Forum:Editor of the Month

for now I need to keep this in the Projects Forum, as the proposal can't be finalised until I've had some feedback. If it's deemed at all a good idea and the details are decided on, I'll move it to the Policy Forum for voting.

Project
I would like to introduce some feature to credit helpful editors which could also serve as an easy way for newcomers to participate in community activity and potentially lower the treshold to weigh in on more wiki-related matters. An Editor of the Month award (a concept borrowed from other wikis) could be such a feature – ideally, it could encourage good behaviour and wiki editing in general.

The title Editor of the Month is awarded to a user who has made useful contributions, shown good spirit and/or been helpful in some other way. Each month, a new post is created in eg. the Watercooler Forum or Blog space, with separate sections for nominations, voting and discussion. The Editor of the Month is determined during the last week of each month, the winner being announced on the first day of the next month.

A draft of the rules:
 * 1) Only registered users may nominate and vote.
 * 2) The nominated user must be a registered user and have at least 25 mainspace edits.
 * 3) Each user may nominate up to two other users.
 * 4) Each user may vote for one other nominated user.
 * 5) Users may vote for other candidates than the one(s) they nominated.
 * 6) Users may  not vote for themselves.
 * 7) The previous Editor of the Month may not be nominated again immediately.

The post is then updated with the result as well as a short description of the elected user and their work. If by a week before the end of the month no-one has been nominated, the awards simply won't take place that month.

Any Editor of the Month may also add a userbox template to their profile as a trophy :) Suggestion:

Box =
 * -| Code =

This suggestion includes auto-categorisation of the User page where the template is used into an "Editors of the Month" category. Clicking the image could lead to this category page. Rules and other information could get a blurb in Mass Effect Wiki:Collaboration, for example.

Discussion
Please comment on and/or suggest changes to any aspect of the project here.

I know this wiki hasn't been big on badges and the like in the past, but I thought I'd give it a shot! Feedback especially on the appropriate location for this is needed: would we want it in the Forums, or perhaps rather in the blog space?

Also, to make editors aware of this feature, would it be reasonable to add a little section to the Main page, say, under Mass Effect Wiki News? Just "Editor of the Month" as header, then a small notice with a link to the corresponding user and EotM post, or something along those lines.

Furthermore, if the admins aren't willing to manage this, it could still be done if they only deem it suitable to be managed by some other community member under mere admin supervision. Any user who takes on the task to host this would not be able to vote, nor would they be eligible for EotM themselves. (Perhaps needless to say, I'd volunteer.) Elseweyr ( talk | stalk ) January 11, 2014, 20:51:37 (UTC)