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, project goals need to encourage people to contribute to the Mission without potentially focusing on removing articles from tools or removing tags before they’re ready. A lot of the project goals that you quote are from projects that have been inactive for several years, prior to the rewrite of our project guidelines.
Some example goals from projects that have made great strides on wikiHow:
- Autism Project: Provide helpful, compassionate resources for Autistic people, their loved ones, and concerned citizens of the world; Promote respect for and acceptance of Autistic people; Facilitate the spread of autism-friendly language; Uphold the wishes and dignity of the Autistic community.
- Image Reuse Project: To reuse images […] already on wikiHow.
- School Made Easy: To improve articles for the average student by expanding stubs and merging duplicate topics. We offer practical advice from students, for students. This includes cramming, procrastinating, writing quick assignments and other essential skills; as well as how to get As, be an honor student or take challenging classes without being stuck.
The project pages themselves may not be major hubs of activity, but they’ve helped quite a bit with making high-quality articles and edits. A goal needs to be clear and specific, without setting numerical goals (which can cause people to prematurely remove tags) or being too broad.
The tools on the Dashboard already all have the underlying goal of getting them out of stormy weather. A user who wants to reduce a Dashboard backlog would do better to participate in a Dashboard tool they like or are good at; they wouldn’t need to join a project or focus on tools they’re not actually interested in. It’s also really hard to make a goal to get a tool out of stormy weather, because whether a tool has reached that point is dependent on how many articles were tagged with certain things, how many unapproved or unanswered questions are going in, how much turnover there is (a lot
of new questions come in every day, for example), and so forth. If the goal is just to get tools out of stormy weather, the project is too vague and difficult to determine whether or not it’s actually working.
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