Forum:"Social" user group

Forums - "Social" user group

This page is an archive. Please do not edit the contents of this page. Comment: Being discussed in reincarnation forums (This may already be in place somewhere when I wasn't paying attention, please let me know if it is and disregard) I'd like to propose a new "user group", which doesn't specifically have any rights on here, but are the people who can run and maintain our social media pages (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, maybe elsewhere?). From what I can tell, the maintainer of these sites is sort of passed from person to person every so often with no real community input or any way to clearly tell who is in fact running these sites. At the moment, it's definitely not transparent and the community at the moment has no say as to who's running it. We could also probably do with a bit more activity on some of our sites (I'm thinking of our Facebook page moreso than Twitter, the Twitter page has been pretty good, and we've just passed 1000 followers. But some more posts can't hurt). So, I'm suggesting we: Either: Have a user rights request page on here, much like BP:RFA Or, extend the news reporter group to be allowed to also handle the sites Make a page, "Brickipedia:Social media sites", which lists all our social media sites and who's currently actively maintaining each of them so people know who exactly to contact if they have any questions/suggestions whatever for the sites. NovaHawk 06:14, 22 June 2014 (UTC) On the Tech Department Skype, Ajr suggested some other community members took responsibility for stuff. It's a coincidence you posted this. -SirComputer (talk) 07:11, 22 June 2014 (UTC) I don't meet half the requirements Meiko suggested for the similar idea over at Meta, but I can use Twitter and I know this site so I can help with the Twitter. CJC95 (talk) 10:34, 22 June 2014 (UTC) It doesn't really need a group or a request process. All it needs is someone who has a tiny bit of understanding about how to use social media effectively and is trustworthy on here. Anyone like that can just PM me on chat or email me and I'd be glad to give them access to the Facebook and Twitter pages for Brickipedia. --ToaMeiko (talk) 16:18, 22 June 2014 (UTC) Well, again, isn't that for the community to decide? I fail to see where anyone was ever voted unilateral control over all of our social media sites and who should run them :S NovaHawk 00:10, 23 June 2014 (UTC) It doesn't have any influence on the community, therefore the community doesn't need to vote on this kind of thing. All that matters is that relevant stuff from the wiki (e.g. news) gets posted on social media. Technically I could just wire a bot to do this if we have to establish another voting process. Voting on things like this is just a hassle. --ToaMeiko (talk) 15:39, 23 June 2014 (UTC) Voting Have a new group While at first I thought it would be simpler to just give this to the news reporter group, I realised that this group could grow significantly larger over time, and having 20 people managing our Facebook page might be a bit much... NovaHawk 00:10, 23 June 2014 (UTC) Extend the news reporter group to be able to edit our social sites Oppose See my above comments. It's just unnecessary. --ToaMeiko (talk) 15:39, 23 June 2014 (UTC) Comments What would be the requirements of such group and how would the voting process work? I'd want to avoid a situation like BP:QCG (where the lack of active members requires a unanimous support for it to pass (a vote to pass requires 60% and +3 total, and we only have 4 active members) or BP:BAG. CJC95 (talk) 12:13, 23 June 2014 (UTC)