Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3076045-20150521205621/@comment-26197005-20150525021805

Please allow me to recap what I think I am reading here. Call it active listening...

The expressed purpose of such a Guild banner would be to show that there are these wonderful Guilds on our wiki which are out here trying to get the world of TES codified and cataloged onto our wiki. The reason for doing this being to get wiki users interested in editing by getting them interested in the Guilds. So, in a very real sense, this is advertising for our guilds.

I will grant right off of the top that such athing may in fact be annoying to long term and existing members of the wiki. To a certin extent, that is the nature of ads on the internet. But, after awhile, you'll simply stop seeing them.

Side effects of this could be interesting. Guilds are intended to be repositories of our more knowlagable members. Places where those who know alot about a given game can be found. New users and new members would be able to find these sages of the games through the Guilds more easily if they knew that the Guilds existed. If I read a page and I have a question about it's content or it's subject, and I see that a certin Guild is responsible for those things, I am likely to try to contact one of it's members with my questions. This, to me is a good thing that speaks to the strengths of our wiki. If I can see which member of that guild is the "custodian" of it's specific knowlage base, than I will try to message that user on his or her talk page, if I was made aware that such a thing could even be done. I can see even greater potential for such a system...

As this idea stands, I am not yet ready to vote... I think it needs more work. Tim is clearly up to that, and has as much as said he is Brainstorming here... I think that this has a far greater potential than it is being given credit for and needs to be expanded upon, as foes the Guild system in general... We, TESwiki are at a very special point in our tragectory right now... We are the ashes that will be reborn into a new pheonix. It is something wonderful! We, the members have an opportunity to recreate our wiki into something more than it ever was, our community into something more than it ever was! Muscle and nervous tissue must be damaged in order to grow, in this way, life defies the 2nd law of thermodynamics... TESwiki is the same. Soon, VI will be announced. When it is, there will be a great returning after this parousia. What they return to, what the new members find, that is up to us, the remnent to determine...

Let's all try to make it something wonderful! Let's start here...

Nomar, the Nomarian