The Sims Wiki talk:Administrative projects/Community development

Stuff to begin with
Hiya all members of the project! Super exited in working with you all in developing this wiki's community!

I believe there are some basic things we need to get sorted out. Firstly, our project goals have not been determined yet. I think a good idea would be to have them be, more or less;


 * To maintain and grow the number of community members, with the use of contests, events, etc.
 * To build communication between users and editor-editor friendly relationships.
 * To help fairly and concisely deal with fights, arguments, etc.
 * To create and publish a monthly newsletter detailing forthcoming and past news.
 * To enthuse readers to become loyal editors.

The above points are just some ideas and are open to discussion.

Secondly, we need to work out what each member will be in charge of. The newsletter, contests, monthly events, etc, are all things I think could use someone to be in charge. Plus someone to update the community portal every now and then would be nice. Feel free to suggest any others, or reserve a position.

Thirdly, we need a project leader (basically a 'go-to person'). I believe all 3 of us can give our takes on this below as I don't think a vote's going to work out with only 2 possible voters available at the moment. ;)

Finally, I would just like to say that I'm psyched to be working with you all on this project. I'm hoping we can have as much fun as hard work, and I'm positive we can make massive changes to the wiki for the better if we work together. Good luck, and get those trouts ready for slapping! :P -- BobNewbie  ∞(Talk)∞  08:17, July 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * I have been thinking of resurrecting the contests somehow, so I'm willing to take charge of that and try to get some new contests going in addition to overseeing other suggestions. As for project leader....I don't know! :P But I feel that we can all help each other out where we can. 17:29, July 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * Resurrecting the contests is a great idea. I've added that to your task, Georgie, plus Bleeh told me via IRC that she'd like to be the 'Monthly events' organizer, and for now I took the newsletter. -- BobNewbie  ∞(Talk)∞  17:35, July 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay. As for the Project leader, I'd like to nominate Bleeh as she has served the wiki pretty well as a community director and I think she is capable of leading the project. This will also allow Bob to focus on his duties as the leader of the Visual development project while I'll be focusing on being the manager of the APs. 22:06, July 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * I accept. :) I'll be able to plan more with you in a few days since I'm out of town right now, so I'll let you know what I would like to be in charge of (besides the monthly events, obviously :P) later. Sorry for the delay! -- Bleeh (talk) (blog) 03:25, July 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * EDIT: I just remembered I wanted to be in charge of the polls too. I'll add myself for that. Thanks, -- Bleeh (talk) (blog) 03:31, July 31, 2011 (UTC)

Good to see everything's getting some momentum! Also, I added some of the stuff included in the description of the project to the 'Project goals', plus '*Enthusing users to make use of the wiki's community-building features, including the forums, IRC, etc'. -- BobNewbie  ∞(Talk)∞  10:10, July 31, 2011 (UTC)

Top
Hi all. I added a box thing to the top. If anyone has anything they would like to add or remove from it, don't hesitate to do so. -- BobNewbie  ∞(Talk)∞  11:25, July 31, 2011 (UTC)

Newsletter logo contest
Heya, after reading here about a logo contest for the newsletter, I felt that it is something we should pursue as a community thing. May as well ask for some input before I make a suggestion on the community portal :P. So what do you guys think? 20:22, July 31, 2011 (UTC)


 * Agreed on a contest that could work like previous logo ones. That nominator sure knows what he's talking about :P. -- BobNewbie  ∞(Talk)∞  19:32, August 1, 2011 (UTC)

Project Tasks
Hey all. Below I created a table to help organize all the positions & tasks, as well as which members are in charge of them.

There are still a few tasks I can think of that could require members to focus on; the Forums, Affiliations, Featured Article/Media/Editor (FA, FM and FE do not have a current active person that specifically focus on them if I'm correct), the IRC and our channel, and Wikia's new Chat feature.

I would like to work on the Forums and Affiliations (particularly the second, which I've been doing a lot between various wikis. I also have experience in the first). The IRC is almost surely something GEORGIE should be in charge of (as he is the channel contact), and I nominate him to also take lead of the Chat feature. -- BobNewbie  ∞(Talk)∞  09:32, August 2, 2011 (UTC)
 * As far as I know, the Featured Article/Editor tasks are being handled by both A morris (who is currently absent) and LiR. I'm not sure how to go about the whole affiliations thing, as if I've heard correctly, Duskey used a self-operated email address for that (again I'm not sure) but we can discuss that. I see no issue with someone being involved with the forums. If Bleeh is okay with everything mentioned above, I'll happily take control of the IRC/Chat involvement. 18:47, August 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * I was aware of A morris being 'officially' charge of them, though her absence made me decide to add it. Mmm, I'll check the affiliations pages again to see if there were specific ways in which Duskey handled them and report it back here. -- BobNewbie  ∞(Talk)∞  18:59, August 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * As long as you know you'll be able to do everything you choose as your task, I'm fine with it. Feel free to add yourself for whatever tasks you want. -- Bleeh (talk) (blog) 20:35, August 2, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Bleeh. I've added the two tasks to the box, and I'm leaving 'Features' and 'Affiliations' open for discussion. -- BobNewbie  ∞(Talk)∞  20:44, August 2, 2011 (UTC)

Features are handled by all admins regardless of which tasks they are involved in (except certain ones), so it's not exactly up for discussion ;). Otherwise, Affiliations are still open for discussion. -- BobNewbie  ∞(Talk)∞  08:21, August 7, 2011 (UTC)

Contests
Heya, I've made a blog to try and encourage the community to take part in creating some new contests as well as voting for one too. I'm hoping to get the Featured Contests up and running in time for September and I've opted to go for a similar system to the Featured Article nominations, where a contest will be nominated based on what is in the contest, rather than the older system. Anyways, I was wondering if you guys have any suggestions as into how we can improve the contests system. Thanks! 23:01, August 6, 2011 (UTC)

Newsletter deadline date
I would like to propose a newsletter deadline date, does anyone have any ideas for when it should be? -- Bleeh (talk) (blog) 03:06, August 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * 12th August sounds reasonable and fair. 03:07, August 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, the 12th of every month then. Awesome! -- Bleeh (talk) (blog) 03:08, August 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm fine with this date being implemented, though only as of next month. My reason for this is because most of the people I have recruited to write this month (3 people \:D/) have a deadline of sending their articles to me specifically on the 12th or earlier. Though the 12th works great for future months. -- BobNewbie  ∞(Talk)∞  08:18, August 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * Then when would you suggest the deadline be for this month? 06:40, August 9, 2011 (UTC)