Since my own effort at starting a project was unsuccessful, I’ve decided to help in developing the existing one. If the community will agree, I’d like to start a major renovation on the Merge Team. These are the areas that I think need improvement: --Invitation system. The invitation system for the Merge Team is, apparently, ineffective, as there are only six listed active members. 6 members vs. 12,000 articles = SLOW. That’s 2,000 articles per person! --Project page. The project page is, quite bluntly, very boring and does not give adequate information at all. It needs a thorough expansion to describe what merging is, why it is done, and the importance of doing it. --Contact center. It would be much more efficient if there were a dedicated user or forum thread to answer questions about the Merge Team, instead of randomly picking someone off the list. --(Optional) Newsletter. It would be nice, should the team become more developed, if there a newsletter that listed the latest accomplishments, new articles to be merged, etc.
Feel free!!! I believe that it is one of my past projects.
Mission will launch in a few hours, so don’t be surprised if you start to see revisions on the project page. Let me know if you want to help with anything!
#MTRevamp
kickoff! Edits will start immediately. I’ll be posting content here for review, so be sure to stay updated!
Please review my first revision on http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Merge-Team
and tell me what you all think. We can continue with the other fields of the #MTRevamp
once the project page is agreed upon. Just as an additional question, does anyone think a border would look nice on the project page?
Those edits look good to me, but maybe a border would not be needed.
All right, now we need to figure out how to set up a central question and comment center. Also, I mentioned a newsletter writer, but that probably won’t start for a little while. Should a dedicated user handle questions, comments, and suggestions, or should we make an official forum thread?
I think an official forum thread should be created.
Do you think we should request Announcement status for the thread, or should it just be a normal one?
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We could create a forum thread specifically for questions, comments and suggestions, so as not to put too much on any user’s plate in addition to their volunteer activities
We’ll create the thread after everything else is fixed up. How does everyone think the invitation effort could be improved?
One more thing. Who would be willing to take on the responsibility of the team newsletter?
Thanks for taking this initiative. My suggestion would be to actually “start merging”. Newsletter is secondary and you can think about it later, once the project gains some momentum.
Before we actually start merging, we should finish organizing the list that Krystle put together, so as to prevent merging articles that don’t need to be merged. Here’s the list for anyone who wants to help: https://docs.google.com/a/wikihow.com/spreadsheets/d/1I5OT-w0eOXhOO_eRkw179OlKhidM-QbUO_nKZnlObaY/edit#gid=1613282207
I will review some of those - thanks for the link!
I ran through all unmarked merge suggestions and marked those I could. I added an asterisk (*) by those entries that seem to have been truncated (in the y/n column). Could someone look at the merge articles and update the target column in the spreadsheet with the article name of merge target called out by the template? *edited to correct my omission.
