Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4621372-20121206202014

Well, the upgrade cutoff the last conversation, so I'll just continue where we left off, arguing about ideas for a new community TL.

My replies to LG, in no particular order.

A) Regardless of whether or not there a valid reason for MP and RWG leaving... they still left. That's my point.

B) I disagreee about the wiki dying thing. We have had more edits. I don't doubt that, though I don't know where you got those stats. But my point is that the wiki is becoming overfocused on Map Games- And I'm fine with them, I'm an avid player- but that said, we need some ways to get more users, another reason this wiki is famous.

C) As you said, ASB map games, of which there are an inordinate number, have cost this wiki members. A new Community TL, along the lines of 83DD, would solve this problem- one hopes- as would more efficient map game administration. Maybe some way to try and make map games better thought out- more than just the Next Map Game Idea page- might help. But I don't care, that's not what we're here to discuss.

D) DD is full up in the sense that very few spots for countries exist, and that is the main sort of attraction. Plus, what was the last article to be graduated? The Second Yugoslav War? Lesotho? Detonation? Some time in late summer. That's some what, 4-5 months? Ever had a gap like that? Not very good. And think about the inordinate number of articles left out in the blue, with no one editing them- I should know, a good number are mine.

E) If those PODs are implausible (and they are, for sure.) Then can someone else make a suggestion as to what ideas a community TL could have? Remember, the best community TLs have lots of nations, so that lots of people can write in it. Or, I suppose it could have a good thousand year invented history, so you could create states.  