Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Coordinators/2012/2

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Overview

The project coordinators will be generally responsible for maintaining the procedural and administrative aspects of the project. They will be the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues and will be responsible for ensuring that the project as a whole is properly informed of them.

To provide some examples of coordinator duties: the coordinators will manage the proposal and creation of new task forces; ensure that project announcement and task lists are kept up-to-date; initiate drafting of guidelines needed by the project; organize the category system; oversee the recruitment of new members, including the use of project notices and other advertising methods; create and maintain collaborative projects if any; maintain the project page and the various guidelines in it in a clean and easy-to-use state; monitor technical policies and ensure that project templates satisfy them, and assist in organizing and promoting any Backlog Elimination Drives.

They are also expected to generally assist project members with any questions or concerns.

The coordinator positions will not entail any executive power.

Positions

• Lead Coordinator (one open position): will have overall responsibility for procedural and administrative matters within the project.

• Assistant Coordinator (two open positions): will assist the Lead Coordinator by focusing on specific areas within the project that require special attention. These areas will be selected based on need and interest among the coordinators.

Election process

• The election process will run for two weeks, from June 16, 00:01 UTC, until June 30, 23:59 UTC.

• Any member of the project may nominate themselves for either position by creating a new section under "Nominations" below and copying the sample form below. Nominees only interested in one position should indicate this when adding their names. Candidates need not make extensive statements if they do not wish to do so. Nominations are now closed.

• The elections will be conducted using simple approval voting. Any member of the project may support a nominee for either position. If the nominee is running for both positions and you wish to support them for only one, please make a note to that effect as part of your vote.

• Both project members and interested outside parties are encouraged to ask questions of the nominees or make general comments.

Nominations

Stfg

Stfg (talk · contribs) • Interested in Assistant or Lead position.

Hi, I'm Stfg. I started in the GOCE for the March 2011 drive and have been copy editing since then. I became an assistant coordinator in January 2012. I have been maintaining the requests and archive pages and have helped Dianna set up and close the last three drives. If elected as lead, I would try to reactivate the mentoring scheme. Otherwise, there are no major changes that I want to initiate, but I would be happy to implement any for which consensus is reached on our main talk page. If elected as assistant, I will be happy to continue the work I've been doing up to now.

Support

1. Support. --Greenmaven (talk) 01:37, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
2. Full support. Simon is cheerful, hard-working and competent. - Dank (push to talk) 01:43, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
3. Support, of course. Stfg has done a great job keeping things going after losing two other coordinators this go round. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 03:35, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
4. Strong support for lead coordinator spot. Simon has been very helpful and hard-working throughout his tenure in the Guild. -- Dianna (talk) 05:43, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
5. Strong support: Simon is very helpful and knows what he's doing. Allens (talk | contribs) 12:47, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
6. Support for lead position. I remember nominating Stfg for coordinator last election, and I always figured he'd make an excellent lead coordinator. The Utahraptor^Talk/_Contribs 22:08, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
7. Support for lead position, I did have to pause and rethink after discovering here that his name is Simon, I don't wanna do everything he says . -- Despayre  ^{tête-à-tête} 20:26, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Comments and questions

1. Tell us more about the mentoring scheme. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:59, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

   Thanks for asking. All I know at the moment is that the scheme is stagnant: all the mentors listed on the Mentorship page are marked as busy; in fact only one of them is very active on Wikipedia at present. Occasionally, people come along with requests for mentorship and are turned away. I don't know whether this is soluble, but I think it's worth a try. When the scheme started, only GOCE coordinators were to be mentors. That restriction was removed, but possibly too late and not conspicuously enough to attract new mentors. Maybe the main thing to do is to publicise that we'd be glad if experienced copy editors would make known if they are willing to do it.

   There's one other consideration: wikipedia copy editors actually need two quite distinct skill sets: writing skills and wikipedia stuff like markup, deletions, merges, how to deal with suspected copyright and so on. We do have some great writers here, I wonder if we could persuade them to mentor people for writing skills if we can somehow cover the second thing. Or maybe vice versa.

   I don't propose to do anything on this during the July drive, but in August I would like to start some discussion on the talk page and possibly follow that up by messaging a few people I know to be great writers to ask what they might be willing to do. --Stfg (talk) 09:59, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Torchiest

Torchiest (talk · contribs) • Interested in Assistant position only.

Hi there. I've been a member of the GOCE and participating in backlog drives since the first one in May 2010. I was drafted into being a coordinator about a year ago, so I've done it before, albeit for a short term. I'm up for getting the position the hard way this time. I know my way around the place and should be able to provide help with just about everything, from navigating the project's many policy pages to discussing the finer points of copy editing rules.

Support

1. Support. --Greenmaven (talk) 01:37, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
2. Full support. - Dank (push to talk) 01:43, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
3. Support : Glad to see you volunteering. -- Dianna (talk) 05:43, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
4. Strong support: Torchiest has long experience of the Guild, knows all the ropes, and is very helpful to people on the talk pages. --Stfg (talk) 09:49, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
5. Support: Glad to have you! Allens (talk | contribs) 12:42, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
6. Support. You did good work last year, and I'm sure you'll do great this term. The Utahraptor^Talk/_Contribs 22:08, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Comments and questions

Abstain - Only because I have not had enough interaction to form an opinion, although the interactions I have had are all positive, and I'm reasonably sure I would vote to support if I had more data to draw from. No other reason not to vote here, nothing negative implied. -- Despayre  ^{tête-à-tête} 20:36, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Allens

Allens (talk · contribs) • Interested in Assistant position only.

Hello! I like to help; it's one reason that I'm a (teaching) professor. I am finding that the GOCE is one place that I can help out around Wikipedia; I prefer copyediting to writing (with my 473-page dissertation being an example of doing the latter). Even within the GOCE, I want to help things move along smoothly; for instance, during the May drive I reviewed 43% of the articles reviewed (35% of the reviewed words). I know these statistics from another way that I've helped out - a program I wrote to help the coordinators with awarding barnstars and tracking various activities during the drive. (As it is, it took poor Simon/Sftg most of a day to work out the barnstars.) You can see the program at User:Allens/GOCE/GOCE.barnstars2.pl, for anyone who happens to know Perl, and its output at User:Allens/GOCE/GOCE.barnstars2.pl.output1, which is probably of more interest for most; a rough draft of its documentation is at User:Allens/GOCE. (I am ready and willing to alter the program as needed, whether or not I am a coordinator, as well as running it after each drive.) Another program that I'm considering, if it's of interest, is one to keep track of GOCE-edited articles that have been subsequently awarded GA or FA status - I manually track this for myself already at my homepage, but would like for the entire project to be able to show how much of a difference we've made. I am also, of course, ready and willing to help in whatever other way(s) I can.

Support

1. Support. --Greenmaven (talk) 01:37, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
2. Full support. - Dank (push to talk) 01:43, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
3. Support the script wizard who is making our lives easier, definitely. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 03:35, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
4. Support - User is clueful and has plenty of fresh ideas for the guild. -- Dianna (talk) 05:43, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
5. Strong support: Allen has lots of good new ideas and is very helpful to eveyone. --Stfg (talk) 09:51, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
6. Support. The Utahraptor^Talk/_Contribs 22:08, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Comments and questions

Abstain - Only because I have not had enough interaction to form an opinion, although the interactions I have had are all positive, and I'm reasonably sure I would vote to support if I had more data to draw from. No other reason not to vote here, nothing negative implied. -- Despayre  ^{tête-à-tête} 20:36, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Proposal to appoint Diannaa as a Coordinator Emeritus

Diannaa has served as a GOCE coordinator in every term since the role was created, was lead coordinator in July–December 2011, has taken part in every GOCE backlog elimination drive, and has been a constant and dependable source of support and encouragement to her fellow copy editors through all this time. The other two current GOCE coordinators, Dank and Stfg, propose that Diannaa be appointed Coordinator Emeritus for as long as she wishes to continue in the role. The appointment would be in addition to the coordinators selected in this election. Please Support, Oppose or Comment below.

Support

1. Support Dianna deserves some rest (after a million words copy-edited!), but she should be welcomed for whatever effort she would like to make. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:57, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
2. Support strongly. Agree with Dthomsen8. --Greenmaven (talk) 01:31, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
3. Wikipedia and the Guild are very lucky to have Dianna, in any capacity. - Dank (push to talk) 01:43, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
4. Support all the way. Dianna has been the heart of GOCE for a long time. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 03:37, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
5. Strong support per nom. The Guild wouldn't be what it is without Dianna. --Stfg (talk) 09:54, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
6. Strong support - She's served Wikipedia and the Guild well, and well-deserves the title. Allens (talk | contribs) 12:38, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
7. Support. Dianna held the Guild together when I left last term, and she did a lot of good work before then. She definitely deserves this position. The Utahraptor^Talk/_Contribs 22:08, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
8. Support - Seems very competent to me. Plus she's Canadian, what could go wrong? -- Despayre  ^{tête-à-tête} 20:36, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Comment

That sounds like she can coordinate as much or as little as she feels. Is that your meaning? --Greenmaven (talk) 14:44, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Coordinators have a job with no authority, just a little recognition, so it wouldn't matter whether this gives her the "power" of a coordinator ... there isn't any. I think what's proposed here is similar to the role of "coordinator emeritus" at WP:MILHIST; the few people who put in an extraordinary amount of effort for a long time in a leadership role get the "luxury", eventually, of not having to run every time there's a coord election. It seems like a reasonably useful title to me, particularly since removing them from elections shifts focus from the old guard to newer folks. - Dank (push to talk) 14:59, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Exactly. It's intended to recognize an enormous contribution, simply that. --Stfg (talk) 19:46, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes. It just needed explaining. I get the point about avoiding elections, given the background. Thanks. --Greenmaven (talk) 22:19, 7 June 2012 (UTC)