Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25133206-20160714190136

It has come to my attention that the system for managing Featured Articles and Featured Blog Posts has fallen into disuse. I am calling for a revival of this system, as I feel it is very useful in maintaining the quality of our wiki.

For those of you who don't know, featured pages are well-written articles that showcase the best that the wiki has to offer. They serve as role models for others, and can easily be accessed through links on the home page.

How does a page become featured?

Administrators and moderators are responsible for featuring pages that they feel are exemplary. Featured articles must provide complete and concise information, have a well-organized format, and adhere to the Wiki Style Guide. Again, please note that quantity does not necessarily mean quality. Featured blog posts are more ambiguous. They can be important notices that contributors to the wiki would find useful, or they can simply be well-written works that positively reflect the spirit of our community (a good example is The Adventures of Prince Imrahil).

Featured articles are marked with a mithril ingot and featured blog posts are marked with a gold ingot.

Note to admins and mods: When marking a page as featured, please use the template or. That way, the pages are automatically added to the featured article or featured blog category pages.

What am I asking you to do?

Regular wiki contributors: This is simply to notify you that such a system exists on our wiki. If you ever have trouble writing articles for our wiki, simply check out the Featured Articles page for some good examples. Hopefully, this will give you even more motivation to contribute positively to our community.

Admins and mods: The featured pages categories are in need of some clean-up. Many entries there are outdated. I will be working on clearing some of that up later, so don't be offended if your months-old blog post suddenly becomes unfeatured. Help is welcome, but I think more of our effort should go to finding new pages to feature and periodically renewing featured pages to ensure that they reflect current wiki standards.

Do you guys have any other ideas on how to improve this system? I'm always open to new suggestions :)

Beijing1000 (Admin) Send me an owl 19:01, July 14, 2016 (UTC) 