One of the axioms of web sites is that they should always look fresh- like there is always new things there, and some glimpse of the depth of the site is made available to "sometimes" visitors.
We can do this right away by setting up a rotation of featured articles like what is done on Wikipedia's, WikiQuote's, or Commons' main pages.
I propose that anyone that wishes to participate should place a list of articles they think would be of interest on their User pages. Then we can set up some rotation scheme for the content. After the list is exhausted, it will rotate. I don't think it should be about famous dead white guys, but more obscure relatives- maybe with some slice of microhistory- like a WWII war story, or a diary entry about a day in the life on a pioneer farm in Nebraska in the 1860s. They should have at least one picture (eg if no picture of the relative, for 1860s farm, then upload a picture of a typical Nebraska farm or town in the 1860s.)
The subtext message to the vistor is that their interesting relative could have their name in lights too. (That is, if they took the time to contribute).
Unrelated note- I shall be away for two weeks starting tomorrow- Happy Holidays everyone! ~ Phlox 17:01, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
- It's a great idea. Perhaps call it "Person of the day." -AMK152(Talk • Contributions 03:25, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
- It is a good idea, and we are perhaps ready for it because of our number of active contributors (as evidenced by the Wikistats linked at Special:Statistics). (Psychology Wikia started something like that when there were really only two or three active contributors, and one feature remained for months.) Listing on user pages seems a bit obscure; I suggest a page called Project:List of possible featured articles, where any contributor can add a link to two or three (maximum!) of their favourites, and we can vote on them - same sort of process as used for the Featured Wikia and Collaboration of the Month at Wikia Central. Robin Patterson 14:00, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- Perhaps this? Genealogy:Featured articles. Simply name of the page. We can list al lthe information there and have to propsals on it too. -AMK152(Talk • Contributions 22:04, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- Hello. Have you seen the suggestion for a Featured Article System on the Inside Wikia? Angela (talk) 08:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Article assessment
Wikipedia has an article assessment system in which articles are assessed based on the chart. These articles are categorized by such, and the actual assessment is given on the page's talkpage. The statistics is gathered by a bot and placed in a table, a log, and a chart. Perhaps this may be a good idea to use for articles here, especially since there are many people out there and an assessment would be great to have in order to improve articles and show which articles have a lot of information. We could even make our own assessment process, rather than just using FA, A, GA, B, Start, and Stub, perhaps even more detailed assessment. Any thoughts? -AMK152(Talk • Contributions) 22:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- I'm going to start this. We may not have a bot (yet), but we have categories. I will create a template that can be place on the talk pages of articles of people. The categories will categorize them (Featured, Good, A, B, C, Start, Stub) and we could come up with the criteria for each rating. As the ratings reach A and B, they could be come Good or even be featured on the Main Pages. However, before we go and start the featured article section on the main page, we would at least need a list of articles to start as featured. We can start the featured article thign once thsi system takes off. -AMK152(talk • contribs) 22:46, 13 July 2008 (UTC)