User:Aristeo/Wikiscrolls

Hello everyone. I'm glad to see the site is back up; I needed to tell everyone something. Hoggwild and I have recently co-founded a project called Wikiscrolls (http://www.wikiscrolls.org) that will aim to be a comprehensive guide and encyclopedic wiki for the Elder Scrolls series. Obviously, I owe everyone an explanation.

One of the things I liked about this project a few months ago was how close-knit the community was. We got along, we liked each other, we joked around with each other some, and we worked together to help barn raise this guide. Contributing was a lot of fun because the community made it that way.

However, it seems that recently things have changed. UESP has somehow gone in the wrong direction. People don't get along anymore, they seem to maximize the damage of others by making huge controversies out of little problems, and they act like mud-slinging politicians instead of like friends. Everyone has to make a point instead of work together. It makes me sick, and it ruined this place.

During the server problems and perhaps a week before them, Hoggwild and I have thoroughly discussed this problem. We're in agreement, this place has crossed the tipping point and has begun to deteriorate. For this reason, along with a few others, we have decided to co-found a new Elder Scrolls wiki called Wikiscrolls.

This new project is an attempt to start again by retaining the best elements from the old community, while removing the problems. After fully considering all of my options and the advantages and disadvantages to them all, I have realised that this clean slate will more than likely benefit the general Elder Scrolls community greatly, and while it may be the most difficult route to take, it will certainly be the most rewarding.

We've just opened the planning phase of the project, so feel free to come and participate if you're interested. And if your not, I understand and that's perfectly alright. I wanted to announce this project so that you all at least know what we're up to. :D --Aristeo | Talk 01:49, 4 January 2007 (EST)