The project has had a successful membership signup period. The interest in the project leads me to believe that the project could succeed as a fully functional and fully active project. I think the best thing to do is to seek volunteers for leadership and then select leaders from among those volunteers. Please add your name below if you would be interested in overseeing a function of the project. Off the top of my head, the current list of functions that we could use leaders for includes the following:
- Chicago Collaboration, which we could now focus on Top-importance Chicago articles
- Getting a newsletter going
- Oversee an A-Class review
- Oversee a Peer review
- Oversee other reviews and discussions
- Oversee the assessment department (including the selection of Top-importance articles)
- Oversee Portal:Chicago
- Oversee organization (maintaining categories and consider setting up task forces)
- Oversee project bots (if you know how to write bots)
Please sign your name below by August 23, 2008 if you would like to volunteer to oversee one or more of these functions:
- --TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:35, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
- I'll keep an eye on the categories. Speciate (talk) 19:58, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Emir34 I wanna to help WP:CHICAGO. Because it's awesome. To be honest, I like leadership, too. Emir34 (talk) 20:39, 16 August 2008 (UTC)- I could help out with some of the reviews and assessments mostly. I'm pretty familiar with WP:GAN and the GA criteria, and am somewhat of a regular and experienced reviewer over there. Dr. Cash (talk) 21:18, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
- I could do some review or assessment work if needed, I am currently the Coordinator of Assessment at WP:Aviation. -Marcusmax (talk) 23:12, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
- I'm up for anything, but I've probably had the most experience with Portals. I'm currently building and readying up Portal:Japan for Featured status, so maintained a featured portal like Portal:Chicago should be no problem. --TorsodogTalk 15:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
- I'd likewise be willing to lead or assist on review as well as coordinating or organizing photo and other media. Madcoverboy (talk) 07:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
- Hmm!! We still have no takers on the collaboration and newsletter. These are going to be important for the project.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 17:51, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
- A little late, but i'll help out on the newsletter and photos and other media thanks Astuishin (talk) 09:03, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
- I regret that I am unable to show leadership on any project on WP at this point. Perhaps sometime after the holidays. Ameriquedialectics 17:31, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Of the people who have shown an interest in helping to organize the project no one has noted an interest in being the Director/Lead coordinator. I will continue in that role since I have been doing it since December 2006. I will be contacting each of the leaders about the things I think they need to do to help us get going. Below is the first set of project leaders.
| Director | TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) |
|---|---|
| Coordinators | Torsodog (talk · contribs) Speciate (talk · contribs) Derek.cashman (talk · contribs) Marcusmax (talk · contribs) Madcoverboy (talk · contribs) Astuishin (talk · contribs) |
| Coordinator | Roles |
|---|---|
| Torsodog (talk) | Portal:Chicago |
| Speciate (talk) | WP:CHIBOTCATS |
| Derek.cashman (talk) | WP:CHIR, WP:CHIASSESS |
| Marcusmax (talk) | Delisting coordinator (FAR, GAR, & FLRC) |
| Madcoverboy (talk) | Peer review coordinator (internal & external) |
| Astuishin (talk) | Newsletter, Images |