Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26172435-20160820193017

We await the biggest update in terms of many mod aspects ever. As we have many contributors eager to have a go at creating new and editing existing pages, and we wish to avoid double-work, avoidable waiting times, errors and frustration, we need to coordinate our efforts. This is why the content moderators and admins must communicate decisions, instructions and guidelines and all editors should notify which changelog entries and page edits they claim as lead editor, all through one central thread, this thread.

As soon as the update launches, the following will happen:


 * I will add the full changelog, with entry numbers, in a collapsible table to this post. That table will also get 3 more colums: one for 'lead editor(s)', one for pages affected, and one for 'status'.


 * When that table is available, people can post in a reply to this thread, which changelog lines and related existing or new pages they wish to edit, as lead editor. Me, and 2 - 3 other lead content moderators / admins, will add the name of that editor to the changelog table, unless we have good reason not to (reasons to reject a lead editor claim will be communicated).


 * People with assigned lead editor roles  can start to create pages, implement changes in feature pages and related pages. Do not start before your name appears in the 'lead editor colum! When they feel they're done, report their 'all clear' in this thread again.


 * The lead content moderators / admins may decide to re-assign the lead editor role of people, or intervene in any way to ensure things are running as smooth as possible. This may lead to annoyance and frustration ... we're all human, and possibly under stress because of the hectic period we may go through. Please be patient with each other at all times. We better not make this a competition anyway.

Before the update launch, we need to ensure the following:
 * It will get messy and there will be miscommunication, no doubt about it, as many are very enthusiastic and not all are used to working in a very organized manner. That is not a problem, but we can at least give this a try in order to efficiently and effectively update and create all affected and new feature pages in a relatively short period of time. This thread will be long, and it will be featured and highlighted for quite a while, possibly until we've achieved over 95% of changelog follow-up completion.


 * Determine who will have the roles of lead moderators / admins, and edit this post & moderate this thread.


 * Add a list of useful links.

I am certain I will be available for quite some time each day for coordination and editing of my specialty feature pages (biomes, flora and fauna) in the coming week, and possibly the week after as well. Unfortunately, experience learned that most updates are launched upon ogre sleepy time, and many edit activities start when ogre eyes are shut.

So, first of all, I'd like to hear from my fellow content moderators and admins: Who is also available for updating of this post and coordination? If needed, we can use wiki and/or FB private chat to align activities and decision making.

Secondly, I wish to know: Which links to templates, example pages, guidelines,instructions and whathaveyou should be added in this post for everyone's convenience?

Cheers,

Alte

This post will be updated on a very regular basis!

''Note that I will be rather strict on 'off-topic' in this thread. Any post considered irrelevant for the purpose of this thread will be removed, without explanation.'' 