Board Thread:Captain's Council/@comment-2089817-20160507033741

Alright, as promised, I'm opening up this summit discussion for this month. It is my hopes to make this summit thing a... let's say, biannual thing? But that's for the future to determine, let's focus on the now.

First off, I want to congratulate all of you guys. Even when I've been absent, or others have been absent, you guys have all still managed to hold the fort down excellently and you have definitely proven yourselves to be among a very few elite administrators. As I'm sure you know, many sites typically fall behind when one or two admins are absent because, in truth, that site only functions when that admin is around and the other admins are typically those who can only work when given orders. Like a certain site... which shall remain nameless, but we all know who I'm talking about... Ahem. Anyways. This site isn't like that. Each admin here is capable of taking charge and stepping up to plate, which is one of the many reasons why we've managed to endure this long. So definitely, you should all pat yourselves on the back for that.

Now then. This summit is a meeting between admins to discuss site matters, such as policies. I have some stuff for the agenda to discuss, but our meeting will not be limited to that. I want everybody to feel free to voice their opinions on the topics I've brought up, as well as I want you guys to bring up any topics you believe we should all discuss. So, in other words, I have some topics I want to discuss. And in addition, any topics you guys feel we should discuss that I did not list below, please mention them as well so we can get to them. Keep in mind, these should be topics related specifically to the site, FC matters will be discussed sometime next week on a different forum. So these are the topics I believe we should start with:


 * The RPCQE, Part 1: The first thing I really want to ask everybody is, should we keep it? Personally, I think it does some good, but ultimately, if the wiki decides we should scrap it, I want that to be discussed. Do you believe we should get rid of it, change it in some way, or keep enforcing it as it is now?


 * The RPCQE, Part 2: Assuming that we do keep it, whether that means we change it in some way or we keep it as is, my second issue I want us to discuss is that I believe we need to find a more streamlined manner of getting to the applications. I feel like it becomes a mess, trying to catch up with those and getting to apps months late, it's really disorganized that way. So does anybody have any ideas for how to go about that? Off the top of my head, I think we can either formulate a more simpler means of grading, or perhaps we move the RPCQE submissions to a thread system so that admins will see the notification and therefore not miss that there are pending submissions.


 * The monthly featured article is... relatively nonexistent. With it being May 6th, I think we should get on that right away. I think I have a better system in mind than the voting system. Having votes is not the best method for a site that's medium to small like ours. Instead, I suggest what we do is, the right to choose a featured article should be delegated to a specific user each month. That user will be restricted to the following rules: they cannot choose one of their own articles, they cannot choose an article that has been featured before (trust me, we got a whole lot of quality articles to last us years), and they have to have passed the RPCQE. Now, for how we go about choosing those specific users? I have a system for that as well. Let's say that I will choose for May '16. After making my choice, I will nominate somebody else. That somebody I nominate will be the one to choose for the following month of June. And it will just go like that. Now, the rule of thumb will be, you cannot nominate somebody that has already chosen a featured article for that calendar year. Which means, after choosing the one for May, nobody can nominate me for the featured article until 2017. Seems simple enough. We'll make sure to keep a page that lists featured articles and the user who selected it of that month, so nobody gets confused.

Anyways, that's the topics I believe we should start with. As I said, beyond these, any other topics you guys feel we should discuss, please address them and we'll discuss those as well.  