Challenge: Challenges!

[cin1607]

cesperanza once said to me that the cold, wet nose test of any fan (using the analogy of an obviously healthy puppy is one with a cold, wet nose) is their enthusiastic attempts to pimp other people into their fandoms. I think the cold, wet nose test of any fandom is the number of challenges, in the forms of fests, exchanges, big bangs, battles or what have you, that the fandom hosts in an effort to enthusiastically encourage participation in the fandom.

So in an attempt gauge our respective fandoms' health, the challenge this week is to create a new page for your fandom called "List of __Challenges" where the blank space will obviously be your fandom's name, and then start compiling lists and links of your fandom's various challenge-type events. You may, if you have a lot, want to sort them by headers, like General Fests & Exchanges, Holiday Specific, Pairing Specific, or whatever you think is appropriate for your fandom. We'll use the Community Profile template for this, like we did for the Newsletters. We would also like you add the [[Category:Challenges]] just to be consistent.

A number of fandom pages on the wiki already have a paragraph or so about some of the challenges in the fandom. If that's the case, just add a line to that paragraph that says something along the lines of "For a more extensive list of challenges, fest and exchanges, see the [[List of__Challenges]]."

This is a big challenge! There's a lot to do. But you won't have to look too hard to find the fandom challenges. We're not far past the tons of holiday fests from the winter holidays and now I'm seeing people starting to get ready for their fandoms' big bang challenges. There's always something happening. So let's see if we can round them up and give them a central home.

Comments

[cin1607]

That had been the original challenge, but it was suggested in committee that it would be better to create separate pages, rather than subpages, and if we're going to do it for the larger fandoms, we should be consistent.

Personally, I have to admit that I care less about structure than I do about just getting the information in the wiki. For smaller fandoms that have community subpages, I have no problem with continuing that. Or just creating subpages for the smaller fandoms. But when I see a dozen challenge communities, I think that's a lot. I think anything over five is awesome. Maybe I'm not ambitious enough. :)

[ratcreature]

But just five links is not a lot of content on a page. Other lists are hundreds of entries long before we split them into further pages. Unless you mean to bundle the actual challenge articles so that instead of five stub pages you'd have one challenge list page with five subsections.

[meri_oddities]

For a smaller fandom, that's a really good idea. Then you could link it back to the main fandom page. Maybe as a sub-page, if it's a small fandom or an article if it's a bigger fandom with just a few challenges.