Forum:Orderly CUSWFN Formation



I'm going to get straight to the point. We need to properly organize CUSWNF if it's going to survive. It's died twice due to lack of order, articles and regulations. So far, we've had the approach "send it out once we have enough articles", and we've ended up starting well, then dying out two weeks later. To maintain CUSWNF in an orderly manner, I would like to make some prepositions that I couldn't make earlier in the IRC. I may not have covered all the bases, but here's what was obvious to me.

1: We make clear who's on the team. Several people who are still signed up have not been active for months. Even when they were, they made few articles.

2: We have a scheduled release for each issue right down to the date, perhaps once a month, or something to that effect. Releasing issues at random or whenever we reach a certain amount of articles has shown to be unproductive.

3: Attempt to have each position filled with at least two people. It is, from personal experience, burdensome to be the only writer for a subject.

4: To those in charge, make sure the articles get written properly and on schedule! If they slack off, get on to them, or have them replaced if they can't keep up. This is keeping up in your responsibility to CUSWFN.

5: To those who write about canon information, source your information, and do it from it's exact source. No third party info transferring. This means not "Wookieepedia said this" or "Wikipedia said that". They sourced it from somewhere else, so they are not the source. Get if from the Straight from the Horse's Mouth.

6: Set an article quota for each user. To make sure everyone does their part, set an article requirement for each issue. This doesn't mean everyone has to turn in five articles. For some, perhaps one article per month is necessary, while for others, two or three should be needed.

7: Optional, but try and have some users switch out with others if possible. This especially the case if there are many users desiring the same position. For example, say that there are six users who want to be assigned to one of the positions. Three can take the responsibility for it for one month, then switch out with the other three for the next, then pick up again the month after that.

-- You Speak, I've Spoken 23:09, 15 March 2008 (UTC)