Board Thread:Dark Assembly/@comment-653063-20150316021833

I looked up how to get a Wikia Spotlight, and the relevant page is here http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Community_Central:Spotlights - After reading a lot and being a bit confused (I am always confused around this friggin site), I have come to the conclusion that I'm pretty sure we do qualify for a Spotlight. I couldn't tell if we still have a bit too much mess, but in the long run, I think we're ok.

So, going down the list of 'best practice' requirements:
 * request has to come from or involve an active admin - that can be done.
 * 200 content pages - yes, we got that; limited stubs (300b or less) - http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/Special:ShortPages - there are less than 60 pages under 300b, and I'm sure quite a few of those are Disambigs, which in my opinion, shouldn't count towards "really" being a too-short page. so, check.
 * main page not edit-prohibited - yeah we don't check that off. I'm still on the fence about how much I agree with it being locked, 50% i see why and 50% auuuuugh unlock it for me already, haha. (and/or being Engineer would solve that, at least for me.... >_>)
 * clear category structure - we're about 85% compliant, most of our stuff is actually fine, it's just there's random oddities here and there, and again, a competent Printern or two would go a long way to solving that.
 * "Special:UncategorizedPages should be empty" - yeahhhhh i'm working on that. there's like 8 pages in there right now, half are VFD'd and the other half got categories applied to them, so we should check this after the cache function re-caches, it SHOULD be empty.
 * "The community should not be in the middle of choosing new admins or any other upheavals; it should be a stable, friendly place." cough I mean, the two of us are quite friendly......
 * The wikia should be using the Wikia welcome tool - this is apparently not the 'blue box in the corner' thing we did a couple days ago... according to http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Welcome_tool, it's some kind of 'auto-greeter'. I'm pretty sure ours is not turned on, because I've not seen it go off.... Even if we don't apply for a Spotlight, should we turn this on anyway? Probably can't hurt....
 * The message in the Community Center on Recent Wiki Activity should be customized - hah! we did that. check.
 * customized skin - uhhh i guess?
 * no inappropriate stuff - not any that i've seen, check.

Except for main-page-edit-locked (i'm reading some of the previous applications, and wikis are being turned down for having an edit lock on the main page, even if that's the only criteria they don't meet), a bit of category-oddities (which I'm slowly working on fixing), and the auto-welcome-tool being off right now, we do actually check off everything on the list.

Then there's this page - http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Spotlights - which mostly just points out that an admin needs to be asking for or on board with the request, and that we should have a picture, a title, and a caption to go with. I can maybe get a picture done, probably of Kiria's face and the 'disgaea5' title; I'll try to make that happen tomorrow. Title would be like "Disgaea Wiki - Disgaea 5!" Caption of "Disgaea 5, Japan Release March 26!" and.... idk... does that make it sound like we're touting the fact that we have info? Because we don't have info yet X D. We're hoping to attract the people with the info.

I'm not positive that we can ask for, or if we were to ask, that we would get the spotlight to start "when" would be best, which is to say, not earlier than March 25, I would assume. It seems to be that when you are approved for spotlight, it begins either immediately if there is no queue, or perhaps you go in the queue. I also can't tell how long the spotlight lasts, I don't think I've read anything that says.

We can request 2 spotlights a year, but we should wait until the fall for the NA release for the other request, IMO.

So ok. What do you think? If you're on board with this, then can you set up the welcome thinger and reduce the protection on the main page (apparently there are other levels below 'admin only' but still above 'totes open', like "no ip-only and no new accounts"? idk, file under 'things i haven't paid a ton of attn to yet'), and I think I can fill out the actual request. I mean, please post something that says you approve X D so it's timestamped and stuff. But yeah. Sound like a plan?

SannaSK (talk) 02:18, March 16, 2015 (UTC) 