Forum:Featured Content voting issue: Difference between revisions

:::::I think that everything that has been said about fanon so far is ''very'' deserving of an in-depth discussion, and it seems as though we have a few people who might be interested in talking about it. That being said, it's branching off of the original subject of this forum thread, so I think it would be best to continue the fanon discussion in a separate thread (which I shall create shortly).

:::::Onto the subject at hand... I again would come around to the idea that we don't necessarily need to select a new feature each and every month. Surely if we select something as featured content, we intend to maintain (or increase upon) that level of quality in the content, so there would then be no harm in "re-featuring" that content later on. Doing this would eliminate the need to have votes constantly to select new material to feature. In the case of Featured Game Guides, to give an example, we could pick out the handful of high-quality game guides we have and feature those on a rotating basis, without being terribly concerned that we don't have new guides to feature. And if or when a guide is improved enough to be worthy of featuring, that guide could also be added to the rotation. The same would be true for fanon articles, mainspace articles, and media.

:::::I think Wogan's Selection Committee idea is interesting but I'm not sure how comfortable I am with it. Certainly if we were to pursue that idea we would need community consensus. Generally I think community voting on featured content isn't a bad thing so long as the voting is regulated to ensure fairness and to ensure a minimum standard of quality on selected content. The latter has been the element that we have struggled with most, as it seems to be that the more caveats and restrictions in place to ensure quality selections, the fewer people bother to participate in selections at all. This might just be a symptom of decreased activity overall, or a general trend in the TSW community away from participating in featured content selection regardless of broader wiki activity levels. All these problems could be averted by implementing a Selection Committee, but there is no guarantee that persons will want to serve on this committee or that they will honestly be any better at making content selections than regular users.

:::::And again, this speaks to a broader issue with how we presently handle features, namely that we need to select new features on a recurring basis. If we eliminate the requirement to always select new features, then we eliminate the pressure to create a system that can facilitate that selection. By re-featuring, we can focus on fostering engagement in the selection and in maintaining a level of quality in the selections, without having to focus on getting new things to feature every month. To that end, I think our best bet is to allow re-use of previously-selected content and to remove the requirement that new content be featured regularly. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<font color="navy">LostInRiverview</font>]]^{[[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] • [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] • [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]}''' 04:43, January 5, 2015 (UTC)