This page is part of the
Military history WikiProject's online
Academy, and contains instructions, recommendations, or suggestions for editors working on military history articles. While it is not one of the project's formal guidelines, editors are encouraged to consider the advice presented here in the course of their editing work. |
Like some larger projects, the Military history Project has adopted a system whereby multiple coordinators are elected to serve the project. Our coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers, nor with any authority over article content or editor conduct.
As is the case with all projects on Wikipedia, our coordinators' main role is performing the maintenance and housekeeping tasks required to keep the project and its internal processes running smoothly. This includes keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth. There is little that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course—the coordinators are only explicitly written into a few processes—but, since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, the most efficient route has proven to be to delegate formal responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.
Military history WikiProject coordinators also have several other roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. In addition, they have highly informal roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to informally resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive. The coordinators are not a body for formal dispute resolution; serious disputes should be addressed through the normal dispute resolution process.
Traditionally, Milhist coordinators:
Although some coordinators are also administrators, coordinators:
These tasks can be time-consuming and sometimes stressful, especially when other coordinators are busy in real-life. Coordinators should be prepared to prioritize coordination over other wiki-activities. A helpful toolbox can be found here.
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When the election concludes there will be two immediate things that will happen that will concern the newly elected coordinators and the lead coordinator. These are a matter of internal interest, and have little effect on the rest of the project members outside the coordinator family.
First, as a matter of tradition, those who are elected to the position of coordinator receive a 5-star insignia while the lead coordinator receives a 6-star insignia. These are handed out just as soon as the election concludes, so look for your official star delivery to occur within the first hours of the official conclusion of the election. As noted above, you do not have to display the stars on your userspace, they are intended to represent the trust the community holds in you to manage the project effectively, efficiently, and honorably.
The second concerns a technical update to two of the project's coordinator specific systems. The first is the template based ping system. Coordinators can alert their fellow tranche members of important discussions, needed closures, and other matters of internal interest by making use of the ping code {{
@MILHIST}}, which will generate a notice on a given page in the relevant section style as @WP:MILHIST coordinators
. To ensure that the current coordinators get that ping, the list needs to be updated and a live fire exercise needs to be carried out, so look for a ping shortly after the election concludes that requests you reply to make sure that we have the system calibrated correctly.
The other technical matter concerns the use of MilHistBot, the project's designated bot for closing A-Class reviews and handling other internal matters that are either very tedious, very time consuming, or both tedious and time consuming. The bot is intended for use by the current MILHIST coordinators, so it'll be updated to reflect your status so as to allow you to make use of the bot account to handle coordinator specific tasks as needed. It determines who is a coordinator by looking at the list in Template:@MILHIST.
Once these immediate tasks are completed you will be free to go about your coordinator roles any way you see fit. Remember that your actions in office will be monitored by project members and the coordinators, so behave yourself.
As a new coordinator, a word of advice. Take a pause to observe how things are done and what the coordinators do. Ask the lead coordinator how you might best contribute. Their response might be "general" but there might also be a particular "duty" that they might like you to "keep an eye on". Coordinators are a "collegiate" body. Remember, a new broom does not always sweep as well as an old one. Don't be afraid to ask questions. These are opportunities to identify improvements and to document our corporate knowledge. Different eyes may see things in a different light from what has previously been taken for granted.
This page is part of the
Military history WikiProject's online
Academy, and contains instructions, recommendations, or suggestions for editors working on military history articles. While it is not one of the project's formal guidelines, editors are encouraged to consider the advice presented here in the course of their editing work. |
Like some larger projects, the Military history Project has adopted a system whereby multiple coordinators are elected to serve the project. Our coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers, nor with any authority over article content or editor conduct.
As is the case with all projects on Wikipedia, our coordinators' main role is performing the maintenance and housekeeping tasks required to keep the project and its internal processes running smoothly. This includes keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth. There is little that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course—the coordinators are only explicitly written into a few processes—but, since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, the most efficient route has proven to be to delegate formal responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.
Military history WikiProject coordinators also have several other roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. In addition, they have highly informal roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to informally resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive. The coordinators are not a body for formal dispute resolution; serious disputes should be addressed through the normal dispute resolution process.
Traditionally, Milhist coordinators:
Although some coordinators are also administrators, coordinators:
These tasks can be time-consuming and sometimes stressful, especially when other coordinators are busy in real-life. Coordinators should be prepared to prioritize coordination over other wiki-activities. A helpful toolbox can be found here.
|
When the election concludes there will be two immediate things that will happen that will concern the newly elected coordinators and the lead coordinator. These are a matter of internal interest, and have little effect on the rest of the project members outside the coordinator family.
First, as a matter of tradition, those who are elected to the position of coordinator receive a 5-star insignia while the lead coordinator receives a 6-star insignia. These are handed out just as soon as the election concludes, so look for your official star delivery to occur within the first hours of the official conclusion of the election. As noted above, you do not have to display the stars on your userspace, they are intended to represent the trust the community holds in you to manage the project effectively, efficiently, and honorably.
The second concerns a technical update to two of the project's coordinator specific systems. The first is the template based ping system. Coordinators can alert their fellow tranche members of important discussions, needed closures, and other matters of internal interest by making use of the ping code {{
@MILHIST}}, which will generate a notice on a given page in the relevant section style as @WP:MILHIST coordinators
. To ensure that the current coordinators get that ping, the list needs to be updated and a live fire exercise needs to be carried out, so look for a ping shortly after the election concludes that requests you reply to make sure that we have the system calibrated correctly.
The other technical matter concerns the use of MilHistBot, the project's designated bot for closing A-Class reviews and handling other internal matters that are either very tedious, very time consuming, or both tedious and time consuming. The bot is intended for use by the current MILHIST coordinators, so it'll be updated to reflect your status so as to allow you to make use of the bot account to handle coordinator specific tasks as needed. It determines who is a coordinator by looking at the list in Template:@MILHIST.
Once these immediate tasks are completed you will be free to go about your coordinator roles any way you see fit. Remember that your actions in office will be monitored by project members and the coordinators, so behave yourself.
As a new coordinator, a word of advice. Take a pause to observe how things are done and what the coordinators do. Ask the lead coordinator how you might best contribute. Their response might be "general" but there might also be a particular "duty" that they might like you to "keep an eye on". Coordinators are a "collegiate" body. Remember, a new broom does not always sweep as well as an old one. Don't be afraid to ask questions. These are opportunities to identify improvements and to document our corporate knowledge. Different eyes may see things in a different light from what has previously been taken for granted.