Talk:OTW Server Naming Contest

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Should this page perhaps be moved to OTW Server Naming Festival? The OTW officially referred to it as a festival. -- Kylara 08:21, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

If it was officially referred to as festival, the page should be named festival too. --Doro 09:30, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Oops, thought I commented on this but must've hit preview not save - Hmm, it looks like they called it both - this page has it as contest: http://transformativeworks.org/results-server-naming-contest Which term are most people using when they talk about it? I think we could go with either and create a redirect for the other. Btw good work on the page, Kylara :)Tai 09:47, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Aha, good catch, Tai! I feel very silly now, since I had obviously looked over that very page while editing... since I included the link and title both. The initial posts called it a festival, so I guess I got caught up in that. Either name sounds good to me, and I don't know if there's any one term being used for the event. Redirects is definitely in order too. And thanks. :) -- Kylara 10:06, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
No, don't feel silly! I was thinking maybe the overall event is the festival and the actual voting is the contest? Dunno - I haven't gone through all your links but if they used festival first and more often perhaps we should move the page. -- Tai 00:40, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

That's an interesting idea, so I looked into it. It was referred to mostly and initially as the "server naming festival" (5 posts), once in the middle and then at the end as a "contest" (2 posts: once as "the contest to name the servers" and once as the "server naming contest"), and afterward as the "server naming poll" (1 post). Here are all the official posts mentioning it during that time, along with the terms used, in chronological order:

It looks like "Server Naming Festival" (with varying capitalization) was initially the semi-official-descriptive-term and sometimes-title of the event, since it was used consistently in the first five posts. But then use of it dropped off by the end. It might also depend on who's talking about it: Lucy Pearson uses "festival" consistently in her posts, but Francesca Coppa used "Contest" when she announced the results, and the newsletters aren't really using a title either way. So perhaps moving the page is still be appropriate after all. -- Kylara 01:35, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

fwiw, I'd support keeping it at "contest" -- it's how I think about it, and it's how people seem to use it in actual conversation. Haven't seen it referred to as "festival" out in the wild, and since this is documenting the reactions more than that official going-ons, it makes sense to keep the commonly used name? lian 14:28, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Possible Topics for Expansion

I'm moving these suggestions from the main article page: --Auntags (talk) 20:44, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

  • 2010 Yuletide - there were some good posts about this...
  • internal issues: volunteers from diverse fandoms burning out faster, frustrations with Western-centric structure (e.g. tag wrangling), suggestions/complaints being unheard or silenced, etc.
  • quotes? about the internal push for diverse options/results
  • More posts? reacting to the results
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