The Official NIWA Thread

Zero777

Zero777

Middle Eastern Federation
self explanatory, just talk anything NIWA.

To start off, yes I know NIWA it's a community where we help each other, but I think it just lost it['s point] when the StrategyWiki and Pikmin Fanon joined. I thought it's only for Nintendo theme wikis and StrategyWiki isn't entirely Nintendo, only partially and the Pikmin Fanon, anybody can pull any idea out of their butt and slap it on an article.
 
Rolo Lamperouge said:
To start off, yes I know NIWA it's a community where we help each other, but I think it just lost it['s point] when the StrategyWiki and Pikmin Fanon joined. I thought it's only for Nintendo theme wikis and StrategyWiki isn't entirely Nintendo, only partially and the Pikmin Fanon, anybody can pull any idea out of their butt and slap it on an article.
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NIWA has lost its point, yes, but for reasons entirely unrelated to those two wikis.
 
Rolo Lamperouge said:
and the Pikmin Fanon, anybody can pull any idea out of their butt and slap it on an article.
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Woah woah WOAH!

Haters gonna fuckin' hate. I edit there.

Pikmin Fanon is the only reason why Pikmin Wiki joined, ya know?
 
So we finally went in the fanon direction, did we... I was hoping we wouldn't.

Fantendo was trying to shove its way into this, and I'm glad they didn't. I'm just hoping this Pikmin Fanon isn't going to start off a trend of fanon wikis joining.
 
Fanon wikis shouldn't be in NIWA at all, and StrategyWiki isn't related to a specific game or series.
 
Wha-- Strategy Wiki joined too? Shit man that's not even Nintendo anymore.
 
Honestly, I have also been catching wind that the MW staff isn't too active in NIWA. I think we could make a stand against this if we frequented the NIWA Forums more.
 
The ZeldaWiki bastards (no offense) are trying to ostracize outside opinion and they're going after the balls of the place. That's why I left Metroid Wiki.

We and the guys at Bulba are chill.
 
We should certainly do something about it. I'd be happy to help. Just give me the info and I can write something up.
 
NIWA has stopped being an alliance, and therefore lost it's identity. This happened way before any fanon wikis joined, and is the result of a failed infrastructure, as well as a heavily divided administration. There are only a few people who hold power inside the organization (none of them are from our staff by the way). The rest of the staff team is composed of expendable pawns, who may or may not eventually realize they don't have a say in anything, at which point they leave and nobody cares. Although, there are a few people there who do care genuinely about the NIWA and want to help, but nobody gives a shit about them. I feel really bad for those people, and I'm sorry that they have to waste their effort in a way like this.

This is what is actually wrong with NIWA. The fanon wikis are not the problem, the high dysfunctionality is. Bashing those wikis won't do anything besides distracting everyone from the real problem. Also: You can stop trying to improve things, since there is pretty much nothing left that can be saved at this point, and you won't be heard anyway. God knows how often people tried to appeal to NIWA's senses, always with the same result. It won't change.

The solution I've found for myself is to think of the NIWA less as an alliance, and more as a fancy affiliation page. This actually goes quite easy on your nerves, since an affiliation page doesn't need a functional infrastructure. Cue less headache. :)

Great, now I wrote another huge angry rant about that crap. I can put it to the thousand others. >_> Well, thank you for letting me waste your time I guess.