Forum:Portals

Star Wars Fanon has become a very successful and active Wikia, with dozens of active users with various interests, talents, and perspirations. The Star Wars Fanon community has worked very well for a long stretch of time, and now is busier than ever.

One thing that I had noticed was a low effort to forge continutity and create collaborations. This is one reason I promoted the usage of the IRC with the Alliance of Fanon forum and other advertisements. Indeed, the second official IRC meet has resulted in a new page that truly shows the collaborative spirit of Wikia, with the fan-made concepts, desires, and sheer complexities in the spirit of Star Wars Fanon. This new page has many enthusiastic, being Star Wars: Mandalorians: Path to Glory.

However, some are convinced that along with the article being created, the game itself should be programmed by the fans through a free, easy-to-use game-maker program. The video game article, as well, calls for a possibility of several articles describing fan-made concepts, characters, and other facets relevant to the video game, Star Wars, and this site, possibly calling for a large series of free-edit pages and collaboration on creating this hypothetical game.

I thought through the ways we could handle this large project. If we really want to make an above-Featured Article status video game article, along with the video game itself, with the appropriate related pages, we need something to organize the community interested in the project. So I figured that perhaps it might be possible to create an entire community portal for this project, something that can keep track of this video game we plan to write about and possibly program, if the effort involved is in fact voluntarily available.

This is how I figured the portal would work:
 * 1) It could keep track of the active users who agree to spend time working on the project
 * 2) Organize the articles on the characters, areas, and concepts that take place in the fanon video game
 * 3) If the project is massive enough to make an actual game, not only the article on it, a portal could also provide a forum page for the entire project, which could save talk page space and help discuss the means of making the actual game. If the project becomes too large, it might be moved into a separate wiki.
 * 4) The portal page would be similar to a Main Page of a wiki, but instead focuses on just the Mandalorian game and not the rest of the project.

If we want to make this article the way that seems to be dreamed, it seems we'll have a project large enough for a portal, similar to those on the Wikipedia, to focus on this and organize the community. It will also be much more possible to actually make a real video game if we have such a branch of this wiki devoted to Path to Glory. We need lots of effort, plenty of contributors, and excessive interest in this game to do this for real, and if we acquire these, this will not be one of the far-fetched delusions of grandeur that plagued the wiki in the past. If we really want to do this, we need a mini-wiki, such as this portal, to allow for a massive project. And I believe we can do this with perserverence, competence, and communication.

On the same line of thought, introducing other portals for separate projects (this could be other video games, free-edit pages, for collaborations on planets; any large-scale free-edit or free-add project that needs the attention and organization of a portal to assist in its prevalence) could be desirable to accelerate the growth of this wiki. For an example, the Second Galactic Civil War has a huge project potential, especially if its significance and opportunity is emphasized by the existence of a portal for the project.

I hope that free-edit pages can have less restriction, so that the freedom of wikis and fanon can combine to make these projects seem as welcoming as the gates of heaven, and I firmly believe portals for large free-edit collaborations or multi-user continuity can assist in making this wiki welcoming, large, free, not intimidating, and at the top of Google results.

Could the addition of portals be beneficial? Please discuss. Currently, I'd like to know if the community would support the creation of a portal for Path to Glory, and get the community interested in that article to come together. --C3PO the Dragon Slayer 6,000,000 forms of communication 20:55, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Create a portal for Path to Glory

 * 1) Well, I was the one who thought of it, and explained why it would be so great, so yes. --C3PO the Dragon Slayer 6,000,000 forms of communication