Thread:Floatingaxehead/@comment-5175866-20160830212217/@comment-5175866-20160901212655

Thank you for your generous and detailed insight. Indeed I greatly agree with much of your insight, in particular to the wiki- infact, sometimes I think you almost have to have the passion and zeal about the goal of the wiki to be active on it. Your ideas seem to be mirroring my own (and I do not know to what extent I have shared them with you) so in that we are like-minded, but they are also familiar to me.

That being said it is very encouraging to here a community member with a conviction from the Holy Spirit and a love for the content, something I think might be necessary for interest to be active. The issues you've presented are sadly ones we do not have immediate solutions too (in which we the Admins have discussed):


 * Advertising outside of Wikia- we have tried multiple fashions such as in-person references and social media but asides from the few ideas we have tried it seems difficult for us to get the audience we need. Fewer than 20% read their Bible on a daily basis and less than 1/4 in Christians are biblically literate. Naturally a vast majority of our users (presumably viewership as well, but we do not have access to statistics to vet this) are Wikians usually in the teens or twenties. The sad reality is that the vast majority of those who are biblically literate are adults in their 30s and up who are married with families and children, full time jobs, and very involved in church activities. This demographic does not fit well with the Christian audience who is comfortable with the Bible we need.


 * This is one reason why we have our programs, in order to encourage biblical literacy amongst those who lack it so severely, in particular Wikia. It does create a target audience to disciple, but we still lack the Christian audience we need that can write
 * Right now it seems the only plausible solution to obtaining non-Admin editors is through advertising to Christian websites on the Internet and going church-to-church promoting it. This is something we would have the capabilities to do one day, but requires lots of money to do this. This would be done in the point of time where this is able to form a nonprofit ministry
 * Do you have any specific recommendations or ideas to advertise on?
 * Also, because of our BPOV and wanting to please God, rather than man this can lead to disinterest among those who have incorrect doctrinal views, or those who disagree with ours. As you know Wikipedia tries to be inclusive of all of them, and often the secular world will say that there is no correct view. Loss of specific interest from this factor is unavoidable, as we want to please God rather than man. The audience we are "targeting" for editing does need to or would agree with our views.
 * It seems from both the secular and Christian world alike that if this had proper promotion than there would be a good audience of interested Christians. We are out of touch with those resources

If you have any specific ideas on the issue you described (that I completely agree with you on) please let me know

P.S I am granting you rollback rights which automatically mark your edits as patrolled (edits go on the site even if they aren't patrolled, but its a system for Admins that says they need to be reviewed) and rights to move pages (not sure if you will use that very frequently). You've been active enough and have shown enough understanding where you are considered a trusted editor who does not need edits reviewed (now I still may do so just for the sake of it!)

In Christ, Superdadsuper, Bible Wiki Administrator & Bureaucrat