Hello! In case you had not noticed, I am your new Wiki Tribune. Yay?

WHO ARE YOU?

I am RevengeX Palpatine, and I have been a member of Clan Scholae Palatinae throughout my Dark Jedi Brotherhood career, which spans about four years and eight months. (I am not a spy.) I have held various positions in Scholae Palatinae, from Tetrarch to Quaestor, and I have also held various Dark Council/Summit auxiliary positions, including Fiction Staff Member and Magistrate to the Seneschal. I am currently Quaestor of House Acclivis Draco and have been for about one year and eight months (I think that's a Brotherhood record). I will try to make sure that these positions do not conflict.

Due to inevitable "real-life" conflicts, I will only be able to hold this position for a maximum of six months. When it gets to that time, I will choose a successor, but I intend to stay on the sidelines.

MY PLANS:

1) Increase communication within the staff. Although most of you probably didn't notice, the staff members basically did their own thing with minimal direction from the Tribune. In order to consolidate my power (read: coordinate the staff's efforts), I will be making wider use of a Wiki Staff mailing list.

2) Fairuse image audit. This is one of Tron's ideas. The idea is to go through every image that has a _ { {fairuse}}_ tag and make sure that it is also categorized in one of the Image Categories. This will involve the membership, so look for more details later in the month.

3) User audit. One of the duties of the Wiki Tribune, according to the "Wiki Tribune" article is: "Moderates all accounts for adhering to procedure, ensuring that members use their DJB names as their Wiki User Names". I intend to do this.

4) Clear the Dead-end pages list. Tron worked incessantly on clearing the "Wanted categories" and "Wanted pages" lists, so I want to clear the "Dead-end pages" list. A "dead-end" page is one that does not have any internal links, meaning that it does not link to any other page in the Wiki. Feel free to go ahead and add links to these pages. I like members taking the initiative.

5) More competitions. I like Crescents, you like Crescents, and I like ice cream. (Breyer's is my favorite brand. What's yours?) I hope to create a few small competitions throughout my tenure as Wiki Tribune in order to 1) create more interest in the Wiki, 2) appeal to people who love the Wiki, and 3) get members more involved in the Wiki's development.

6) Weed the staff and get more new blood. The Wiki Staff, excluding myself and Sarin (he gets to be excluded because he smells bad), stands at eight members. I haven't seen some of the staff members use the Wiki recently, so I will be contacting those members shortly and ask them if they would like to stay or be removed. If a staff member is removed, I may need a new staff member to replace him/her, so watch out for a notice that says that I need applications.

That's all I can think of this morning... I'll scoop up some more and put them in my next report. If you have any ideas, feel free to shoot me an email or catch me on IRC.

THE WIKI STAFF:

3491 Krath Pontifex RevengeX Palpatine

6381 Grand Master Sarin

43 Dark Jedi Master Halcyon Rokir

153 Dark Jedi Master Astronicus Aurelius Sadow

3728 Dark Side Adept Korras Tarentae

2706 Obelisk Primarch Benevolent Taldrya Whiner

5580 Sith Warlord Aabsdu di Plagia Dupar

3944 Sith Warlord Robert Atema Sadow

5951 Krath Epis Impetus Korin-M'Nar Palpatine

3839 Obelisk Templar Dessan

CONCLUSION:

I'll close this report with a very informative list that my predecessor put together. New members, please read this list!

Top Ten Wiki Reminders (Stolen from Tron)

Use the Show Preview button as many times as you need

Use the Save Page button once per session

Put in a category - whether for an image or the article, and make sure it exists, don't make something up.

If you upload an image, use it right away, otherwise it will be deleted if found in the Unused File bin.

Don't double redirect. That is, if you change your name, change it everywhere it's listed instead of having a number of redirects.

Read the Guidelines

Read and use Getting Started

Don't remove Maintenance tags - only Wiki staff are permitted

Don't make links for articles that don't exist (red links) - make the article first then add the link to other pages.

Take the Wiki Basics course at the Shadow Academy

I have a lot of ideas for the Wiki, and I'm sure that some of you do too. That is why I always encourage people to seek me out, tap my shoulder, and then tell me about their questions, suggestions, concerns, the mysterious events that occurred in your life today, or what have you. (Just kidding... I don't want to know your life story.)

Have a great week.

-RevengeX

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