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Contents 1 Uncyclopedia/Unanswers (kind of) official project meeting 2011 2 New main page lay-out 3 How to be funny 4 Too much asking, not enough answering(?) 4.1 Category:UnAsked & Category:UnAnswered 5 Temporary absence 6 Should we ask Wikia to automatically have every question asked on wikianswers automatically be asked on UnAnswers? 7 NEED (Archive Four) 8 development plan 2.0 9 Unelections

Uncyclopedia/Unanswers (kind of) official project meeting 2011 Edit

Welcome, Uncyclopedia and Unanswers users alike, and feel free to discuss your ideas for an Uncyclopedia/Unanswers cooperative here. CANADA 22:12, June 22, 2011 (UTC)

New main page lay-out Edit

Your thoughts go here. --El_Nazgir 09:46, June 30, 2011 (UTC)

Also changed the community talk header a bit. The red annoyed me and my eyes. I hope everyone is okay with it. If not, I'll revert or otherwise change it to (almost) everyone's liking.--El_Nazgir 09:52, June 30, 2011 (UTC)

I went to the CP, then back here. So that I could get here by using the Complain tab.

The layout doesn't appear significantly different; the left and right are temporarily the same length, which I like. A F K When Needed 12:17, June 30, 2011 (UTC)

they're minor changes, but the column length was something that bothered me too. I'm most concerned about the UA for newbies placement. Namely whether it doesn't clutter up the whole page too much. I think the rest is something that can only be seen as an improvement. --El_Nazgir 12:54, June 30, 2011 (UTC)

How to be funny Edit

How to be funny. --85.16.171.237 13:40, July 10, 2011 (UTC)

Not bad. Any chance we could get this linked on the front page? CANADA 18:06, July 10, 2011 (UTC)

Too much asking, not enough answering(?) Edit

Title is self explanatory.CANADA 18:25, July 14, 2011 (UTC)

Disagree. A F K When Needed 14:52, July 15, 2011 (UTC)

Category:UnAsked & Category:UnAnswered Edit

We often ponder on how we can get more people to find UnAnswers and stay on UnAnswers for more than five minutes. I've had an idea. While many of our questions may be lacking extensive category usage, we know that every question will have at least one category; namely one of the two above. Why not add this to the main page? Potentially we could also link to other categories with a certain number of questions in them.

I'm thinking about CANADA's section above. The simple fact that some people come here to ask, some to answer. Sure, we'll occasionally try out the alternative, but many of us do have a preference. Well, who's to say we're the only ones? A section advertising those two categories would help others navigate the wiki. Answerers could find all the questions that don't yet have an answer (new contributors may lack the confidence to add an answer to a question that is already answered), and people who are merely here to read and not necessarily contribute can view the list of questions we've already taken a stab at.

Also, I do think that - should this be decided upon - it'd be worth making further use of Random Question and Random UnAnswer, which RT (thank you!) put in our new Toolbox. Making those two more prominent could even replace the idea entirely. A F K When Needed 15:07, July 15, 2011 (UTC)

Temporary absence Edit

I'm just going to let everyone know I'll be leaving the wiki this Monday to go on vacation. Before you start crying/rioting/urinating on someone's forehead, don't worry, I'll be back in september. I'm just informing the community to remind you to replace the unvertisements every week. Also, we should have the other administrators visit the wiki more frequently since, though i'm not pointing any fingers, some users need to have an eye kept on them. This will probably be my last day here, since I might just try making a few articles on the conspiracy wiki before I leave, So I guess I'll see you all back here next month.

Also, this might belong on my talkpage rather than the community portal. But you know what? Screw it, I'll leave it here any way. Sue me if you want. CANADA 16:06, August 12, 2011 (UTC)

/me urinates on someone's forehead.

Anyway, I check RC pretty much every hour or so, but every time something comes up I find you've already dealt with it ;-)

I am judge, jury AND executioner, I hereby sentence you to a forced leave until September! --El_Nazgir 16:47, August 12, 2011 (UTC)

If CANADA is going away, who'll sit on America's face? A F K When Needed 17:27, August 12, 2011 (UTC)

Should we ask Wikia to automatically have every question asked on wikianswers automatically be asked on UnAnswers? Edit

I feel that, in the end, no; we shouldn't do this.

I feel discussing the concept and various method of implementing it may be a Good Thing^TM

(Oh, and I just noticed, the question needs more 'automatically') A F K When Needed 18:41, August 31, 2011 (UTC)

I agree that we shouldn't, and I have no idea how that would be implemented. Maybe if we buy some chinese WoW gold farmers and make their new job to stalk Wikianswers and spam UA) --El_Nazgir 11:32, September 1, 2011 (UTC)

It's certainly doable. (Hint: not instantly.)

The word 'automatically' may be misleading, I basically meant all questions being asked there would end up over here too, at some stage, without first being screened by a member of the community. Sorry if that was a little confusing. A F K When Needed 12:31, September 1, 2011 (UTC)

In case you didn't notice, over at wikianswers, questions are being asked at a rate of about 20 per second. There is no way we could get those over here manually, and i'm pretty sure doing it automatically is programmably impossible (although I could be wrong). I don't think the system would add any value either, seeing as we can already ask any question we want. CANADA 13:51, September 1, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I think my usage of the word 'automatically' has caused quite a bit of confusion. This is possible, in multiple ways. With different results.

I don't (necessarily) mean that, when someone asks a question there, it's asked here (although that would be cool). This is possible; although if Wikia Staff would be willing to implement it is another story. This would probably seem more natural than the number of questions jumping by 100s (or more) once a week.

Every week the questions asked on wikianswers could be gathered, then created on UnAnswers. If we (e.g. not Wikia) did this, then... This would take a specialized program on the computer of whatever user decided to undertake such a role. Problem: I imagine the wiki would seek to prevent you from ejaculating 14,000 (made-up number) questions in the space of a minute. There are ways around this, but this would almost certainly mean getting Wikia's approval (and help).

How would Wikia feel about implementing one of these / allowing us to do so? UnAnswers becoming a real competitor to wikianswers in terms of number of editors page views generated income would be something they'd like. However, the work they will put into this is directly proportional to their expectations of how they will benefit. If they think UnAnswers is doing as well (read: is generating as much income) as it is ever likely to do, then they will likely focus their efforts elsewhere.

Errr. I had a list of more than two, but I forgot. It's been a long day and the pain meds aren't doing as much as I'd hoped. I may be back later. At this stage it's two distinct ideas;

1) Questions being duplicated in real-time (I use this term despite the possibility of some lag).

2) The weekly dumping of questions. Using one of multiple ways of recording what questions are asked on wikianswers over the space of a week, and then uploading them on UnAnswers by... doing whatever Wikia would allow us to do which will accomplish this goal. I consider them allowing us to do this to be in or around as likely as them agreeing to do it for us. Perhaps slightly less.

Remember that once an automated system is in place, the automated system will work in an automated fashion, and the automated system shouldn't require any regular work on the part of Wikia. Due to being automated. Which is very important if we decided we wanted to ask them to help us out with one of these at some point in the future. A F K When Needed 18:26, September 1, 2011 (UTC)

I simply don't see any benefit. Recent changes gets flooded excessively, camouflaging other edits, tons of duplicate questions will be asked, and without a larger userbase that just means more unanswered questions doing nothing. And implementing it won't do anything to raise userbase. --El_Nazgir 18:47, September 1, 2011 (UTC)

I agree with El Nazgir. There's really not a lot of point in implimenting these sorts of systems (ie. the ones that grow our UnAsked question reserves) untill we manually grow our community population through advertising, planning with wikia ect. Otherwise, if we could get RT to reproduce by prepetual division of himself, we may not need to invite new users. Of course, NASA hasn't given me the OK to do that yet. CANADA 19:00, September 1, 2011 (UTC)

While I do not mean to start an argument, I am gravely concerned by your expectations of a duck.

>"untill we manually grow our community population"

Agreed. It's more to stimulate thought and discussion (which may lead to such efforts being renewed. The only side effect I can think of is some vague planning (or at least discussion) being around to benefit us should we seek to avail of such dirty tricks in the future. A F K When Needed 19:25, September 1, 2011 (UTC)

NEED (Archive Four) Edit

Hmm. Unsure if we're allowed by Wikia's new ToU to hack in a rating system.

Been intending to discuss this for a long time (sorry CANADA - it was a very good point that you raised), but truth be told I'm rather stumped. It wouldn't be the most pretty to look at, but... categories could fulfil the same goal (sorting the great from the good from the terrible). But would anyone use this low tech equivalent? A F K When Needed 19:47, September 1, 2011 (UTC)

development plan 2.0 Edit

Sooooo, my earlier plan to work with Uncyclopedia kind of came to a stalemate. That's alright though, because I think unanswers will work best as it's own independant wiki (it will still be a susidary of wikia of course though). What i'd like to do is put more focus on the let's call it "cyber tourism" of Unanswers. By that I mean growing the population a more (as mentioned in the CP topics above).

While we may not be able to put real advertisements up for unanswers, we could, in a way "advertise" by going to other wikis and promoting ourselves (think of it as being like an Entrepreneur). That would be an absolutely free way to get ourselves out there to more people.

It'll definitely take effort to get this site known, since we are part of a wikifarm with over 10,000 wikis, but I think we can reach near wikianswers status. CANADA

Different people bring different things to a discussion. Hand on my heart, you can say no and I won't be offended.

Would you like my input on this? A F K When Needed 20:19, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

shoot CANADA 21:17, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

The advertising you speak of sounds to me like what others would frown upon as spam. We don't want to go out into the big bad world internet and give ourselves a bad reputation. We want our content to do that for us. :P

I havn't looked through them again. But, when we were given a spotlight the last time we (duh, obviously) qualified. I see no reason why we would cease to be eligible, so I'm being lazy and not checking. What I like about this is that it turns our weekness (one among many) into an advantage (one advertised on many).

I don't want to regurgitate too much in one edit, so I'll leave those two points for now, and see where the discussion takes us. Possible to a brighter future for the wiki. Possibly to eternal damnation. Hopefully to Amarillo. A F K When Needed 21:30, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Unelections Edit

here, and talk here.

Please try to keep discussion on the talk page rather than here. Thanks! A F K When Needed 16:03, September 19, 2011 (UTC)