Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20151230194625

So I've been thinking of ways we can try and fill holes that we have in our database with respect to older stories, which has been a constant challenge for this Wiki in general. As much as we strive to keep things current, the older material continues to be ignored and poorly maintained.

So I was thinking maybe we should create a fun contest to encourage people to update much neglected pages. One concept I came up was with the "Random Page Challenge".

The concept is simple: Contributors select either "Random Character" or "Random Comic" in the top menu bar until they hit a page with little or no information and do their best to complete it. Maybe offer an incentive to being the person who contributes the most?

I was thinking some non-monetary thing... Like maybe we can create a new badge and award it to people manually? Unless we can get some kind of prizes from Wikia itself to give to the winner?

I think what would constitute a completing a page would be:

Characters (1) A primary image (2) A summary chronicling that character's history. References must be used. (3) Stats must be as complete as possible

Bonuses: (1) Powers and abilities should be completed (2) Additional images displaying different costumes, unmasked versions of the characters etc.

Comics (1) Character/Location/Item/Vehicle sections should be complete. (2) Characters first and last appearance tags should be added. (3) A summary of no less than three paragraphs detailing what happens in that story.

Bonuses: (4) Summaries over three paragraphs (5) Adding details continuity notes (Like what I'm doing with Fantastic Four Vol 1)

Proposed time period: 3 months? at least for an initial test run. If people pick up on it, maybe we can figure out a regular occurring thing

Disqualifiers: (1) Plagiarism = instant disqualification (2) Does not apply for popular characters (IE: Spider-Man, Captain America, etc) the idea is to get people to update neglected pages, not update pages that are constantly being edited. (3) Edit wars lead to disqualification.

Maybe what we can do is have users tag each page as "Random Page Challenge" so we can keep track of all those pages. We can take a look at the end of the time period and see who has contributed the most.

What do you all think? 