Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Children's literature/Collaboration

Templates

If this department is going to run smoothly, should we create some templates to help this? For instance, we could adapt {{WikiProject Children's literature}} to include a note on collaboration articles (with options for 'past' and 'current', possibly even 'future'.) We could also create an updates template like {{Wikipedia:CHERUB/Update}} to keep users informed. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 09:23, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

I think better templates is a great idea.Barkeep49 (talk) 01:11, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

I've created a couple at /Alert box and /Current. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 18:27, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Would it be possible to get the "Tasks you can do" field to contain tasks specific to the article in question rather than our usual generic list? I think that would be more helpful to fellow editors as it would give a pointer to specific areas. Sometimes it's hard to know where to start when looking to improve an article. Or would that be covered on the Talk page? If so, I suggest that one doesn't need the "Tasks you can do" field in this template.--Plad2 (talk) 07:04, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Oops! I accidentally linked to the talk pages - that was just the normal project box. The templates are actually at Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/Collaboration/Alert box and Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/Collaboration/Current. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 17:45, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Notification

I think that more members of the WikiProject should be notified of the existence of this department. There's only about 4 of us who visit it. It's a really important thing that is sadly being overlooked. Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 20:03, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

I visit regularly and have this page on my watchlist, so it's not that I'm not interested. It's just that my time on Wikipedia is fully occupied with the task of clearing up our backlog of unreferenced BLPs, which is, to my mind a more urgent issue. When I'm done with that (I live in hope), I would love to join a collaboration project. If you look at the Active members list, you will see that pretty much everyone is genuinely active and working on things which interest them. We only have a small group of editors actively involved in the project, so I think we should be content with the idea that collaboration moves at a gentle pace.--Plad2 (talk) 07:00, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

We could send out a message to all the Active Members list. I've done that before on more than one occasion, with mixed results... That is why we made the list in the first place. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 17:47, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Length

How long is one collaboration article going to last; a week, a fortnight, a month? I know this may be set to change in the future as the department starts to get off the ground, I just feel that we hould have some sort of time scale for this. Cheers, Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 17:51, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

At the moment, this is really in a trial period, but I agree we need to formalise some kind of criteria for participation, time periods etc. Perhaps leave this one and see how it goes, and then set these for the next? strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 16:54, 24 March 2010 (UTC)