Forum:Wiki Revamping: Time for a Facelift

Per our decision on Forum:Increasing Community Involvement, our community must come up with some plans on how to freshen things up. We want to attract new editors (which probably won't be too hard), but we need to improve editor retention. I would love to hear everyone's ideas. I've also got some of my own:
 * Large-Scale Projects: As we all know, there are some big problems on this wiki that haven't been addressed. That is why I propose the creation of large projects that people can contribute to. This could take the form of revitalized teams or new projects. As for project ideas, we could tackle and  Stubs,, or updating old pages that are really lacking in content AND references. We have plenty of options here, and I have a number of other project ideas.
 * Monthly/Weekly Goals: While big projects might give people a lot to do, many of the ideas are quite the tasks to take on. That is why we need smaller goals to achieve by month or week. For example, say we are updating Chapter Stubs. A weekly goal could be to complete 3-5 chapter stubs, or a monthly goal could be to complete all chapter stubs in an arc. These smaller goals might give people a better idea on how to tackle this stuff. You know what they say, the only way to eat an elephant is one bit at a time.
 * Rewards!?!: Yes, rewards. I don't mean like prizes or gift cards. Let's be honest, incentivizing edits would bring more people. I propose that we create an Editor of the Week and Editor of the Month award. For the weekly awards, we can have separate categories for new and veteran editors so that new people have good odds of winning if they are making positive contributions. We could create a panel of veterans (most likely respected editors and mods) to judge the edits of the newcomers and a panel of high caliber vets (i.e. admins and maybe Kaido, arguably the best/most productive editor) to judge the edits of veterans. The only edits judged will be contributions to projects because it would get out of control to measure that much activity. At the end of the month, winners from both categories will be voted on to elect a winner by all of the judges. To keep things fair, editors/judges can also nominate/petition for another editor, who may not have won during one week but contributed a lot overall in the month, to be added to the judging. Winners would be featured on our Social Media outlets (please take a look at that forum) as well as the wiki homepage.
 * Mentor Program: A complaint I have heard in the past from some non-editing members is the feeling that 1) they don't know what to do, or 2) they feel like their edits won't be good and others will give them crap for it. Why not help people out? Also, no one should have to feel like they are not welcome. I know in the past we have had some problems (SeaTerror) with people being rude to new users, but we can certainly fix that and create a more welcoming environment. I propose the following: a program where new users can sign up to receive a veteran mentor. The mentor will provide editing help/guidance with his/her own expertise.

I know I wrote a lot, but I think these could all be very useful additions to our community. If we can reach more people through social media and gain new editors with immediate outreach to some of our new users sources, these options could give our wiki the boost it needs. However, I'd still love to hear other ideas. The more options we have on the table, the better we can figure out what will work best for us all. 05:17, April 7, 2017 (UTC)

All of those sound like good ideas, but we would need to hear from more people if we want to actually implement anything. 03:30, April 11, 2017 (UTC)