from the game. Sets of timed levels were redesigned every week until the final one, level 18, was redesigned on May 2nd 2018. It was far more damaging than the removal of jelly-timed levels and some of its effects are still a problem. You know, this happened because 20% of the players AT MOST didn’t like timed levels…guess King didn’t consider the fact that the other 80% wouldn’t like this change…

The third and biggest hit happened in October-November 2018. That’s when A LOT of levels were redesigned, first in the form of selective redesigns, but then it happened – on November 6, all 1006 (Yes you saw that right) redesigns became official and users had to SCRAMBLE to add all the new info, I personally rushed to rate the new levels as soon as possible. Screw May 28th, November 6th is the KING of infamy.

The wiki took even more hits this year, with the near-removal of 6-coloured levels in March and the redesigns of almost all levels in the first like 8 episodes in April. On top of that, the wiki experienced a HISTORICAL wave of vandalism in February, and the wiki was put on lockdown.

The reason why 2019 is an improvement over 2018 is because a few very important users have emerged and reached the top ranks, but that’s not enough….now we’re moving on to the reason why I created this post. You see, I believe there are users who are not editing because they feel like the wiki is in a good enough shape, which is obviously false. I want to motivate other users to go edit. Below there are a few ways you – the person who’s reading this – can help.

1.       Update the episode boards. You know, that thing you find in every episode page that indicates the type, requirement, target score, etc. of each level from that episode. Those are extremely outdated for the most part because of all these redesigns, it would be very helpful if you helped “revive” them.

2.       Comment on each level’s difficulty. I’ve been struggling to rate new levels lately because of the lack of consensus, so I have to rate with my overly complex ways.

3.       Update the redesigned levels’ pages. Similarly to the episode pages, the level pages are affected with all these redesigns. You can be the first to change the outdated information.

4.       Correct the bad grammar on some pages. As you probably know, not all users of this wiki are fluent in English, so the grammar won’t always be perfect (This is especially a problem in the past versions pages), but if you know English well enough, then you might just help this wiki shine.

And I’m sure you’ll find many other ways of helping out just by exploring the wiki.

Happy crushing and happy editing! 