Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-24984058-20141112235518/@comment-18812574-20141114213852

A few quick thoughts here as well:

I think it is a very good idea to revise the manual of style. Just hit the "random page" button in the top tab and you will find a host of unused, old/outdated, and MoS violating pages, so clean up will be a big help in clearing out excess/unneeded stuff and will give this wiki a more professional appeal. Which is good.

I also think the RPCQE is a good idea, and I was originally very against the idea. Heh. However, I do think, as Wolf has stated, that it can get somewhat redundant, especially since the grade change makes it so easy to pass now. This is a good and bad thing. Perhaps in the future it should be reevaluated, but I think as Sei said, it works for now. The thing I like most about it, however, is that it sort of requires new members to prove they are part of the wiki. Sort of like how you have to have a minimum amount of edits to become an admin, or be involved with a wiki for a certain amount of time to adopt, etc., the thing that's best about it is the fact that it is a test. If you find that you can't pass the test, that probably means you won't be a very involved/professional member of the wiki. (I know that sounds harsh but...) So it helps users make sure they know exactly what they're getting into before they get into it.

And that brings me to the only real content of this message: I think we should create a project/forum/task force/blog series/something in order to help new members intergrate more easily into the community. Perhaps a "Welcome to the Wiki" sort of deal. There are so many new users who ask the same exact questions all the time and run into the same problems. I think the fact that they have to pass the RPCQE before they can truly "start" to create characters makes them feel excluded from the rest of "us." I think this is bad (and annoying) for both groups. We want to make them feel welcome, no? This probably sounds redundant to what we already have in place for this sort of thing, but one place to send them to where they can access all the links they need would be nice. My biggest thing with this is that I want there to be more of a dialogue between experienced users and newbies. How-to's, FAQ, and intro thread should be easier to get to and more informative then they are now. (If we have those things.) Of course, I realize that most of this just comes with hard work and learning how to use a wiki, to which there are no good shortcuts, but it is a suggestion, at any rate, to a perceived problem.