Board Thread:Editing: Anne Wiki Improvement Society/@comment-4934571-20180307141436

Hi everyone!

I am back for a little while. Unfortunately, with all the stuff and deadlines at school, I am still not able to dedicate my time to Wiki. The exam period left me tired and without any will to do things. I am working on several presentations, preparing my thesis and applying for an exchange programme to study abroad next year. What concerns me the most these days is the political situation in my country as we have to face a political and state crisis. Reading the news every day, watching the statements and trying to figure out what will happen makes us all upset, concerned, angry and sad. That's why it is hard to find a motivation to work on something positive (such as Anne), instead of mourning and predicting future events.

But don't worry, I know about the updates, I watch PGG and I usually add the newest episode as soon as I can. I follow the cast and crew of Anne (with an E) on Twitter and Instagram and whenever I see something relevant, I try to edit things here or on IMDb. Photos take more time, but I will upload them eventually. I also created pages for Season 2 episodes on IMDb and some other users (or agents) already uploaded several cast members to their respective episodes. Then I tried to update our pages as well.

The main reason why I am writing this post is the situation we had here in the past few days (weeks). It's not a new problem, however, rather a long-lasting one. In June 2017, I approached Joannguyen on her wall as I tried to help her and give her some pieces of advice on how to upload the new files (using special buttons or links instead of inserting placeholders on pages which had nothing to do with the pictures) and not upload duplicates with different names (if the name is not perfect, you can simply rename the file). You can see my post here. However, there was no response from her and nothing changed. I decided not to write her again, but I was rather disappointed with the mess in pictures and the unnecessary edits which are visible in the History section of each page.

The massive renaming and reuploading of almost all (or perhaps really all) AS pictures was an unnecessary step and work done here. Because of my activities and the situation in my country in the past few days, I literally had no will or energy to revert all the edits and delete the duplicates. I also didn't want to do it just like that. I wanted to explain my step to Joan, but then again, last time there was no reply from her.

I want to thank Susannah for doing that crazy amount of work! I am sorry I left it like that for you to do it just by yourself.

In case Joan is reading this, I just want to say that I still claim everything I wrote you back in June. I am grateful that you're trying to help us but you often end up creating more work for us. Please, don't upload duplicates. Please, use special pages to upload files. Please, don't change the system of naming the images without consulting it with us.  