User blog:Smoke./Inactivity

So far there have been two blog posts complaining about inactivity, and various users claiming that there is nothing to edit, nothing to do, so on and so forth.

I have been patrolling the wiki. I have found a number of things that need to be done, and have been working on some of it:


 * The images in many articles are still all jacked up (images within the text, within section headers, on the LEFT side of the article when they need to be on the RIGHT). This makes the articles look messy and unorganized and makes them hard to read. There was a drive to fix this sometime last year. It's still going. The rules still do apply. Those of you that are new, read the blog I just linked to.


 * The formatting on many articles still isn't right.


 * The spelling and grammar is absolutely atrocious in some spots. It needs to be fixed - badly. Many articles look like they were translated, verbatim (instead of putting words into context).


 * Some articles are incomplete. Some need to be re-written. If you think a subject relating to Mortal Kombat hasn't been covered in an article, do create a new article for it. Don't be afraid. No one is going to bite your head off.


 * Heights and weights need to be sourced.


 * Some characters are missing quote sections.


 * Some articles need links. Try not to insert too many links in one section.


 * Clean up galleries. Some articles NEED galleries, period. These are the articles that have irrelevant images within the text; the images concern the article's subject matter, but have nothing to do with the text that it is placed with.

If you want more activity, do what I do; hit the random page button. Scan for the stuff I outlined above. Fix it. Inactivity problem solved.

Not to mention being in the chat, but that's a given anyway. The chat is still more active than the wiki. If you are in the chat, make some edits on the wiki too.

Any other ideas or observations? If you are here to bitch about the inactivity and aren't going to do anything about it, refrain from posting. Signal to noise ration on this blog WILL remain low.