Thanks Danny, Yes, I don't think that the 365 days are doing much. I guess I'll start editing more and create less.
Thanks so much, Muppets101 On 9/2/07, Danny Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Phillip, one thing that I noticed when I was looking at your site is that > most of the pages that you have are stubs. You've done an amazing job > creating lots and lots of pages -- you have more than 3700 pages, which is > incredible. But I hit "random page" a bunch of times, and most of the pages > had no text at all. > > I looked at your stats: > > http://216.151.156.20/EN/TablesWikiaPUPPET.htm > > The column "mean bytes" measures how much is on your pages. Your average > is 357 bytes, which is low. Most wikis have an average of at least 1000 > bytes per page. The column "larger than 0.5 Kb" also measures the page > size, and on Puppet Wikia, it's at 8%. Most wikis have more than 50%. > > What that means is that Puppet Wikia has lots and lots of empty pages. > Looking at Special:Longpages, it looks like you have about 700 pages with > real content, and then about 3000 stubs. > > So when a reader comes to your wiki and starts clicking around, or hitting > "random page", they'll find that most of the pages they click on don't have > any content. I don't know for sure how that affects your readers, but it > would be discouraging for me as a reader and a potential contributor. > > My advice, which you can take or leave, is this: A lot of the blank pages > are episode guide pages. For each TV show, you've got an episode list on the > show's article, and then you've created a blank page for each episode. I > would suggest deleting all those blank episode pages. They're not doing > anything for you right now, except adding a lot of clutter and empty space. > I would also suggest deleting all the empty timeline pages -- you've got 365 > pages that say "August 11 is the 11th day of the 8th month", etc. > > Then concentrate on adding content to the existing pages. Don't create any > more stubs for a while; just try to build up the pages that you have, and > see if you can get the "mean bytes" up. > > I don't know if that'll help you attract new contributors, but it wouldn't > hurt, and it'll make your good content easier for readers to find. > > > -- Danny > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > -- Muppets101 -- Founder and Administrator of http://puppet.wikia.com
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