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{{Forumheader|Yew Grove}}
''Coming very soon to a Yew Grove near you.''
 
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As I retire from our fair wiki, I've taken time to reflect, and I can say that I have only one true fear, that the wiki's introspective spirit dies with me. I've made it my goal to encourage the community to take a step back and examine itself, it's actions, and most important of all - the reasons behind each of these things. Without a healthy injection of critical thinking and examination on a consistent basis, a wiki cannot function, much akin to the need of an active and thinking populace being necessary for a functioning democracy.
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It is with this that I urge the community to reform the essay process, or lack thereof. Under our current 'system' a person could write anything and place it into the essay category. Quite frankly, I believe that anything in the official essay category should be representative of the community. Aside from, the lack of standards, there are also no incentives with this current system, no guarantee that it will ever be read, users are forced to rely on advertising and their own notability to spread essays.
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To remedy these issues, I propose we implement a [[RuneScape:Featured images|featured images style]] process to allow for a central community hub for essays, a formalised process for essays placed within the category, to encourage essays from less known users, to allow more exposure to such essays, and allow the community to select essays that either represent the wiki's viewpoints or offer food for thought/debate. This would also prevent any [[Forum:RuneScape:Real-life_Issues|essay]] [[Forum:Addition_to_RfA|threads]] from being brought to the Yew Grove.
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=== Proposed Changes ===
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*Create a featured images style process for community essays in the ''RuneScape'' namespace.
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*Allow community control over essays to be placed within the essay category.
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*Continue to encourage local wiki essays and cultivate an environment to support their writers.
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*Create a central hub for such essays to be displayed (The current draft may be viewed [[User:Azaz129/Our Wiki|here]]).
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*Grandfather current essays in the above draft.
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== Discussion ==
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'''Support''' - As nom. I'm aware that not many users write essays, however, I feel we should encourage and enable such initiative whenever possible.--{{Signatures/Azaz129}} 05:00, January 13, 2011 (UTC)

Revision as of 05:00, 13 January 2011

Forums: Yew Grove > Essay Reform


As I retire from our fair wiki, I've taken time to reflect, and I can say that I have only one true fear, that the wiki's introspective spirit dies with me. I've made it my goal to encourage the community to take a step back and examine itself, it's actions, and most important of all - the reasons behind each of these things. Without a healthy injection of critical thinking and examination on a consistent basis, a wiki cannot function, much akin to the need of an active and thinking populace being necessary for a functioning democracy.

It is with this that I urge the community to reform the essay process, or lack thereof. Under our current 'system' a person could write anything and place it into the essay category. Quite frankly, I believe that anything in the official essay category should be representative of the community. Aside from, the lack of standards, there are also no incentives with this current system, no guarantee that it will ever be read, users are forced to rely on advertising and their own notability to spread essays.

To remedy these issues, I propose we implement a featured images style process to allow for a central community hub for essays, a formalised process for essays placed within the category, to encourage essays from less known users, to allow more exposure to such essays, and allow the community to select essays that either represent the wiki's viewpoints or offer food for thought/debate. This would also prevent any essay threads from being brought to the Yew Grove.

Proposed Changes

  • Create a featured images style process for community essays in the RuneScape namespace.
  • Allow community control over essays to be placed within the essay category.
  • Continue to encourage local wiki essays and cultivate an environment to support their writers.
  • Create a central hub for such essays to be displayed (The current draft may be viewed here).
  • Grandfather current essays in the above draft.


Discussion

Support - As nom. I'm aware that not many users write essays, however, I feel we should encourage and enable such initiative whenever possible.--

05:00, January 13, 2011 (UTC)