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Halopedia improvement project brief

Ok I am here to start submitting my Halopedia Improvement project. A project that is to help improve Halopedia in 3 Phases.

To be brief

• Phase 1: This is the tidy up section. This prepares our wiki.
• Phase 2: This is the Community section. This sets up our wiki for the community we will be welcoming.
• Phase 3: I dont really need to submit this one as its more just keeping the previous phases up to scratch

Submission and request

I am finally submitting Phase 2 and 3 because Phase 1 is coming along nicely and it seems right to start moving on to submitting Phase 2.

I really need to things from you all right now.

• 1. A vote to see if you all think these are ready to be put into the project.
• 2. Comments on how we can improve these Phases.

Phase 2 Keeping us going

Step 5 Internal Community improvement

This step is getting the wiki community fun

• 1. Reset featured content for a clean slate.
  • 1.1. Choose what ones we already have and remove those that are outdated.
  • 1.2. Features articles ready to restart
• 2. Add community events on the wiki.
  • 2.1. (Example ideas) Monthly polls.
  • 2.2. (Example ideas) Weekly featured articles/pictures/videos for users to vote for.(rotate them monthly so the homepage is more dynamic)
  • 2.3. (Example ideas) Aprils fools day and other holiday celebrations.(we make a special Wiki skin for the holidays)
  • 2.4. (Example ideas) Start weekly discussions in the forums.
• 3. Make more dynamic news. More detailed.
  • 3.1. Start up news and build it up.
  • 3.2. HAVE FUN.
  • 3.3. Community Update on the Homepage.
• 4. Be welcoming to new members.

Step 6 External Community improvement

This step is to help build relations with other communities outside our internal wiki one.

• 1. Tidy and add to the Halopedia Community Portal using CIA391's other Community hubs as a example.
• 2. Use the Community portal to add community's to the Sidebar.
• 3. Get Twitter and Facebook more updated and up to scratch.
  • 3.1. Get more admins on the Twitter and Facebook.
  • 3.2. Add a bot to the Twitter and possibly Facebook so some automated posts are done to make life easier on the admins.
  • 3.3. Add posts on Featured stuff from step 5 on Twitter and Facebook.
  • 3.4. Add Admin and Patroller made projects on Twitter and Facebook.

Step 7 Get more Patrollers

This step is to help encourage members to become Patrollers.

• 1. Look through active users and see if any are suitable to be Patrollers.
• 2. If none are currently ready keep an eye out in the long run.

Phase 3 Keeping our work looking great

Once this project makes it to Phase 3 it will be discontinued and fused with the Article Improvement Drive project and other projects due to the similar nature of Phase 3 and that project itself. But is outlined so fusion will be easier in the long run.

Step 8 Content

This step is generally what already happens, but is here so people have stuff to work on.

• 1. Use the Halopedia:Projects/Improvement to improve pages or add pages we need based on new media.
• 2. Use the Special:WantedPages to add pages we need.
• 3. Use the Special:AncientPages to updated old pages to suit newer standards.

Step 9 Keeping an eye on stuff

This step is kinda just the stuff that needs to be kept an eye on so they dont go out of hand in the future.

• 1. Keep an eye on the Special:SpecialPages to make sure they are kept in check and dont get out of control. If a special page get into a list in the 300's then we need to do a clean out of it.
• 2. Keep the feedback forum open, and use it to improve the site as time goes on.
• 3. Update Old file naming conventions on pages to the new ones as done in Step 4.(Will link page when its ready)
• 4. Update Old source conventions on pages to the new ones as done in Step 4.(Will link page when its ready)
• 5. Keep updating the Community stuff we set up in step 5.(Will probably make a project page dedicated to keeping that set up)
• 6. Keep the twitter and Facebook active with content.
• 7. Keep up with Step 7 unless we have plenty of them.
• 8. Keep up with 8 in general like we do already.

Votes

Please vote here!

Support (1/1) Sysop

Please use "# Support -" if you support this

1. Support — Of course I support this as I submitted it. -CIA391 (talk) 08:20, 15 September 2017 (EDT)

Neutral (0/0) Sysop

Please use "# Neutral -" if you are neutral to this

1. Neutral — I am neutral on this matter. Editorguy (talk) 13:42, 16 September 2017 (EDT)

Against (0/0) Sysop

Please use "# Oppose -" if you are opposed to this

Comments and suggestions

Please put any comments or suggestions for this here. I need feedback on ways we can improve each step of this phase. -CIA391 (talk) 08:20, 15 September 2017 (EDT)

Featured content could use a cleaning to keep it up to our standards, but I don't necessarily agree with completely resetting it, especially when it comes to the featured articles. The DYK would definitely benefit from a near complete reset as it's mostly old and outdated info.--Spartacus ^{Talk • Contribs} 12:37, 16 September 2017 (EDT)

Agreed on featured articles; most of those are still up to our standards, so a check-up would do rather than a complete reset. However, I think the same applies to DYK - myself and some others have been updating it from time to time, so I think selective revisions and removal of outdated info would be preferable to totally wiping it out.--Jugus (talk) 12:56, 16 September 2017 (EDT)