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[edit] Collaboration of the Month?
I propose that we institute a "Collaboration of the Month" program, to highlight one undeveloped wiki on the Main Page each month for improvement and expansion. Since there are many potentially good, but near-inactive, wikis that we'll never hear of, it's in our interest. Since unvisited wikis take up server space without bringing in ad clicks, it's also in Wikia, Inc.'s interest. The ideal CotM, in my opinion, would meet four criteria:
- Its Main Page should have a low Google PageRank. This means that it has no inbound links from important pages, won't appear high in Google results, and would not be likely to be seen if it didn't become CoTM.
- It should have a large potential audience.
- Its purpose should be clearly defined on the Main Page.
- It should have a system in place for, or a capable editor committed to, organizing and wikifying content as it is added.
Seahen 22:29, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- I like this idea. It could easily run along side the Wikia of the month, and get a few more people into a quiet wiki. -- sannse (talk) 14:13, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
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I think that to grab people's attention, the nominations need to include some sort of task or target. We want to distinguish this from the Featured Wikia by making this a more hands-on appeal. So the question is, what exactly do you want contributors to collaborate on? Some examples of the sort of tasks I mean:
- The Guns Wikia needs more content. The aim is to get 20 new articles written on types of guns.
- The Shopping Wikia would aim for 20 reviews on products, and 20 new images to go with the reviews.
- Towns, Villages and Cities would like 50 new links to, or from, the wiki to other sites.
- FeatureGarden has no help pages. Please help to build a full set of help pages for this project.
Another requirement is that there is a coordinator available for the collaboration. Please could each nominator add a link to the user page of the coordinator (or coordinators). This doesn't have to be you, but if it isn't you must have their agreement!
Thanks,
-- sannse (talk) 09:18, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WikiMoon/COTM
WikiMoon.net[sm] is a suggested domain we're thinking of for dealing with Monthly matters, expressly COTMs. It represents an abstraction based on the physical effect of the actual orb circling the WikiPlanet right now. It is a domain component we hope to have registered quickly, for strategic purposes. The opportunity will pass away if nobody responds.
A w:military base– mostly defensive. It's where the good guys are stationed.
[edit] Good Guys
Yes, we're guys. Whether we are good or not is for you to judge.
As "experts" at collaboration, we have concluded that participation at wikia is an exersize in futility and an almost lost cause. But we remain hopeful. "We?" you ask.
Sad scenes of bombed-out wikicities are all over the place. Examining the ruins of haunted structures, some of them exquisite, some pathetic; a few standing strong, yet abandoned; many on the verge of collapse, yet occupied by lost, isolated, disillusioned drifters, who look up at you in bewilderment when you enter. It leaves a soldier of my class tearfully pondering what to do.
I'm embedding this essay here for a carefully thought out reason. I have likewise left a panaply of artifacts all over the Wikiverse: Some are mines, a few are boobytraps, others are baited snares and some are simply passive sensors. I've tried to be humane and sensitive to protocol. I've tried to be diplomatic, trusting, cooperative, helpful... speaking only when spoken to, friendly.. resourceful. I have identified allies. You are one.
We.
[edit] Me
I have appointed myself to watch over Central's choice each month, offering support, participating myself and responding to directives from those who set up the spaces. I haven't sought my "own" wikia. Rather, I have searched up and down the list for existing ones that meet my needs. I've helped by providing what I think to be quality assistance to the floundering wikia that I thought had merit. But without representing myself here at central, I approach a terminus. So here I am, weapons on the ground; helmet off; boots untied: capable and willing.
[edit] Us
Stumbling into Meta Collab was like a composer entering a fine studio. The Grand a little dusty but showing obvious quality. Mark Elliot's papers struck a solid and soothing chord for me and a endowed me with a sense of belonging I yearned for since my craft entered this quadrant.
Meeting the Italian fiddler User:Let's was a double treat. His style is flighty but focused. Melodic and liberating. Just like his nick implies, his expression is loose and inviting. I think this duo will go places.
Adding cover designs, we have User:JWSchmidt, along with the rock-solid User:Cormaggio the backbone of Wikiversity. Add User:Ermeyers and Ayh1 of WikiaPerl[sm] and we have a rythem section like no other. This band is going to Rock the Wikiverse!
[edit] How
The idea is to test our own theories of Wikia:Collaboration on live subjects, while at the same time, building tools, linking to external resources (Wikiversity jumps out into the context), and developing formal methods, protocols, table definitions, templates, timelines and a host of artifacts, abstractions and objects from a mediawiki development perspective. These can be used by the Wikia metacommunity. (Our new buzzword meaning community of communities in the spirit of meta-ness – collaboration of collaborations. Deep, huh?
This month's choice, Pen Pal Wiki is a marvelous example! We can test our continuing collaboration with Wikiversity, WikiProjects, and Wikia like Perl, PHP, Python, etc. to develop a deluxe "comprehensive, exhausive, topically-organized collaboration matrix abstraction" that facilitates advanced collaboration via the mediawiki codebase. Even deeper, eh?
Furthermore, Pen Pal Wiki has us focused on multi-lingual paradigms, which seem to be positioned smack on the cutting/bleeding edge of mediawiki's capabilities, evident and problematic across the whole of its userbase.
Meta Collab is your collaboration leader. We want to prove that Wikia-proper is a fully-qualified testbed for web-enabled community development. (Communitas) This development, done well, within the .com context is suitable for highly sought-after framing for a new level of commercial appeal — not just web traffic but a new culture and avenues for meaningful netizenship.
The intrinsic contextual relationship between .org and .com domains that exhibit themselves through the mediawiki interface are ingrained into the cultural fabric of the wiki cloth. Wikipedians, Wikimedians, Wikians, ... all make up a Wikiverse of emense proportions. Wikiversity, I predict, will draw unprecedented traffic that will send bots, spiders, crawlers and all of the other nasty little critters scrambling for position within the above-mentioned frame. One little thing that is missing, is a liason facility that resides in a neutral .net domain space which employs original automata designed by us to meet our needs.
[edit] Who?
The cautiously-liberated philosophy of Wikia, Inc. meshes so well with the Foundation's strategem that award-winning collaborations are not only possible but inevitable. This post is an instrument I have spent man-months on at great personal expense, which happens to be only typical of Wikimediate effort. It is all wasted if we balk at the opportunities ahead.
Well, sorry for the long post; thanks for reading; welcome to WikiMoon.net CQ • 21:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image
The fact that the image for the collaboration is persistantly the "collaboration logo" and not that of the wiki in question is a bit confusing to me, seeing as the "featured" area uses the same logo as the wiki. Might this be changed, or is there a reason it hasn't? -- Lenoxus (This isn't working!/¡No funciona!) 17:28, 25 March 2007 (UTC)