As I’m sure everybody is aware, and as we discussed here: http://forums.wikihow.com/discussion/3966/change-needed-for-youth-cat/#Item_18
our youth category is in terrible shape. Despite the fact that we have had several clean-up efforts in the past (example: The Teen Project), the Youth category is still long overdue for several MAJOR improvements. To keep things optimistic for wikiHow, I am going to start a brand new youth project if I can get enough dedicated wikiHowians to contribute to it. As you are reading this, you are probably thinking, “Create ANOTHER project? Yeah, right! Been there, done that, with little improvement!” But the part where we went wrong before was when a person signs up and never actually contributes to the project for more than the three minutes in the beginning. So this time, if you are interested in helping out and if you are actually serious about staying in for the long haul, sign your name below. If we can get ten people to make only 50 edits a day and 5 bold edits a day, we could make some huge changes before the end of summer. If we can gather enough people, I will create the new project, and everyone will be assigned sub-categories of their choosing to focus on. In the meantime, PLEASE use the Edit By Topic tool on the Community Dashboard to edit Youth topics. We CAN turn the Youth cat around before the end of summer-if we try!
No offense, but we NEED pretty gargantuan commitments. Lots of 'em!
^ I was thinking, what if the editors could choose their own editing goals?
^ You know Teresa started a project pate, right? I’ll be putting out articles, suggesting ideas, etc. Editors of course, can set their own goals, hopefully they’ll look at this page for updates. In short, great idea, please contribute and I’ll,be talking with Krystle and IZ for things. By Saturday, there should be a list of articles to clean up. June Days
Ttrimm
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Well, we certainly need more people to join!
On Friday, I’ll post in the forums for help. The thing that I’ve talked to IZ about is, the teens aren’t on the sane page as all of us. I’d really like to do a thing where we all have a talk and make sure we’re on the same page, and answer any questions, to ensure that we’re on the same page. Maybe something in IRC? June Days
system
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Um… don’t we do this already?
Hear Hear…LOL!!
Steve5
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Thank you for the information. I’m really struggling to make 6 edits a day.
Steve5
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I’m really surprised that I’ve reached 1,263 edits.
Thats a really hard goal to keep active.
…Never give me coffee unless I’m sick and have to act - Even then, stay a good 20 feet away from me.
June Days
Anyways, back on topic, we need more people to sign up!
system
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Thanks for the TU? But that was four years ago… Nowadays, we call it “New Article Boost” and NAB folks do it every day with no TU’s.
