User:RRabbit42/notes

Admin convention notes. 7/11/2009:


 * resolution of Featured Articles/Pictures and Did You Know confusion
 * new episode pages by unregistered users
 * fake episodes
 * what to do with the community portal
 * The Daily Danville
 * blogs
 * possible contests for our users
 * main page (how much of old info to keep before archive, rearranging for best exposure of sections)
 * Infobox problems

Ferbot will be used to announce that a new edition of the newsletter is available. Bloglist will be for the Community News on the main page. Blogs will be used by the admins to do "state of the wiki" messages.

Infobox problems Topher reverted to prior to the Ferbot edit. Just need to clear out caches and wait for it to propagate.

Newsletter: Title: "Tri-State Gazette" Publishing schedule will be bi-weekly. First edition will be August 1st. We will need more staff members. Zaggy, Phineas Flynn, BarlowGirl101 Article submissions can be hidden with the tag. Content: Show news Community business forums votes changes decisions optional fun articles: Doofenshmirtz sightings (OWCA Doofenshmirtz task force?) a fake news report about the in-universe news ** careful that we don't create fan fiction Announcement of a Monthly community meeting on IRC Columns: Topher's Corner ("here's what we should focus on") ** include avatar of each columnist

I figured out how we can do newsletter submissions: hide them with the tag and say right above it, "The following is an

article that will be submitted to the Tri-State Gazette newsletter. We recommend that you do not reveal the article and wait for it to

appear in the upcoming newsletter."

Fake articles: Make a copy of the fake article and send it over to pfffanon, then create a redirect with explanation from us to here. w:c:pfffanon: Give them a category so we can track them. Come up with a procedure and sandbox for this.

possible contests for our users Ideas: "Fake episode title" contest -- ask Dan and Swampy to be judges? Scavenger hunt. (Keeping in theme with "Hide and Seek" -- ask South Park wiki how they hid their answer page) "Find 5 references to X in the series" ** other things that will generate interest and activity Rewards for winners Special accomplishment patch (what would it be shaped like?) Mention in the newsletter maybe a sketch from Dan or Swampy? (for bigger contests) modification of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dyk25.svg

what to do with the community portal -- http://phineasandferb.wikia.com/wiki/Phineas_and_Ferb_Wiki:Community_Portal "Other useful special pages" needs to be explained Add links to: POV Manual of Style the rest of our other help pages Talk about fake episodes List of pages with "Category:Incomplete summaries"

resolution of Featured Articles/Pictures and Did You Know confusion ---

Featured Articles the forum will just have the ones being currently voted on, and we'll provide a link to the archives Self-nomination is allowed People that vote need to provide suggestions what needs to be tweaked in the article. (if any) Update info at top to spell out what the criteria are see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates Create a "forum index" portal page that links to the individually-nominated article forums. Use "createplate" to start a new nomination? See for programming: http://phineasandferb.wikia.com/wiki/Phineas_and_Ferb_Wiki:Rollback_Rights/Requests_for_Rollback Criteria, as per SuperFlash: #It will be called "Featured articles" (already done) #Self-nominations are fine, but please give reasons to why it should be featured. #There will be a new "FA" each week #People can nominate an FA anytime but must give actual reasons for it		#To nominate, a user just has to type in the name of the article in the create box at the top of the forum, fill out

the nomination and sign it. #Only current nominations will be on the voting pages - all others will be nominated #Reviewers are strongly suggested to give opinions on things needing to be fixed, such as typos, structures, or

episode references. If one finds nothing wrong with it at all, then you don't have to. Publishing schedule will be bi-weekly. Past Articles of the Month will be eligible for nomination again 6 months after they were listed. If we run out of new nominations, start going from oldest AM to newest. Selected articles will be tagged as FA for 2 years Reviewed at the end of the 2 years to see if they still qualify for FA status. Include a process for FA removal nominations and voting.

Did You Know nominations Flash's only complaint is not having time to maintain it.

Featured Pictures Add to guidelines at the top that it must be a picture that's in a gallery or article. Also add more of what's in the Voting Tips page. Add link to Category:Images will need to put in a lot more sub-categories

Main page changes Anything beyond two months goes into archives? Switch to blogs for "What's New" and "Community News"? http://phineasandferb.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Blog_article/Bloglist Blogs can be categorized for collection -- Category:Community News blogs Redesign entire page? Suspend voting because of this?

Maybe ask Dan or Swampy for a group photo of the writing staff.

Ardi already asked Swampy for the staff members to contribute to their own articles. Individual photos?