The community blog has an editorial board. We need to create it.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/editorial-guidelines/#editorial-board says
This board is created with at least three members of the Community Relations team at the Wikimedia Foundation
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | CKoerner_WMF | T226868 Setup recurring Editorial board meeting and invite contributors to participate | |||
| Resolved | CKoerner_WMF | T226817 Constitute the Diff editorial board |
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Basen on various conversations, we would like to have at least one person from Comms,
I personally wouldn't mind starting with 2 ComRel + 1 Comms, but I have no strong opinion.
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The Editorial Board had a first meeting last Friday. Can it be considered constituted or is there anything still missing?
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/wikimedia-space-editorial-board-meeting-7-12/443
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@Qgil I'd still very much like to have at least one volunteer community member on the board before considering it constituted. It's on my list to reach out to some more groups directly to see if they are interested.
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Some more thoughts. Being part of the editorial board could have multiple roles.
One role could be helping with new curation. Finding news and submitting it as a pitch to the blog. Another could be editing, reviewing drafts and helping posts along the way.
I'm going to start by creating a brief description of role and requirements. Post on forum as a new thread for discussion. We can see if folks are interested in helping out. We can also share a link to the post on social media groups and other areas .
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@CKoerner_WMF: Mass-moving open Space (Oct-Dec-2019) tasks to Space (Jan-Mar-2020). In case this task has been fixed (resolved) already or is not being worked on anymore (declined), please update the task status via the Add Action... → Change Status dropdown. Thanks!
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Even with the Space blog migrating to a new home, we still have a need for an editorial board with community membership. I renamed this task as we continue this work.
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Removing task assignee due to inactivity, as this open task has been assigned for more than two years (see emails sent to assignee on May26 and Jun17, and T270544). Please assign this task to yourself again if you still realistically [plan to] work on this task - it would be very welcome!
(See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Assignee_cleanup for tips how to best manage your individual work in Phabricator.)
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@CKoerner_WMF: Huh! Thanks, you found a bug. I cannot spot a message to you in my Sent folder (same for T63878). I'm sorry for the surprise and disruption. :-/
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We (The folks who help keep Diff running) have been thinking about this idea. Over the last two years we haven't seen much interest from community for creating such a board. Admittedly we as staff also haven't been able to dedicate the time it would take to setup and manage such a board. One set up the right way that would allow for the frequency and diversity of posts as we do now. (Also, the idea of an editorial board was from a different time and the organization has changed since then).
Diff in practice is working well. Folks from all over the movement show up to submit drafts and work with us on publishing. Our editorial process is light and our scope is broad. Anyone can login to see the drafts and view the editorial calendar. We published 654 posts in 2022 from hundreds of authors.
We're declining the creation of an editorial board and continue to encourage folks to write on Diff as they have been for the past 2.5 years. We have updated the documentation to reflect this. https://diff.wikimedia.org/editorial-guidelines/
We've also made it more clear who is behind Diff on our About page, making it easier for readers and authors to know who to contact.
Note: The user role of "Editor" still exists and allows for folks to participate in the editorial process. Most folks just want to publish their thing and that's cool, but for folks who want to help review and polish other items, that is still welcome.