Board Thread:Admin Announcements/@comment-24485780-20140801102558

Please exscuse the 70's music pun but a lot of you are probably wondering why there's been so much shifting around on the wiki lately, with our policies and theme and such.

After the integration of our new admin team including myself, and the promotion of several administrators we decided that the wiki was in need of revamping. Policies were outdated and some were simply not explained in enough detail. Sabovia took it upon himself to create a new theme for us after we decided that we needed to form an identity, and he should be thanked greatly for that.

As for why, we, as a team, try to produce the best encyclopedia on micronations around, and therefore we're improving the quality. But mostly we want YOU to all be a part of making this wiki the highest quality. Our new policies are aimed now to stop the curveball of punishment and focus on teaching new users how to improve their articles. The Improve and WIP templates are going to be fixed because they aren't to show that the article is poor, we have Microwiki:Bad for that, they are there to show that the article needs to be worked on and the author might need help doing that.

And that is where you all come in, because many of you chose to be a part of Project Rewrite. Well we're continuing that project into Phase Two. This basically means that now we are going to be deleting all pages that have not been edited since 2012, in order to focus on articles that have relevance in modern times. Some articles might be saved from this depending on if we can prove they still have relevance. In effect, you're about to see the page count drop faster than Russia's UN council support rate.

So while this is going on, any who are involved in Project Rewrite are expected to carry on with the pages they have been assigned and we will continue to work with you until we have a smaller wiki in terms of page numbers, but achieving the highest quality articles we can. In the meantime, you can mark for deletion any articles that fit the bill for Phase Two so admins can go ahead with deletion.

As for bans - in recent times we have had to ban or caution several users. I have seen a blog post which makes it seem like we "enjoy" banning users. We do not. As admins, we want the happiest community possible. So as I said earlier, we are focusing now on teaching new users rather than banning them. Regular rules still apply however, if you break the guidelines you will be warned and eventually banned.

Thank you for taking the time to read about the changes in your online community,

- The Microwiki Foundation 