User blog:Chicken Bond/READ: Clean-Up and Promotion!

Right, it seems that recently, our overall activity has been dwindling. And who's fault is that? Our own. This drop in activity is no surprise to many of you, as we all know that with BIONICLE overall end and with the inactivity of sites like BIONICLEstory and BZPower has really had an impact on our general audience. However, that is no reason whatsoever to stop the promotional campaign, personally, I have not seen too many videos made lately (unless I've either missed or overlooked them entirely), and we all know how desperately we need them.

Anyone could have noticed that when we had the promotional campaign being actively being carried out by users, we gained a percentage of new members, and activity spiked higher. Now, I am again reminding people that we seriously need promotion. There's no point having this campaign at all, if we're not going to be consistently advertising. I do know some of you are making advertisements at the moment, which is very reassuring, but we haven't seen one in a while. Timing is critical at the moment.

Whilst I am aware there has been some work on making promotional videos on YouTube, I have heard very little of the efforts people are making to try and recruit new members from deviantArt and MOCpages (though we have had some members join from the Pages) and FanFiction. FanFiction in-particular is one I want to see a bit fo attention put on to, so if you're willing to help out with promoting there, then sign up, interact with the users then, post your own stories and fictions there, and try and sway some users over here. I have heard of success with dA and MOCpages promotions, but I simply wish to see more work.

Now, onto the second matter I wish to discuss.

As point out by our rollback,, in an unfortunately heavily ignored blog post, we do need to start focusing on a bit of a clean up job. We seriously need to start clearing out the Articles in the Wikification categorical lists and the Articles Stub lists. We had huge help during the categorizing efforts earlier this year, which was extremely successful, now I want people who are willing to commit and rally to help clear up this wiki, before things start to build up too much.

It is also in my belief that aiming for another Wikia Spotlight will really help set everything back in motion, and give us all something to work for again. We all remember how successful and rewarding the last spotlight was, let's see if we can get another one. So, if there's anyone (and I mean ANYONE) who is willing to help out both with the clean-out and with the promotional campaign, please leave a notice here. Any other notes and comments can be left below.