Board Thread:Narutopedia Collaboration/@comment-25075055-20140306083717/@comment-25075055-20140308090321

Nobody was suggesting anything of the sort, I'm just saying that people would be more likely to come back and participate with the community if they weren't forbidden by pointless rules like "the forum is only for discussions on how to improve the wiki."

To be quite frank, discussions on how to improve the wiki as a whole generally belong on Talk:Narutopedia. The forums should not just be acting as an extension to that talkpage and should be a place where people can strike up a conversation about the series they love.

Based on the current rules, threads like this should be closed because - in the eyes of the people who made the policy of "no discussions that aren't about the wiki" for the forums - it doesn't have anything to do with improving the wiki, but it'll be kept because Simant is the one who posted the thread: if that was posted by ANYONE else, you'd be preaching the rules and demanding it be closed.

The wiki gets 5M views weekly, but that doesn't tell you anything. Plus, I'd hedge my bets that the majority of people who view the wiki just come to read an article and leave, because they see no incentive to either registering or contributing, due to pointless rules and particular users that discourage ANY kind of community from being created.