Hi,
I'm including Erik in this discussion for input, and Fernando, as I hope Fernando can help with some work on this once we establish the parameters. To start: this is about getting our Teams onto the wiki.
This was my thoughts:
We have the Teams and LocalGroups namespaces, but this misses a little bit the country teams. In order to make our teams easy to find, it's not very suitable if the WikiCaretakers team, for instance, is listed together with 20+ country teams (ideally).
What I would love to have, and please give comments on this, is a Teams page structured something like this:
Blah blah introduction Topical teams ------------- System-hackers WikiCaretakers Translators ... Country teams ------------- Austria Nordics France Germany ... Local groups ------------ Aberdeen Bari Berlin Athens Vienna ...
jzarl suggested using categories to separate topical and country teams, so we would have two categories:
Category/CountryTeam Category/TopicalTeam
And the teams otherwise sorted in the namespaces LocalGroups/ and Teams/
In addition, we also have a category for inactive teams:
Category/Inactive Category/Active
And each local group also has their own category, for instance Category/Austria.
I think this all makes sense as a structure, and would be easily achievable based on what we now have.
What we are missing are reasonable templates. We started using one for our teams, but I think we also need to have something for the local groups. To start this, we need to define what information we expect any team to fill out on their page. They may add additional information, of course, but the basics should be there.
From my side, I would like each team or group to have information
about:
The coordinator and (if appointed) deputy coordinator The mailing list(s) used for exchange between members A 1-3 sentence description of the team Information about how someone becomes active (join mailing list, get in touch with coordinator, etc)