Wikipedia:WikiProject community rehabilitation/Idea/Reviving the Bday Committee

The WP:BDC is one of the minor fragments left over from Esperanza, but it was never been able to achieve the same momentum since the latter's dissolution. Hundreds of editors join so they get the little nice-guy userbox and bragging rights, but a precarious number actually wish editors for their birthdays, and when they do, they exclusively do so with ugly automated boilerplate messages and to users that have by and large retired - the calendar has been little updated since the dissolution of Esperanza. It would be nice to revive this dying institution, one of the best things to come out of Esperanza in my opinion. I can't imagine it would be too difficult, the calendar template should probably be streamlined into one one page with technological doohickeys to show only today's birthdays. I would personally get rid of "first-edit days" and "adminship days", events incomparably insignificant to bdays, and ban boilerplate template messages. The members list would need to be pruned too, and I would probably change the name, the "committee" moniker is very Esperanza. I think a task like this would lie entirely within the scope of this project, and it would be a dreadful loss for the community if BDC were allowed to die. —what a crazy random happenstance 04:02, 17 November 2009 (UTC)