Uncyclopedia talk:Recruiting Editors Brainstorming

An Uncyclopedia Recruitment Drive

Just wondering everyone's thoughts on holding a "recruitment drive" this year to attract new editors? Wikipedia has a something similar and I thought it might be worth looking into. Obviously, Uncyclopedia could attract new users simply by being "out there". This could be, for example, using Facebook to highlight an image contest or creating a short video on YouTube. The site could also reach out to Fark and other community websites. Personally, I've always wanted invite members of the WrestleCrap forums to work on pro wrestling articles. A major project like featuring Uncyclopedia's Top 100 articles or the WWI Centenary series might also attract potential writers. MadMax (talk) 23:55, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Sounds good. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talk • contribs • logs) 00:56, 4 Mar 2014Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge! UncyclopediaUncyclopediaIllogicopediai:fr:LogimalpediePaudurapedyjaFrithchiclipeidUncapaediaAbsurdopediaScotypedia

Have you tried promoting Uncyc at Reddit? I mean, we can have a subreddit for Uncyclopedia. I mean, we have a lot of ways to do a recruitment drive. Why not we do an ad campaign of Uncyclopedia through social media and astroturfing? |Si Plebius Dato' Joe ang Kemador CUN|IC Kill | 09:19, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Yeah. Reddit is just one of many good places to try. thinkatheist is also an example --ShabiDOO 16:36, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

I won't take part in this recruitment drive, but if there's a decruitment drive, count me in. User:Matthlock/sig2 02:08, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

I have been trying to attract people via Twitter. -- MagicBus Talk to me! 17:20, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Suggested websites?

Know any forums and/or websites that might in interested in contributing to Uncyclopedia? If so, feel free adding to the list below.

• Fark - It's been awhile since I've checked it out but the comments were usually pretty amusing.
• [1] - These guys are hysterical.
• WrestleCrap forums - The official forum for WrestleCrap. Its a humor website dedicated to professional wrestling. Granted it's kind of a niche topic but most of the pro wrestling articles have been gone for awhile now. Uncyclopedia should at least have articles on, say for example, Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan, or WrestleMania.
• Other wikis. Contributors to wikis built on specific topics, like a video game or TV show, have wiki experience and are less likely to be intimidated by the wiki editing process.

Other ideas

Ten years ago our fathers brought forth on this internet, a new wiki, conceived in libel, and dedicated to the proposition that not all articles are created equal.

We should also:

• update our Missing User Project page and try to bring back former contributors. Threats of violence are encouraged. If the users are dead, ask their grieving family to join the site.
• communicate with IPs and new users who create original content and are attempting to be funny. Politely tell them why their article is ICU'd/deleted on their IP or user talk page where they will likely see it rather than just in edit summaries or article talk pages. Also offer them some advice and direct them to our Beginner's Guide.
• make real efforts at community collaboration, e.g. Imperial Colonizations, Pee Reviews, rewarding valuable contributions, debating the merits of various socioeconomic philosophies, asking others to help you with articles, etc. And hopefully the UnSignpost will continue (although I may have ruined it forever with my poor attempt at stealing Wikipedia's styling).
• link to Uncyclopedia on your social media profiles, game profiles, job resumes, etc. and refer your friends to do the same.
• donate if you are able to and haven't already. If we exceed our annual needs we could use the extra money to advertise Uncyclopedia on other sites, develop another mobile app, or improve our current one.

All of this will help attract and retain contributors. As Abraham Lincoln once said, "Ask not what your Uncyclopedia can do for you, ask what you can do for your Uncyclopedia. Ich bin ein Berliner." --EMC ^[TALK] 17:11 May 17 2014

Yes. That all sounds great. In case it's at all useful I have a missing contributors page; may want to prune the ones we don't want back, or whatever. Also, I think I made the UnSignpost styling better and I'll be trying to come up with an issue of it every month or however often it's supposed to be. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talk • contribs • logs) 17:19, 17 May 2014Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge! UncyclopediaUncyclopediaIllogicopediai:fr:LogimalpediePaudurapedyjaFrithchiclipeidUncapaediaAbsurdopediaScotypedia

Llwy-ar-lawr has pointed out in IRC that we will not be able to easily e-mail missing users. Wikia seems to have completely disabled this feature on their site and we have no other way of acquiring the e-mail addresses. It will require more effort to find a way to contact the users but should not be impossible. --EMC ^[TALK] 17:51 May 17 2014

I'd like to see our Twitter and Facebook pages push this too. I remember not being too clear on how to make a page when I got here, so I think the more direct links, say to, Template:Main_write (from the UnNews) page, the more posts on social media stressing to readers that they can edit and make stuff up too, the better. The Onion, etc, asks people to read. We can ask our followers, "what would be your take?". Especially for the UnNews facebook page, I always thought there was a possibility to "tease" the readers with ideas for possible stories - using the Mininews headlines as bait, etc. Leverage (talk) 10:07, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

When I was insane and

believed in God and monotheism, I engaged in a "teaching project". Oh no, it wasn't evangelising, because we aren't Christians... I guess. We aren't prosthelytizing. of course. And it was nothing like <insert time, place and popular name of horrific incident in human history> indoctrination! Hell no! We were teaching people about reality, and stuff... I think. One handicap I suffered was the ability to see through the pretentious bullshit of Harvard Divinity School graduates, starting with one with whom I shared a faith. Another was an inability to stop learning, at least until my personal conclusion that religion is bullshit, and thus became little satoried to the hip fact that is, I'm better off smoking joints behind the dumpster at a local Cumberland Farms. So, no. No, I will pass on this.

Feel privileged to have been granted access to this, the number 8,900th reason that I ought to be institutionalized. Number 6 is that bats are eating my legs. Rev. Zim_ulator (Talk) I am the dirt under your rollers 20:08, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

$$$

Cracked has thousands of wannabe writers lining up to write and it has to have the worst creative limitations and most spiteful editors of any site. Why is it still so popular? They give out money for all featured articles. Now I'm not suggesting we get a million ads and adopt that model instantly, but small ads in the sidebar and the bottom would theoretically generate a tiny bit of revenue we can reinvest in more PLS competitions a year. People come for a chance at a $100 prize and stay for another 5 or 10 articles or even more. I know the idea of money brought me back in late 2011 to write something for the PLS. --Nikau (talk) 15:32, 8 December 2014 (UTC)