Posting with Permission of DrBleep
MAST is in the process of rewriting the current Staff Structure page. During this process, a question concerning whether or not the concept of Targeted Teams should continue to be present arose. The original concept of targeted teams is listed as follows:
A targeted project is something which, when finished, means the team is no longer necessary. A team devoted to rewriting the newbies guide, for example, would have a set of goals. When those goals are finished, the team is removed. However, if when they've finished the newbies guide, they realize they want to continue working on guides, the team could be modified and asked to continue their work. Much of this is determined by the team leader and team members and their own initiative.
As it stands (to my knowledge), only two targeted teams were ever realized, Images and WikiWalk. These teams were quickly made into permanent teams before later being merged into the Licensing and MAST teams respectively.
There is a list of proposed Targeted Teams on the current Staff Structure page. Many of these targeted teams have become subteams for existing teams as time has progressed. These proposed teams are as follows:
Guide Maintainers: Deal with guide cleanup. Works in phases according to current administrative goals.
ARC Recovery: Handle rewriting of ARC'd SCPs with the intent to recover them to the site.
Tales Team: Investigate ways to raise the profile of Tales, Tale-reading, and Tale-writing, on the site. Come up with projects to support this. Recommend courses of action to administration.
Contests Committee: Assist administrators with running contests. Gather feedback from users. Suggest improvements to contest structures. Assist in the actual running of individual contests.
Staff Expansion Hunters: Compile a list of potentially qualified users to consider and 'vet' for senior staff, using specific guidelines & criteria given by administration. Special - Secret Membership. Even though this would come up multiple times, different members would be chosen each time.
Policy Advisors: Investigate the effects of current site policy on users of the wiki and wiki functionality and report to administrators. Suggest potential improvements, and alert administrators if a change is necessary due to site cultural shifts. [May not be necessary; team leads may do this organically. But it could be good to have a separate team with specific goals.]
Creative Environment Task Forces: Tackle specific staff- and/or user-perceived problems with the site's creative environment, such as unnecessary policy limitations or guidelines, potential expansions, structural issues that get in the way, etc.
As well as the question of targeted teams, it has also been brought up to create a discussion for the Staff Structure rewrite. The current rewrite is in this sandbox page.
This discussion should consist of opinions concerning the concept of targeted teams and its presence in the Staff Structure page, whether any of the currently listed teams should be further discussed, and any further suggestions for the Staff Structure rewrite.
Edit: Due to the current consensus, a timer has been set to finish this discussion after a combined total of a one week period.
Timer has been removed.
