Thread:Ursuul/@comment-30270234-20180105132749/@comment-28083312-20180105173413

Aye aye cap’n. I don’t think the edit count thing is an issue, since that happens with loads of other Wikias with vibrant communities. We’ll get that community, eventually damnit lol. Better to have one singular area for them to go to if ever they come anyway, funnel them into a critical mass that makes it worth sticking around for. Once you have that critical mass it’s really hard for it to die off most of the time. If we ever get the chance to form a community, I intend to have us fully prepared to catch it. That out of the way, I wanted to talk about Createbox vs. Searchbox w/o filling up Joe’s thread. A Searchbox pretty much makes the point of having an Inputbox at all nullified, since it’s made redundant by the search bar that’s at the top of the screen on every single page throughout the website. There’s little value. With a Createbox however, it allows you to apply preloaded templates; I’m not sure how much you know about them, but they’re super valuable for new editors. The reason why is because by using a preloaded template, the page they try to create will automatically have a default layout skeleton when they open their editor. It could have an empty Infobox already on the page, which they could then fill out. It could have Bio sections signifying that editors should add biographical information. It could have a references section to signify that they need to cite their sources, the DFS template for sorting, & it could have a few basic categories (like your “General” Category) already in the page they go to create. It takes a world of work off your shoulders by ensuring that the stuff they make is already in line with the existing style, which is why I wanted to recommend it. Does this not sound valuable? Or do you have another reason to prefer a Searchbox?