Forum:SH:Spring is in the air!

Flowers are blooming! Buds are appearing on trees! People are walking their dogs again! None of that really has to do with Wookieepedia, but Spring's general aura of hopefulness and rebirth will surely infect our article writing! Soon it will be the month of May, and Wookieepedia's annual summer-speedup will have all of us itching to write, write, and write some more. And what better way to humour our fancies than a barn-burner?

This May will be the one year anniversary of our Wacky wild Wookiee windup, and, I think, a perfect time to once again bring the community together and work toward a common goal. To anyone unfamiliar with the barn burner: We choose a topic and spend a month writing status articles. #1 was Wookiees, #2 was weapons, and #3 was The Phantom Menace. It's a great community-building exercise that sees us all do a lot of writing, review each other's work, and just generally pool our efforts toward a fun and positive goal.

Fred and I have been discussing this on IRC, and while we both agree that the TPM barn burner was a great idea, it did bring with it some limitations. It didn't breed Comprehensive articles very well, and quickie GANs were impossible due to the vast amount of sources and adaptations that needed to be checked. As such, we're kind of leaning toward returning to the theme being In-universe rather than Out-of-Universe. The only exception I can think of off the top of my head would be the HoloNet News website, which could lead to all three kinds of status articles and usually only requires a CSWE check.

Anyway, let me know if you're all interested in this, and if you are, begin throwing out ideas for a theme! I'm also looking for someone to lead this, so feel free to volunteer your services. If this happens, let's make it huge. Your GAs will be on the Main Page this time around, and your CAs just might appear in that Random article box! Yahoo! Menkooroo 06:54, April 7, 2012 (UTC)