User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/What would you like to see on Star Wars Fanon?/@comment-3993941-20110201033951

I've been giving this some thought, and I have a few ideas.


 * 1) I'd love to see a Wikia hub or sub-hub for fan fiction. There are plenty of fanon sites, not just SWF. Some way to highlight these would be good from a site-building perspective.
 * 2) What about inter-wiki ads. I see advertisements on Wookieepedia, SWF, and elsewhere for tons of wikis but none for SWF. Do people use them? I don't know. It might be worth a shot.
 * 3) Highlighting user projects. Okay, so this may not be so practical because we often like to have a cabal an organization that approves things. FanonProjects are great, but interest tends to wane because the most interested people are those (like me) who have other projects that take the time. I don't get online much these days (even though I've been on lately a little more because my schedule has let up for a couple of weeks), but when I am on, I focus on my Golden Age of the Republic–related articles or stories. A 'user of the month' is great, but what about something else that does not necessarily require the bureaucracy or elsewhere. Granted, we have FW and FA systems in place, but I'm not talking necessarily about a particular entity as much as an œuvre.
 * 4) Is there any way to improve our search engine rating so that we're higher up? If someone does a search for 'Yoda,' are they going to find an article we have? This may be splitting hairs, but it may be worth looking into.
 * Yes, I'm going to bring it up: I know what happened. I get it. We all get it. Maybe we should be making some minor motions to better terms with Wookieepedia. Okay, I'll leave that alone for the admins to handle.
 * 1) I must say that we have greatly improved our policies by streamlining things and making it much more manageable for the user. Unfortunately we will always have to deal with those who fail to read the BIG BOLD, RED PRINT when uploading images. That said, I would prefer if Wikia had something in place that prevented uploading unless certain fields were inserted by the user. This is out of our hands, perhaps, but it was suggested above.

Okay, I'm done. Have a splendid day.

&mdash; Fiolli  {Alpheridies University ComNet} 03:39, February 1, 2011 (UTC)