Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-4952704-20151027074419/@comment-4050367-20151028015839

PART TWO

Featured Pages

As for Featured Pages, I accept full responsiblity for that. It was our fault for not keeping it up, and Featured Pages has truly sufferred in the last six months, if not a year. I know CaT's ranted about this (his blogs are always unique). It's something that does need updating. Regarding awareness of the Featured Pages, we could do update threads. Now as for the individual pages, here's my comments and or suggestions:

Featured User: A reboot. Start fresh. Beginning in the voting period for the Featured User of January 2016, any user who has already been featured can be re-nominated and featured, so long as they fit the requirements. New requirements being that they can not have been Featured in 2015, and must still be active. Old inactive users can not be nominated until November 2016 as well. Only one admin/crat and one chat mod can be nominated each month though for the first half of 2016, just to avoid all the nominees being on the Community Team.

Featured Series: Featured Series is still the strongest going-Featured for sure. Guys, I have no clue where you would want me to go with updating/fixing Featured Series, so any assitance would be helpful.

Featured Alien: Again, another strong one with a lot of choices. Same request for advice.

Featured Character: Aye, the first of the two new Features. On one hand, there really shouldn't be a reason for this one lacking. There's plently of notable heroes and villains to be recognized. What changes could be made with this? Perhaps we could do themes? Like "Villains Month" or "Secondary Characters" month? (I do think we should keep this).

Featured Object: I'm making an executive call. Next month will be the FINAL month to vote for Featured Object, at which point it will be retired. We will return to 4 Features, unless we decide to replace it with another Feature.

Sif: First off, instead of saying you're tired of the wiki being like this, only active on the weekends, then complain to the staff. I say this because they aren't doing ANYTHING about it. There's no Project: Reinvention, there's no asking the people what they want, there's no change, they don't deliver or are extremely late on certain events (Fanon Con, Halloween), and there needs to be a change. Speak up.

Sci: We can't make people come on on weekdays. Now, we can encourage but we can't make the wiki active. Now onto the "They aren't doing ANYTHING" part. It depends on what "anything is". Now keep in mind that we did demote Roads, and I did post the thread for change. That's part of the reason why this discussion is even being had, because instead of staying behind closed doors and just talking with Sub and/or any other admins about it and then choosing who gets promoted or not, I went to the community to get their opinion and thoughts. So, there has been progress.

And, I just want to say something. I spent several months of 2014 and some (not as much but some) of 2015 basically on my knees, begging the community to actually take some initiative. If they wanted change, then ASK about it. Bring it up to people. Start a discussion. If admins aren't doing something, then you have the full right to bring it up in threads or blogs and create a discussion, inform a staff member, etc. So, now that this is actually happening. . . you're upset that users have to speak up about change and actually take initiative? It kind of sounds like it. (end of small rant paragraph)

"Extremely Late on Certain Events"

There was an idea that more people would be involved in Wiki Events, would help manage wiki events, and prevent this from happening. It was called the Community Committee. It didn't work out so well as I had hoped. Users weren't able to meet deadlines or help out, and thus far it hasn't worked out. Thus, with Paper not as active, I am pretty much the only admin who is capable of managing all the wiki events. Due to this dependence, when I am not able to be very active, well... you get the idea. Now, we are supposed to get an all new Community Commitee to help the Winter and Spring Fanon Cons, the November Alien Fest, and other events as well during this time. It's a work in progress.

Omniverse Awards: Omniverse Awards was a bit late in results thanks to a failed attempt to do a new voting system for the awards. It didn't work out so well, and with the beginning of the new school year, it took extra time to get each person to edit their comments to allow the blog to be made.

Fall Fanon Con: Already explained two paragraphs above.

Halloween: Hey, we still got a Halloween theme for half-a-month! If I hadn't come back, we probably wouldn't have the cool black Venom-sphere background we have right now. (okay I'm done with excuses)

Sif: Also, please give the wiki a different design. I'm talking for the backgrounds, for the logo, give it something new and sharp. I'm sure there are people who are willing to help.

I've discussed this with Yopo, and asked for ideas for a new logo on chat before. He has an idea for a background that we can try. To be honest, wiki design has never been my forte and I completely agree that this wiki needs a new look. I depended mostly on people like Nick in the past to help with design. So if you don't like the look - it's probably because I suck at design. Sorry D: Yopo, if you're reading this - start coming up with ideas! (Also, my wikis are rather limited, so I wouldn't know about ERP wiki and their design).