Weirdcyclopedia (2022-2023)

Weirdcyclopedia was a wiki founded on February 12, 2020 by a former user known as Salarvander located on ShoutWiki (a farm that also feeds our wiki) and aimed to be a wiki where the user felt almost complete freedom. The wiki was closed in June 17, 2023, and was recreated from scratch on August 22, 2023.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) This wiki was so underdeveloped that even the main page looked unfinished because there were blank sections or the phrase "Under Construction" everywhere.
 * 2) The only template on this wiki was the delete template, which further justified the almost non-existent quality control.
 * 3) Working on this wiki was very frustrating due to recent vandalism and feedback from other users, resulting in almost always edit wars.
 * 4) * The worst casewass the page about Qualitipedia which is filled to the brim with trifles, unprofessionalism, and criticism of important people of Qualitipedia, making this page the biggest offender.
 * 5) *Editing on these pages became even more frustrating in December 2022 than before for the reasons stated above.
 * 6) Hypocrisy: This wiki criticized the reception wiki genre, yet there were tons of pages of real-life people on YouTube or TikTok that had sections known from the reception wiki genre with a whole series of reasons why it's bad.
 * 7) * Speaking of which, they were all pages attacking human beings. Sound familiar?
 * 8) At around mid or late 2022, the wiki community became very toxic given that they sometimes even literally wish death to people whose opinions conflict with theirs.
 * 9) Starting in December 2022, this wiki started to decline thanks to a lack of administration, as its only administrator, Salarvander, is no longer active. This led to massive vandalism on most pages thanks to -abigblueworld-.
 * 10) * Vandalism alone has caused most, if not all, users to lose interest in this wiki.
 * 11) *At the turn of New Year's Eve 2022 and the new year 2023, the admin came back, but soon after he fell silent again and he never spoke or did anything since then.
 * 12) Since May, this wiki was struggling with Spambots who create pages that are "off-topic" even for ridiculously low standards.
 * 13) Leerdoman74 was the one responsible for all those edit wars and intimidation/harassment towards other people, and, like -abigblueworld- and the spam bots, he was one of the users who tarnished the wiki's good image.
 * 14) Despite the excessive amount of anarchy, neither Salarvander nor the ShoutWiki staff did almost anything to stop the issues that had been plaguing it for a while, and SSK almost never recieved support in helping the wiki recover. Additionally, all of the terrible users who ruined it got away with doing so mostly scot-free, which caused the wiki to close as of June 17th, 2023.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The wiki used to be good prior to December 11th, 2022.
 * 2) Some of the pages were funny and entertaining to read.
 * 3) There were still some good users during the wiki's lifespan, even while it was decaying, such as Tali64, SuperStreetKombat, ZeusDeeGoose/Blad, and BrownieBrownAlien.
 * 4) While Salarvander was still active, he used to be pretty decent at administration.
 * 5) SuperStreetKombat at least tried to maintain the wiki's quality control during Salarvander's absence, even though the wiki was beyond salvation.
 * 6) The wiki was recreated on another wiki-hosting site called Miraheze, and so far, things are looking to be an improvement over its ShoutWiki counterpart.

How It Could Have Been/Could Be Saved

 * 1) Have Salarvander return or have another adminstrator reopen or at least remake the wiki and add more administration (partially done as the latter had happened).
 * 2) Try to IP ban disruptive users like Leerdoman74 -abigblueworld-, or any of the spam bots.
 * 3) Delete the Reception Wiki-style pages based on real-life people.
 * 4) Develop the wiki more by adding a more unique color scheme to the layout or even an icon.
 * 5) Add more templates than just the delete template.
 * 6) Lock more pages after they've been excessively vandalized or edit warred on.