Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4848837-20130716194704

Introduction
For those unaware, recently, the user Sci100 suggested "Topic of the Week," where every week other users who edit a certain type of article will be somehow rewarded--especially if in first place. For more on the base idea, see here.

How It Will Work
Building off the base idea, Topic of the Week will be manually run by both administrators and any volunteering users. The administrators as well as any volunteers will be listed on a subpage of the future Topic of the Week project page. Users who would also like to participate in this will be listed on the main Topic of the Week page for everyone to see, with their points for the week accompanying them on said page.

How will this work manually? How will we make sure users are making edits? Because the users will be responsible for their own edits. They will, after editing, have to list their edit (a link directly to it) on another page (we'll explain how to do this if Topic of the Week becomes a reality). We'd like to have the patroller right assigned to volunteers so they, with the administrators, will be able to mark their edits to the list page as truthful. With each patrolled edit, users will gain points.

The top three users of the week will be at the very top of the front page the following week, with the first-placer getting a larger block on the page, and the topic of the week these three users were a part of atop. We will keep a larger page with a record of every single set of placers, and may also list them at the very bottom of the community messages.

Every week, you'll be responsible for finding the topic which will be on the Topic of the Week page (which, again, we'll tell you if this becomes a reality) and begin your editing. It may not be as clear cut as "edit aliens page" as it will be "cleanup pages according to the Manual of Style" some weeks, which is what'll give it a bit of challenge. Hey, sometimes, we might even throw in multiple topics for one week (with all users either having to meet both with each edit, or with users being free to meet one or the other).

What It's Come Down To
With a majority vote in favor of this Topic of the Week being introduced to Ben 10 Planet, it comes down simply to you, the regular user, on deciding whether or not the Topic of the Week truly does become a a part of this wiki. All users are to vote in favor by replying below like so:

- For those who want Topic of the Week to happen.

- For those who are undecided or are indifferent; you are free to change your decision later (as are those supporting and opposing), but it has to be before we count votes.

- For those who are truly against Topic of the Week; you're who we're looking for to see what about Topic of the Week may not be fitting.

The voting will close in two weeks, on July 31, 2013 at 0:00 UTC. This topic will be closed at that time. Also, no administrators or members of CotG are to vote in this stage. You are free to change your vote at any time before the topic closes, and you can also suggest additions here that are relevant to Topic of the Week that may make it even better.

Let the voting commence!  