Editing the CWCki

Anyone interested in editing the CWCki? There are only a few editors left who add content to it.

It's up-to-date on the content itself - the posts/tweets/videos are archived - but the articles could be updated more. A lot of interesting info gets left in obscurity because it only appears in collection pages, like the ones for Facebook posts, e-mails, etc.

For instance, Chris and Barb once had a neighbor's cat killed. It's one of the more malicious things they've done and is a great example of how paranoid they can get. Few people would know about it by reading the CWCki, though, since it's only referenced on that e-mails page. It could be added to other articles (maybe Chris and Death? Or adding a section about the neighbors to the 14 BC article?).

Same with Sonichu 11's "nice rack!" scene. It's very funny, but is only mentioned on the Sonichu 11 page and could be added to others.

Or has the CWCki outlived its relevance now that there are multiple forums to discuss Chris and he's not being actively trolled? Should the articles continue to be maintained?

 

On the "should the CWCki be maintained", I think so. There is just so much stuff about our common friend and new things popoing up that I think it should be maintained. I also don't think that everyone interested in Chris would neccaserily want (or have time) to get involved with forum discussions of our autistic hero.

 

Admittedly, I don't edit the Cwcki because I've always assumed that there was a dedicated group that would meticulously add information and edit information on the site. I've always assumed that any relevant information discussed on the forums would already be up on the Cwcki on the day that it started being discussed. Then again, I stopped checking the site (except for the bigger sections) after I got into the discussion threads on Kiwi Farms and here, so that might have been the case at one point but now is not the case.

Either way, I'm not about to donate much time to the Cwcki to edit it.

 

I'm willing to do some transcripts when I have the time.

 

Marvin from KiwiFarms owns the CWCki. He knows about the server issue and has said there's a lack of funds to resolve it properly. He might be able to at some point, but we're stuck with the server crashes for now. Have you lost work when it goes to a 504 error? If I hit backspace, it'll preserve my edits, and I just try again a couple minutes later.

Yeah, I think you're right about the errors putting people off from wanting to edit. Might also be that forums are a more popular way to discuss CWC than the wiki, and Chris has gotten more boring lately. Around January of last year, one of the main editors retired from the CWCki, and afterwards, people would add info to the Facebook and video pages, but rarely to the articles. When I joined, there was very little in the articles about what Chris was up to that year, like his online business and the Financhu Crisis. I started most of the articles about those sagas, since those are my favorites, but I'm kinda burned out and haven't felt like editing in a while. I still do stuff like archiving posts and writing Da Update, but I'm hoping more people will be interested in maintaining the articles.

 

I was thinking I might take a shot at editing a couple articles this weekend. I've been tinkering with the lead section of "Chris and business" article to make it a little more general like the other "Chris and..." articles.

 

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You guys should go outside for a moment

 

I'd be into that, too lazy to do editing or anything but the cwcki gave me hours of giggles years back so I'd happily throw some cash at it.

 

I asked Marvin if people could donate. Here's his response: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/random-thoughts-questions.661/page-732#post-2316115

 

I wonder how much it costs to run the Cwcki, also (forgive me if this has been answered) how is it being funded right now?

 

Oh well, fuck him, I'll keep my money then.

 

I also think that the CWCki doesn't have any active mods anymore. The only user with any mod powers still active is Marvin, and he seems to only appear every once in a while (no offense to him). And, at this moment, the CWCki is being plagued by spammers.

Spoiler: Info About Spammers

These are the users who joined between 23:21, May 16th and 19:04, May 21st. Everyone on this list who isn't crossed out is a spammer:


The latest spam accounts (or at least the ones that did something, see below) was created today.
Pretty much the only thing they do is create either a user or talk page featuring a bullshit description of themselves or an bullshit story in Engrish. The main thing is that, they have a link (sometimes at the end, other times at random places) to a scam site:

This is from the user page for "LilianaNanney2." That link leads to a page selling fake "Herve Leger" designer clothing:


If you want more examples, just look at the CWCki's user creation log and pick an recently created account. While not all of them are spammers, chances are that the account that you picked is a spammer.

My point being, maybe Marvin can make some users mods? It could really help the state of the CWCki.

 

I'm not sure how often Marvin logs in here. You might want to contact him at KF or on his CWCki talk page.

 

discord is a very easy way to reach him

 

Someone could do a mirror of the site, I guess