Is there anybody out there
I joined this wiki yesterday (10-7-11), however so far it feels like hanging out in a ghost town. IMO this would seem like a great place for ME fans. I hope to see more life here soon.
Yep. It's that time again...
Okay, where the hell is everybody? Once again, we need to talk about the direction of this wiki. It's been languishing for weeks, the front page hasn't been updated for months, and I'm no longer sure who's still planning to stay involved. I've tried to keep this place alive, but it's no fun playing in an empty room. So how do we bring this place back to life (again)?
I'm New
I just wanted to introduce myself to the community here. I'd enjoy it if you guys also introduced yourselves to me because I really never worked on any kind of fanon wiki before and I'd like to know about the basics but.... I guess it's not mandatory for anybody.
Alone...Again?
Um, are you guys gone again? This site has serious issues with stayinging alive. Seriously, you guys aren't here within the next week and I'll petition for wikia to get me admin status until a better individual comes along, and I can resign. It's nothing personal, at all. I don't want admin status, unless we ever get a larger community, which I'd just be a necesity.
So, writers block? School?
Who owns ONAS?
The Office of Naval Alliance Security was Foxtrot's creation, but it's mentioned heavily in Elitemaster117's articles. As far as I can tell, Foxtrot considers all of his characters to be part of the regular Mass Effect timeline, whereas Elitemaster's characters exist in an alternate timeline. So who owns ONAS?
Mass Effect: Forgiveness Is For The Forgotten
So then, me and Nick are going to be making a Mass Effect story about an asari Spectre and her crew while they attempt to shut down a geth-controlled moon and kill a krogan warlord. They are also tasked with finding an experimental device, which is not really experimental but SPOILERS!!! Anyways, if you wanna help then just say wah you are interested in and either me (C) or Nick (EM117) will get back to you
A New RP
The Council Era has been on a long hiatus, and though the main plot has been wrapped up, what about Krulus Mor, or Omicron? Posts stayed behind... We need to finish these RPs. The problem is, many people that we used to have, are gone... Foxtrot and Bluethunder, two major users, are gone. We might need others to fill in their place. But let's think, what about a new RP... What was it called, the Krogan Rebellions? Yes. Focused on exactly that. I already had a few characters ready for it, too. What do you think? I could take Kurvok and maybe his adviser, along with my characters. I could a few other characters, too. I already have a logo ready, that I've had for around six months. Just query.
- Regards,
- Regards,
TV Tropes for The Council Era
What with BT being mostly absent and Foxy not being on the site for over a month, I've appointed myself as temporary chief over RP affairs. My primary work right now is renovating The Council Era to improve the writing. Once that is done (which I'll announce via an update to this post) I would like for any user on here who is a TV troper to come forward and, when he/she has the ample time, read through The Council Era and add its qualities to the Tropes site. I believe that our story being featured on TV Tropes could attract a solid reader base for our RPs and fanbase for our work. For anyone who volunteers to join Tv Tropes in order to induct the Council Era into the Tropes, be sure that you fully understand the meaning of any trope that y…
I be heres
Guys, I'll make this short. I'm not gone, I'm just having writing trouble. Most of you guys probably didn't notice, I'm just makeing sure no one thinks I left and and gave you guys a giant middle finger.
Just moderating.
Purple Spawn
Hey there is a new gang in town! It is led by J'enger Ghuin so everybody look at the Purple spawn page
Starting point
Hey everybody I just started adding to the Wiki and I love the creativity so everyone hello and it is nice to be on board with you guys
And here is the news...
Hey everyone, in community projects we have two coming up. N7 and STG users in February and Vivactan Campaigns community RP in March. But in the spirit of the Cerberus Daily News which is soon to be cancelled, I have started the Alliance Daily News project, which is the same thing in a nutshell.
The articles should be like Cerberus daily news, no opinions, based on many things from accidents, to deaths, to movies, to games, and so on. In the universe this project takes place in, Udina is on the council and the Ascension was destroyed the events of ME2 have not yet happened and may not be referenced even in the end of the year when they will have definately occured.
You may reference your own fanon but do so moderately, as in once every month…
Fanon vs. Alternate Universe
Okay, this probably more of a forum discussion topic than a blog post, but nobody visits the forum, so I'm raising the question here. At what point does a fanon article cease to be fanon and instead becomes alternate-universe, and what is our policy regarding alternate universes?
My Absence
I've decided that it is time I explain my absence on the MEF wikia. While I swear that I will still work on here and contribute, I am currently putting my focus into writing a fanon series on the Avatar:the last airbender wikia, which I joined over the holiday break. I intend to put in my votes for the fanon awards shortly, and I will try and update my articles on here a few times over the next couple months. For anyone who is interested in my series, here is the title of the first chapter's page: Fanon:Episode One: The Boy in the Ice (A:TLAR). Just go to the Avatar wikia and leave feedback on the series on my message board, if you want. I'd appreciate the reception.
Lovelyb0nes 21:14, January 4, 2011 (UTC)
HZ is back
I'm back. Vegas was great. My girlfriend was/is great. My life is great.
Some huge african-american dude tred to sell me a person!!!! What the fuck....fucking A. He walks up to me, there's this little girl, like fifteen years old, and he's like:
"Hey, kid. Got money?"
I say yes. We talk, I am a little wacked out. Don't remember the details. But anyway the guy starts talking about this "thing" that he needs rid of. He tells the little grl to come over, and he says what will I pay? I was like...What? So, he just walks off, kinda fast.
Fucked up.
Goodbye...For now
I know it's short noticed, and over the short time I've been here, I'm leaving. But only over the short break I stop by everyonce and awhile, as I have been carefully lowering my edit amount overtime, planning to leave for a good fifteen days, but still coming by.
This isn't really unnoticed, and it's more of a thing clarifying I'm not slowly leaving for good. So, good luck to you guys, I will continue to moderate and edit on my story. But only a little...unless I get Bored.
Alright guys, seeya.
BriNg iN DeR FLAmeS?! 07:02, December 22, 2010 (UTC)
Badges not unlocking?
I have done several things which should unlock badges (e.g. Explorer) but they aren't, I'm not too bothered I'm just curious as to why they aren't unlocking.
This is a great site BTW.
And the Nominees are...
Alright everybody, in my last blog post I pitched my idea for User Titles and Commendations and said that I had a new idea for Annual Mass Effect Fanon Awards In Space! I also said I was gonna give it in a few hours so here goes.
Many fanon wikias have annual awards which basically give a pat on the back to good writers and articles. Now it's pretty simple. Now we organize our first award which covers articles written from New Years day 2010 to New Years Eve 2011.
Now normally we would have begun voting and nominations a while ago on most wikis but we're still organizing and need a framework for doing this. We make a nominations page where you can nominate people and articles in these exciting categories.
- Best Person of the year - Does not have …
And the winner is...
Hey everybody, I'm writing this blog to ask a question about integrating an idea I had last night when responding to Lovely's comment on the User of the Month page which got me thinking.
Lovely stated that veteran users deserve a nod. I agree but not in user of the month so here's my plan. I am thinking that we, the MEF Community integrate two new award systems. N7 and STG Users and the Mass Effect Fanon Anual Fan-Fiction Awards!
What would these be? You may ask. We'll let me explain starting with the N7 Users. It is basically a commendation system that gives a nod to good users. A user may nominate themselves or someone else for the title of either N7 User or STG User. Now these really have no requirements as these users are in a nutshell good w…
Mass Effect Wiki links
Hey everyone, since I came to this wiki, I have been providing links to canon articles on Mass Effect Wiki, as many of us have. Well today I say we put a stop to this, not with cruel intentions but because users, me included, have been known to click these links and not realize they left the site at all. The hassle, though small, may be just enough to annoy new users away from the wiki. I propose that we make articles such as and provide some canon information and a single link to the Mass Effect Wiki article. This way users have less chances of unintentionally leaving the site. While this change is small, it could take a lot of time to fix all the links.
Shadow Broker Dossiers
To help creators develop their characters, I've created the Shadow Broker Dossiers page for MEFW. Patterned after the Shadow Broker Dossiers found at the end of the "Lair of the Shadow Broker" DLC, these dossiers give creators a place to put up mock audio transcripts, e-mails, statistics, and other stuff about their characters. Anyone is invited to add a dossier. Let me know if you need help, as setting up the links can be tricky.
Project Phoenix, rise from the ashes.
Everybody. We are a small group. We are a proud group. We are a determined group. This wiki, has no doubt been good to us all. This wiki has no doubt been great. Throughout our proud wiki's past however we have fallen. The founder of this wiki left. Then Blue Thunder came requested control and got it. What we have now was made by him, all thanks to him.
He gave us a slate and we built from the ground up. This wiki looked doomed and he saved it. It never had much activity but over the last ten or so months it jumped up from a small wiki to a moderate sized fanon wiki with constant editors and edits.
But as the summer season ended so did most editor's careers. Mainly due to education with assurance they would return. But I fear that assurance …
New boosting policy suggestions.
Hello everbody, in response to Elite's "Competition" Blog I am writing this to offer new revision suggestions and to use this blog as a way to come up with a new policy reguarding achievement boosting and enforcing.
New Policy Suggestion
Achievement and Badge Boosting Enforcing Policy
(Be aware this is a draft)
With the integration of achievements and badges into Mass Effect Fanon. There has been a large influx of new users. Some who appear to be editing for the sole sake of badges. While badges are designed to offer extra incentive and reward hard working editors it is inpermissable to edit for the sole purpose of earning badges, a practice dubbed "Achievement Boosting" by the majority of the wiki community. Achievement boosting includes but …
Competition
I noticed, with this addition of badges, there has been a LOT more activity. A lot of new users, constant editing, snap, snap, snap. We most definitely need to enforce this. Like, seriously. When I was first here, in March, it was me, Bluethunder, InfernalWarrior, and Nightmare. That's all. Then while I was gone, Foxtrot came along, and since we've gotten badges, a lot of users came. Not to say all just came, but one posted on his user page: "do not know much about Mass Effect, but if it is about badges, then I will try to learn." An incomplete list of users we've gotten are, Matias aranas 10, LordDeathRay, Station7, GrandMoffVixen, and a few Halo Fanoners, such as SPARTAN-118, a friend of mine, 144 Patient Appelant, and another friend of …
Ressurect the Council Era!
Hello everybody. Today I am here to bring the question to you all. Is this wiki's "brainchild", The Council Era (83) dead? On my last edit to it I asked in the summary if it was dead and L0velyBones shot me a message stating that he agreed with me. He also suggested that "we need to send a message to everyone to get back on it." I agreed but have decided to do it through way of Blog. Why has activity in the Council Era dropped? We spent so much time planning where every other minute someone would throw a new idea out. And after creation it took less than two weeks for activity to drop to barely anything. For something we planned so much for to see days without edits saddened me. So I ask why activity dropped. And encourage everyone to get …
A Challenge for Spotlight, New Users, and Fanon Glory
Hello fellow wikians of Mass Effect Fanon. You might have noticed that on the Spotlight blog written by BlueThunder that I said there is only one more thing I can think of to help get more users and attention. That thing I was thinking of was a hard challenge that would be hard to live up to but could get us attention and recognition if completed. While it would be hard to do I think we have the community to do it if everyone gets commited. Here is the challenge we could all publicly undertake that would get news about us going.
Before Christmas day 2010 (Date Pending) The Mass Effect Fanon Wiki nearly doubles it's content to expand and reach to
'1,'000 Content Articles
I think if we decided to try to do this and make it public we would get a…
500 Articles
This wikia is expanding SOOOO Much! I mean, with the achievements, (the badges), and the PURE EXPANSION! We should celebrate with some music.... So....
Good day to you all.... Have fun Wikia'ing. If you need me, comment or send me a message.
This is NOT a goodbye, contrary to confusion, so,
Regards,
Wikia Achievements and more...
As all of you have seen, the request to the content team went through and now we are using the Wikia Achievements system. It may seem like a dramatic switch since its fairly hard to find your edit count. For those who still wish to have their edit count visible, post this on the top of your userpage, . As time goes on, more achievements will be added for different categories. Also, I have a feeling that Wikia will add more achievements once this becomes more popular, but for now let's just enjoy trying to get the ones they have provided.
Also, you may have noticed that we reached a huge milestone, 500 pages! When I first arrived on this wiki, in early February, there was 0 content pages. I never expected that in less than a year we would re…
Still decommissioned
Hey everyone, for those of you who don't know, I had my wisdom teeth removed yesterday. I'm still in some pain, but you can know expect me to be making some edits and such. I hope I'm fully better in a day or two.
Spotlight
Today is a good day. I was on Wikia Central looking around and I saw Mass Effect Fanon Wiki on the spotlight area. I hope this will double or even triple the number of users because the users on this wiki are great and we deserve even more. If you've recently joined because you saw the spotlight image, reply to this. Thanks.
Mass Effect Fanon on...TWITTER!
Hello, all! I'd just like to inform everyone that Mass Effect Fanon now has a Twitter account. This a one great way to branch out and expand the community. If any of you have a Twitter account, feel free to join at http://twitter.com/MassEffectFanon . I will update things such as article count, winners of awards and other cool things like that. I do intend on expanding to other social networking sites, but Twitter seemed like a great start. If any of you guys have an idea on how to expand the wiki, feel free to message me or make a comment here. =)
Events in the near future
First of all, I want to say hello to all the new users and guests who are reading this! The only way this wiki can expand is by gaining some new blood.
Now, I'd like to explain some new things coming to this wiki:
The first thing coming is Quote of the Week. Users will nominate quotes that should cause other users to want to read more into the articles they come from. The quotes should be compelling, funny or, in other words, interesting. You can expect to see the first quote of the week voting in 2 weeks.
Hopefully, in the month of April or May the first User of the Month nomination ceremony will happen. A user can be nominated for this award if they have over 50 edits and help the community in some way. These requirement will not always be ne…