Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Webcomics
- The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.
The proposed WikiProject was created at Wikipedia:WikiProject Webcomics. PJvanMill)talk( 21:19, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Description[edit]
I have thought about this for a while now, and I think we should honestly discuss returning WikiProject Comics/Webcomics work group to WikiProject status. This was done in 2007 (discussion – notice) due to a dip in WikiProject Webcomic's activity levels. However, in my experience, the work group has had stable levels of activity consistent with a small WikiProject rather than a work group.
The benefit of styling it as a WikiProject rather than a work group is the ability to have an independent WikiProject banner for talk pages. Right now, {{WikiProject Comics}} is set to collapse work groups by default if more than one exist in a given topic area. That is rather unfortunate and destroys the Webcomics work group's ability to grow and expand. Mind you, I don't think a potential WikiProject Webcomics should separate itself completely from WikiProject Comics. I'm looking to give it WikiProject Libertarianism/WikiProject Computer Security treatment here. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 17:14, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
- Already tagged. See Category:Webcomics work group articles.
- List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles
- Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.
- Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?
- This does not apply here.
Support[edit]
Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.
- –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 17:14, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- --Historyday01 (talk) 18:12, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- support but would not join Argento Surfer (talk) 18:16, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Oornery (talk) 00:23, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- HenryCrun15 (talk) 03:06, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- I do strongly consider webcomics to be a different and separate medium from comics. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 14:18, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- support and would probably joinAll the usernames I wanted (talk) 15:15, 1 March 2021 (PST)
- Support and would join; particularly interested about having a sister group on Wikidata to discuss modelling webcomic-related items there (already started a subpage of the [inactive] comic WP there). Arlo James Barnes 04:54, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Support and join- new to this though so I might need some preliminary hand-holding. SilmarilElwing 19:06, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion[edit]
- @HenryCrun15, JakeyPotter, Maplestrip, and Oornery: Pinging active members of the Webcomics work group. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 17:34, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Seems like a very valid split to me. They're as different as Film and Television. Argento Surfer (talk) 18:18, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree with Argento Surfer on this, completely. I'd definitely join this workgroup, which I wasn't aware of, as I've created a couple of pages for webcomics myself (Mage & Demon Queen and Dumbing of Age) and have a whole bunch of others I had thought of creating, but haven't got them yet. --Historyday01 (talk) 18:20, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah sure. I don't really get the WikiProject/work group distinction too well, but looking over some other WikiProjects, it seems like it would be consistent with how other WikiProjects are handling it. I'd join. Oornery (talk) 00:19, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- I would join. I think this makes sense, though there may be times when queries need to be cross-posted to Project Comics. HenryCrun15 (talk) 03:06, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- I have and had a few concerns. My first was that we're not particularly active, though I now do think that we would be a relatively active WikiProject compared to some others. Right now, my main concern is that a lot of back-end pages may need to be moved and fixed. For example, this page would be affected: Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Webcomics work group/Hot articles. Of course these sorts of issues aren't a reason not to move our project into a proper WikiProject, but it's just something to keep in mind during this process. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 14:18, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Work groups aren't as visible as projects, and the hope is that splitting this would attract more activity. I don't know how realistic that is, but I'm very interested to see how it plays. Argento Surfer (talk) 14:23, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- The Project guidance page suggests that a project could go ahead if 6–12 people express interest in joining, and we have 7. Is this enough to go ahead with the proposal? HenryCrun15 (talk) 20:23, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, I've decided to be bold and draft up some WikiProject Webcomics pages. You can find my draft of the main page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Webcomics. If we don't end up moving the work group to a project, that's ok, but it gives an idea of what it would look like. HenryCrun15 (talk) 00:45, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
So it's been a month of trialling Webcomics as a separate project and it seems to be going well (or at least not causing any problems). I think we can declare this a successful transition and close this proposal. HenryCrun15 (talk) 04:43, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]