Forum:Main Page Maintenance Crew

Good evening, patrons of the wiki. Let's talk about the Main page.

At the time of this writing, as you may have noticed, the main page was just updated. For the first time in a month and ten days. Before that, it had been two months and two days. The routine update of the main page (or lack thereof) has been a problem for the past four years. This creates an issue of confusion and ambiguity over when the main page will actually be updated, and a feeling of frustration from both those who have won the featured section and those who are actually writing the sections.

In his run for adminship, my friend and fellow board of trustees member Bob proposed a solution to the problem: a legitimized main page committee. I believe now is the perfect time to put that proposition for the members of the wiki to vote on and discuss.

Should this proposition be approved, the Board of Trustees, in conjunction with the staff, will select a multi-person team of users to regularly (no later than monthly) update the main page, to then be voted on by the users of the wiki. The team will consist of several experienced and trusted users, each selected to do a specific main page section (for example, an experienced and knowledgeable MOCist would write Featured Creation). The idea is that it would consist of one person each for Featured User, Story, Creation, Article, and Image, with one of those users also updating the Featured Trivia and Quote sections.

Should a member of the update team not be a member of the staff with permissions to add the section to the actual featured template page, the user would prewrite the section and send it to a member of the staff to actually add in to the page. Being a member of the Main Page Committee would also not block its users from submitting their content into the voting center. Should a member the team not want to write their featured section due to personal reasons (such as not wanting to write for their own content should they be the winner of for some other reason be unable to write the section), they can take take up the issue with the rest of the team and make the proper arrangements based on the situation.

Should a member be completely unable to contribute to updating the main page for multiple months or announce an indefinite hiatus, a new member will be selected to replace them in the same manner as the other members were selected.

With these changes, the cycle of erratic main page updates will be a thing of the past and all users can be sure that the main page will regularly host new content from the wide range of users on the Wiki.

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