Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5606398-20170720044341/@comment-26318250-20170720185412

Themaster401 wrote: Prism55Writes wrote: I am not sure if I am the one to respond to this, but here we go.

Maybe, just maybe... if you want good pastas to get some more recognition, then you need to promote good pasta. How? I have a few ideas.

"Quality Pastas" category - Basically, you could make it so that the "Quality" template instantly adds an "Quality Pasta" category to the page (can be done easily without manually adding the pastas). Then, the category "Quality Pastas" will be placed on the homepage as Suggested Reading. This could possibly attract players to that category and make them read the good pastas in there, boosting their popularity and giving them their recognition. Obviously, some admin would have to check the category weekly, to make sure that there are not any pastas that do not deserve the category, so that only the best of the best stay in. Any pastas that do not deserve the category would have the Quality template removed, deleting the pasta from the category.

Featured article - Weekly (or biweekly), the Admins or a few good writers (could be both together) would check all pages that were added to the wiki that week (or two weeks). Then, they would choose their favorite page for that week, and place a link to the page on the homepage, along with including the writer and a few beginning paragraphs of the story. Similar to the main wiki for creepypastas (sorry if this is considered advertising).

PoTM - I believe you understand how this works. Pretty much the same as the Pasta of The Month feature of the main wiki for creepypastas. Could be edited to accomodate for the small user amount of this wiki.

Those were just three of my ideas. These would, in my opinion, help promote pastas that deserve recognition.

Prism55Writes (talk) 07:53, July 20, 2017 (UTC) Great ideas, Prism. Front-page advertisement of the greatest this wiki has to offer will definitely increase the popularity of them among wiki users.

'''We should fix up our navigation bar. Make a category list page, listing each and every category as well as a small description of them to point users to not just reading the most popular and generic creepypasta.'''

It's fine to refer to Creepypasta Wiki! After all, we're their chosen successor for Minecraft Creepypasta ever since the category got removed due to (cough) the type of stories the video game creepypasta genre seems to produce and copy over and over again.

I guess some of this may have to end up in Deadlock's hands, as he probably has a couple of Bureaucrat permissions up his sleeve necessary to committing the changes. Talking about the bolded paragraph, I believe only the most necessary categories should be listed, ones with 10+ pages in them. Things like "Evil Girlfriend" and categories which are used on one-two pages are not important enough to be added to the list. However, even for categories with 10+ pages in them, only the most important ones should be chosen.

Still talking about that one paragraph, when there are two categories that are almost identical (like Category:Entities and Category:Entity), they should both be included in the list next to each other. for example:

"Entites/Entity - blahblahblah..."

For the third paragraph, I am glad that referring to the official Creepypasta WIki is allowed (I believe).

PS: What do you think about the "Quality Pastas" category idea?

Prism55Writes (talk) 18:54, July 20, 2017 (UTC)