Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-4189499-20150201000037

Greetings, fellow Candy Crush Saga Wikians!

Chat has now been turned off and will remain off for the next 4 days. This is just a test to see how well this wiki will actually function without the feature, which I am predicting will make everyone's lives much more pleasant!

Now, I'm not going to pretend that this change is going to be easy for all of you -- change is never easy -- but if everyone can work with the change, I do believe that it will promote harmony on this wiki in the long run, or at least clarity and truth. However, if people truly can't accept the alternatives, even after four days, then we will have to discuss Chat's continued existence on this wiki.

"But why are you doing this!!!" I can hear you all asking. It became clear in Lefty's proposal message that so many people were making claims about what would happen without chat without having any evidence to back up their claims. Therefore, we are doing this short test where we can see how people actually react to the change and let this information guide our future decisions. We will be able to point to this time period and state that "edits dropped by 50% during the chat-off period compared to the preceding chat-on period" or "ten times as many forum threads for the purpose of chatting were created during the chat-off period compared to the preceding chat-on period". This can then be used to inform how we go forward. But remember that this test isn't the be-all and end-all of discussions regarding chat. Once results are in, we will have further discussions with all users based on their experience with the change.

Just because I'm curious, can you copy/paste the following into a reply and answer the questions on each line, just to get an idea of users feelings before and then after the experiment?


 * How often on average do you use chat?


 * How long do you use chat per chat session?


 * How many people are typically online when you are?


 * Would you consider chat to be an important part of your wiki experience?'


 * Do you think the chat feature is beneficial to the maintaining of this wiki?


 * On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being strongly in favour and 1 being strongly against, how would you rate your feelings towards having chat turned off permanently?

If you could answer that now, that would be brilliant!

Thanks for understanding! While I know that this is an unpopular decision, we need to know with hard evidence if it is a good decision or not. Because it's quite unpopular, I would like to add that it was my idea so if you want to rage at anybody, let it be me.

PS:To other admins; do not under any circumstances turn chat back on again until 4 full days have elapsed. In other words, do not turn the feature back on until 12:00am on the 5 Feb, UTC. If it hasn't been turned off by then by either me or Lefty, then you may do it yourselves, but otherwise do not toggle the feature under any circumstances. I will know if you have. There are logs for this sort of thing.

Thanks again everyone! I'll see you in the forums! 