Board Thread:Wiki Improvements/@comment-4146635-20131207205009

Hi! everyone! I have a wiki suggestion. I think we should get rid of transcripts (typed scripts of episodes). I mean, yes, that transcript page is super pretty and cool but I have various reasons why I think they need to go.

For starters, transcripts take a very long time to complete. Often times, a person will start a transcript but will never finish it. Then a while later it will be picked up again. It is not going to be frequently edited because the person has to actually watch the episode, being able to pause it, to really type the transcript. Not only is it tedious but not everyone can or knows where to watch the episode like that. Then we'd have a bunch of incomplete pages and they'd just end up as landfill on the wiki with no one completing them.

Secondly, what information do transcripts give? I mean yes, it is actually very interesting and fun to read them and visualize the episode in your mind but it doesn't give much information. For specific quotes from the episode, we have the quotes section that we can use. We also have the episode summary to use to summarize the episode. The transcripts would very rarely be visited and users would put a bunch of hard work into the transcript all for nothing.

And most importantly, transcripts can very easily be vandalized and can be left unnoticed or left without any references to change the transcript back to how it should. Let's take the Secrets &amp; Songbooks/Transcript for example. A person can easily change, "I've been waiting all day for something bad to happen so I could do that," to some other random line and no one would really notice because no one remembers every line from the episode. And then it'd be hard to tell what is the wrong line and what is right when someone changes them (unless they change it to something inappropriate, then that's obvious). This especially would be a problem for lines deep in the transcript. Transcripts will get so long that it'd be hard to even catch mistakes or changed lines.

Overall, transcripts are so much of a hassle when you think about it and they don't even do much for the wiki. I don't even think many people read them. I think we are absolutely fine and better off with using just a quotes section as that section only features important or funny quotes from the episode. What do you guys think? Should we keep them or kick em? Please use the Support, Neutral, and Oppose templates when starting off your position.

 