Forum:How to make a wiki more exciting?

Hi, I'm BassJapas, an editor at some gaming wikis, and a couple music wikis. I am admin at a couple, and am working with another admin and another user to try and make a wiki Mario Wiki more exciting. So I figured the best place to go would be here.

One suggestion we had was featured media. We have a couple of suggestions on this page. But we could use some more. Do you think you guys could help us come up with some? —This unsigned comment is by BassJapas (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !
 * Can't access that page from here - but from a general content perspective, having everything in a maner that's consistant, so people always know that they get the information they need is a good way (infobox templates help with this).
 * With media, don't be afraid of putting relivent media as embeds on the wiki, and external links sections with more media helps (you can create pages full of youtube videos related to this and that, too - etc).
 * Featured media could be a good way of getting editors involved - you could try a caption competition - or screenshot competition (don't need to offer prizes per-say, having "this weeks caption comp. winners" on the main page might encourage people to edit just to get their name on the main page.
 * Oh, and sign your comments. :P  Random Time  16:42, March 17, 2011 (UTC)
 * I can access that page fine - are you on a proxy? And I agree - consistant content arrangement is good. RandomTime's suggestion of a competition is a good idea too.
 * yeah, internet filters FTL  Random Time  18:20, March 17, 2011 (UTC)
 * Heh, yeah, edit buttons don't work on my school's computer. But either way, what you said about a caption contest I don't really understand fully. Like, I understand the screenshot competition, not so much the caption one. -- B a s s  J  apas  19:25, March 17, 2011 (UTC)
 * Put a picture up on the main page with no caption, and have people submit captions for it. You're bound to get some funny stuff.