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Jeremiah Garland·6/13/2016 in Off Topic

Request: Revamp FAOTW

For our newer users unaware of past wiki traditions, Featured Article of the Week (or FAOTW for short) was, as the name suggests, a weekly event in which editors would submit page nominations, which would then be voted upon by the community. The selected page with the highest votes for that week would receive the honour of being FAOTW in the form of a page banner, and would be displayed for seven days on the Wiki's front page. FAOTW has been extinct for almost two and a half years now, primarily due, I suspect, to the dismal lack of activity.

However, now that things are beginning to pick up again, and activity and our community as a whole is in full swing, I think it seems appropriate to revamp FAOTW. It is a fun, inclusive weekly occurence that not only will boost activity in general, but will encourage editing of stories and fanon pages – which, I remind you, are the sole building blocks of our site.

Traditionally, an administrator has run FAOTW. However, should this suggestion come to light and none of the current administration would like to have that added responsibility, I would be more than willing to operate FAOTW (I had the privilege to do so during my own term as admin). As it stands, the FAOTW blog is under Al's control, but with his permission as well as the administration's it would be easy for it to be turned over to someone willing to run FAOTW. Granted – and I've never been one to lie about my future rate of activity – come September/October I may not be entirely active on the wiki, and thus I don't want to risk bringing FAOTW back only for it to die out again. If any other members of our community are interested in revamping this tradition, then perhaps we can discuss who would be able to run it.

We've done well for the past few months in resurging activity; now, let's build on that momentum by once more implementing an enjoyable, rewarding system from the wiki's golden age that, hopefully, will inspire our editors to begin writing stories and fanon once more.

Kind regards,

Jerry

P.S. Wasn't sure which forum to put this in – admins relocate this as needed.

(Edited by Jeremiah Garland)

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Lord Andrew Mallace·6/14/2016

Nults McKagan wrote:
If we're gonna do something like this, we should bring back the Monthly Golden Globe. It's like FAOTW, but as the name suggests it was a monthly award. This prevents, as Squirto mentioned, any page with at least a little bit of content getting the award. There aren't enough new articles for an award to be passed out every single week.

FAOTW is to Bernie as MGG is to trump

we're not brining back the corruption

RevealTheControversy

(Edited by Lord Andrew Mallace)

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Squirto19·6/14/2016

Should Featured Article of the Month just be a new blog/page entirely? Or new blog but add onto the old FAOTW page?

(Edited by Squirto19)

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Captain Ned Edgewalker·6/14/2016

i'm opposed to bringing either back

we barely had enough content to sustain the 2015 oscars, and that's a yearly event

this will not work

(Edited by Captain Ned Edgewalker)

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Jeremiah Garland·6/14/2016

Captain Ned Edgewalker wrote:
i'm opposed to bringing either back
we barely had enough content to sustain the 2015 oscars, and that's a yearly event

You're right. But if we only have an annual contest, people are going to write just enough content to fill that up. A monthly contest will prompt new material. In a community of 15-20 active users having a handful of new stories/fanon nominated for recognition every month is not a tall order. The whole point of this proposal is that, hopefully, it will spur creative activity.

(Edited by Jeremiah Garland)

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Parax.·6/14/2016

MOAR

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G-man.·6/14/2016

there's not enough articles for FAOTW

do we even have enough for MGG

what do we have enough for

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Captain Ned Edgewalker·6/14/2016

Jeremiah Garland wrote:

Captain Ned Edgewalker wrote:
i'm opposed to bringing either back
we barely had enough content to sustain the 2015 oscars, and that's a yearly event

You're right. But if we only have an annual contest, people are going to write just enough content to fill that up. A monthly contest will prompt new material. In a community of 15-20 active users having a handful of new stories/fanon nominated for recognition every month is not a tall order. The whole point of this proposal is that, hopefully, it will spur creative activity.

This barely worked when I held an actual contest where an actual thing was rewarded aside from a pagebanner.

I don't see FAOTW spurring any sort of activity.

(Edited by Captain Ned Edgewalker)

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Jack Pistol·6/14/2016

I don't see the harm in trying, regardless of its success.

(Edited by Jack Pistol)

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Reyes De Luz (Albert Spark)·6/14/2016

Lord Andrew Mallace wrote:
EMINENT DOMAIN
WE WILL TAKE OVER THE FAOTW BLOG IF WE WANT TO

well uh you dont have to because i give permission to change it to administration control, but to me it would seem the conversation is leaning more so to revive mgg not faotw. so unless i control an mgg blog, it would stand to reason the rights of the faotw blog arent in question anymore

Jeremiah Garland wrote:

Captain Ned Edgewalker wrote:
i'm opposed to bringing either back
we barely had enough content to sustain the 2015 oscars, and that's a yearly event

You're right. But if we only have an annual contest, people are going to write just enough content to fill that up. A monthly contest will prompt new material. In a community of 15-20 active users having a handful of new stories/fanon nominated for recognition every month is not a tall order. The whole point of this proposal is that, hopefully, it will spur creative activity.

it would stand to also reason that the monthly award is one prize, period. in contrast to oscars, which is multiple prizes. in addition, some of the faotws that won werent full blown stories. if memory serves right some were character pages that were written very well or contained great photography. some were written just enough to create what was necessary and ill give a shout out to hoja fria de fuego which won oscars and faotw (http://gamersfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Hoja_Fr%C3%ADa_de_Fuego) and if you think about it thats not long at all, and knowing the active people we have many pages that take this ones example can be made and come out as oscar worthy/mgg worthy pages

(Edited by Reyes De Luz (Albert Spark))

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Lord Andrew Mallace·6/14/2016

ok

TAKES CONTROL*

RIP your properties

taken by Lord Mallace Industries™

(Edited by Lord Andrew Mallace)

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