Thread:Aximillio/@comment-1264592-20130707230130/@comment-6042046-20130708064857

"Take the Black Ribbon duels for example: Half of those start at the 70% mark, while the other half at 30%."

hrm, yeah, the narrow challenges are better off with us manually coding them as befits their particular situations.

"Truth be told, only a handful of people update the wiki anyway."

that number's been growing over the past half year; 15-23 registered editors update an article or photo every month. (it's also higher by 3-8 when you include the anonymous editors.) 8-11 registered editors edit articles at least 5 times per month. of those, 2-7 edit at least 100 times.

in 2012, this wiki averaged 739 edits per month. in the past 6 months of 2013, the monthly average has risen to 2,750 edits from our combined might! *roar* :)

this is a good year to recruit more staff. well, it's always a good time but this year feels especially full of hope! there isn't a lack of willing so much as a lack of 'okay now that i'm in the editing screen wtf do i do? where do i put my eyes?!' knowledge. augmenting our 'editing guidelines' with a screenshot tutorial should be a significant aid to intrigued volunteers.

videos would be splendid! voiceovers aren't necessary; some people don't even use audio on their pc's. simple written instructions accompanied by short clips for maneuvering the editing screen or wiki would help: how to use the broad calculators, create disambiguation pages, make redirects, change a storylet or card template to display more options, construct a table, update the google spreadsheet, etc.

gosh i miss my old keyboard. the onscreen one requires an hour to type anything of decent length.