Welcoming Committee
Show all sections
What links here?
This page's broken links
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Community teams » Welcoming Committee
This community team is still in development. As we get more members and nominate a leader, this page will be filled out with more info about what we do and how we do it.
If you would like to join, leave a note here!
[top]Members
[top]Duties
This community team welcomes new members and makes sure they know what to do and where to go when they join - works closely with the Help Team.
[top]Deciding Who to Welcome
It would be simple just to welcome every new user, but some of the new users are vandals or spam bots, so we want to be a little bit careful about screening who we welcome.
;Basic criteria for who to welcome:
;Basic criteria for who to welcome:
- More than one contribution with at least one significant contribution (a few lines of text).
- More than just adding stat numbers, a few external links (sometimes these are self-serving to get traffic to their sites), or spelling and minor editing corrections.
- Contributions to shared articles and not just player, guild or server pages.
- More than just adding stat numbers, a few external links (sometimes these are self-serving to get traffic to their sites), or spelling and minor editing corrections.
- No vandals or spammers.
[top]Specific Tasks
Very easy.
Don't hesitate to ask WelComm leader questions.
- Put either the
{{welcome}}or{{on a new user's discussion page.
subst
:signedwelcome|}}
- You might want to take a quick scan of the known vandals list and their recent contributions to make sure you're not welcoming vandals.
- You might want to take a quick scan of the known vandals list and their recent contributions to make sure you're not welcoming vandals.
- Answer quick questions left on your discussion page or direct them to another community team.
- Refer users to an admin for the really tough issues.
- Optional: If you have time, help notify people who were welcomed by inactive WelComm members that WelComm is still around.
Don't hesitate to ask WelComm leader questions.
[top]Worklog
Tasks this team is working on:
Done:
Done:
- Pinged those who want to join to make sure they're still interested. --Arjan
- Current committee members haven't contributed recently, but have been pinged. --Arjan
- Updated standard {{welcome}} template. --Arjan
- Made new {{signedwelcome}} template so you can leave your user name. --Arjan
- Got committee members to use the new templates. --Arjan
| Contributors: , |
Created by , 11-21-2006 at 09:52 PM Last edited by , 10-23-2011 at 03:03 PM Last comment by on 12-30-2006 at 11:30 AM 1 Comments, 5,002 Views |
Tags for this Page
Posting Permissions
Posting Permissions
- You may not create new articles
- You may not edit articles
- You may not protect articles
- You may not post comments
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your comments
Bookmarks