Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26829117-20170827135907

There have been a number of criticisms about the administration of this wiki lately so I thought I'd take the opportunity to solicit input on what people would like to see changed. All the administrators on this site are volunteers and we do this only because we enjoy playing RR3 and want to make the wiki as useful as possible for everyone and return something to this community that has given us so much help.

Just for clarity, the administration of this site is relatively lightweight and consists mainly of the following activities:
 * Creating new article pages for each update
 * Ensuring the content is accurate and appropriate
 * Keeping conversations on topic
 * Warning/Banning users and removing inappropriate content

Any registered user is free to update article pages with relevant and accurate information (it's a wiki after all). You can all update series pages with the details of the races and we always appreciate people who add the fame and R$ rewards for each event as this is a chore.

We closed editing for non-registered users recently mainly because we couldn't communicate with them (no static wall) when they were making updates that weren't in line with the general principles of the wiki. This was usually new users and it isn't unreasonable to expect people to register before editing.

The real work on this wiki is creating new article pages, it is an intensive few days that starts on a Monday evening when there is an update. I don't think any of us is looking forward to the next update in a weeks time without RR3G'hamO. as he did a lot of work on the Monday making sure the pages people would need first were available as soon as possible.

The other thing that takes a lot of time is getting the data for the upgrade trees and trying to get advance information about PR requirements and therefore calculating the minimum upgrade requirements and consequently the upgrade strategy. None of this requires admin rights and can be performed by any registered user.

I've had a look through the logs and we rarely remove posts and even rarer ban users (most bans have been for spamming from anonymous or new accounts). We sometimes give one day bans but that's usually because someone is making edits that aren't correct and not reading admin comments on their wall. We find a one day ban makes people read their wall quicker :-)

I'm not looking for suggestions on how to improve the wiki but if you have some, please do feel free to start a thread about it. We are always looking for ways to improve the information provided here. I'm only interested in constructive feedback about the current administration of the site. Don't worry about being blunt. I'm sure those that have been around awhile know I'm reasonably thick skinned. 