Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25230922-20150630054954

That's a legitimately good question in my honest opinion. To answer this, I'm going to look at a few things. How the three wikis of the network actually mesh together, the content and goals of each site, the activity of users on each site, what these sites actually seem to be, opinions and observations I've made of each site, and the activity of the sites.

First off, there's this one. The father wiki. CPW. The activity is fairly mild. Generally, it's cared for as well as it needs to be, and lives largely up to its goal.

Now let's move on. There's Spinpasta. Now, I'm a bureaucrat on Spinpasta. Been so for about... 2 years, give or take? 1 and a half? The activity on that site is actually relatively slow in terms of what users do on site. It's mainly used for its chat, since CPWC is and has been gone for awhile. As far as the pages and content, about 1/5 of them are actually quality pages. The goal of the site is for spin-off pastas and fanfictions, and some of my works are there. But again, a large majority of people are on chat, with the exception of passerbys. Even Cleric has the opinion of Spinpasta basically being for shitty fanfiction. As far as I go, I'm kind of mixed on feelings with it.

Then there's.... Trollpasta. Oh lord. Now, I used to be an admin there as well. That said. The activity on site is fast, but let's look at the opinions of the site: My observation is that it's a site full of what basically amount to shitty spam pages and very few actual parodies of creepypasta. These have earned the collective name "Horrible Troll Pastas", but in truth, I think the idea of trollpastas has been kind of lost. Nowadays, it's mainly used as either a place to put some kind of short spam page or just as a dumping ground for the terrible of the terrible from here. In addition, with Skelly mostly absent, some users have actually gone as far as RAIDING OTHER SITES for the lulz and basically living up to... well, half of its name.

Now, let's look at how the three wikis mesh together as a network: To be honest, they don't. They're a network in name alone, with very little if any collaboration between the three. It's a network MAYBE fifty percent of the time, and that's usually just to network-wide ban someone (despite the Blocking Policy forbidding that unless they've actually committed an offense across all three wikis). The three sites share collectively MAYBE ten or twenty users altogether. They mesh as far as goals, having a separate site for each type of pasta, but generally they don't mesh as an actual network. If there's going to be affiliated wikis, why not affiliate the site with wikis that are active, preservational of their original goals, and don't have bad opinions of each other? If there's going to be a network, maybe it should work together as a collective network, rather than just in name alone.

In other words, I think that the CPW network should simply become Creepypasta, Spinpasta, and Trollpasta. If there need to be affiliated wikis, let's make a short list of wikis that would agree to affiliating with us and sharing common goals that would benefit all sites involved. What do you guys think?

 