Forum:A Bunch of Ideas and Things that I didn't want to put in multiple topics
So T3PO here with some ideas and proposals.
So lets go!
Article Improvement Drive Needs Improvement[edit source]
I think that if an article has a name that no one would ever make an article about like Jesus Christ High Score Team it should be deleted. This is probably the most drastic out of all of my ideas so don't freak out and stop reading.
- AID was an event that was supposed to happen around Autumn last year but got put on the back burner with the whole move from Wikia thing going on. I agree that it needs to be revived and executed like one of Henry VIII's wives. Well, not in that way but ya know. -- Hindleyak Converse • ?blog • Click here! 11:35, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Maybe spend time consolidating pointless articles into other similar articles? like the nose collection, we need our article base to concentrate more on the vital pages list, with real things people search, rather than just random honky tonk nobody will ever find. --Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 16:45, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- I'm with seppy on merging, perhaps a policy page could be created for it? Maybe have a project to merge old not so good articles, scrape off the dirt, do them up a bit and make summ pheatures out of it. Just an idea. -- 19:47, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Maybe spend time consolidating pointless articles into other similar articles? like the nose collection, we need our article base to concentrate more on the vital pages list, with real things people search, rather than just random honky tonk nobody will ever find. --Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 16:45, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
More Frequent Features[edit source]
Dare I say we should be more like Unclepeteopedia? Yes. I do. I'm tired of going on ?Pedia everyday for a week and the feature not changing. I say about every 3 days.
- 3 days is about right, IMO. Problem is admins aren't around all the time. Open feature updating would be a big mess and open to corruption/vandalism. -- Hindleyak Converse • ?blog • Click here! 11:35, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- If there was something worth featuring every three days, then sure, but now, that would be hard to manage--Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 16:45, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Seppy raises a point, I can't help but feel this suggestion was written by someone who has more than a simple vested interest in the feature rotation :P -- 19:47, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- If there was something worth featuring every three days, then sure, but now, that would be hard to manage--Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 16:45, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
New Users...[edit source]
...GODDAMMI!
- Illogicopedia:The Official User-Base Extending Faction revival anyone? -- Hindleyak Converse • ?blog • Click here! 11:35, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Go for it :D --Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 16:45, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Let's roll on down to the
people nappinghighly legal userbase extending faction -- 19:47, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Let's roll on down to the
- Go for it :D --Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 16:45, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
More Forum Threads![edit source]
- Agreed. We need to get more activity here, even if we're never gonna get the same level of interest as the Proboards forum. -- Hindleyak Converse • ?blog • Click here! 11:36, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- The main problem with proboards was nobody really found it, in 4 months we managed 15 users, barely half the users that actually edited, people couldn't be bothered to post, and never posted anon. The forum we have now is much better, even if it is more sedate. People tended to spend their time watching it when it was proboards, hence more activity--Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 16:45, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- /Generic opinion/ - forum equals yay. -- 19:47, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- The main problem with proboards was nobody really found it, in 4 months we managed 15 users, barely half the users that actually edited, people couldn't be bothered to post, and never posted anon. The forum we have now is much better, even if it is more sedate. People tended to spend their time watching it when it was proboards, hence more activity--Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 16:45, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
More Cowbell![edit source]
No, no cowbwell for joo -- 19:47, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
More of A Presence on the Interwebs[edit source]
We need to be a force to be reckoned with. We need to GROW! And no, that doesn't mean we'll end up like Uncle Pete, the reason they ended up like they did is because they have 300 admins with sticks up their asses (except Hindleyite, o' course).
- /me attempts to remove stick from butt, fails. -- Hindleyak Converse • ?blog • Click here! 11:35, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
Sequels[edit source]
I love sequels. I'm just a-saying, if you don't have any good ideas, why not just mooch off one of your good ideas? Like Mwow513 A.K.A that guy that's sometimes active in spurts made Magic Book 2, the sequel to the EPIC and featured The Magic Book. Of course the sequel isn't as good but, hey.
- No real opinion, but I am not a huge fan of sequels, on the whole. -- Hindleyak Converse • ?blog • Click here! 11:35, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Sequels, all with the exception of one I can think of generally don't live up to their predecessors and just seem a bit cheap. -- 19:47, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
Less Reliance on Pictures[edit source]
Blah, blah, blah an article doesn't have any pictures. Whoop 'de fricken doo. I don't give a shit so why should you? I still think pictures are valuable but a lot of articles don't need pictures and some like Are you Freaking Kidding Me? wouldn't even be able to have pics.
- Agreed, partly. An article always looks better with a picture, and featured articles should ideally have them, since they are supposed to showcase what we're all about and look nice and that. People on the web are impatient and wanna see imagery, goddamit! -- Hindleyak Converse • ?blog • Click here! 11:35, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Misagreed, people have got the totally wrong idea about pictures, good bananaslices add hillarious effect to an otherwise good article, sure they arnt the be all and end all, but they /do/ make articles more structured and on the whole more realistic. Pictures help make something more accessible to users, personally i think a bad paintshop ruins an article more than no image --Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 16:45, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Uh no she di'unt -- 19:47, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Misagreed, people have got the totally wrong idea about pictures, good bananaslices add hillarious effect to an otherwise good article, sure they arnt the be all and end all, but they /do/ make articles more structured and on the whole more realistic. Pictures help make something more accessible to users, personally i think a bad paintshop ruins an article more than no image --Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 16:45, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
Commenting[edit source]
I hope you adminz take this in to consideration. --T3 16:47, 24 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- I agree with most of these, especially the featred article. Should be two, maybe three days. Also, I did bring up the AID on the news template to kinda get people editing. However, I think pictures are quite important. Some articles I choose not to read because they are long and don't have any pictures. Pictures are what draw me in to an article. ~ ♥ ♠ ♦ ♣ 17:04, 24 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Personally, I disagree with this topic. I find that the land of the 'lodge is as good as ever, with not much need of improvement of change. I, in the past have reacted badly to trends of low activity (along with other things I heavily dramatisize). But at this time we have no right to complain. We have a great administrators, an excellent free sever, a load of dedicated editors and a strong community.--Ben Blade 14:56, 25 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- I replied to the individual headings, so booyah. -- Hindleyak Converse • ?blog • Click here! 11:35, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Replied individually, personally I think ?pedia needs tweeking, but as i said, some of this is more aspirational than possible, i know from trying that changing ?pedia itself is very hard, people just do what they wanna do, which is fair enough ^_^ .--Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 16:45, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- I left my pharting gift individually, much like the guys above, most of it was waffle. -- 19:47, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Replied individually, personally I think ?pedia needs tweeking, but as i said, some of this is more aspirational than possible, i know from trying that changing ?pedia itself is very hard, people just do what they wanna do, which is fair enough ^_^ .--Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 16:45, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- I replied to the individual headings, so booyah. -- Hindleyak Converse • ?blog • Click here! 11:35, 27 Aym 2009 (UTC)
- Personally, I disagree with this topic. I find that the land of the 'lodge is as good as ever, with not much need of improvement of change. I, in the past have reacted badly to trends of low activity (along with other things I heavily dramatisize). But at this time we have no right to complain. We have a great administrators, an excellent free sever, a load of dedicated editors and a strong community.--Ben Blade 14:56, 25 Aym 2009 (UTC)