User blog comment:Owenandheatherfan/Read About Revival - Sign-Ups/@comment-1874924-20121104042553

I wish you well, OHF, but the track record of coordinated projects on this wiki is not promising. This is a very Chaotic Neutral community, and trying to get many people to do anything on a schedule is like herding cats.

To help make this work, I'll repeat two suggestions that others have already made:


 * 1) Base reading assignments on word count, not number of chapters. For reference, a typical novel has 400-500 words per page, so 10,000 words per week (which works out to 2-4 chapters for most of the better stories here) is probably reasonable.
 * 2) Resist the temptation to assign your own stories or collabs to be read early in the competition, unless you want to take the risk of having to deal with a lot of resentment.

Quite frankly, what we really need is a competition that encourages people to not only read stories, but to give feedback on them as well. Most people just can't be bothered to leave comments on story talk pages anymore, and I for one think that's a major contributor to the widespread perception that the wiki is dying. Too many of the active users would rather just hang out on Chat than do things that actually show up on the Activity Feed and give the impression that things are actually happening here. (Some of these people have said that they'd rather give their feedback on Chat because it's "easier", which suggests that laziness is indeed part of the problem.) The Summer Schedule competition had the right idea, but unfortunately it too died because most of the participating writers couldn't post on a weekly schedule.