Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26149161-20170523205516/@comment-25101690-20170524161145

Reddieeddie wrote:

AlteOgre wrote: It's not that hard to ensure all server pages meet specific requirements. At some point last year, I just added infoboxes to any server page I could find and encouraged any owner to create them when they popped up. A matter of continued attention, not much effort, but just continuous, from 2-3 moderators, will do the trick.

Most 'problematic' (annoying) may be the fact that there are quite a few servers on an annual basis that are announced, pages are created with no full info, then server is launched or not, and disbanded shortly after, or list and page info is never updated. Such servers are now spotted (most of them by MilkMC these days) by moderators and removed after some time. We do have a rather standardised method on how to deal with those. IK that I'm not staff, but just wanted to point something out here. I recently created the new Drums of War server page for the owner. He was quite grateful, as he'd been (in his own words) "stressing out about doing that because I've never set [a wiki page] up before."

I'd be willing to bet he's not the only server owner out there who feels this way. The process of setting up and managing a server is certainly time-consuming. And many server owners have little to no experience with the wiki. So when a server owner does create a page, they often lack the time and/or knowledge to put together an effective page. And simply moving these pages to a different wiki isn't going to solve that, it just means that different people will have to clean up the mess.

This isn't to say that some owners could put more effort into it; basic things like good grammar should at least be used. But perhaps, if there was a way to make the process of creating these pages simpler, it would mean fewer and easier clean-up jobs. Would it help to create some sort of "server template page", that new server pages could follow? Is there some other way to make it simpler? Just wanted to throw that out there. What is the difficulty in creating an article? There is no restriction on the format for server articles, so it's just like writing a Word document (if you use WYSIWYG editor).