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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)
• 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)

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)

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)

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

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