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NIWA Discussion / Re: Yoshipedia
« on: January 11, 2011, 12:25:44 AM »
It still requires SMW approval, to be sure. But, if they granted it, I think this has potential, given what I know about non-mario related Yoshi games.
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NIWA Discussion / Re: Yoshipedia
« on: January 09, 2011, 10:17:28 PM »83
The Lounge / Re: Ever met anyone famous?
« on: January 07, 2011, 11:11:52 PM »
Aaaaand let's get back to famous people we met. 
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NIWA Discussion / Re: Improving NIWA
« on: January 07, 2011, 10:40:35 PM »
A Serious Board is possible. We'll see!
As for a panel, what would this panel even discuss? Who would do it?
As for a panel, what would this panel even discuss? Who would do it?
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NIWA Discussion / Re: Improving NIWA
« on: January 07, 2011, 09:49:58 PM »
You mean a board to have debates and such here on the NIWA forums? It's possible. I was actually just thinking about that today.
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Membership and Affiliate Requests / Re: Fire Emblem
« on: January 07, 2011, 08:56:23 PM »
Thanks for the clarification, guys. 
Feel free to use this thread to ask for help and to keep us updated on your progress. When you're ready to apply for Membership, send an email to [email protected].
Good luck!
Feel free to use this thread to ask for help and to keep us updated on your progress. When you're ready to apply for Membership, send an email to [email protected].
Good luck!
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The Lounge / Re: Ever met anyone famous?
« on: January 07, 2011, 11:39:10 AM »
I sold movie tickets to Kobe Bryant once, and I've seen him at my theater multiple times. I'm not sure if that puts me on first name basis with him or not.
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Membership and Affiliate Requests / Re: Fire Emblem
« on: January 07, 2011, 11:37:17 AM »
No, because the question of membership hasn't come up. This thread is just for coordinating any help NIWA can give to this wiki. When/if they request membership, the discussion will, of course, take place in the Staff boards.
~moved~
~moved~
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NIWA Discussion / Re: Improving NIWA
« on: January 07, 2011, 11:35:05 AM »
Both Comic Con and E3 are in Southern California, where I'm from. I'd love to do something like this, but I'm not sure how possible this really is outside of just dreaming?
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Membership and Affiliate Requests / Re: Fire Emblem
« on: January 06, 2011, 09:53:55 AM »
This board is in the staff forums - let's move it out into the public.
I'll leave it to someone else to do in order to also leave time for someone to object. Otherwise, move it on over, so that both Aria and Amy can discuss with us.
I'll leave it to someone else to do in order to also leave time for someone to object. Otherwise, move it on over, so that both Aria and Amy can discuss with us.
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Membership and Affiliate Requests / Re: Fire Emblem
« on: January 05, 2011, 07:46:40 PM »
Since you've already been speaking with her, Ax, can you ask her if there's any help she wants from NIWA, or anything we can do for her to help them out? I don't like the idea of us just sitting here doing nothing.
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Membership and Affiliate Requests / Re: Fire Emblem
« on: January 05, 2011, 09:37:25 AM »
Then we should just let this rest until she approaches us?
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Membership and Affiliate Requests / Re: Fire Emblem
« on: January 04, 2011, 09:19:53 PM »
Just from a cursory glance around the Wiki, a few issues:
1.) Only about 38 articles were created since we last talked about this. Either Fire Emblem doesn't have a lot to talk about, or this Wiki is growing very slowly.
2.) Layout is bland, but well made. It could be better, but it is functional and easy on the eyes.
3.) There has been no "Recent News" since December 11th - this prompted me to fear the Wiki was dead. However, they have had edits made today, though not many. Which leads to point 4.
4.) There don't seem to be very many editors, and the Wiki seems to be stagnating. It needs a jump-start. However, there are editors and they seem to be active.
5.) No featured content, and the message on the front about Featured Articles/Images sends an apathetic message. Hopefully this can be resolved before NIWA membership, but it is NOT an issue barring them from joining should they want to.
Does anybody know if there was any talk between Amy and the team at Wikia's FE Wiki?
1.) Only about 38 articles were created since we last talked about this. Either Fire Emblem doesn't have a lot to talk about, or this Wiki is growing very slowly.
2.) Layout is bland, but well made. It could be better, but it is functional and easy on the eyes.
3.) There has been no "Recent News" since December 11th - this prompted me to fear the Wiki was dead. However, they have had edits made today, though not many. Which leads to point 4.
4.) There don't seem to be very many editors, and the Wiki seems to be stagnating. It needs a jump-start. However, there are editors and they seem to be active.
5.) No featured content, and the message on the front about Featured Articles/Images sends an apathetic message. Hopefully this can be resolved before NIWA membership, but it is NOT an issue barring them from joining should they want to.
Does anybody know if there was any talk between Amy and the team at Wikia's FE Wiki?
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NIWA Discussion / Re: CrossWiki teams
« on: January 03, 2011, 09:23:44 PM »
Guys, stop getting hung up over words like "endorse" or "support" or "suggest" - it doesn't matter. Nothing NIWA does is compulsory, enforced, or otherwise forcibly pushed on any member. Using the email system of the forums to inform members about this opportunity was not abusive or inappropriate.
I endorse this group as a viable option for a Wiki to get help. As such, if NIWA members use it, then how is that not "NIWA endorsing" it? Seriously. Let's get real here.
Can we just stop losing sight of what something aims to do, which in this case is help everybody, by distracting things with irrelevant declarations of what NIWA can and cannot do? It does what its members want, which means it can do anything so long as the members want it. I'm really worried that NIWA is going to get derailed if we keep focusing on things like that, which ultimately don't matter and are just ranting points. We need to prioritize.
As far as this team goes, I'd love to see Wikis taking advantage of this. If there are freelance editors with nothing better to do, then why not use them? Also, I think this topic should not be used to request help - we should keep that over at N-Wiki maybe? Otherwise, we should start a new topic dedicated SOLELY to asking for help, and discussing things therein, as this topic is too chaotic and has too many pages that don't pertain to Wikis asking for help.
I endorse this group as a viable option for a Wiki to get help. As such, if NIWA members use it, then how is that not "NIWA endorsing" it? Seriously. Let's get real here.
Can we just stop losing sight of what something aims to do, which in this case is help everybody, by distracting things with irrelevant declarations of what NIWA can and cannot do? It does what its members want, which means it can do anything so long as the members want it. I'm really worried that NIWA is going to get derailed if we keep focusing on things like that, which ultimately don't matter and are just ranting points. We need to prioritize.
As far as this team goes, I'd love to see Wikis taking advantage of this. If there are freelance editors with nothing better to do, then why not use them? Also, I think this topic should not be used to request help - we should keep that over at N-Wiki maybe? Otherwise, we should start a new topic dedicated SOLELY to asking for help, and discussing things therein, as this topic is too chaotic and has too many pages that don't pertain to Wikis asking for help.
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NIWA Discussion / Re: CrossWiki teams
« on: January 03, 2011, 07:14:12 PM »
So when NIWA is doing nothing, uninvolved in its members, it gets criticized for that apathy.
But when it gets involved in its members and their doing, and spreads information about new potential resources for its members, it's somehow domineering and "abusing" a system?
You people are impossible. @_@ See things for what they are, not for what you decide they mean. At no point did the email "endorse" this effort; it was merely informing everybody of a new opportunity to help at NIWA, or to be helped by NIWA. The members ARE NIWA - NIWA is nothing more than its members and what they create.
Good luck, Havoc. It would seem my attempts at assisting your efforts are in vain - let me know if there's anything you need from me in the future regarding this, as I will not be going out on a limb for it again just to face ludicrous backlash.
But when it gets involved in its members and their doing, and spreads information about new potential resources for its members, it's somehow domineering and "abusing" a system?
You people are impossible. @_@ See things for what they are, not for what you decide they mean. At no point did the email "endorse" this effort; it was merely informing everybody of a new opportunity to help at NIWA, or to be helped by NIWA. The members ARE NIWA - NIWA is nothing more than its members and what they create.
Good luck, Havoc. It would seem my attempts at assisting your efforts are in vain - let me know if there's anything you need from me in the future regarding this, as I will not be going out on a limb for it again just to face ludicrous backlash.
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NIWA Discussion / Re: Leader
« on: January 01, 2011, 05:01:15 AM »
This thread has been moved and locked, and is on display for the general users of NIWA to see a very important behind the scenes discussion.
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NIWA Discussion / Re: CrossWiki teams
« on: December 30, 2010, 11:17:44 PM »
THIS IS A FORMER STAFF DISCUSSION NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ENJOY.
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NIWA Discussion / A self-evaluation
« on: December 30, 2010, 12:11:19 PM »
I'll take care of it when I get up in the morning if Ax hasn't by then. I'm just about to pass out. >_>
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NIWA Discussion / Re: Improving NIWA
« on: December 30, 2010, 01:14:38 AM »As I understand things, NIWA is a complicated affiliates system. It has no real will of its own, which makes me wonder if Xizor has any actual powers beyond acting as a moderator for discussion.
Wonder no more, for you are mostly correct. My only real "power" is that in the event of deadlocked staff discussion, I was given the authority to have the final say, which does give me considerable power in certain situations. I'm also the "face of NIWA" and I generally am here to just guide NIWA where it needs to go. We chose the title "Coordinator" because it denoted that I, for lack of a better word, coordinate actions and discussions, but because it does not connote dictatorship. I am not "in charge" of NIWA by any means. That is, unless somehow every wiki decided to give the position that kind of power. I personally would not want the position, with me or without me, having that much power. It wouldn't serve NIWA as well that way.
As far as your proposal, there's nothing stopping a particular member wiki from doing such a thing. However, we've had relatively little conflict, almost no conflict, even, between wikis. Between certain staff members in a particularly heated discussion sometimes, yes, but there have been no wiki feuds. If there were, then it would be up to those wikis to come to NIWA. Obviously, in the event that a feud begins affecting the rest of NIWA's members, then the rest of the members could discuss how to resolve the issue, or if no agreement can be reached, how to best let a wiki (or wikis) bow out of NIWA with as little harm as possible to all. I don't anticipate it ever getting that far, because we have taken every effort to make cooperation almost impossible to ignore. We all joined NIWA wanting to help each other and ourselves, so there is no real worries in that department.
As it is, though, I have no power, and I cannot force anyone into anything. However, the vast majority of staff members wanted me for the job, and so I feel that my voice is listened to with great consideration. So regardless of the fact that I have no power, I certainly have influence, and ultimately, the only difference is that influence is granted, whereas power is generally assumed. The reason the position works without the power is because we wanted it. We created it specifically because we needed a "leader" type role, and this is what we came up with.
Perhaps, pending a quick staff discussion on the matter, we can shed light on the way the role functions by publishing the topic in which we discussed creating it (locked, of course). I'll see what they all have to say on it.
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NIWA Discussion / A self-evaluation
« on: December 30, 2010, 01:03:11 AM »
If I had more time, I'd do it right now, but alas, I do not, and you said you would. Good call, Ax. 