About: Contests

Contests on Mass Effect Fanon are great, community building experiences that can award an article, a user and much more! This blog post will explain the two current contests, the logo contest and the Quote of the Week award.

Logo Contest is a contest on Mass Effect Fanon that allows users to show their creative side. It was the first contest on the wiki. EliteMaster117 currently has his idea featured as the logo.

Quote of the Week, usually called QotW, is one of the first of many changes that has arrived on Mass Effect Fanon. Every week a new original quote is posted on the main page, but for this to happen, the quote needs to pass a community vote. QotW’s allow all users to notice the creativity and work that another member puts in.

About: Good articles and Spectre articles

Good articles are articles that demonstrate good use of the Manual of Style. For an article to receive the award, it has to be compelling with a good use of grammar. Good articles will be recognized among the community as the best of the best. An article can be demoted if it no longer displays all the requirements.

Spectre articles are articles that demonstrate a great use of the Manual of Style, along with meeting several other requirements that are more strict than the good article requirements. The article must be compelling and give a great deal of information. The articles are recognized as the best of the best.

About: Policies

Mass Effect Fanon prides itself on having a list of policies. Though, in the past, users have asked what some of the policies mean. So in this post three policies will be explained to help new users.

Manual of Style is the most important of the policies, this is also the hardest policy for some to understand. In a nut shell, it tells users to write in the past tense, use proper grammar and use headings. Failure to follow the rule can result in a ban. Though most of the time the user will just be reminded or warned.

Image Policy is the easiest policy to understand, it is also the most misunderstood. In a nut shell, inform the community where you found the image, give a short description, and tell what the licensing is. Most common licenses are Fair-use, user-made and unknown. Unknown licenses do result in the image being removed. That will only happen if the user who uploaded the image or an administrator cannot find where the image came from.

Edit Policy was created to protect users own work. If an article does not have a free-edit template, than only the user who created the article can add content. However, any user can fixed spelling or grammar errors. Also, the policy tell the punishments users will receive if they do not follow the policy. Vandalism results in an infinite ban.

About: Article spotlights

Article spotlights are a new award given to an article that display the creativity shown in an article. Examples are, but not retained to, new organizations, new species, added characters from the games and new characters. They do not have to be finished, though it is preferred that they are. Any registered member (registration is free) can vote for or nominate an article to be spotlighted. Every two weeks a new spotlight is added to this blog. For the article to be spotlighted it needs to have a majority vote, even if it’s only one. A discussion can be found here.

About: Mass Effect Fanon

Mass Effect Fanon is a Wiki filled with fan written articles. The wiki was created in July 2009, but adopted by a user named Bluethunder on February 5, 2010. Since then, the wiki has a total of 220 articles, a Twitter account and several users. This blog will be used to give more information about the wiki and current and upcoming events.