Suggestion: WikiProjects

The Other Wiki has "project" sections, where, say, there are projects in general covering the creation of articles relating to a specific subject (e.g. baseball, various nations, etcetera.)

I'm wondering if the same thing would work here.... I'd like to start a project on Visual Kei and one on Japanese metal bands, for example. We already have several articles there, but there's a ton of bands that still need articles and I'd like to encourage a collaborative project to create, edit, and curate them.

Here you go. Calling it Special Efforts.

Yay!

Erm, how will this be different from the TRS?

Because it's for stuff that isn't about individual tropes.

Oh.

So;

what's a "special effort"? I'm not getting the concept.

As I understand it, a large-scope editing project that would need multiple participants.

Like that "big page breakup" thing that happened awhile ago, perhaps?

Oh, okay.

Do we need permission to start one? (Not that I plan on doing so right now)

@Spain Sun: I guess it's supposed to be our equivalent to WikiProjects.

No, I think you just start a thread if you want to do one.

So more like having (for example) TroperProject: Classic SciFi in which I bother people to make pages for all the people who got stuff published in Analog? Or something?

Or perhaps something like Mass Repair: Xanatos Gambit, where someone would call for help editing misuses of a widely-misused trope?

No, I think something relating to a single trope still belongs in TRS.

What about work pages?

I think they are also covered by TRS.

I'd say that once a repair is decided on as being necessary, (For instance renaming and wick-fixing for all the You Fail... and Somewhere An X Is Crying) the concerted effort to actually do it would go better here.

There was a suggestion for making a separate Works Repair Shop, whatever happened to that?

Also, shouldn't this be pinned?

There are existing projects in Wiki Talk which may meet the Special Efforts criteria. Should they be moved?

And we may want to link this somewhere on the wiki, like in Administrivia and possibly the headlines to encourage more people to get involved.

edited 20th Jan '11 3:40:43 PM by Killomatic

Does TV Tropes have a Sports section yet?

We have Sports Story Tropes and we most likely have articles on Sports Leagues, but no Sports Media article.

Besides, sports aren't stories of any kind.

Sports don't count with the exception of Professional Wrestling and that's because it's a soap opera with sweaty men in tight outfits.

edited 20th Jan '11 7:39:11 PM by shimaspawn

So, what should the first project be?

The Big Page splitting, it seems. And since we are moving old threads, can we do the same with Regarding the Trivia namespace? It doesn't get enough attention.