Forum:Shadow of Mordor Versus Tournament

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Hi, I received this today:

Hi BadCatMan! I'm Mark, from Wikia's Community Development Team.

I'm reaching out to see if your community would like to be a part of a versus tournament we're hosting on the Shadow of Mordor wikia. It would go live in September, and we would be pitting Drizzt Do'Urden against Talion from Shadow of Mordor. The voting would live in a blog on Shadow of Mordor and we would post a button on Drizzt Do'Urden's page here encouraging your community to vote for them. On the voting blog we would link back to your wikia, and we'll be promoting the tournament around Wikia. If your community would like to be a part of the tournament, which would include the button on Drizzt Do'Urden's page as well as a link back to your community from the voting blog, please let me know by 8/29.

Thank you! Mark (talk) 21:55, August 25, 2014 (UTC)

I've seen these popularity contest thingeys before; I don't really see the point, myself, but it would be good to raise awareness of our wiki and get it more involved in cross-wiki events. Fortunately, I've already got the Drizzt page cleaned up (well, at least I did). Frankly, I think it's no contest. :) So, before I say yes, does anyone have any objections or feelings?

— BadCatMan (talk) 11:11, August 26, 2014 (UTC)

There wiki has 145 pages and 435 forum pages and Mark here has like 3,4K edits on it... The issue has not been raised on there wiki, I think the contest will be useful for both wikis... I would also like to add that there is a tone of Drizzt images that can be made... and maybe even videos (Just take the points of the games that he's in). But I'm guessing that we don't need more images or videos but wanted to put it out there. I vote yes.

Terrorblades 's Far Realm logs dated 11:53, August 26, 2014 (UTC)

Our wiki is not primarily focused on video games (although there have been significant contributions lately by Terrorblades, EnergyX, and Dark T) so I don't know how our mostly-text article on Drizzt will be received by the twitchy community :) so adding more images/videos to the gallery might make it more appealing to that demographic. My main concern is that competition tends to bring out the trash talk, etc. I hope they are good sports and don't vandalize the page for giggles. Likewise, I hope none of our readers turn troll. Also, we might want to consider what Featured Article we are presenting next month, and perhaps throw some more Featured Images in the September pot.

Our page views have been increasing lately (based on my irregular, casual checking of the stats) and in the past 7 days we have averaged almost 66K page views per day. It will be interesting to see what the numbers are like in Sept. during the contest.

—Moviesign (talk) 13:28, August 26, 2014 (UTC)