Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television/Buffyverse task force/Archive 2014

Leaflet for Wikiproject Buffyverse at Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014 For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 10:24, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Fancruft
Are the project guidelines compatible with the Wikipedia guidelines? Or are sections that are mentioned under Writing (arc significance, continuity, quotes, cultural references; see Episode_work) in conflict for instance with Fancruft?

As an example take the following edits of the article The Replacement:
 * 596431788 cultural reference removed (without edit summary)
 * 604139580 continuity and arc significance section removed (edit summary: cruft)
 * 614469166 cultural references section removed (edit summary: cruft)
 * 614469196 notability tag added

If edits like these are made to all episode articles, then a lot of contributed content will be lost. Should the above edits reverted to restore the content of the article The Replacement? Can we refer to some Wikipedia guidelines that allow such content. For example, many The Simpsons articles have a cultural references section. --Hurfunkel (talk) 14:40, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't believe any of that information is appropriate for inclusion unless secondary sources took note of it. For editors who wish to add that type of information without such constraints there's wikis. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and without references establishing the significance of such content it is my opinion that it is little more than trivia. DonIago (talk) 13:24, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)