User blog:TheSlicer/Changes on CBW

How many of you remember the days where Wikia announced that Monaco was being shut down, and there was a massive clamor on many wikis calling for it to be removed? That it would turn us into a "social networking site?" Well, guess what? We were right.

Look at the statistics. February of this year, we had 244 new articles. Not so bad until you consider: the same month, we had 153 new blogs and 3,972 new blog comments. To put it simply: the blogs are far more popular than the "primary" namespace, so much so that they've all but become the primary namespace.

Want more proof? Go to the Recent Changes. No matter what day you're reading this, I'm betting that even a day lasts all the way to the bottom of the page, or if not, close. Now look at it without the blog comments: probably, a day is much, much shorter. Clearly, our blogs are dominating our website.

So--what do we do about it? Is there anything to be done? Should anything be done? My answer is yes. What we need to do is gradually bring ourselves back into the mainspace activities instead of forgetting about them. Actually edit some pages, please. This is my request, and I hope you can hear me.

And yes, I know it's rather hypocritical to post this on a blog, but I need to get the message out and this seems to be by far the most popular medium for doing so.