Relevant preceding discussion: https://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-16228062/curation-team-creation
Here we begin the voting for the creation of the Curation Team. The original text of the proposal is below, and the proposed Captain of the team is Riemann; the VC will be selected after the team's creation, ideally taken from one of the MAST subteams being transferred over. The subteam structures are otherwise unchanged.
This will mark the first step in a concerted process to streamline the Rewrite/Curation team's responsibilities and duties.
What does this team look like?
The layout of the new team is thus.
Rewrite will be renamed to the Curation Team, with the current Rewrite team being preserved as a subteam within the auspices of the Curation Team, with a subteam captain position established.
The new Curation team will absorb Collab Pages, Guide Updating, and the Adult Content Curation team from MAST alongside Collections, maintaining their current structures and membership if the members so choose.
Rewrite: Part of this proposal will be to solidify the responsibilities of Rewrite. Rewrite's purview as a staff team is overseeing authorial and editorial changes to those pages left to staff's control. This does not cover navigational or technical changes, only changes that intersect with the authorial intent of the work, such as (non-exhaustively) changes to theme (both of the Sigma9/BHL and literary kind), characterisation, diction, intent, etc. Art - you know it when you see it, and all.
Most commonly this takes the form of those pages under a rating of +10 that have been transferred to staff control by virtue of the author being absent from the site and contact for more than 1 year. This is not exclusive, as Rewrite also maintains jurisdiction over similar boundaries for those pages explicitly granted to staff and the community. Furthermore, Rewrite is expected to continue its curation of Anonymous Articles.
Rewrite also maintains jurisdiction, though not final say, on edge cases involving authorial intent or major changes not covered here. The Rewrite Team page can be found here: https://05command.wikidot.com/rewrite-main
Collab Pages: Collaboration Pages currently covers Hubs, Collab Logs, and Collab Pages. The responsibilities of the Collab Pages subteam should be unchanged in the case of Collab Logs and Collaboration Pages: the curation and pruning of inappropriate and poor additions to Collaboration Logs or Collaboration Pages. Much like the Rewrite Subteam, the usage of the word "poor" here is difficult, if not impossible, to quantify.
The subteam must maintain some level of editorial control in making such decisions, so I will not attempt to define "poor" here. However, perceived abuses of this power, along with the Rewrite subteam, can and should be brought to the Curation Team captain and admins, or discussed among staff, as a path of remittance.
The Collab Pages subteam will work with the Rewrite subteam on those Hubs that have been handed to staff control. The Collab Pages subteam maintains control over navigational elements of the Hubs, such as the addition of new pages and maintenance of the hub. Issues of aesthetic presentation, such as a new theme, or significant content edits, such as major changes to descriptions within the hub, must be done in collaboration with the Rewrite subteam. This purview extends only towards those hubs left in staff's control, through author inactivity similar to existing Rewrite policy (>1 year absence) or cases where the hub has been given to the community.
The Collab Pages subteam has its responsibilities outlined here - http://05command.wikidot.com/mast-collaboration-pages and we shall not be enacting changes to those responsibilities outside of those outlined here.
Guide Updating: Guide Updating's responsibilities are focused on maintaining and updating the non-fiction guides on the wiki that have been transferred to staff, either by inactivity by the part of the author or deliberate choice.
Collections: The Collections team is expected to continue operating in its current autonomous form.
Adult Content Curation: The ACC subteam's responsibilities are unchanged from the bounds of their original proposal.
This vote will be open for two weeks.
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