Whereas:
- There is currently a significant buildup of 1,035 WIP articles
- Most of these articles are abandoned by their creators and realistically will never be finished.
- Many of these are quite old, some over 10 years old
- They clog up the search results
- It is Star Army's policy to remove articles which meet the Criteria for Deletion (read the linked page for details)
- To address the situation we previously implemented "Easy Mode" to reduce the amount of WIPs but it only went down by 30
- I want handle this in a way that doesn't create major work for the members or for the staff (like having to go through 1035 articles one by one)
- We want to present everyone an opportunity to save articles if they need them, both now and in the future
- A wipe of all WIPs to start fresh, done when the new year arrives
- All WIPs would be saved as text files in a .zip file and posted
- in case there's a WIP you need to restore, you can just simply grab it there and paste it back into the wiki
- restorations from my backups can also be requested from me as usual
- Do this once a year so there's never a massive backlog again.