New challenge: Front Page Banner!

[kass]

ETA: We're tabling this challenge for now, having realized that we need better guidelines and a longer timeframe. We'll re-post this challenge later once we've generated the better guidelines etc. Thanks for your patience; a new challenge is coming right up!

Hi all! The First Fandoms challenge is now officially closed; you're welcome to keep posting goodies from your first beloved fandom, but we're moving on to something new: the Front Page Banner challenge.

This is an art challenge. We’re closing in on the end of Fanlore’s Open Beta, and we’re looking for a new banner graphic to go on the Fanlore front page to replace the one that’s there now (the one that says “Fanlore: beta.”) We invite you to make us a new graphic, and post it in the comments here!

(By submitting a graphic to this challenge, you're giving us permission to use that graphic on Fanlore. That's probably obvious, but we wanted to mention it anyway, just to be completely clear.)

This challenge will run for roughly two weeks. Calling all fanartists: please spread the word, and we look forward to seeing what you guys come up with!

Comments

[ratcreature]

I'm not considering to participate mostly because I suck at banners (I can't even come up with a banner for my own recent multifandom comm to promote it), but even if was any good at banners I wouldn't with the way the challenge is.

As my comment above shows, I found the expectations really unclear after reading the challenge, and it is not so great to submit something to judgment and competition when you are not even told the criteria in advance that will determine the outcome, or what the expectations and goals of the judging wiki committee are when they'll decide. And all that is on a somewhat tight time frame too.

I mean, I assume there *are* criteria the wiki committee has beyond just random taste ("I like pink glitter!") that are being considered when the committee decides how the wiki and its policies image is going to be represented/visualized on the front page and judge what they prefer. Like picking which wiki attributes are supposed to show in the logo/banner, and which are the most important things and which less, e.g. whether the committee would like the the new wiki image to harmonize more with other OTW logos (which are all red to begin with, the main OTW, the TWC, AO3...) or maybe the distance of the current one from the other OTW things was intentional, so maybe they are supposed to have a different color... Is some sort of DIY wiki spirit to show, or the oral history or the fandom aspect, and there for example how it's seen if a banner was highlighting a certain fandom or type of fandom, when the wiki is supposed to be panfandom and such.