Hiya! I’m super excited for this newsletter: I’ll finally announce what our staff team has been working on for the last year! First off though, I’ll summarize what you guys have changed in the last weeks.
Remarkable contributions
- GeneralEJV worked on some staff pages. Thank ya c:
- Nicodami is back and created the Nano Games, Ideas Team and Translations Team pages. Thanks for your dedication!
- Editor_fixer updated a bunch of Bedrock articles, adding loads of information. Great job! You’ll be our User of the Month for September 2018 ^-^
- I’m glad that I finally got around to actually work on a featured page. The main Wither Assault page should be up to date now. Shoutout to the EventSquad community (in-game) for assisting me with testing.
Discussion, feedback and internal changes
Now for the really interesting part: We’ve finally received a response by LT after waiting for almost a year now, and it seems to be quite positive!
Right now, I do believe that in its current state, our Wiki cannot progress. We barely have extensive edits, and the readership attention continued to shrink over the past months.
With the "officialization", we'd be guaranteed a daily involvement by staff members and a quality standard on all pages. We’ll (hopefully) hear back from them soon, and the Wiki will become the huge project it used to be again!
This change would obviously not have been necessary if we already had active staff members on our side, which is sadly not the case anymore. It is with a heavy heart that I am announcing that all of our current staff members are leaving the team, that being BlueandGreen (formerly Administrator) and RobbinK (formerly Moderator).
“ | I've been holding on for a while—holding on to the hope that I'd one day return to the wiki in full force to contribute, just like the good old times. That was my mistake, maintaining and in some cases even accepting more responsibility when, deep down, past my naive optimism, I knew I wouldn't be able to handle it (as with the bi-monthly/monthly recaps). But the truth is that I no longer have the time nor the motivation to continue doing this. […]
It's been a good run. Sorry I couldn't be there for most of it. | ”
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—BlueandGreen, Former Mineplex Wiki Administrator |
“ | I think it [the staff merge] would be a great idea, but it would pose a problem for me; because I am staff on another server that doesn't allow me to be on any other servers’ teams. | ”
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—RobbinK, Former Mineplex Wiki Moderator |
Both Robbin and Blue and responsible for different platforms and tasks now, and I am really sad to see them leave. This page, this project, this community wouldn’t exist without them.
Should you be wondering about my position, you have probably noticed that I am not as active as I used to be. I don’t have the time to keep the page up on my own anymore, which is why I looked for any and all possibilities to expand the staff team. I’ve decided to stay here until the merge commences or a different editor is willing to take over the page. This, however, also implies that I will be even less active from now on. Fact is, if the merge should fail and there is nobody interested in adopting the page, I will have to shut down the project.
Upcoming content
Pretty much everything has been said above. You’ll see huge changes on the staff side soon™.
The next featured article will be Nano Games! One mini-game page per day and we’ll be finished.
If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you want to share other thoughts, make sure to leave a reply.
Thanks!
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