Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4139585-20141231174930

Hello all. This will be the first official announcement thread of 2015. I have many topics to discuss today, so I'm going to get started right away.

First of all, Featured Series of the Year results will be announced on chat at approximately 12:01 AM on January 1, so stay tuned for the live reveal!

Secondly, we have results of the vote for the new main page that occurred during the majority of December. At the conclusion of the vote, the count was 3 votes in favor, 1 abstention, and 1 vote against, which means that as of Friday, January 2, despite only a few votes being cast, the main page will be updated with the new layout.

Next, we have Project:Archive pages for January-February 2015, in addition to the end of pages for November-December 2014. The pages for January-February are as follows:


 * Alien X
 * AmpFibian
 * Armodrillo
 * Big Chill
 * Brainstorm
 * Chromastone
 * Echo Echo
 * Goop
 * Humungousaur
 * Jetray
 * Lodestar
 * Nanomech
 * NRG
 * Rath
 * Spidermonkey
 * Swampfire
 * Terraspin
 * Ultimate Humungousaur
 * Ultimate Swampfire
 * Water Hazard

In addition, by the end of the day on January 1, all the pages for November-December 2014 will be turned into disambiguation pages, with all content moved into the archive.

The last two topics are issues that Sci mentioned in his first blog for 2015 - A Year of Community. The first topic is related to the Community Committee, specifically, changes to Fanon Con and the Fanon Con Committee. As you know, the con this previous weekend went exceptionally well presentation-wise, but the back-end of things, mainly posting the blogs at the proper times, did not go as smoothly, mainly because the elected host, Ultra, went inactive before the con began. The purpose of the Community Committee is to replace the Fanon Con Committee, but as I stated in a reply to Sci's blog, committees will not work. Instead, we need an entirely new format for Fanon Con and similar events, where all users can participate, that way, it doesn't matter if certain users go inactive. The exact changes to Fanon Con itself would be decided by the entire community at a later date, not by either the FCC or the Community Committee.

The second topic is the restructuring of the forums. Sci suggested to change from the current 15-board system to a 13-board system, and specifics for his proposal can be found on his blog. My suggestion is to change the current 15-board system into a 12-board system with the following boards:


 * 1) General Wiki Discussion - for discussing changes to the wiki (old board)
 * 2) 2015 - A Year of Community - self-explanatory (replaces 2014 - A Year of Change, obviously, also gets merged with Site Suggestions)
 * 3) Wiki Events - for discussing Fanon Con, Alien Fest, Holidays, etc. (old board)
 * 4) Community Center - for discussing Ben 10 related topics, as well as role-playing (replaces Role Playing board)
 * 5) Series Discussion - for discussing series (old board)
 * 6) Movies, Crossovers, Collaborations, and More - for discussing all non-series projects (combines Fan Fiction Discussion with Crossovers and Collaborations)
 * 7) Creators' Hub - for discussing ideas as well as tips for writing/creating (combines Help Desk with Fan Fiction Ideas)
 * 8) Services and Contests - self-explanatory (slight change to Services)
 * 9) Introductions - self-explanatory (old board)
 * 10) Magister Council - cool name for admin board (old board)
 * 11) Off Topic - for discussing non Ben 10 related topics (old board)
 * 12) Trash Can - non-sensitive examples of what not to do (old board)

If you have any suggestions for changing the names of any board, list them below.

I realize that many of you will be voting twice for the same issue, but do not worry: these two issues will also be discussed by the admins during the month of January, and we will be valuing your input very highly in our discussion.

Lastly, a reminder that a wiki-wide meeting will occur on chat starting in about 10 minutes.

Thanks for reading and voting, and have a great New Year!

Only January 01 2015 00:00:00 until the new year...

--Paper 