Thread:Cooksey.michael/@comment-5175866-20160528200922

Hi Cooksey, this is Superdadsuper Admin and Bureaucrat here at Bible Wiki. I know the problems I have may be way below you, but I didn't know who to contact or would be experienced enough to help me with my two issues. I have some issues with the demographics that my current spotlight ran on and was wondering how I could get that changed for the next. I also have a difficult overall issue of developing a community that would be a bit more complicated and more fitting for the Community Development Team to handle. If the spotlight problem is not in your juridsiction, please refer me to the correct one. The second one though I am sure would be something you would be able to speak to.

1.Spotlights

Read this thread as context of the issue. Primairly the concern is, I would like the next spotlight (this would be a while from now but I would like to get some thread I can link to, or a specific contact) fall under the Entertainment rather than the Lifestyles vertical. Bible Wiki is on Books and we would like the audience that reads literature and edits about it. Additionally most Chrisitians on Wikia primairly edit on Entertainment wikis (part of this statement is we did a small survey ourselves on Christian Wikians) and after talking with the Senior Community Manager, Support and Engagement-Brandon Rhea (I just couldn't help typing out the title) said Entertainment wouldn't be a bad idea. From what I have heard spotlights are usually ran on an automated system, but it seems with this specific case we where ran on a vertical that our wiki specifically chose not to be in. Could you provide any say or at least a contact on how to get this changed the next time? Also this spotlight produced very little change in viewership and was wondering if you had any insight or statistics that could be of help as to why.

2.Obtaining a community

This is a very complex issue for Bible Wiki so I will give a brief summary, but I will need to go into more detail either here or perhaps email with you on this. Due to the nature of the content, and our Biblical Point of View, it is very difficult for those who aren't Christians, and those not literate in the Bible to become active community members (I can explain why this is more after you follow up). We have made many attempts over the year to try obtain a small, active community of (6-7 users) over the years. I was hoping that we could begin dialouge on ways Community Development could be of assistaince, in ways outside of the traditional pop culture programming. I think its important that ComDev develops an understanding of the issue we are facing in order to help us.

As you know Bible Wiki has a much larger potential, than even most of the pop culture wikis. However we have faced many difficulties in acquiring a community. Right now the only solution we have long-term to fix a perhaps logistical issue of obtaining a community is spending 30,000+ on advertising as a nonprofit (regardless if we have a community, we would like to one day start a nonprofit that supports this and other Bible website we would create). I understand there may not that ComDev can do in their power and resources, but I was hoping to get a deep and engaged dialouge with staff specialized in this area that I haven't done before. This is very vague and ambigious, but this is a very complicated issue that requires a lot more explaining than what I wish to do in the initial post.

Let me know here your responses the two issues. In regards to the second I can either explain the entire issue in multiple paragraphs or have you ask specific questions and carry on a long thread. It may be easier or better to do this on email, based on the nature of the length and complexity of the issue (I would feel as if there is more assurance and understanding if it is done on email where we can fully gauge beyond what we can do on message walls). I wouldn't be opposed to even a chat (probably a few), but I understand this is difficult in your scheldue.

Thanks so much for listening and understanding and trying to be of help. I will point out we have read the building community help page and have followed all the steps.

In Christ,

Superdadsuper, Bible Wiki Administrator & Bureaucrat 