Wowpedia talk:Projects

Maintaining project participants list

From my past (and what should be current) experience maintaining a list of community team members, maintaining an up-to-date list is difficult task. I would suggest maintaining the list via the category mechanism.

So, if I want to join the WoWWiki:Lore project, I would apply to join at WoWWiki:Lore project/Signup or something and when my application was approved, all that would have to be done is put [[Category:Lore project members]] on my user page. If I wanted to leave the project, I might put a blurb on WoWWiki:Lore project/Retired and just remove the category from my user page.

Also, if we wanted to indicate a project leader or leaders, they would just put [[Category:Lore project members| ]] and that would bump their name to above the A in the category list.

Does that make sense? --Fandyllic (talk · contr) 5:16 PM PDT 4 Oct 2007

Personally? No need for any applications. Just sign up. And an entire page for Retired is just silly. --User:Sky2042/Sig 01:21, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, but sometimes it's nice to know who was interested in a topic at one time to maybe lure them back. Having an application process is optional, but if I started a project, I might not want just any bozo making changes in the name of the project. If you have too open a process, you get like wikipedia where they have annoying revert bots lurking around because they didn't restrict enough. --Fandyllic (talk · contr) 6:39 PM PDT 4 Oct 2007

A category for users to add themselves to the project is a neat idea. As for signups, I think that might be up to the individual projects, with some guidelines on how to handle it. --Piu ^(?!) 02:24, 5 October 2007 (UTC)