User blog:Albus Chase/Christmas Special: Contest Idea

Hello peoples. Al here.

I'm sure everyone has noticed that contests on this wiki have been kind of slow. I know its because its Fall/Autumn, so school's started and everyone's under pressure, which is why I think we should have some sort of competition during the Christmas holidays/winter break, when people will be more active.

My Idea
Basically, I was thinking that we could have a Christmas special type thing, where people write a story, and the plot has to do with something Christmas-related. It could be something to do with old characters, who have to do a Christmas mission or something, or something entirely new can be created. I don't know if this has been done before, but if it has, so what? It would be great to do it again!

What makes it difference from previous contests?
As I'm sure most of you know, the contests that we had in the past were kind of lacking entries; personally I believe this is because people didn't have enough motivation. If someone won one of the previous contests, the winner would get their story featured. But I think the prize should be something more.

What I think the prizes should be

 * The winning story would be featured (but that's really a given.)
 * A template would be made specifically for the user. (i.e, they would tell me, or somebody better at coding than I am, specifically what they want it to say. Although not something too hard, as we aren't really experts :P)
 * Rollback rights and Chat Moderator rights - From the moment we announce the winner, to exactly a month later, I think the user should have these privileges, just to experience it.

If anyone has any other ideas for prizes that could be available, don't hesitate to comment! As long as it's reasonable.

Conclusion
Anyway this was just an idea I had. Let me hear what you guys think of it. If the other admins like the idea then we could make it work.