All, One of my personal goals is to start a new effort where, each week (approximately), I spend considerable time promoting a specific workgroup. I'll help you organize and clean up your workgroup's page (if necessary), contact existing (but inactive) editors and authors, announce a "X Workgroup Week," set goals for the week, perhaps arrange for people to create an Advisory Board for the workgroup, and do other things to get the workgroup going. We might select a workgroup coordinator of some sort. I will also e-mail the main general listservs (discussion lists) used by people in the discipline. I also want to pilot (a) simpler new method(s), as yet undecided, of ramping up approvals. The first workgroup to get this treatment would pilot the latter method(s). Generally, I want to create and test a workgroup start-up plan, which could then be used systematically for all workgroups. The ultimate goal of this effort is to increase wiki activity generally and to radically increase the number of approvals in particular.
As part of this effort, I would like to get at least three editors of a workgroup, or active authors, plugged into the userinfo system. If you are interested in my helping *your* favorite workgroup in this way, please contact your fellow contributors in that workgroup, and encourage them to fill out their information *for their workgroup work*. To do this, you would go to http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Userinfo_System , follow the instructions, and make sure you follow *Step 6* (labelled "optional"). I will be making a group status page (like http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Group_Status) for individual workgroups soon. This could help organize workgroup work. I will help promote the first workgroup that has three contributors who have filled out their data for one specific workgroup (as I have done for Philosophy, here: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Larry_Sanger/Userplan). I'm hoping this might be a small incentive for people to take a half hour and get themselves into the userinfo system. Any takers? --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
