Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20151012235434/@comment-61022-20190116065024

I feel that there is a presumption here that the other admins/mods are aware of these regular discussions. If there are a number of admins on Discord who think others aren't doing enough, perhaps they could ask for assistance. For example, I thought all discussion was happening on the forum. I'm sure others thought the same. We should pick a platform of communication and stick with it so nobody is left out of any discussion.

On that note: we should be making decisions and having a discussion about Wiki related matters here on the site to meet with the wiki licensing requirements and there is a proper record of all conversations, discussions, and decisions. I don't think the intent of integrating Discord was to discuss wiki policy.

One this issue of numbers. As I said, appointing new people can cause a "too many cooks" scenario that I'm concerned about. This is because there is not an organizational structure. Being an admin is kind of a free-for-all in terms of who deals with what. If we're going to increase the number of admins, perhaps instead of a "generalized" administration people taking on specific tasks would be better.

What's clear to me is that priorities of each individual are vastly different. If we organized teams to tackle specific needs of the wiki is the best way to deal with this. We have a team focused on editorial. We have a team focused on security/vandalism. We have a team focused on general maintenance. We have a team that is focused on coding. If we're going to increase our numbers exponentially, then admins are going to have to put on one hat and stick with it so they're not stepping on the toes of other admins. We should put people to work in their strong points.

If we've got 10, 20, 30, 40, admins the problem we're creating is that consistency is going out the window unless these people are assigned to a specific team that specializes in a specific aspect of the site.

We need organized groups of administrators that are the areas of expertise on specific aspects of the site. That way, we can focus on the areas that are our strengths and there is another group of admins that deal with another area of expertise.

Question on the vandalism issues: if vandalism is a problem, has anyone thought of using VSTF's vandalism reporting function to deal with that? They're very good at dealing with sockpuppets and individuals trying to sneak around IP bans. Excuse my being unaware if this is being done. VTSF only lists most recent works on their vandalism list so I'm not sure if this is a tool we're regularly using.