User blog comment:Eastward Expansion/Decaying Wiki/@comment-257949-20100712201343

With all due respect, I don't think any of us can say that this wiki is decaying. Not only because we've recently passed the 10,000 mark, it's because everyone who is talking here is, in the Grand Scheme of Things, rather young in terms of contributions to the wiki. I've been here the longest (two years since my first edit), but you guys are way more prolific (having amassed about five times my total edits!). The only people on this wiki who are in a position to talk about decay are the old dogs who have been here for years, though most of them are now gone - Lousianan, Max Sinister, Mitro (on temporary leave) and the others. 1983:DD seems to be going down a bit, but new timelines and community projects are taking its place. That's hardly decay, more like reinvention.

I hail from the RuneScape Fan Fiction Wiki. I spent a good two or three years and watched the community slowly leave. It was by no means the end of the wiki, though; yes, we had a decrease in big projects like roleplays and story serials, but the newcomers came around and continue to grow the wiki. Indeed, I might even say that our fall was perhaps a good thing, as we were taking a profoundly fantasy genre and throwing in a lot of sci-fi; with our decline so came the more appropriate fan fiction articles set in-universe. I was the last reasonably prolific editor of that community before I left a year and a half ago. It's still thriving, just not in the way I saw it. It isn't decaying, merely evolving. We're seeing the same thing here, though I, like you guys, are seeing it from the perspective of the smaller entities rather than the titanic editors who have figureheaded this wiki for years. And if we are the new heads of the wiki then at least we're active, creative, and amicable to each other, rather than the horde of less cooperative and unimaginative editors who worked on the RSFF wiki once I handed over the torch.