Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4750363-20131023020818/@comment-5619531-20131023232838

Fatal Disease wrote: CrashingCymbal wrote: I agree that this process sounds quite difficult, but I believe with the users we have it can be done. What this Wiki really needs right now is more VCROC.

What we would need, if you ask me, would be a select amount of users to monitor newer stories coming in at certain times in the day based on when users are active and when they're not. Then we would need, I would imagine, a bigger group of people to sieve through the categories for all the crappy stories we have here which, let's be honest, the majority are in the Video Games, Lost Episodes and Computers and Internet categories. We also have the problem of the Death category, which would a monstrous amount of time to flick through.

Having said that, my idea sounds like it risks taking weeks or even months of hard work to do, so if anyone has any other suggestions that could shorten the length of time, please throw it out there! I do like what Cymbal just said. I like it a lot. Also, in one of the threads Skelly highlighted, is that some of the categories should just be cleaned out. Ka-poot on this wiki. Death, for example. But, like I did when Trollpasta was cleaning out  unneeded categories, is that we should have anyone, who will volunteer for this, clean up the categories. Or even better, just have what LOLZIES and Nick just plotted down for a rough draft (the reviewer) and have a project page about what type of duties they are supposed to do today. Have a team based on 10-20 user's, who will volunteer for this. Have a specific guideline, on what is the objective. If it's cleaning out a category, the objective should say "Clean out Death category." Why, they don't have to be VCROC members to do this. They can just remove the category, from an unprotected page, and leave the unattended pages (which are the protected pages) left untouched, for VCROC/admin members. Also, to avoid editing conflicts, every member, who volunteered, should get like a specific amount of pages. If the category has, ex, 60 pages. If it's 10 user's, 6 pages per user. If it's 20, 3 pages per user. Then the user, who's up, must go on the activity talk page, and say "done". Then the next user can go, till the task is finished. Then the admin would delete the comments, and go on. If it's a page, that's marked for deletion or needs editing. M4D pages, like it says. The poll. If it's a M4R/NE page, then the users (regular) can go and edit that page. If they're uncertain, that is, they can let an admin/VCROC look at the page, read it. Then remove the tag/category. That is my idea on what the Review Team should be. If enough people don't volunteer, then whoever is currently volunteering, is what makes up the team. If my idea does get passed, then we should start the volunteering at the beginning of November. If we reach the guideline of 10-20 people at the end of the month. That's a good thing. If not, then keep the thing open till Janurary. If the volunteers is not complete, then that'll be the whole basis of the team. I'm changing my idea, on it. I will still keep the whole project page where you have to say "done" and so forth. All the good, juicy, plot on the whole idea. But, the one thing that I have been thinking about is the whole "Volunteering ending at the end of the month" Plus, who wants to volunteer. If the idea does get approved, that is, people can volunteer. But, the volunteering will start at November, if the idea gets passed. Then, once it gets to a deadline of 20 people volunteering to help out (doesn't matter on who wants to help out, again. It can be rollbackers, administrators, VCROC, chat mods, or even the regular users on this wiki). Once the deadline of 20 people is done, then that's when the volunteers will end. Or, that anyone can volunteer to help out with the wiki. Whichever one fits best for you, because I know that people do want to help out with the wiki (including myself). So, either we have these two options for the Users

Option A. We have a deadline of 20 users helping out on the wiki, volunteering will start at the beginning of November, and the following below will follow

Option B. No deadline of volunteers, Volunteering will start at the beginning of November, and the following below will follow.

Or we have Option C. Where the administrators choose a deadline, Volunteering will start whenever they choose, and they may choose their own rules upon this.

What does the " bellow will follow" mean? Well...

General Rules 

1. There will be a to-do list on what to do, for the volunteers

2. Users will have an estimate of pages, on what has been given to the orders (ex. Getting rid of the Death category, each member will get a shared amount of it (ex. 20 pages per user) If a page is locked, and a rollback/chatmod/abusefilterbypass/regular user can't access this, then the regular user will leave the page in the category, and it will be removed by a VCROC/Administrator on the wiki

3. There will be an order on who edits first, and who edits last. This is to avoid editing conflicts. The list will go by alphabetical order, or let the admins decide on the order. Once the specific user is done on the page, the user will check on the talkpage and see if the user is done. Users who have to leave, for something urgent. Will have to post, on the talk page, something that doesn't relate to the word "done"

4 The administrators, whoever will volunteer for this, will be in charge on what the users will have to do.

4. If the task is "judge whether this page will stay on the wiki, or not" following from Nick's idea, there will be a poll for it. And the users, who have volunteered, will vote whether the page can stay or not.

So that's the important change of the outline, of my idea. This might work out, maybe, I have no clue. Sure there are a lot of administrators on the wiki, and 3 (excluding the one who applied for VCROC) VCROC members. This wiki is far too big, for 17 people with deleting and blocking powers should work, and they need aide from the rollbacks, and anyone who hasn't have that much of a 'important editing right'. Two hands are better than one, I always say. Sure, there has to be some order and discipline that needs to be regulated for this, rather than having random users going on a editing frenzy.