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Hi, I received this today:
- Hi BadCatMan! I'm Mark, from Wikia's Community Development Team.
- I'm reaching out to see if your community would like to be a part of a versus tournament we're hosting on the Shadow of Mordor wikia. It would go live in September, and we would be pitting Drizzt Do'Urden against Talion from Shadow of Mordor. The voting would live in a blog on Shadow of Mordor and we would post a button on Drizzt Do'Urden's page here encouraging your community to vote for them. On the voting blog we would link back to your wikia, and we'll be promoting the tournament around Wikia. If your community would like to be a part of the tournament, which would include the button on Drizzt Do'Urden's page as well as a link back to your community from the voting blog, please let me know by 8/29.
I've seen these popularity contest thingeys before; I don't really see the point, myself, but it would be good to raise awareness of our wiki and get it more involved in cross-wiki events. Fortunately, I've already got the Drizzt page cleaned up (well, at least I did). Frankly, I think it's no contest. :) So, before I say yes, does anyone have any objections or feelings?
Our page views have been increasing lately (based on my irregular, casual checking of the stats) and in the past 7 days we have averaged almost 66K page views per day. It will be interesting to see what the numbers are like in Sept. during the contest.
P.S. 66k per day! Wow. Where do you view these stats Movie? Sounds fascinating.
If vandalism is a problem, we could always lock the Drizzt page for editing. It could be restricted to only logged-in users or to admins, making it fairly safe and it shouldn't affect this button thing. I don't expect we'll see any significant rise, though. As a competition, it's pretty low stakes. And, I dunno, one of the most beloved fantasy characters of 27 years, versus the player-character of a game not even released yet... It's an attention-getter for the new wiki and game, but I doubt Drizzt is in any danger. :)
I could bump my ads on the WotC and Candlekeep forums, and promote this so-called tournament among the army of FR fans. :) We could even squeeze a notice on the main page to draw attention to the tournament.
It shouldn't be hard to get more pictures in September Featured Images. As for the Featured Article, since September is your own World Tree cosmology, Moviesign, I'll leave moving it up to you. :)
Eli, after your sterling City of the Spider Queen work, I'd love to see you do up Maerimydra. A complete drow city would make a fine feature article. Menzoberranzan I think is one that's too well detailed and well known, so giving a complete picture would be too massive an undertaking, like Drizzt, Waterdeep, etc. (An irony of this kind of wiki is that the most important parts are never finished.)
Terrorblades: I imagine the Dark Alliance games would have some good videos of Drizzt. His other game-play appearances (Baldur's Gate) are too low-res to be particularly interesting, AFAIK.
And second should we do something about the list of books and games? Other wiki's have like a box with a scrolling side bar... I don't really like that solution but... its something.
ps. Agreed on the truckloads of gender category edits...
Response: I don't dark Alliance would be that interesting (Top down view of character and no real connection to the game :/ he's just a bonus character in both and he's replaced by "Elven ranger" in the Game boy advance version) (The few things drizzt says in DA is "Oh now the cheating begins" and I think "out of mana")
Demon Stone would be a whole lot more appropriate: Drizzt talks, fights and interacts with characters and defeats a Ice troll war-chef... Maybe even Menzoberranzan (game) (Drizzt talks (No sound) and also has a cool little "attack scene"). Now that I think about it... Baldurs gate EE and 2EE have higher resolution... I will see what I can do about this...
A scrollbar would be useful for long lists of references and appearances on the larger articles. I know Wookieepedia uses them. I'll have to do some hacking.
Demon Stone! That's the one I was thinking of, thanks. I've not actually played any of them though; regular Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, and Neverwinter Nights 1 are what I'm familiar with.