h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Status diagram for entries is related:
http://docs.google.com/drawings/edit?id=1kxgwrI_-2ZCVZusT25PKp07nQnWom3mFVjQPVVVlGds&authkey=CIOt4-sD&hl=sv

I'm not sure whether this belongs here but 'm just looking through my notes about the Stockholm Thread again.
Somebody suggested a badge or something for people who worked hard on an Entry but didn't make it into the approved guide for whatever reason.

some more of my notes:

there should be an efficient way to remove Entries from review

'Some kind of button system on entries, maybe: one for 'good, but still needs work' and one for 'possibly ready for the EG'. Entries getting enough of the right kind of votes would pop up on the radar of the people who maintained the EG.'(who said that?)

Personal mentors for people who contribute to the guide for the first time?

short text about every Scout on the Review forum to introduce them + show their specialties

Somebody suggested a badge or something for people who worked hard on an Entry but didn't make it into the approved guide for whatever reason.
--> I think that was me. In this case I think having Approved and Showcase sort of fulfils what I was aiming at.

there should be an efficient way to remove Entries from review
--> Yes. That could be an Editor or a Curator power, probably Curator

'Some kind of button system on entries, maybe: one for 'good, but still needs work' and one for 'possibly ready for the EG'. Entries getting enough of the right kind of votes would pop up on the radar of the people who maintained the EG.'(who said that?)
-->I think this system will do away with the need for that, but the suggestion wasn't mine.

Personal mentors for people who contribute to the guide for the first time?
--> Mentioned as part of the Curator role, although I would like to see ACEs being useful in that role as well.

short text about every Scout on the Review forum to introduce them + show their specialties
--> That may depend on how many Curators we have (as the role of Scout will disappear).

I'll go away and write my own review now.

Hi Tav,
I agree that there should be a more efficient way to remove entries from review. I think that volunteers should be equipped to do that, rather than relying on Editors. Also think that no volunteer should have that unilateral power. When I was a scout, and in the UnderGuide, we needed a nomination and second for an entry to be removed from PR/AWW. I think that that's fine, but it should be a volunteer mechanism - in this model, for the Curators.

Or perhaps that the Curators have the power to move an Entry out of the WW (because it now has Approved status, or it is unsuitable) but they should exercise that power until at least two other people have confirmed it should be moved.

...should NOT exercise...

I think, as now, Approved Entries should be automatically removed from the Writing Workshop.

I'm not too worried about mechanisms, because I don't know if one way might be unnecessarily difficult to code and implement. The principle is that no single person (possibly barring an Editor?) should be able to unilaterally move an entry from the Writing Workshop.

Even now someone still has to press a button to manually move the Entry out of the forum. But that's not so important as the principle that there needs to be concensus before anything is done.

Do you all have the editing access to the diagram as you need?
Let me know if you want it.

We can view, but not edit.

Please email via the google doc, and say you're Vip Link on document I believe.