Forum:SH Archive/Rough proposal for a loosely organized semi-project. Take a look!

Hey everyone,

I've been tossing around ideas in my head for something like this for a while. I figure it's better to post those ideas here and see if anybody else is on board.

A couple of really cool things happened at Wookieepedia last year --- Grand Admiral Week and Gotal Week (more on them below if you're unfamiliar with them). Neither were any sort of official project, but they were fun endeavors that brought members of the community together and resulted in a number of status articles each. A lot of their charm, I think, came from their impromptu nature, but nevertheless, I'd like to duplicate them and make them into some sort of semi-official and regular thing.

The working, if utterly terrible, title is "The Tetra-monthly barn-burner." I'd like members of the Wookieepedia community to get together every four months and choose a theme that we can all write some articles on and nominate for FA, GA, or CA status. The theme could be anything, from Trandoshans to Rogue Squadron pilots to Spectacles-wearers --- we could make it as serious or as ridiculous as we wanted, as long as there was a common theme linking all of the articles we intended to write. The only limitation I'd suggest would be to make it so that it isn't something already covered by an official Wookieeproject, such as "KOTOR characters." Rather than making this an official Project, I think we could keep it fun yet still organized by limiting it to the Senate Hall. Every three months we could make a thread where we propose and choose ideas, and then keep it as our headquarters where people can sign up for articles, request sources and pre-noms, and generally help each other out.

I think that four months is a good stretch of time --- anyone interested in participating could do their own thing in terms of writing and nomming articles for four months straight, and then take a fun breather by doing something different and participating in the project here. I think that this would have many benefits --- it would bring the community together, allow us to work together and share tips on article-writing and editing, would produce a number of status articles, and would allow us to do more themed weeks on the main page if we get enough FA's out of any one barn-burner. Basically, it would be a way for us to pool our efforts and work as a united community toward a fun and positive goal.

Anyone interested? Anyone have any ideas on how to improve it? I'd love to be able get the first barn-burner going for May. As some examples of themes we could do: I propose that the first one be Wookiees, in order to give Wookieepedia some more eponymous status articles. :D We could do Tarfful, Vargi, the three dudes in the Welcome message image, and tons more. Another neat one would be "less famous members of famous families" --- I think that pooling our efforts to do Ryoo Naberrie, Pooja Naberrie, Sola Naberrie, Cliegg Lars, Gredda Lars, Lef Lars, Jonash Solo, etc, would be wonderful.

And... that's basically it. What do you guys think? Menkooroo 14:55, April 15, 2011 (UTC)

Wait, what were Grand Admiral and Gotal week?
About a year ago, various users wrote and FAN'd a buncha Grand Admirals; I think it was based on a random idea in IRC or something. All of the completed FA's were later showcased on Wookieepedia's main page back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-more backs in what was dubbed "Grand Admiral week." While they were being showcased, a bunch of us users, for no reason at all, started writing CANs and GANs on Gotals. A number of people jumped on the bandwagon, and Nayayen even wrote a FAN. Most of the Gotals seen here were fruit from that project's tree. Menkooroo 14:55, April 15, 2011 (UTC)

Let's talk about this idea!
Yeah, let's do it! Menkooroo 14:55, April 15, 2011 (UTC)