Forum:Establishing a weekly news system

Hey,

So I thought I'd kick start the new forum-based method of community discussions by proposing something myself, with the hope that others weigh in with some input and maybe contribute some of their own ideas.

To get down to business, one thing I feel that we're lacking with is Community news, and news related to The Sims series in general, with only one delivery method per month which only gives a basic outline of what happened the past month and doesn't serve too much in order to keep users notified of what's going on.

With this in mind, I'd like to propose that a weekly news system, delivered by administrators, is implemented. The system would present Community news in one section, with references to active discussion threads on this forum, any active RfA/RfB nominations and really anything that's happened which is community related while another section could present news from The Sims series that's taken place the past week such as new announcements or something major related to an upcoming release.

There are various ways of presenting it, with a news blog being the most familiar and most approachable method, but as we have the whole page to discuss this, we can decide how we want to present weekly news after we've decided whether or not we even want to do this. Note that this isn't designed as a replacement for the newsletter but rather a supplement.

With this, I think it'll do better to serve users and keep them in the loop with what's going on as well as encourage more input within the community. So what does everyone think? 15:43, November 4, 2012 (UTC)

Discussion
I'd say go for it. I mean, I feel a month for game updates is quite a big gap, even if I don't play the ones featured. Asher Éire I'm a lonely person, so please talk to me... 21:16, November 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * In the past, community news blogs would come out 2-3 times a month, with the Newsletter supplementing it and combining that information into one page. I think more news updates would be a good thing but I don't necessarily know if making it a 'regular' feature (i.e. Every Friday we will release a news update, for instance) would necessarily work. For one, you'd need to make sure you had administrators that were responsible for making the blog and if they were to be absent, then you'd need to make sure someone stepped up to fill their shoes.
 * All told, I think this is a good idea in theory, but I'm worried about how it would work from a practical standpoint. --  LiR speak ~ read 23:49, November 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm cool with taking this approach. I try to run the newsletter as sort of a summary of stuff that has happened just so its not a huge wall of text, and I feel more in-depth news would be nice for supplementing this, along with separate blogs for game releases/announcements and the like. Something like what the CoD wiki does would work best imo, but I'll leave the specifics and such open for discussion.
 * I wonder will keep the community news occupied for every single week? This cannot be handled by an administrator him/herself (or maybe two). Perhaps it's better to keep discussion of what should be published as news each week, so it's not just someone's responsibility.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  13:24, November 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * In response to the claims made about who would be doing it and their activity, obviously it would be a collaborative effort. This might sound a tad impractical but I was thinking we could maybe create a roster containing the admins who wish to help out with this and it goes in a cycle so that one user does it one week, another the next and so on. Again, I'm not holding much confidence in the roster idea but it's just a thought. 17:51, November 5, 2012 (UTC)