I am reserving this forum and space for the upcoming Autumn Wikifest 2009.

Other Sysops and Forum Admins, please not remove this topic or unlock the thread until we review the previous fest and are ready to begin planning this one. I would like to remain on the organizing team and moderation team for the next fest, if agreed upon by the community.

Bonziiznob

Unlocking. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Also stickying.

Doucher4000^******r4000 23:17, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Great. First off, lets quickly brainstorm our opinions on the latest Summer Wikifest. What went wrong and what can be better?

Go back a bit :p What happened at the Summer wikifest? We should post somewhere here and the wiki about the wikifest. I really like to read what you guys did. Powers38 ^{TalkI'm stalking your talk page, beware.} 02:22, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Bonziiznob wrote: Great. First off, lets quickly brainstorm our opinions on the latest Summer Wikifest. What went wrong and what can be better?

From what I hear,Falador Hide-and-Seek. You guys should have had a back-up hider,like in the '09 of Spring. But the meet-and-greet went well,me,and a bunch of other wikians I have never met bofroe became friends,and we had a lot of fun waiting before the fest. like raiding thurgos house....running around in giant trains...It was fun,even though it wasn't actually part of the Wikifest. But the cabbage patch chaos was a good idea,who thought of that? --Master Smithy Sciz ^{Talk • Contribs} 02:31, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

P.S.sorry again about that...incident...

Well, the problem for me was overpopulation and poor communication.

For one, there was the Clan Chat thing. The whole morning, people were jumping from clan chat to clan chat. Then I had to lock and unlock the CC twice. Such things need to be decided before the fest, and made publicly clear.

I think we need to keep CC open for some events and closed for others.

For example, everyone can just use public during the meet and Greet, but that would be harder to do during the Hide and Seek.

Doucher4000^******r4000 02:43, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

• Meet and Greet - As far as meeting and greeting goes, it was a success. I lagged out once, and had some lag from time to time, but it was definitely successful.
• Costume Contest - Me, my friend, and some other attendees I saw were confused as to whether or not our costumes were even looked at. The anouncement of the winner was at least clear to me, but I disagreed extremely with the results. Don't mean to be mean or anything, but I didn't think that Soldier's was that great.

• Hide and go Fally - Well, lots of people didn't know it was a game of hide and seek, so a big crowd just sat in Falador Square throughout the whole thing. Some random other people came, saying and asking things like "why r u guys rioting?", "we pay to pk!", "this is a fail of a riot", and so on. It didn't help that a few party-goers started saying "We want *** marriage". Even though many people tried to explain that 'this isn't a riot, it's a party', people still asked why we were rioting. I mean, have they never seen a riot before? Your screen would be so filled with spam you wouldn't be able to see your own text. And us? We were just standing there, exchanging light conversation.
• Cabbage Retrieval and Bombing - Fun.
• Fist of Guthix - We had so many people there that we could actually make it preform as if it was a popular world! The crowd in the center of the arena was much smaller, but I often waited only a few seconds before going into a match. Oh, and I beat four Wikians in a row (you know who you are XD), and didn't lose once.
• Clan Wars - By now, essentially all of the fest mods had left, leaving me effectively in charge. I ordered some people to join Einfrein's [(still not sure if I spelled that correctly...)] chat, and we had it pretty even. Out of all of the wars, I think it was something like three wins and three losses for each side. I thought it was pretty fun.
• Any other events after that - I didn't participate in them, so I don't know how they went down.

I'm pretty sure our attendance was at a new record in scale.

Throughout the WikiFest, some people called it the "RuneScape Summer Festival". Now, if you're a Wikian, you'll see what's wrong with that. It's not a RuneScape Festival, it's a WikiFest. Also, lots of people that I've never even heard of appeared. Many people I recognized from the Clan Chat, the Wiki itself or some other form of being able to be recognized, but that still left many others who probably just came to the party because they saw Jagex's anouncement of it, having probably no or nearly no idea what it was for.

When it came to how smoothely the fest ran, it ran pretty smoothely. It was the best WikiFest since, probably, a year ago when they started getting out of hand.

I don't think we should have Jagex anounce the next fest. We had 150-ish people sign, saying they were going to come. That's enough on its own. I'd rather have a moderately-sized party of Wikians than a large party of Wikians with some random people mixed in.

I only skimmed the list of events in the schedule, so I have no idea how close or far off of the schedule we were.

It was good, overall. Chiafriend12 03:22, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

I didn't attend, but I agree - next time I do NOT want Jagex announcing the fest. ~  Telos ^Talk  Mah skillz 03:59, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

The issues I saw were: Not enough backup(hide and go seek), having late changes and planning at last minute, and being announced on Twitter by Jagex.

Not Enough Backup - Fally Hide & Go Seek.

Late changes/planning - Clan chat change, the adjustments of events.

Too many people/being announced by Jagex - Originally I thought this was a good idea, but it turned out to just bring confused people and some of which only caused trouble. This also introduced too many people than we could handle.

The positives: Fun, introduced us to new people, some new people joined the wiki or at least know of it, and much better than recent previous ones.

- TehKittyCat^{Talk Wikian-Book} 04:30, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

I think it would have been better if they announced it earlier. The way it was, it sounded like "Hey, those guys are having a party, come if you have nothing better to do!". If they have announced it, I dunno, for an hour the day before, saying "This community is having an event, come see what it's all about", it would have been considerably better.

Doucher4000^******r4000 04:58, 2 August 2009 (UTC)