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"Wow okay nevermind, its pretty cool being witnessed."Same guys after 500 people see their work

Hi all, posting this in Forum:The Panopticon because it seems to best fit this category, but it doesn't fit well into any of the forum categories.

A chief concern of a recently forked wiki is establishing readership, and to that end Tardis Wiki has been actively building a following for itself on Twitter after our forking announcement there got lots of eyes. With the permission of User:Bongolium500, I have been posting daily highlights of articles/topics on Tardis Wiki, often with a humorous slant, to reasonable success for the past month. Taking control of a general swathe of fandom’s perception is vital; the humans must think we are “cool”, “relatable”, and “switched on”.

An average tweet gets 400-600 views, but more successful ones have reached over 2000 views and one good one got 11,500 views. As a vague figure, a tweet with 400-600 eyes might result in 9-15 people clicking the link which takes them to the relevant Tardis Wiki page. The same general ratio applies as we go up, such that about 1.4% of viewers of the tweet with 11,500 views clicked the link there, resulting in 169 direct clicks on Twitter. These numbers may not account for people copying the link, as well as people who see the tweet and share the topic with others on other platforms, but they give an approximation. Much depends on the actual topics, and some popular tweets have resulted in minimal link clicks due to the tweet itself containing all the information people needed to know. Followers increase daily, so some numbers may shift as time goes on. (We have also had at least one editor join from Twitter, so that has been a delight.)

Regardless of link clicks, the continued presence of Tardis Wiki in wider fandom seems like a good thing for the longterm, especially as we deal with visibility issues.

Anyways, perhaps you see where I’m going with this; in the words of WOTAN: “DOCTOR WHO IS REQUIRED. BRING HIM HERE. 💅” Your edits deserve to be seen by the world.

Specifically, we are looking are looking for pages which you have put love into, pages concerning topics that most people might not know (although, preferably, there should be something in it which an average Whovian can relate to; I love it dearly but I’m looking to post maximum one (1) Faction Paradox fact a month) or pages which recontextualize something well-known from a new angle, and in general the edits you (or others) make that you admire. Also, my own taste is that they should be pages that make Tardis Wiki look good and should be written accessibly and as intuitively-organized as possible for any reader (imagine you are writing for a fan sixty years in the future, who knows as much context of 2020s Who as most people know of 1960s Who, and is not tuned in to current fan perspectives).

Additionally, pages on interesting content concerning the Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall, and RTD2 eras of the show, as well as the works of Big Finish Productions, will be privileged because those are popular topics on which obscure interesting information is harder to find. Real topics, or in-universe topics which are interesting due to real-world context, are also very valuable. Important births and deaths of key figures is something that is very good also.

Below, you may submit pages to be covered as a daily focus of the Twitter. Pages which can be associated with a date are valuable because people on social media love things that pierce the timeless monotony of their digital prisons.

For now, I intend to write the tweets because it’s what's been happening and it's efficient, but we're a collaborative website and naturally someone'll replace me sooner or later. Its an interesting responsibility, I'll pass on some advice to anyone who wants to take it on, but for now everything's going fine. Cheers, TheChampionOfTime ☎ 22:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Submissions

Continue the lists down here, and sign what you add.

With associated date

It’s okay to have multiple pages which correspond to the same date!

• Daylight savings - 31 March, due to British daylight savings. TheChampionOfTime ☎ 22:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• Book (Afterword) / Steven Moffat (in-universe) - November 18th, Moffat's Birthday. Najawin ☎ 03:20, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
• Eleven-Day Empire - September 2nd, its anniversary, use September's FP post for this. Najawin ☎ 03:20, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
• Uh, spoilers spoilers spoilers, there are three character pages related to a certain VNA that could be linked on the day a certain episode from the new series airs. One beginning with J, one with H, and one with M. I hope this is both suitably oblique and yet is obvious to everyone who keeps up with rumors. Najawin ☎ 06:59, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
• Anime City / Crooked World stuff more generally. - September 15th, that's the anniversary of Undertale. (smh @ no DWU reference to Undertale) Easy to just go "Did you know in the DWU anime is real?". Najawin ☎ 01:34, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
  • smh, the entire point was Undertale. Najawin ☎ 17:14, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
• David Hilbert / maybe Hilberta's Hostel - January 23rd, Hilbert's Birthday. Might be the FP thing for the month, if you emphasize the latter article. Najawin ☎ 00:54, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
• Telenovela / Mexico City / Luchador / whatever Mexican culture stuff you can think of - May 5th, Cinco de Mayo. Najawin ☎ 01:24, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
• McAllister Park / HEB / Jim's - It'll be a year before this comes around again, but March 2nd, Texas Independence Day. (Or maybe another Texas relevant date if one is sooner, idk, I just googled.) All from an FP novel, sure. But there's aspects of every day life shown in the DWU even if you're not in Britain. Najawin ☎ 01:24, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
• President of the United States has a bunch of fun stuff and would be timely around 5 November 2024. WarDocFan12 ☎ 17:39, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
• May Day - May 1st, duh. Najawin ☎ 04:23, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
• Iraq War - Also could work for May 1, as this was the day Bush held the infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech. Najawin ☎ 04:23, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
• Washington DC - May 3rd, when it was officially incorporated as a city. Najawin ☎ 04:23, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
• Nelson Mandela - May 10, when he was inaugurated president. Najawin ☎ 04:23, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
• Vietnam War, maybe, it's a bit rough - (Sometime after a certain episode airs, minor spoilers to explain why.) While it hasn't yet been stated to be the case in the DWU, a little known fact is that during the First Battle of Saigon, in order to prevent a message from Ho Chi Minh from being broadcast over the radio, they played Beatles songs over it. Najawin ☎ 06:01, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
• Richard Nixon - August 9th, fiftieth anniversary of his resignation. Only POTUS to travel in the TARDIS, and probably the most detailed portrayal of all US presidents in the DWU. BlueSupergiant ☎ 12:18, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
• Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - Similar to the POTUS link above. Whenever the next general election is called, or maybe for the local elections on May 2nd. BlueSupergiant ☎ 12:18, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
• Scarecrow - July 7th, Build a Scarecrow Day. 66 Seconds ☎ 13:08, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
• Pirate / Henry Avery / Zheng Yi Sao / The Captain - September 19th, International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so something pirate related. 66 Seconds ☎ 13:08, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
• Blackpool Tower - May 14th. The date the Blackpool Tower first opened to the public in 1894. This year will be the 130th anniversary. A Doctor Who fact could be that it had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in Blink, where it appeared on the postcard used for the Timey-Wimey Detector. 66 Seconds ☎ 13:08, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
• Stonehenge - June 20th, date of the summer solstice. Stonehenge was built to align with the sun on the solstices. 66 Seconds ☎ 13:08, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (franchise) - Out of all the pages I've ever made, this is the only one I'd go as far to call a real passion project. Potential dates include Sonic's anniversary (June 23rd), the release of the third Sonic movie (December 20th), or whatever the release date of Sonic X Shadow Generations ends up being. WaltK ☎ 17:00, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Timeless

• Quantel Paintbox TheChampionOfTime ☎ 22:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• I'll explain later TheChampionOfTime ☎ 22:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• The Legions of Death (game) TheChampionOfTime ☎ 22:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• Ancient Gallifreyan TheChampionOfTime ☎ 22:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• Prequel to Asylum of the Daleks (webcast) TheChampionOfTime ☎ 22:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• Tumescent Arrows of the Half-Light TheChampionOfTime ☎ 22:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• Sherlock (series) (specifically the Who references, though I suppose the cast bit may be interesting) Aquanafrahudy 📢 🖊️ 22:42, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• Lavinia Smith (Who Killed Elias Hoodreim?) - not sure if this is interesting enough, but it's an instance of a character in a crossover story (Burke's Law: Who Killed Elias Hoodreim? ^[+]Loading...["Who Killed Elias Hoodreim? (comic story)"]) sharing their name with a fairly important character later introduced in mainline Doctor Who media (Lavinia Smith). Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 23:03, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• Aztec calendar - For my sins. Maybe a little too Faction Paradox-y, but you can reconstruct almost all of the Aztec Calendar from IU sources. And I did my best to do so. Najawin ☎ 00:24, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
• Observer Effect, though von Neumann Wigner is very very fringe as an actual interpretation of QM. Almost maybe Mentor (unproduced novel). Najawin ☎ 00:28, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
• Scorchie might work, just as a fun concept. Najawin ☎ 08:48, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
• Sooty might be something, idk. People can feel free to remove this and the last one, they're not pages I'm involved with in any way, but they seemed to be hits when we tried them out this week. iykyk. Najawin ☎ 08:48, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
• Complex Space-Time Event. Najawin ☎ 15:59, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Articles which would make good trivia with some polish

This is for facts you know are interesting, but which need a bit more fleshing out on Tardis.

• Haemogoth (needs image) TheChampionOfTime ☎ 22:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• If we can get a summary on Mind of the Hodiac (audio story), then it and Mind of the Hodiac (unproduced TV story) together might be decent. Najawin ☎ 00:25, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
• Muppet - This might even be ready to go when the tag at the top is removed. Or we could trim up the BTS section a bit. Najawin ☎ 00:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Tweeted submissions

• The Hollow Planet (escape game) - Interesting to note that during COVID there was a print and play Doctor Who escape room released for anyone's home use. Najawin ☎ 00:41, 29 March 2024 (UTC) [1]

Discussion

Does the page always have to be in-universe, or are out-of-universe pages eligible too? WaltK ☎ 16:48, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Presumably, it doesn't matter. I believe out-of-universe pages have been featured before. Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 16:52, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Okay, a few months later, I didn't really maintain this forum's side of things at all. The enthusiasm here is appreciated, and I apologize that it has not always been followed. In the end, the posts have mostly just been me shooting from the hip and doing whatever, cuz its not really a serious job. Haven't been overthinking it, or really thinking it much at all. The website's frankly silly, and its the simple stuff that does well.

The twitter recently crossed 1,000 followers, about double what it had when I started, and this feels like a good place for me to step off (especially since it was Skaro New Year a couple days ago). It was a game, and I feel like Super Mario figuring out what's going on and deleting himself from the game because he's sick of dying getting to a castle and deciding that's a good enough place to quit. It's been educational for me in the ways of social media, and I think I've helped the wider promotion of this site such that the socials are in a healthy place for however they'll continue. I was not elected, just sorta wormed my way in, so I dunno, maybe there's some other interested worm out there. In the end, daily socials aren't the most important cuz we're all doing this for fun. TheChampionOfTime ☎ 15:20, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the work you've put into the account! It has grown massively and you've done a much better job than I was doing beforehand. If anybody else (that is a trustworthy editor) wants to take over, let me know and I can give you the login credentials (I will need a way to contact you off-wiki). Bongo50 ☎ 16:54, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Hey just thought I'd suggest given the most recent Twitter exodus because of the block changes and AI terms of use changes that maybe grabbing a bluesky account would be a good idea. The way @s work there "@tardis.wiki" will be an option instead of the ".bsky.social" ending, assuming the sysadmins can set up the atproto thingy in the DNS - CodeAndGin | 🗨 | 01:54, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

I recommended this to Scrooge a while back, iirc. Might have been for... something else. Regardless, I think the bigger worry is, uh, the choice of venue provisions in the new ToS. That's something we should think about very carefully if we want to continue using the site. Najawin ☎ 21:53, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Elaborate?--Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 21:54, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

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See here, here and here. I think we all hope that this is never necessary, but the venue in question is Musk's personal favorite for specific reasons. (Such as a judge who owns Tesla stock, refuses to sell it or recuse himself from cases involving Musk, and gets 45% of all civil cases.) Najawin ☎ 22:10, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

I missed that part of the TOS update. I am equal parts appalled and unsurprised, but that's not exactly a novel experience when it comes to Musk shenanigans. - CodeAndGin | 🗨 | 23:06, 19 October 2024 (UTC)