Forum:SH Archive/Proposal for featured/good topics

Hey all, I used to edit here under a different name, and am back after a long period of inactivity. Since that time, I've started edited pretty frequently at Wikipedia, and I want to suggest the Wook adopt something that Wikipedia already uses: featured topics and good topics. (It was suggested I bring this idea here for feedback.)

FTs and GTs have some similarities to FAs and GAs, but instead of articles, they are collections of articles. Basically, a topic consists of a collection of inter-related articles of superior quality. Each FT or GT has one main article that describes the collection, plus other articles that are related to the main one.

The best way I can think to describe this is to simply show some examples from Wikipedia. Here you can see the South Park (season 13) good topic: the main article is the "season 13" article, and the other articles are episodes. Or, here you can see a Star-Wars related good topic, with "Star Wars: Jedi Knight titles" as the main article, and all the actual titles as the other articles.

The criteria for FTs/GTs are pretty simple: there be at least three distinct articles, they have a clear similarity and are linked together, and there are no obvious gaps or missing articles. At Wikipedia, a featured topic has at least one-third or one-half (the criteria is changing this month) FAs and the rest GAs; a good topic has all articles at least GAs.

Basically, the way it works is users come up with the proposed topics, and then they go through a review process, where the reviewers make sure the articels meet those requirements, and make sure nothing is missing. It's a pretty easy review process, really, because the criteria is clear-cut: you either qualify, or you don't. Once a consensus is reached and a certain period of time elapses, it passes or fails as GT or FT.

This differs from WookieeProjects because, while those encompass all articles of a certain type, these apply to a specific kind and require a certain quality designation. I can think of many possible Star Wars topics off the top of my head. FOr example, if articles for all members of the Max Rebo Band, that could be a GT/RT with the band article itself as the main article. Or, if X-wing (novels) was the main topic subject, all the individual novels themselves would make up the rest of the topic.

Forgive my lengthy explanation, but I think FTs/GTs would be a perfect fit here at the Wook and, like FAs and GAs themselves, would help encourage contributors to make and develop articles of great quality. Any thoughts, questions, whatever?

— Hun ter Ka hn  02:30, September 1, 2010 (UTC)