Minecraft Wiki talk:Projects/BGR

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Private club? Not wiki-like!
As described on the project page, you seem to be setting up a private club for this project, with yourself (Exelah) as president, most of a dozen excessively specific staff (but empty) positions, membership rules (must have gone through the entire game), and contributions from outsiders not welcome. The thing is, that sort of club setup is not much in the spirit of this or any Wiki, and I suspect it's likely to chase off people who might otherwise contribute. It's even possible the wiki admins may object, though frankly I doubt they'll bother (because it's not actually hurting anyone else). Also, your MSG has not "gone live", you've barely set up a project page. "Gone live" means the project is finished and placed in mainspace (or in this case, probably Tutorial space).

Here's the thing... The Wiki has had a lot of specific projects pop up over time and do their various things. I've worked on several where I was the second major contributor, or where a second person dropped in to help with a project I started. In both cases, there were occasional contributions from "various others", which were quite helpful. Looking at the page, I see you've actually got two people, one "in charge", and one "helping out". That looks pretty familiar! My suggestion is that you ditch the list of staff positions (and especially the titles), and treat this as a proper Wiki project, with general contributions welcome. Exelhah, instead of declaring yourself "President" (of a page?), simply be the project leader (no caps, that's a role not a title), which is to say, the person who's doing the most work (including page defense) and trying to recruit other people to help. But also recognize that over time, other people will also be helping out, and may even take the lead for a bit while you're busy elsewhere. Certainly spam and trolling should be squelched, and typos and grammar fixed, but that's no more than any of us try to do, anywhere on the Wiki. --MentalMouse42 (talk) 10:58, 23 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, I see what you're getting at. But the reason I'm making it like this is because last time I tried to put this together, the pages started rolling out and they were horrible.  The only wayI see that the pages can be as clean and perfect as possible is to only let people with high(er) skills edit them.


 * But I did word it wrong. Outside people can suggest things on the talk pages.  I'll add that to the description.


 * - Exhelah &middot; Grid Book and Quill.png Grid Diamond Pickaxe.png &middot; Grid Grass Block.png &middot; 12:50, 23 September 2013 (UTC)


 * You still need to expect to do a lot of the work, including taking crappy pages and rewriting them to be better, or reverting horrible edits. (Doing that around the wiki is good practice...)  More fundamentally, a lot of the work is already here.  I suggest that you start by taking the existing, fairly good, "First Few Days" tutorials as a base, and reshape them into whatever format you're thinking of.  You might also raid "Things not to do" for its better points.  --MentalMouse42 (talk) 15:01, 23 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, I agree. But I can't fix the page right now.  It'll have to wait until tomorrow.  But I will make it open, so it can get going faster.


 * - Exhelah &middot; Grid Book and Quill.png Grid Diamond Pickaxe.png &middot; Grid Grass Block.png &middot; 22:36, 23 September 2013 (UTC)