Board Thread:2015 - A Year of Community/@comment-4050367-20151122202044

In late October, a blog was posted proposing new ideas. I talked with Jack about his ideas, and asked him to come up with professional descriptions of one of his ideas, and to rework them. After some discussion, the basis for six committees on the wiki formed into this:

Each committee would be led by an administrator. Since there are six admins, there are six committees, one per admin to lead. An admin can only lead 1 committee, but aren't limited to participating in a certain number of committees. Part of the administrator's responsibilities would be to have administrator discussions that involve discussing what each committee has agreed on and wants to do. We would discuss how these ideas would work, figure out how there could be inter-committee cooperation, and give a thumbs-up if it's agreed to improve the wiki.

Community Committee
The purpose of the Community Committee is to handle all wiki events. It will be the duty of all members of this committee to effectively run and host the Fanon Con festivities, and should be noted that responsibility will be placed on each user in the committee, not just the administration. The intent is that each user learns how to manage the event in the hopes that one day; they can take over the committee if needed. They will also be in charge of running the bi-annual Alien Fest, the International Week, the Omniverse Awards, Ester Sunday, Halloween, and so forth. The Community Committee now retains the responsibility of maintaining and advocating the Featured Pages.

This committee can be signed up for here.

Gamemaker Committee
The Gamemaker Committee is an interactive, enjoyable committee that must create and oversee interactive games created on the forum. Their responsibilities may seem easy, but it is the committee's job to constantly update the game if need be and to also help out any user who may seem confused. Also, members of this committee monitor and oversee role-play activites that are in the forums. It is also very important that members keep users on the forums civilized as the purpose of these games is a fun, recreational activity.

Support Committee
This committee is responsible for the wiki's behavior. These are mentors and advice-givers who help new users out or anyone else if they have any questions for writing, art, or the wiki in general. Members would also host the communtiy support meetings, as well as detailing what happen in such meetings on detailed threads. Another responsibility of the committee is helping others with coding. They are responsible for adding special coding to pages by user request, and other coding responsibilties.

Cleanup Committee
Some have a special passion for cleaning, and this committee is for those people. This committee keeps page clean and categorized. This includes broken redirects, wanted pages, uncategorized pages, article stubs, duplicate categories, and any other errors with pages.

Innovation Committee
This commitee is where all innovation for the wiki happens. During monthly meetings, discussions occur about the general state of the wiki and any ideas for for the future of the wiki. Members are constantly brewing up new prototype ideas for the wiki. Unexcused absences from meeting will result in consequences. First offense is a warning, then a second offense is a one month suspension from the committee, with the third and final warning will result with a member being asked to leave the committee. This committee also make the Year of ____ blogs/updates to keep the wiki informed and up to date.

Social Media Committee
This committee is currently mod and admin exclusive. This means no non-rights user may join this committee. (Sci Note: Yes, some of you will object to this, but it's a matter of security. The admins should be the only users who have access to the social media account, so that we never have an incident where a non-admin gets hold of it and spams it up, vandalizes, bullies, etc.) Members will constantly update social medias and advertise many things on the wiki such as shows, art, and wiki events. There is a possible future of expansion for the committee, in light of the return of Bellwood Times. The admins will discuss this in the future.

These are all volunteer-based.

Basically, here are my two questions: Should we have these committees? What needs to change in these committees?

So, from now till December 2nd I'm having a vote. Let's make this place better.

 