Forum:FanonProject proposal

This is a proposal to create a new SWF endeavor called FanonProject. The details of this proposal are as follows.

Proposal
So basically, this is a proposal to create "FanonProject." Let me give you an example of what this is. Tale a look at Wookieepedia:WookieeProject. Basically, a “WookieeProject” is a collaborative community project with a specific theme/agenda in terms of article creation and improvement/expansion/etc. What this proposal is basically asking you to approve is the start of Star Wars Fanon’s version of this: FanonProject.

What’s the reason for this proposal? Well that’s simple. It’s to generate more activity around the wiki. It’s to get people to branch out and stop just dealing with their own work. The way this wiki is currently operating, with most people keeping to themselves and their own continuity, we can never foster community growth, which in turn means we can never move beyond where we currently are. Now there’s nothing wrong with people working on their own series. What I’d like to see, though, is people working on collaborative community storylines as well.

Project Cruentus is an exceptional example of this. We have a group of hardworking individuals who are continuing that storyline. Darth tom and Unit 8311, for example, have been there from the beginning, nearly a year and a half now, and they’re still working on it, although the latter more so than the former. But it’s not just people like them, who have been around the wiki for quite some time and are well established. There are also people like Darth Storm and, more recently, Ty294, the latter of whom has only been here for two months yet is incredibly active in the project.

If we can get more people like Ty294 active in collaborative projects, it’s going to jumpstart the community that I know most of us would like to see. It will lead to more good articles and featured articles, more Quotes of the Week, and just an overall increased level of activity in community voting and general community participation. We could find more potential administrators, as well as more potential good and featured article writers and reviewers. The quality of our highly visible content could increase tenfold, and people looking at the Darth Tylers and the Lightnings (referencing the articles, not their authors) as the norm of the wiki could be a thing of the past.

Now there’s never been anything stopping anyone from making more projects. It’s just that, like WookieeProject, this makes it something official, making them a staple of this community. Whether this passes or not, I for one intend to start a community project, something I’d be working with other people on in addition to the Alternative Saga (which would NOT become an open project, just so we’re clear). I’ve been thinking of the details for it and I think it’ll be a lot of fun.

Since I don’t yet want to publicly reveal what the project I will be starting will be about, let me use Cruentus as an example for something. If this passes, then instead of finding that project at Forum:Project Cruentus, you’d find it at “Star Wars Fanon:FanonProject/Project Cruentus,” or “Star Wars Fanon:FanonProject/Cruentus” or whatever they want to call it. Either way, it gives you the gist of how it would basically work. All collaborative community projects, ie. not personal storylines but rather open community work, would be required to be part of FanonProject.

Also, if you would like to see how I envision the main FanonProject page to look, as well as the basic guidelines for it, click here.

This forum will last for one week, until Friday, September 11, 2009, unless more or less time is needed. All matters of the voting policy apply. Please be civil. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 04:58, September 4, 2009 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) As the proposer. - Brandon Rhea Rebel symbol Blue.png (talk) 04:58, September 4, 2009 (UTC)