User blog:Mrodd/May '12 Adminy Report.

First off, I know this is a few days early, but due to some of the items in it, it just makes more sense to post it now, so I don't get forced into doing a bunch of smaller things in little time, as well as needing some input on smaller ideas.

Recent Activity:
Well, I am glad to say, even though I was gone, y'all managed to keep activity up to about 350 edits per day for the entire month! So thanks to everyone who stayed and hopefully you all had some fun in the process. Now due to the more recent activity, Nalyd promoted three users to admin-status, you should know who they are, so I'm not going to mention it any further.

Recent activity has also (Once again) Brought up the main chatango for the wiki, though don't feel forced into using it instead of the wiki chat, it is just much easier for admins to monitor, and has the sound notifier so I know when some one talks...

New-Comers Camp.
The idea was suggested ages ago on the offical suggestion blog, and I think it is now a good idea. The camp will be hoested by me, and I welcome all "new" users. I won't put any real restrictions on the camp,but please only sign up if you are actually partially new. The actual page will be made in May, but I am just ltting you all know what will be coming. The camp will be mainly RP, with some small twists to show you what the wiki can be if you put in the effort. On a side note, there will be small appearances from past users in this camp, perhaps to create a challenge, or just to show up. Kind of to pass the torch on, if you would.

The IRC Camps Reboot!
Now, I'm not exactly certain how many of you were around when we had the IRC Camps. There were exactly three seasons, each with a unique cast and setting. However, the last season was in 2010 (?) That being said, we will be doing a very similiar camp series on a chatango, only due to the fact most users have issues with acess to the IRC in general. The things that nake these types of camps different then what are on this wiki, is the fact an entire wiki will be created in order to hold character pages, episode pages and others of the such. The actual "Episodes" are roleplayed on chatango, live. So you will required to turn up at a certain date and time, aswell as keep your character page up-to-date. The overall series always seems to be more filling and fun than the "Average" camp, but only when the characters are diverse and you really act as your character. Alliances are made often, and break just as fast.

Though, much is still to be decided on the overal first season. The host will likely be myself, or Reddude, (ChimmyCharific may host however if that is what she chooses.). The season concept will be decided by all of you, when we have more information, with the official sign ups shortly after that.

Hall of Fame?
This was another one of the lovely ideas suggest in 2010. The idea then was to simply have a page where we can show off who has won the most camps in a neat page... However I just couldn't really see that being fun, or interesting, at all. So I was thinking about it for awhile when the actual idea came to me, what if when you win a camp you get an award, a trophy of sorts? So, with that, I came up with what will be the Hall of Fame for the wiki (Well... Sort of, still need to finish some plans.)

So what will happen, unless most of you think the idea is simply stupid, I will create a page titled "Hall of Fame" or something along those lines. It will be locked so only admins have acess. For all camps that end AFTER I (Or another admin) starts the page, the top three users will each get a trophy made just for that camp to show that they came in first, second or third. You will be able to put the trophies onto your userpage as a way to show them off. Along the same lines, an admin will add the trophy under your name in the Hall of Fame, for all the wiki to see how well you have done.

Note 1: Only camps that end after this starts will be able to receive the trophies, as there have been hundred of finished camps before and I can not do that much art on a short notice.

Note 2: The host of the camp will be responsible for contacting me (Pref. before the half way point in your camp.) to request the trophies. If they never come to me, I won't know I have to create them, and thus no trophies.

Yes... there's more, Message Walls
Message Walls, I'm sure you've seen them on some other wiki's. Dra brought up the idea of flicking this feature on, for us aswell. I don't really care to be frank, I don't use the talk pages as of now, and I likely won't use the Message Wall either, but it's up to y'all to decide.

Basically the message wall is the same as a talk page (It actually removes the talk page and replaces it with the Message Wall) Where you can leave a message on an users wall and they can comment back on the message, similiar to blog comments. If you have an opinion on this place leave it in the comments here.

There is ONE more thing.
But I can't seem to recall it as of yet? So you are all very lucky, for now!

I'm Hugable Talk  19:11, April 29, 2012 (UTC)