Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Coordinators

Coordinators

The project coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers, nor with any authority over article content or editor conduct.

The Lead Coordinator bears overall responsibility for coordinating the project; the Assistant Coordinators aid the Lead Coordinator and focus on specific areas that require special attention.

Lead Coordinator

John Carter (talk · contribs)

Assistant Coordinators

Tinucherian (talk · contribs)

Secisek (talk · contribs)

Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of the project coordinators is the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth. There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course—in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process—but, since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.

The coordinators also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. In addition, they have highly informal roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to informally resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive. The coordinators are not, however, a body for formal dispute resolution; serious disputes should be addressed through the normal dispute resolution process.

Selection

Coordinators are elected by a simple approval vote, held every six months. Any member of the project may be a candidate; this includes current coordinators, who may be re-elected without limit. The latest election process consisted of a two-week sign-up period and a two-week voting period, but these times—as well as all other details of the elections—are subject to change at any time, provided that a consensus to do so exists within the project.

History

Initial concept

The initial discussion that led to the creation of the project coordinator positions took place in March 2008; it arose from the awareness of a similar position within the Military history project.

Elections

Tranche	Term	Election	Lead Coordinator	Assistant Coordinators
I	May 2008 – Till date	April 2006	John Carter	Tinucherian Secisek

Agenda

Note: Below is a preliminary agenda to outline what can be accomplished this term and beyond and is subject to modification.

The agenda is categorized into five areas: internal organization, external organization, article quality, internal collaboration, and external collaboration. Each area lists objectives, tasks to complete them, and identifies the objectives' priority.

Internal organization

Objective	Tasks	Priority	Completion
Assessment of unassessed Christianity articles	Address backlog of 5K+ unassessed articles Pursue Tag & Assess 2009 drive File bot request to find articles using any of the exclusively Christian infoboxes and lacking {{Film}} on their talk pages and to list the articles File bot request to find articles with {{film-stub}} and its variations and assessing them as Stub-Class on their talk pages Create list for articles that are not film-centric and may need film content to be split from them Create manual assessment checklist for editors to use	High	Not done
Audit of naming conventions guidelines	Review to determine if guidelines are sufficiently up-to-date Discuss possible disambiguation issue of original films and their remakes (e.g., The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film) and The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film))	Middle	Not done
Complete conversion from any of the earlier specific Christianity project banners to the Template:ChristianityWikiProject	Determine if bots would be useful in the changeover, and, if yes, which and how	Middle	Not done
Audit of notability guidelines	Review to determine if guidelines are sufficiently up-to-date and are not contrary to general notability guidelines	Low	Not done
Audit of Template:Infobox Christian denomination	Develop sub-guidelines at Template:Infobox Film/doc rather than at Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Style guidelines#Infobox Review infobox field by field and form consensus on how to best fill them out	Low	Not done
Audit of Missing articles department	Determine if department is redundant to more fleshed-out Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Article requests Discuss to see if department has any merit or should be archived for historical purposes	Low	Not done
Revision of WikiProject Christianity home page	Discuss to see if there is interest in more professional layout for home page Layout examples to follow: WP:MILHIST, WP:VG, WP:ISRAEL, WP:THEATRE, WP:FOOD, WP:WINE, WP:FILM	Low	Not done

External organization

Objective	Tasks	Priority	Completion
Organization of categories	Create checklist for editors to discover categories to include in articles (filming locations, subject matter, etc.)	Low	Not done
Organization of lists	Add sub-guidelines for writing film-related lists (see article guidelines objective) Discuss best practices for maintaining highly dynamic lists	Low	Not done
Organization of templates	Add sub-guidelines for using templates in film-related articles (see article guidelines objective) Standardize external link templates.	Low	Not done

Article quality

Objective	Tasks	Priority	Completion
Improvement of core topics	Discuss setup of collaboration drive List anniversaries for core articles to target in collaboration drive	High	Not done
Article guidelines	Heighten awareness of guidelines and encourage referring to them	Low	Not done
Article clean-up (listing)	Design process to categorically address each area to clean up Clean up "Needs additional references" Clean up "Has original research" Clean up "Needs expansion" Clean up "Needs merging" Clean up "Needs clarification of notability" Clean up "Has trivia section" Clean up "Has NPOV dispute" Clean up "Orphaned article" Clean up "Has overly long plot summary" (sort by most serious offenders to least with x word count)	High	Not done
GA and FA reviews	List Good Articles and Featured Articles predating specific year (e.g., 2007) to review for current quality Compare articles' current revisions to revisions at time of promotion to determine extent of clean-up Determine criteria for when to defer to WP:GAR and WP:FAR	Low	Not done

Internal collaboration

Objective	Tasks	Priority	Completion
Task forces	Discuss how to make task forces more active (e.g., move WT:X discussions to related task forces) Discuss possibility of delegating coordinators to different task forces Focus on specific task force to serve as model task force for others	Medium	Not done
Reviews (peer, GA, FA)	Implement process to ensure that all reviews are transcluded properly Implement process to notify editors on relevant pages of new reviews Discuss how to encourage collaborative review (quid pro quo: editor weighs in on another's review and vice versa)	Low	Not done
Launch of outreach campaign	List recent changes links at outreach page for editors to use to find potential members Implement guideline to identify potential members (reviewing contributions, avoiding recent changes patrollers) Encourage editors and coordinators to invite potential members Discuss if newsletter could be improved	High	Not done
Collaboration department	Discuss best timelines for different types of collaboration (e.g., monthly collaboration for core articles, weekly collaboration for clean-up tasks) Discuss creation of department and what it entails Determine award system for editors involved in collaboration	Medium	Not done
Use of Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Special collections	Encourage editors to use special collections in their area Expand page with additional resources Formalize method to spread awareness of page	Low	Not done
Rewards	Discuss how to reward editors for working together and/or improving article quality Explore Wikipedia:Reward board as possible venue	Low	Not done

External collaboration

Objective	Tasks	Priority	Completion
Collaborate on Wikipedia:WikiProject Council	Assess what council objectives are favorable for WikiProject Christianity Appoint coordinator to follow council proceedings and to represent the WikiProject in participations	Low	Not done
Freely licensed images	Explore possibility of requesting actors and filmmakers to submit photos from their set with proper licensing Explore possibility of having available editors attend film premieres and take photos of cast members	Low	Not done