User talk:EPIC
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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 08:49, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
Thank you.
For deleting those bad ips spam. BigKrow (talk) 18:48, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, glad I could help. EPIC (talk) 18:54, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi EPIC
- I came back after being away for a few months. Appreciate your assistance.
- Would you possibly have a few moments to spare to share your news reading and editing experiences. Would you like to edit a story or two?
- It is a small wiki, it may be a while before an interesting story comes up, so it is very little commitment. What topics of news possibly interest you? I can get back to you when a story within your interest is written.
- Thanks, Gryllida (talk) 10:55, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hi! I've mostly been here to clean up vandalism and spam, so I haven't been much into the content side of the wiki yet. But well, thank you, I will consider taking a look :) EPIC (talk) 12:46, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
NEWSD STREAK IDEA PROPOSAL
Hi EPIC
would you like to sign up? It hasn't started yet, but I am collecting interest, and you can add your nick to the page. If you're not doing content edits frequently you could choose another streak period for your news content participation - for example, once each two months rather than once each two weeks.
It is being proposed to setup w:streak goals over a 12 week period: for example,
- "write one story each two weeks, and babysit it until it is published"
This could be either authoring a completely new article or this could be taking over someone else's article and doing focused editing on it with active collaboration with others until it is published. It is like a day shift as you are expected to remain available 'on call' to address concerns from another user or reviewer.
The aim of this is to build a habit of participation with outbursts of eyeballing the page to collaborate with others -- but not every day, to have breaks and reduce burnout. Could you please check out at this section and let me know what you think? Parameters are subject to discussion e.g.
- 'once every two weeks' or 'once a week' or 'once a month'
- should this be same for all or each person decides for themselves
- how long total comp running for, 12 weeks or 24 weeks or some other time
- some other ideas how to modify this
i would appreciate if you could reply by end of this week, it would be helpful
please note if you are interested you may signup in Wikinews:2026 streak competition at page bottom and you will be notified at your talk page if there are any updates or progress of this idea
thanks a lot
Regards, -- Gryllida 01:25, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for the notice. I'm not involved enough in the community of this project to have an opinion on this topic. EPIC (talk) 09:28, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- About opinion- yeah I understand that. Do you wish to participate? You could choose to do so at your own frequency, for example, a story each year or each quarter. The objective is not for quantity but is for perseverance. Gryllida 09:32, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- I'm not involved in the content side of this project (and not active enough on this wiki overall), so I won't participate for now. EPIC (talk) 11:00, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- About opinion- yeah I understand that. Do you wish to participate? You could choose to do so at your own frequency, for example, a story each year or each quarter. The objective is not for quantity but is for perseverance. Gryllida 09:32, 23 February 2026 (UTC)