Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Coordinators

The coordinators page of WikiProject Films lists the current coordinators and their responsibilities. The page also addresses how coordinators are selected and links to the election history. Also included is a handbook for what coordinators can do in their roles.

Responsibilities
The primary responsibility of the project coordinators is the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth. There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course—in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process—but, since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.

The coordinators also have several additional roles. They will serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. They also try to regularly contribute to the reviews involving film-related articles, looking out in particular for reviews which require additional voices. In addition, they have highly informal roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to informally resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive. The coordinators are not, however, a body for formal dispute resolution; serious disputes should be addressed through the normal dispute resolution process.

Selection
Coordinators are elected by a simple approval vote, held every 12 months. Any editor with membership in WikiProject Films and with at least 500 edits by the announcement of the election may be a candidate. This includes current coordinators, who may be re-elected without limit. The latest election process consisted of a two-week sign-up period and a two-week voting period, but these times—as well as all other details of the elections—are subject to change at any time, provided that a consensus to do so exists within the project.

Co-opting members into coordinators may also be done at the discretion of the coordinators, but should be expected to be used on a limited basis to replace those unlikely to return, fill empty seats, cover long-term absences, or help the coordinators continue to work efficiently if they feel otherwise understaffed.

History

 * Initial concept

The initial discussion that led to the creation of the project coordinator positions took place in September 2007; it arose from the awareness of a similar position within the Military history project.

Agenda

 * Note: Below is a preliminary agenda to outline what can be accomplished this term and beyond and is subject to modification.

The agenda is categorized into five areas: internal organization, external organization, article quality, internal collaboration, and external collaboration. Each area lists objectives, tasks to complete them, and identifies the objectives' priority.

Open tasks

 * These tasks should be done as often as needed—ideally, on a daily basis.


 * Assessment
 * Monitor the daily assessment log. The main things to look for:
 * Articles being removed. This is usually legitimate (due to merges or non-film articles getting untagged), but is sometimes due to vandalism or broken template code. Also note that even though the banner and tags remain on the talk page, assessing a Future-class will remove the article from the bot's listing.
 * Articles being moved to "GA-Class" and higher quality. These ratings need to correspond to the article's status in the GA and FA lists, as well as our A-Class review.
 * All newly added articles should be quickly scanned to see if additional task force tags or other maintenance tags (such as "needs infobox") are required.
 * Deal with any new assessment requests and the unassessed articles.


 * Peer review
 * For each new peer review request:
 * Add the review to the WPFILMS Announcements template and the corresponding section in the review department.
 * Leave a note on the main project talk page, and with each appropriate task force or contact (if any), using the following boilerplate: Name of article
 * For each peer review that has been archived:
 * Remove the review from the WPFILMS Announcements template and the corresponding section in the review department.


 * A-Class review
 * For each new A-Class review request:
 * Add the review to the WPFILMS Announcements template and the corresponding section in the review department.
 * Leave a note on the main project talk page, using the following boilerplate: Name of article
 * Leave a note with each appropriate task force (if any), using the following boilerplate: Name of article
 * For each ongoing A-Class review:
 * If a review has been open for two days without at least three editors commenting, leave a reminder note on the main project talk page, using the following boilerplate: Name of article
 * If a review has been open for four days, close and archive it.
 * For each A-Class review that has been archived:
 * Remove the review from the WPFILMS Announcements template and the corresponding section in the review department.
 * If the article was promoted to A-Class (or demoted from it), add it to (or relist it at) the project spotlight.


 * Featured content
 * For each new featured article candidacy, featured article review, featured list candidacy, featured portal candidacy, and featured topic candidacy:
 * Add the candidacy or review to the WPFILMS Announcements template and the corresponding section in the review department.
 * For each concluded featured article candidacy, featured article review, featured list candidacy, featured portal candidacy, and featured topic candidacy:
 * Remove the candidacy or review from the WPFILMS Announcements template and the corresponding section in the review department.
 * If the article, list, portal, or topic was promoted to featured status (or demoted from it), add it to (or relist it at) the project spotlight.


 * Member outreach
 * Welcome anybody who joins the project, using the following boilerplate: ~
 * Update WikiProject Films/Outreach/July 2024 Newsletter with new developments within the project.


 * Other
 * Fix the Film syntax on any articles in Category:Incorrectly tagged WikiProject Films articles. The main culprits are the following:
 * Deleted peer-review or old-peer-review parameters. Restore as appropriate.
 * No WP Films peer review subpage. This usually occurs when editors turn on the peer-review tag in our banner but use the main peer review page. Open the banner, click on the peer review redlink, and redirect the page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Peer review/Foo film) to the original peer review page (Wikipedia:Peer review/Foo film).
 * Changed page name. Do as above, but redirect to the wherever the original peer review was.
 * Start or Stub articles that meet all of the B-Class parameters. Check the article to see if they actually do. If not, change the relevant parameters. If they do, then reassess the article to B-Class.
 * A-Class articles which have not passed A-Class review. (To be effective shortly when the dormant parameter is activated.) Re-tag down to GA (if already earned) or B.

One-time tasks

 * These tasks are targeted housekeeping drives which require immediate attention only once or infrequent maintenance.


 * Task force tagging - several task forces are in need of comprehensive "search and tag" runs so that the vast majority of their articles are identified and tagged. Most notably the following:
 * Film awards (well-tagged, but needs a more thorough follow-up)
 * British cinema

New task force

 * N.B.: Creating a task force involves a great deal of work, and is very time-consuming to reverse if an inappropriate or misnamed group is created. It is generally inadvisable to create task forces without prior discussion—particularly regarding the name and scope—on the project's main talk page.

Before a task force can be created, it is necessary to decide on a name for it. The process requires both a full name (e.g. "French cinema" or "Film festivals") and a one- or two-word or acronym shorthand used for some template parameters (e.g. "French" or "Festival"). The instructions below use the "Fooish cinema" task force (shortened to "Fooish") as an example; when creating an actual task force, remember to substitute the correct name, rather than actually creating the example pages.


 * 1) Create the task force page:
 * 2) Create the main task force page (WikiProject Films/Fooish cinema task force) with Fooish cinema as the content.
 * 3) Fill in the "Scope" section on the new task force page.
 * 4) Create the task force talk page (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films/Fooish cinema task force) with  as the content.
 * 5) Add support for the task force to Film:
 * 6) Select an image to use as the task force icon.  The image should be recognizable at a small size and reasonably representative of the topic of the task force.
 * 7) Add the task force display code (shown below) to the task force section of Film, in correct position among the task force parameters.  The first letter of the task force name should always be capitalized.
 * 8) Add the appropriate code to the checks section of Film, as well as the WikiProject Film/Checks subtemplate.
 * 9) Update the project banner documentation:
 * 10) Add "Fooish-task-force" to the example syntax, in correct position among the task force parameters.
 * 11) Add " " to the instructions, in correct position among the task force parameters.
 * 12) Set up the task force assessment infrastructure:
 * 13) Create the main task force category (Category:Fooish cinema task force articles) with  as the content.
 * 14) Create the main task force assessment category (Category:Fooish cinema articles by quality) with  as the content.
 * 15) Create the assessment level sub-categories:
 * 16) Category:FA-Class Fooish cinema articles with  as the content.
 * 17) Category:FL-Class Fooish cinema articles with  as the content.
 * 18) Category:A-Class Fooish cinema articles with  as the content.
 * 19) Category:GA-Class Fooish cinema articles with  as the content.
 * 20) Category:B-Class Fooish cinema articles with  as the content.
 * 21) Category:Start-Class Fooish cinema articles with  as the content.
 * 22) Category:Stub-Class Fooish cinema articles with  as the content.
 * 23) Category:List-Class Fooish cinema articles with  as the content.
 * 24) Category:Future-Class Fooish cinema articles with  as the content.
 * 25) Category:Unassessed Fooish cinema articles with  as the content.
 * 26) Category:Non-article Fooish cinema pages with  as the content.
 * 27) Category:Fooish cinema categories with  as the content.
 * 28) Category:Fooish cinema disambiguation pages with  as the content.
 * 29) Category:Fooish cinema templates with  as the content.
 * 30) Add the task force's statistics table  to the task force statistics table in the assessment department.
 * 31) Set up the task force's open tasks listing:
 * 32) Create the task force's open task template (WPFILMS Announcements/Fooish cinema) using the syntax shown on WPFILMS Announcements/Task force as the content.  At a minimum, the name parameter must be set to " "; optionally, some initial tasks should be located and added to the listing.
 * 33) Add the new template to the "Task force lists" section of WPFILMS Announcements; the column break should be moved, if necessary, to keep the two columns properly aligned.
 * 34) Set up the task force's userboxes:
 * 35) Create the task force userbox (User Fooish cinema task force) with the following content, using the same image as was used in Film above:
 * 36) Add the following to the userbox listing at WikiProject Films/Templates/Userboxes, in proper order among the other task force userboxes:
 * 37) Add the task force to the project's navigation system:
 * 38) Add a link to the task force to the "Task forces" section of the main project page.
 * 39) Add links to the task force and talk page to the appropriate section of WP Film Sidebar
 * 40) Announce the new task force:
 * 41) Add an announcement of the new task force page to the "Announcements" section of WPFILMS Announcements, and to the discussion of the task force proposal on the project's talk pages (if any).
 * 42) Add the task force to the "Films" section of the WikiProject directory; add cross-reference links to any other sections into which the task force falls.
 * 1) Add the following to the userbox listing at WikiProject Films/Templates/Userboxes, in proper order among the other task force userboxes:
 * 2) Add the task force to the project's navigation system:
 * 3) Add a link to the task force to the "Task forces" section of the main project page.
 * 4) Add links to the task force and talk page to the appropriate section of WP Film Sidebar
 * 5) Announce the new task force:
 * 6) Add an announcement of the new task force page to the "Announcements" section of WPFILMS Announcements, and to the discussion of the task force proposal on the project's talk pages (if any).
 * 7) Add the task force to the "Films" section of the WikiProject directory; add cross-reference links to any other sections into which the task force falls.
 * 1) Add the following to the userbox listing at WikiProject Films/Templates/Userboxes, in proper order among the other task force userboxes:
 * 2) Add the task force to the project's navigation system:
 * 3) Add a link to the task force to the "Task forces" section of the main project page.
 * 4) Add links to the task force and talk page to the appropriate section of WP Film Sidebar
 * 5) Announce the new task force:
 * 6) Add an announcement of the new task force page to the "Announcements" section of WPFILMS Announcements, and to the discussion of the task force proposal on the project's talk pages (if any).
 * 7) Add the task force to the "Films" section of the WikiProject directory; add cross-reference links to any other sections into which the task force falls.
 * 1) Announce the new task force:
 * 2) Add an announcement of the new task force page to the "Announcements" section of WPFILMS Announcements, and to the discussion of the task force proposal on the project's talk pages (if any).
 * 3) Add the task force to the "Films" section of the WikiProject directory; add cross-reference links to any other sections into which the task force falls.

Boilerplate and templates

 * mostly "Film"-ified...