Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4139585-20130806225056

Now that we have voted to update the community messages, located at MediaWiki:Community-corner for reference, it is time to decide the specifics of what the new community messages will look like.

With the exception of the series list, here is a draft that I made myself, including all of the suggestions made in the original post here.

Welcome to Ben 10 Fan Fiction

We are a wiki dedicated to series, characters, aliens, movies, and more all related to the four Ben 10 series. While browsing the wiki, keep in mind the following:


 * As of July 1, 2013, all "child-oriented" wikis across Wikia have had the ability to edit anonymously removed. You will need an account to edit, comment, upload images, and basically do everything there is to do on the wiki except read it. This is not Wikia's policy, rather a guideline they are forced to follow under COPPA.
 * As of April 5, 2013, all users are required to have 25 total edits and 15 mainspace, which includes normal articles that do not have prefix in front of them. Examples include series pages, character and alien pages, episode pages, and pages for devices. Counter examples include talk pages, forums, blog posts, comments, user pages, and the project space. This is to prevent users from quickly creating an account to get on chat for bad purposes.
 * Please be sure to read our blacklist.
 * A list of active bureaucrats, admins, and chat moderators can be found at Project:Community Team. A full list can be found at Special:ListUsers by checking the tabs for those three categories, deselecting all other tabs, and hitting "Show".

We also encourage you to be involved with different activities around the wiki that occur from time to time, including:


 * Fanon Con, held at the end of every March, June, September, and December, with rotating hosts.
 * Annual OmniVerse awards, held every August, hosted by User:UltiVerse
 * Forum discussion regarding policy changes and other events
 * Also, feel free to write a blog post to make announcements about your series or for other purposes, but be sure to read our blog policy.

If you need help with art or logos, be sure to check out our Project:Services, which also includes many other user-run projects to help you out.

To easily keep up on news, be sure to regularly check our two main blog listings: one for user news and another for admin news. We also have a contests blog listing.



We hope you have a lot of fun when browsing the wiki, and we encourage you to sign up for an account if you are above the age of 13, as required by COPPA. One you have an account, you can begin making your own series, aliens, and other characters, and we sure hope you do!

A couple notes:


 * Fanon Con doesn't have a page explaining what it is, so we can make one at Project:Fanon Con I guess.
 * Project:Services would be a list of all major services, including art services, logo services, and HBTFFSHE.

As always, vote using the voting templates:

(vote for the proposal)

(remain neutral)

(vote against the proposal)

(suggest a change to the proposal)

Voting will end at 11:59 PM on August 25, 2013 (or until there is a majority). I am allotting this much time because I'm sure people will have major suggestions, and also we will need to have finished deciding what to do with Project:Best Content before we can finish here. That thread is located here.

Admins please highlight :) 