Thread:Sxerks/@comment-25979511-20171116072152/@comment-3218221-20171116181443

Archiving a wiki wouldn't make sense, and it would go against the fundamental idea that wikis are user-maintained online encyclopedias. Online encyclopedias thrive on the basis that as online encyclopedias they can be edited/updated all the time, in real time.

I honestly don't believe it's possible for a wiki to run out of "to-dos." I've said this to you before, but I believe there's always something that needs doing on a wiki. Let's say that as of right this second all things Durarara!! come to an end: there will never be any more light novels, no anime, games, albums, manga - no new media of any kind whatsoever. Narita will never write for it again.

The amount of work the Drrr!! wiki still needs doing after this revelation is, let's face it, a lot. There are SH character pages missing a lot of info; there are original series characters lacking detailed info in their chronology sections. A lot of the character pages could benefit from rewrites. The arc overview pages need rewrites. Heck, go through the entire wiki and see what needs to be rewritten. Then there are all the chapters of the light novels and manga that don't have individual pages - what about them? Those alone could take forever. A lot of the episode pages have way too many screenshots cluttering the text and screwing with the formatting. How are their trivia sections doing?

And then there's the nitty-gritty wiki stuff: standardizing all image names; methodically categorizing all images; making sure all images are of high quality and copyrighted; fixing double and broken redirects (heck, why not update all redirects?); dealing with dead-end and orphaned pages and more. Hell, what about implementing a references system, making it so that the majority of pages have sources? Now that would be a sign of a good wiki. It would also take ages.

Meanwhile, don't forget that FANDOM itself is changing, all the time, and that its changes affect wikis and those wikis inevitably have to adapt to those changes somehow. Header modernization, Discussions, autoplay videos... They're too big for a wiki to ignore sans effect.

Archiving a wiki goes against the point of it being an online encyclopedia. It just wouldn't happen.