Forum:Issues about the Article of the Week

I hate to bring this up after the recent outbreak of vandalism that has occurred here, but there are numerous issues regarding the Article of the Week that should be called out. While the standards set for nominating an article for "Article of the Week" are okay, there are issues on how the Article of the Week is being chosen.

I personally support the system being put into use by Arbiter0416. The system allows for users to support others' nominations for Article of the Week. The problem is that very few people have taken advantage of this system. Out of the many people on Mobius Encyclopaedia, only about four people have actually contributed. If anything, Sen10elS has been doing most of the nominating for a long time now. I would have done more nominating myself, but I was recently called away for the past few weeks, hence why I wasn't around to stop the vandalisms. Anyways, it seems that most people do care about the Article of the Week, or don't know how to contribute. With this said, I have a few ideas on how we might be able to reverse this.

To start off, the list for candidates for the Article of the Week is not on the main page. When people visit the encyclopaedia, most don't take the time to look at the print on the bottom asking people to nominate articles. I feel if this were moved to the main page, more people would take notice. Along with this, if we were to have numerous users or administrators nominate numerous candidates and have a poll/vote on the main page (kind of like what FairFieldFencer created several years ago), I guarantee that much more people would get involved.

Of course, doing this every week would be quite time consuming, considering that we have to be prepared for any kind of threat like the one that just occurred. Therefore, I would like to recommend changing the Article of the Week to a Featured Article that would be updated every month. I know that Thot Prad was against this idea, stating that keeping an article on the main page for a whole month would be monotonous, but we are starting to run out of ideas. A lot of good characters, places, and objects have already been named, making the list quite long. I feel limiting this down to choosing an article every month would prevent all of the popular articles from being used up quickly. Let's face it, many of the users probably want to nominate popular articles, but they have been named a long time ago. Due to this, maybe it would good to start all over again, and name articles every month, so that we don't run out so quickly. Places like Sonic News Network have Featured Articles by this basis, which makes me think that we should to.

On that note, the talk of a Featured User has been mentioned several times. There are many users on this encyclopaedia who do outstanding jobs in creating articles and templates, formatting articles, and reverting vandalism, as was recently proven by Sen10elS, Merricks, Diamonddeath, and Arbiter0416. These accomplishments shouldn't go unnoticed. One of the main reasons I joined this encyclopaedia was to give due credit articles that had been named Article of Week. I did this by creating the Article of the Week template and adding the date list to the List of Articles of the Week. While my actions did raise a few eyebrows from the adminstration at first, it can't be denied that these features have given due credit to the articles. That credit should also be given to users who work hard on this encyclopaedia. Having a poll to nominate a Featured User just like at Sonic News Network would be most apropos.

While these suggestions are not of dire necessity, I feel these suggestions can help get more of the users involved in the encyclopaedia, and ease some of the work on the administrators and moderators. Lcemmcr 23:32, June 5, 2011 (UTC)