KHWiki talk:Votes for featured users

First month
Okay, maggosh and Shard were nominated for this before they were promoted, so I think it should still count, especially since we don't have any other nominations. I've already been watching the edits from these guys for this month, so I know how I want to vote. Other staff (excluding maggosh and shard, obviously) we really need to meet on the IRC to decide the winner and give the award. Glorious  CHAOS!  22:28, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm on right now, so I can tell you who I would like to vote for. Ult ima 17:42, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * So would this be an organized meeting? Or something where people randomly drop in? The former would make more sense, I suppose... -- Neumannz ,  The Dark Falcon  18:13, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * I am on right now. But, with school starting, if we do organize a meeting on the IRC, can it we make it on the weekend? I'm up to my nose in school work and it's barely the 2nd day ._. -Azul 81677  22:46, August 31, 2010 (UTC)

Weekend as in which time block ? 22:47, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll have to keep an eye on the timezone now.  BLUER   一番   00:27, September 1, 2010 (UTC)

GMT/UTC ? We set a time frame ? 13:56, September 1, 2010 (UTC)

Cool, you guys got this thing rolling. I will keep an eye on things, but I will abstain from voting because of my Beauro...Buauer...super-awesome editing status, and in case a neutral party is needed. If for some (unlikely) reason there's an issue, I will do my best to help sort it out. 23:21, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm gonna follow BK's footsteps and abstain from voting. Although while she's the neutral bureaucrat, I'm the evil bluercrat RAWR.  BLUER   一番   03:34, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

I don't know if I'm supposed to be here, but, according to the wiki, it is already September 2...
 * Uh, guys ? Someone please help set up this box for the homepage ? 08:30, September 2, 2010 (UTC)

How about this:

 Featured User This month's featured user is maggosh! maggosh is a moderator here on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki and has made great contributions to this wiki. Give a hand to September's featured user, maggosh!

Maggosh has made edits on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki!

How about this.   Featured User This month's featured user is maggosh, who has made a total of edits! maggosh rules over a medium-sized dukedom here, and also, is a Hollow. He appreciates candlelight dinners, long walks on the beach, and swords bigger than your house. He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard, and he loves the Power Glove. It's so bad. And I mean, BAD. YEAAAARGHHH!

It looks good! Nice work, Inexistent. Haha, I like the AVGN references.
 * That, uh, as Kryten tells me, is temporary. maggosh 00:42, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Come on, we gotta do something...... 00:44, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Could you write something, TNE? Kryten asked me to do so, but I think it'd be better if a third party did it... maggosh 00:45, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Euh...

''This month's featured user is maggosh, who has made a total of edits! He's an angreh gamer with an insatiable thirst for KH-related news, and of late, he has been doing gnoming (?) work and such on the wiki articles. As of late August, he is the Fresh Prince of Rollback (but believe me, both the candidates nominated for this month became Staff, so no can do :P). It's so bad. And I mean, BAD*(the second half of this word has been intentionally cut off)*. YEAAAAAARRRRGH !''

Gotta love Kryten's touch. ^_^ 00:50, September 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks, TNE. : ) Now's about the drawing... maggosh 00:58, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Nathaniel on Paint will easily take some 20mn. But it's a small sketch - I'll see if I can pull off something. 01:03, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Merci beaucoup, mademoiselle. maggosh 01:05, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

I tried fixing the medal image, so that the medal would be on top of the ribbon and so that the ribbon was actually symetric, but the file won't update.


 * The "It's so bad" line in mine is actually from Nintendo's movie "The Wizard", which features maggosh's splendiforous Power Glove. So, if you guys didn't catch the reference...that's the reference.


 * Also, any admins who have not gotten me their votes yet (everyone but me, TNE, and Neumannz), just e-mail me your vote. We were really supposed to have been done with this before the end of the month, and honestly, it's a bit disrespectful of us to leave the nominees hanging. I'm going to have to go ahead and call it by Monday, so please hurry. Glorious  CHAOS!  03:27, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, so it's Monday. Maggosh is our first featured user! Glorious  CHAOS!  19:52, September 6, 2010 (UTC)

Second Month
Do we start October now? Cause I've got my nom for a certain user already written out...
 * I believe we should. What about the box ? 00:39, September 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * It looks good, TNE. Should we archive the former noms?

Yes, we should, though I wouldn't recommend archiving until three months down the road. Just like the previous noms are shown on Featured Media for a time. It at least gives us a sort of guideline. 00:55, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Okay, to avoid the fiasco again, should we start designing the box for October yet, even though it's only the sixth? Only Lapis has been nominated, and most of the people that voted last time already voted this round... Here is the link to the next medal if anyone wants to make the next box: File:October 2010 featured User Medal.png.

Am I jumping the gun?:

 Featured User This month's featured user is LapisScarab, who has made a total of edits on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki! Lapis specializes in design, and is a good friend to everyone here. Now returning after a brief hiatus, Lapis has been gnoming and playing BbS. He is one of the most seasoned users on this wiki, although he still doesn't know whose line it is... -_^

Previous Featured Users

Might as well, if you ask me. I handle KHFR's boxes either on the day of the announcement or a day earlier, depending on whichever I can stay up for. 05:12, September 30, 2010 (UTC)

Name change?
I suppose we don't have to, but I've been playing BBS and all, and the "Million Dream Award" is awarded to the most exemplary citizen. That kind of sounds like what the Featured Users are considered. Should we change "Featured User" to "Million Dream Award"? Just a thought. -- 00:06, September 13, 2010 (UTC)

It's actually the "Million Dreams Award". Good idea, though.
 * I'm all for the idea. ^_^ 05:10, September 30, 2010 (UTC)

Month 3
Wow, this could be the last featured user on wikia. Huh.

Improvements?

 Featured User This month's featured user is NinjaSheik, who has made a total of edits on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki! Ninja specializes in reverting vandalism. In fact, she is part of the KND, the Kind Ninja Division, whose sole purpose is to prevent vandalism from oppresing young wikians. Ninja is a huge kingdom Hearts fan, and loves writing fanfics.

Previous Featured Users

I couldn't think of anything.

Fourth Month
Who'll it be? I can't think of a nomination, anyone got any ideas?  Chitalian  8   22:30, November 4, 2010 (UTC)

It's kinda dissapointing, pretty much each month only one user is nominated.  Chitalian  8   01:53, November 7, 2010 (UTC)

I wish I could have nominated two people at once. Someone nominate LevL. He and IZerox were the first two I thought of, but I went with IZerox because he's been more active recently.02:14, November 7, 2010 (UTC)

So... the little description is going to have to do with images... what else does he like to do/ edit?

How about Erry for getting some image? he also made quite the improvement on Re:coded Abilities section

If you want Erry to be the featured user, nominate him, don't ask us about it on the talk page.  Chitalian  8   14:20, November 21, 2010 (UTC)

So I guess I'm this month's featured user. That's pretty sweet I didn't even know I was nominated. Though I guess I'll pay more attention to featured user nominations now. So I guess you guys want a bit of info for a box like the rest eh? I'll think about it I guess. =)-- i    Zerox   04:43, December 2, 2010 (UTC)

Fifth Month
As much as I like seeing the good users on the wiki be recognized so ovewhelmingly, it's no fun if there's no competition! I can only nominate one person, but two others I had in mind were KingdomKeyDarkside, for his work on ability articles, welcoming users, working on templates, and, of course, the Mirage Arena. The other is JFHavoc, who is also extremely good at helping newbie users, creating templates - specifically talk bubbles - and has made a very helpful guide for making them. Someone nominate these guys please! If anyone else comes to mind, nominate them too, either way, let's make the vote for the new year interesting!21:11, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

Although I agree with them being excellent editors, I disagree in the sense that some of those people have not been all that active in the past month. Isn't the featured used for the best, most active editor in that month? For example, I have not seen LevL contribute all that much this month.  Chitalian  8   21:19, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

Then you can always nominte someone else. They don't have to have been active recently, it's just preferable that they are. We need to take their overall work into account as well.21:31, December 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * User of the "Month", to me, implies they did good work this month. -- 21:36, December 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Look at the guidelines on the page. Special focus should certainly be placed on this particular month, but their overall edits need to be taken into consideration as well. And again, these are just my choices. If you have others, just nominate a different user.21:43, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

I think that the main deciding factor should be the month's edits, while the overall edits would be more of a lesser, guiding factor.  Chitalian  8   23:49, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

Actually, I think the deciding factor should be who the community thinks should be the Featured User, through their nominations, votes, and experiences with said user.

I think it's more like a half-and-half thing. Half of the consideration should go into their good edits for the previous month. The other half of the consideration should go into their overall accomplishments and likability. We wouldn't nominate for an extremely great editor if they only edited once last month or an great editor in the last month who is very rude and made some bad edits (not vandalism, just bad edits) before. Of course, that's just my opinion.

The half-and-half idea sums just about everything up, from my point. I will comment about the community deciding though, but before I do I want to make one thing clear: I do NOT mean to sound mean to anyone or their opinions. Now to the point... I have no problem with the community interacting through means of voting/discussion. I do have a problem with the community voting/discussing certain matters without thinking. Users who are nominated/elected for the "User of the Month" award should be users who are great editors first and good friends second. The main point of a Wikia is to edit about a subject you love and to provide others with helpful, quality information about it. A Wikia is NOT a place to come and socialize about trivial matters/things meant to be discussed on the IRC/Facebook. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of great editors on here who are good people whom we're all friends with; however, when it comes to awards of who's been an awesome editor and who's been an awesome friend, we need to choose who's been an awesome editor. Although we all need an awesome friend, a Wiki needs an awesome editor. Just remember the true reason to edit a Wiki when you vote on the nominated users.-- Xion 4  ever  23:24, December 4, 2010 (UTC)

Yeah I guess you're right, Xion. Still, the users on this wiki are close enough to interact as if it was a facebook. Sure, it's just a place to edit, but somehow it's become more like a community. We all know you, for example, as an awesome editor and an awesomer friend. :) Even if the KHWiki was only meant to be edited, it's become something else. and you can't stop it. :D


 * Well I suppose that I may have implied friendship as a contributing factor, Xion, I never said it was the main form of interaction. You see, I moreso meant instances when someone makes an edit revert, but explains it in the edit summary.  That kind of explaination can prevent a whole bunch confusion, and shows that the editor cares enough to give a reason.  There are other times when someone makes a perfectly legitimate edit, but then it is undone by the person, who never gives a reason.  That would be a negative interaction, in my opinion.  And before this discussion turns back into the talk page warning and IRC usage thing, I ask you, don't bring that here, please.  You made your point, and now I have stated mine.  Well what you said is surely true, it was not fully what I meant by "interactions".  And, on a side note, just because someone doesn't go nuts on the mainspace doesn't mean that they don't have an in depth knowledge of policies.  If, say, I were to subtract about 23000 of Kryten's edits, and replaced 80% of the remaining edits with forum and talk page edits, he would still have a clear knowledge of the running of the wiki and its information.  That would allow him to fully contribute to the wiki, even if his edit count was dominated with conversation.

Rules
Alright, so I'm just cleaning up the wording/ rules a little bit, as some of the rules are a tad outdated with the way things are being done, so here is what I was thinking...

Guidelines

So, what makes a user eligible for nomination? Here are the guidelines:


 * The user should be obviously hard-working. Any sort of edits, from spelling corrections to full page rewrites are acceptable, as long as the user makes quality edits.
 * The user should not vandalize, or maliciously violate the policies of this wiki. You don't have to be perfect to be nominated, but any unhappiness you may have shouldn't disrupt the voting process.
 * Nominations should put emphasis on the user's edits for the last month. While a user's lifetime edits should certainly be taken into account, it should be possible for a hard-working "newbie" to be the Featured User, if they outshine other editors in that month.
 * Any editor who currently holds a staff position is ineligible for this award.
 * It's probably a good idea to be an editor of this wiki.

Nominating

So, there's an editor you think should be recognized. How do you make it happen?

For the first 21 days of a month, just post the name of the user, and sign under your nomination with your signature. If someone has already nominated the user you support, just second their nomination using the # symbol. To find a user's contributions, along with a complete breakdown of the namespaces that they have contributed to, simply enter their name into the edit count page.

On the first of the following month, the winner will receive a Featured User medal, which can be displayed on their user page, and the winner will be showcased on the wiki's front page along with a commemorative, custom description of the winner.

To keep any one person from sweeping the awards, any editor can only win once. Furthermore, to prevent sockpuppeting and other forms of cheating, only registered users may vote. If it is discovered that someone is being a poor sport and attempting to sockpuppet, their votes for the current election, as well as the next two, will be negated.

Voting

Each registered editor can make one nomination or seconding; they must put their vote and signature, ( ~ ) underneath the nominee of their choice. If you want to explain what it is about the user that makes you agree with the nomination, just add a comment as if you were posting on a talk page. Please don't vote for yourself.

So, overall, not that much was changed, but I wanted it here so that anyone else could add/ modify the rules if needed. 22:09, December 26, 2010 (UTC)