The Kiwi Thread Restoration Project - Looking for volunteers to rewrite OPs that have been around since the forum's creation.

[gagabobo1997]

Does anyone else think that the wikipedia OP needs a rewrite? I know the focus is mainly on cows and not CW threads, but as a CW enjoyer and with the wikipedia thread being one of my favorite ones to read, i've been considering it.

 

[Relinquish]

Does anyone else think that the wikipedia OP needs a rewrite? I know the focus is mainly on cows and not CW threads, but as a CW enjoyer and with the wikipedia thread being one of my favorite ones to read, i've been considering it.
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Go ahead. We actually already had our boy @Tread Miller make a GIANT OP on fucking Gmod/Source Splatoon Animation Community (it’s just as autistic as it sounds) and it is currently the longest OP on site for CW subforum. So making a rewrite for Wikipedia is by no means a bad idea

 

[ASeabear8952]

Go ahead. We actually already had our boy @Tread Miller make a GIANT OP on fucking Gmod/Source Splatoon Animation Community (it’s just as autistic as it sounds) and it is currently the longest OP on site for CW subforum. So making a rewrite for Wikipedia is by no means a bad idea

Plus a rewrite for the ED thread was also just merged.

 

[AnOminous]

Does anyone else think that the wikipedia OP needs a rewrite? I know the focus is mainly on cows and not CW threads, but as a CW enjoyer and with the wikipedia thread being one of my favorite ones to read, i've been considering it.
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I've kept promising to do it because it's absolutely shit-tier but I'd welcome anyone who actually got around to it.

I've only gotten as far as a general idea of specific kinds of "dumb shit" in categories, each with links to some particularly important part of it.

The thread has kind of focused on wokeshit presented as fact lately, but there are a lot of different kinds of things that are equally dumb, it's just that the wokeshit is what is actually crippling the site and ruining it as a source of reliable information (and it was never top-notch on reliability in the first place).

Anyway, some of the general categories:

Generic dumb shit, either dumb articles or dumb assertions

Wokeshit (this could be broken down into sub-topics like tranny shit and Gamergate shit and general culture war autism)

Ridiculous edit wars and talk page arguments

Nonsense articles by non-experts who drive off actual experts

Self-serving articles that are basically advertisements for/by the subject of the article

Outright wrong shit

KnowYourMeme tier shit about some passing viral shit that will be or already has been completely forgotten

Specific scandals like the time some American autist who can't even speak Scots ran the Scots Wikipedia for years by doing a Scrooge McDuck accent and completely making up fake Scots despite people vociferously complaining. Another example would be when they had a complete bullshit article on one of Philip Roth's novel that Philip Roth himself publicly denounced and they decided he wasn't a reliable source on his own novels. So he published an open letter insulting them in The New Yorker and suddenly it was reliable.

I think a lot/all of the links could be found just by highlight surfing but any time I've considered starting it I just gave up. If you could get some volunteers and start a DM and split it up so everyone could do highlight surfing of just part of it, I think it could be done. And I'd gladly volunteer too if someone without shit for brains did some organizing.

Anway, that OP is a fucking embarrassment and I'm ashamed of it. I'd be eternally grateful for someone to wash away my shame. (About the only thing I'd keep is the Jesus spit thing.)

 

[ye's Official KF Burner]

Hey so when @Axiom. rewrote Elaine's OP I felt he had a really good system for doing so. It may be a good

He expressed interest and let people and mods know ahead of time, gathered folks who were most active in the thread who also volunteered to help in DMs and we discussed things there while he put things together to wrap it up. It was all business in DMs with some yapping/gossip laced in but we kept discussions contained to avoid shitting up a thread. It also helped to organize ideas and have proofreading done without putting the burden on staff or the community as a whole. So that when the rewrite was shared, it was cut and dry. Some small feedback was shared and changes were made but a majority was done behind the scenes so that a mostly polished product was already shared and ready to go. At that time it was considered one of the best rewrites and I think that has to do in part thanks to collaboration and doing a lot of work as a small but focused group with a clear leader and several assisting members.

I know y'all might not be looking for armchair opinions and whatever given the state of things and how tedious OP rewrites can be. Ideally you'd wanna do the thing that puts the least burden on the staffers but also accomplishes goals of making information clear and concise.

 

[ASeabear8952]

For those who missed the community post:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/op-rewrite-request-thread.225609/