User blog:Weirdweirdweirdo/Page Bounties, Introduction & Leaderboard

Alright, so my little brother broke my computer keyboard which means I can't really do much on the wiki. I can write on my iPad like I am right now, but the editor there is awful and buggy. Not many good pages are being made, and many more bad pages are being made on a weekly basis. So I came up with an idea to try and motivate good pages and overall upkeep of the wiki's quality standard. Introducing: Page Bounties!

This idea will probably be refined over time (Feedback, ideas & suggestions appreciated), but here's the current outline: In this blog post once pages are made (Pages only qualify if they're made after this announcement) that qualify for bounties I will set up a leaderboard: One page that meets a requirement is one point for the user who fulfilled it, and the more points, the higher you are on the leaderboard. Hopefully this'll encourage some friendly competition and more activity. (I won't grade myself for obvious reasons.) I could use a better reward, but this was the only idea I had that would really work. Oh, yeah, I pay close attention to new pages that get published, so your pages will be graded automatically. Please don't spam my message wall (Or any other admins, this is something only I'm doing) over this. This isn't a limited time event, it'll go on as long as I care to keep updating the leaderboard which will probably be for a long time given how few pages are being made.

So, what are the requirements, or bounties? These could be changed over time, so be sure to check in once in a while. Even if your page fits one of these requirements, it has to actually be... Good to qualify. That doesn't mean Star Article tier, but it should be actually well-written and interesting. I'm yet to decide if pages would fall in multiple categories when scored, especially Clean-Up pages. Give me time.


 * Silver Stars: Pages of outstanding quality and/or pages with extremely creative and well-executed concepts, no matter the content, category, etc. We don't really do Star Articles anymore because not enough pages are published anymore, so this functions as a replacement, I guess.
 * Wanted Posters: There's several types of pages that we don't really have enough of in comparison to joke pages and locations. Hopefully this'll help get some more variety in pages instead of the same level page formula over and over again. I'll probably change this around more often than the main categories as new pages spring up.
 * Entities (This includes enemies, bosses, characters, etc.)
 * Objects (Power-Ups, collectibles, hazards, etc.)
 * General Anomalies (Stuff like DLR that don't really fit a precise category)
 * Alt-Canons (Any page can fall under this umbrella, not just the ones listed above. Alt-canon levels would fit this.. Just try and make them interesting, please? Oh, yeah, probably a fitting time to reiterate to ask an admin... Preferably me before making your own alt-canon. It's allowed, just run the idea by us first so we can vet it.)
 * Something from the original Iceberg
 * An already established phenomena on a page (I.e. City World) or a concept mentioned in another page (i.e. one of Floor 2B's levels or an anomalous enemy mentioned in a course page)
 * Clean-Up: Rewriting pages to be of better quality. Of course, the obvious target would be pages with the rewrite template, stub template, or non-canon template, but just regular pages and whatnot would qualify too. (If you try and cheat the system by making an alt that makes bad pages only to rewrite them yourself for more points, I will find out, your points will be taken away, you'll be permanently disqualified from Page Bounties, and blocked for an appropriate amount of time.)

Until the leaderboard is officially started, here's what the format is planned to be:

First Place: Barrack Obama - 69 Points


 * 1) Among Us Manifestations (Silver Star)
 * 2) Mimics (Wanted Poster)

Second Place: Jerry - 64 Points


 * 1) Super Jerry 64 (Silver Star)
 * 2) Super Jerry 64 (Silver Star)
 * 3) Super Jerry 64 (Silver Star)
 * 4) Super Jerry 64 (Silver Star)
 * 5) Super Jerry 64 (Silver Star)
 * 6) Super Jerry 64 (Silver Star)
 * 7) Super Jerry 64 (Silver Star)

Will this solve the problems I want it to? I have no idea.