Warriors Wiki talk:Awards

Pennsylvania
Hi, all! Through the good graces of Berry, she has passed on leadership to me at least temporarily. So as such, let's get started then, shall we?

So topic #1: Types of awards
 * Shall we do awards like the "Firestar Award - a user of great leadership" (this is only an example) or awards like the "Among the Best Users" type of award? From there we'll decide on the categories then. (NOTE: Please do not suggest categories at this time)

Topic #2: Addition of members
 * So like it would be with all projects, we will have the addition of users to be members. A few users could keep the actual coding up-to-date of course, but what would others do? What I mean is what would being a member symbolize. In the content projects, being a member represents your part in that community, your contribution to that overall objective among other symbols. So what would it mean here?

Comment away~ C: 05:55, December 30, 2013 (UTC)

Well okay then, I'll start making the templates. C: 03:02, July 30, 2014 (UTC)

bringing this back
Hey everybody! I know that this was discussed for a long, long time and I think it's time to bring this back. People have been editing on this wiki for a long, long time and have focused a lot of energy into it so it's only fair if they do get rewards. Although this project shouldn't be our top priority, it does exist and it should be given some attention.

If anything, we should bring it back, and we should start suggesting ideas for awards and discussing some people it could go to. Thoughts? 19:46, July 21, 2015 (UTC)

Yep, this project is coming back. Through the permission of Teldy, I've taken back the role of leader to this project and will soon decide on a deputy. If anyone wants to join this project, feel free to leave join requests and I'll get to them right away.

As for awards, I've been playing around with ideas for a while and have come up with these. I like the design for this; personally I think they look slick and professional, but I'm definitely open to suggestions for improvement. So, opinions? 05:04 Sat Jul 25

I like them, but is there any way to have smaller versions? Like how the userboxes are? If not, that's totally awesome and I'm more than okay with the ones we have now. Alternately, there are always the badges we could enable if this goes inactive again.... let's just hope it doesn't go down that route again. =P

How about this? I could try smaller if you like...but I did try 250px width as well, and the text just got really bunched up and looked terribly messy. 11:34 Sat Jul 25

Ah, that's a perfect size!! I was hoping for something around that size, and I am not disappointed. I think there's a list of suggested awards around here somewhere... if not, we can always draft another one up, I'd say.

Here are some more based off that list. Opinions on these? Anymore ideas for awards? ^^ 08:44 Sun Jul 26

I think these are really great Berry! Good job on making them. 21:55, July 26, 2015 (UTC)

Yes, they are great. But there's one thing: would the editing awards be based on editcount or the number of edits at the top of your profile? Because I've noticed they can slightly differ. Sorry if this is a dumb question! 22:49, July 26, 2015 (UTC)

Yes, it'd be based off the Editcount at the top of someone's userpage. That's the Editcount most people look at, and it's also why I went by thousands and not, say, 1500 and 2500. If that Editcount says 1000 then there's a good chance it actually is 1000. 06:41 Mon Jul 27

As I still understand, these awards are based off of barnstars meaning that at any point one user views another user working hard on the wiki, they can award them a barnstar no matter the number. 02:43, August 9, 2015 (UTC)

Well, we could make our own Barnstar award. (Why do I think Barley when I hear Barnstar? His the leader of a barn XD) 05:23, August 9, 2015 (UTC)

Deputy
I have decided to name Jayce the deputy to this project. They are experienced with coding and most definitely know what they're doing when it comes to being a lead. I hope that we will be able to make this project a successful one this time around. 11:08 Sat Jul 25

Project Guidelines
We've got a lot to organise here, so let's start with these. I've been thinking about it a bit and I think we should have some guidelines based on these:

Award suggestions


 * We'll always be open for suggestions for awards to add. The project will give their opinions on the award(s), giving suggestions for a different name, colours for the award itself, etc., before a vote is held to accept it as an official award to be handed out.


 * After two days without comments/when a senior warrior or above thinks everything has been planned out, they can CBV an award, and after 24 hours, they can put up the vote.

Ranks
 * Warriors can help out with the coding of the awards, making sure that they're all still working, etc., senior warriors and above are the ones that hand out awards. Alternatively, warriors can hand out first level awards; the lowest level of awards available, like the Tallstar award I came up with. Senior warriors can hand out all awards.


 * Warriors participate in discussions and vote on awards, and senior warriors and above can put out CBVs on award suggestions before creating the vote.

What do you think of these? And does anyone else have any suggestions for guidelines? 09:06 Sun Jul 26

I was thinking there is some special coding that automatically gives a user the award (sort of like the welcome box) I also suggest a tutorial page, because there is coding to learn here and it'll be easier to have it here instead of searching around for it. 21:58, July 26, 2015 (UTC)

Hmm. I'm pretty sure that's a thing within a wiki's actual code or something, and it's definitely not something I'd know how to use. Whether Jayce knows something about it or not, I don't know. All wikis have an automated welcome message; you can just edit it to look nice or say something more.

Besides, if it's actually...given to someone by an actual person, not just an automated thing, it'd be much more personal. 06:46 Mon Jul 27

Hmm, I'm not sure if there's an automatic thing or not, but I'll defintely look into that sometime this week. As for the levels, what would determine that? Edit counts, time here, ect, could be considered "first level" awards...while maybe there could be awards for leadership, edit content, skills, ect, that could be second level ones?? Like, we could have a "content contributor" award- and perhaps give it to someone like Jayie, who always brings us loads of information from Kate's blog????

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. First level would be "basic" awards, like editing, project joining/contributing, and getting a certain number of passed nominations in projects. Anything above that would be awards to be given by SWs+ of the project. I'm definitely liking the idea of that content contributor award, and giving it to Jayie when we get the award-giving going. Any other ideas on this matter or other suggestions for project guidelines? 08:27 Wed Jul 29

How's this? 05:46 Thu Jul 30

I'm not so sure leadership awards could be given out. A lot of users don't have leadership roles and it seems unfair for that. I think we should probably get rid of that but stick around to the other ideas you gave out, Cloudy. 05:53, July 30, 2015 (UTC)

Anyone else want to put forward ideas for guidelines for this project? Discuss the ones I've put forth a little more? 11:54 Thu Aug 6

I agree with the leadership awards it's a bit unfair. I would say an award for becoming a warrior in PCA is good, as that is a good achievement and means the user is a good artist. 22:05, August 6, 2015 (UTC)

I have created the guidelines page and added some of the guidelines that have been discussed and agreed on. If you think anymore should be added, please let me know. 06:30 Sat Aug 8


 * By no means am I deterring this part of the project (personally I think it adds to the value of the award), however it'll be rather hard to enforce who's giving out awards and who isn't. It just gets into some rather sticky situations, particularly with newer users who may not be fully aware of all the details of the wiki. On


 * On another note, I think it would be nice for either a personal award (something that's not dictated) or a personal message in addition to the awards. That being said, the text size might come into conflict but with a bit of experimenting, I think it would work.


 * Also, perhaps project awards as another incentive for individual project contribution like: 20+ character nominations (higher, lower, idk), 10+ world/books/charart, 5+ reality, etc.


 * Some small grammatical errors on the Award: The single apostrophes should be replaced with quotation marks (it's more formal and it follows the common American typography), but it's up to you. In all the second sentences of the awards, a comma precedes a conjunction yet the conjunction is followed by a dependent clause (in this case, without a subject as the comma acts similar to a period). The second sentences in the awards also contain tense issues (match the subject to the verb so the second clause to the sentence would sound like "they has" if they were independent sentences). 03:06, August 9, 2015 (UTC)

Grammar on the template was updated as advised. Okay, so you think awards should be able to be given out by anyone? I could see that working; I guess it'd sort of be like needing to be in the Userbox project to use userboxes. Everyone in favour of removing that part from the guidelines?

I'll get to the making of those project achievement awards as well because I really approved of that idea and I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it earlier... 12:49 Tue Aug 25

...hey guys, it's been a month since I made this comment and literally no one has made a sound as to what they think should be done with that 'only members of the project should give awards' thing. Please comment with your opinion, as this is definitely something that needs to be agreed on by the whole project. 12:32 Thu Oct 1

Award template
The template for awards has been created. At the moment, only the edit number, project join, and content contributor awards exist within it, but I think it's a good start. I'll probably have to write up some sort of tutorial for editing it, because it is fairly complicated code...

Anyways, I don't think we should be handing these out until the project has set guidelines on award giving and stuff. As soon as that's out of the way, the award giving can begin. 08:43 Sat Aug 1

Yep those look great! And yes we better sort out the guidelines first. 23:53, August 1, 2015 (UTC)

Quick nitpicky thing - shouldn't Brambleclaw be Bramblestar? 18:13, August 13, 2015 (UTC)

Nah, I went with Brambleclaw because he's the one that bought the Clans to the lake. I can change it if you want, but I like it the way it is now. 23:05 Thu Aug 13

Join
May I join? 01:39, August 8, 2015 (UTC)

join
I'd like to join aswell. 01:46, August 8, 2015 (UTC)

Project contribution awards
Here are the concepts for the awards Teldy suggested; so far, I've only put together examples for the PC awards, but I'm working towards the PB and other project awards; I've just got to work out colours and cats and stuff.

What do you guys think of the ones on there^ and do you have any suggestions for other project awards? Because while I'm managing I'd like some more people to make suggestions for the designs of these; I feel like I'm hogging all the work...^^;; 12:42 Thu Sep 3

I think PC ones are pretty good, although can you make Hollyleaf's one as holly-coloured as possible? I have ideas for PCA awards:


 * Graduating to Apprenticeship Award
 * Graduating to Warrior/Three Images Approved
 * Certain number of tweaks successful tweaks made, maybe 3 or 4? 22:39, September 3, 2015 (UTC)

I'll get on to the PCA awards soon. Also...what do you mean 'holly-coloured as possible'? I was thinking of Holly green when I made that userbox - I also thought of her eyes as well... <span style="">08:47 Fri Sep 4

Sorry I meant try to make it darker or something? I always thought holly-coloured was darker. XD but ignore me if I'm wrong. 22:30, September 4, 2015 (UTC)