Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4544033-20150913232123/@comment-1251315-20150917141517

Maybe member of the month shouldn't just be about recognising mainspace editors. Maybe it should be given to people who contribute a lot in the forums in some way.

@Bluesonic1: I agree that expansion is needed, but I don't think human rewards are a good idea. Like I mentioned, it can just look like the wiki is desperate to recognise every random contributor, some of whom may not even care to get such recognition on the wiki. I know that I would reject any MOTM nomination for myself because I don't want to be recognised through such a thing, as any contributions I do here are because I am interested in improving the wiki, not just to get a reward for it.

As I mentioned above, maybe the fishy sticks and motm should be expanded to include more members of the community, instead of its rather exclusive focus to the mainspace. Yes, mainspace is the more important, but all the other aspects of the community exist and the users who contribute solely to forums, blogs or chat should be rewarded in a similar manner.