Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design/Coordinator

Coordinator election

An election has been proposed and has been set up for this project. (Revived 14 September 2014 by Mareklug ^talk)

If you wish to stand, enter your candidacy below, ideally before the end of May September and ask your questions of anyone already standing. Voting will start on the 1st of June October 2014, and shall close at the end of October 2014. The intention is for the appointments to last from 1 November to 1 November (of next the following year).

Results

Please put results here in July 1 November 2014 - First place vote-getter(s) IS become(s) the Coordinator(s):

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  First place ?
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  Second place ?
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  Third place ?

Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of the project coordinator(s) is the maintenance and housekeeping involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement list and the open task list 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 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 Design-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 Industrial design and with (ideally) 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 month sign-up period and a month 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

Dates / People

1. 2009 - June 2010 / Alainr345 (informal coordinator for the startup phase of the project)
2. 14 September 2014 found abandoned by Mareklug ^talk and reactivated. Village Pump-announced.

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Current election (the full month of October 2014)

Nominees should add this boilerplate at the end of the page by the start of the election.

=== Name ===
{{user|Name}}
: Statement goes here...

==== Comments and questions for Name ====
* ''What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within WikiProject Industrial design?''
** Response goes here...
* ''What skills/qualities can you contribute as a Industrial design coordinator?''
** Response goes here...

==== Votes in support of Name ====
#

The election will be conducted using simple approval voting. Any member of the project may support as many of the candidates as they wish. The candidate with the highest number of endorsements will become the Coordinator, and in case of a tie, Coordinators. If no votes are cast, the election process becomes inactive yet again. Feel free to sign up as WikiProject member and most importantly, edit Wikipedia constructively.

Mareklug

Mareklug (talk · contribs) Today I discovered that we have this WikiProject. Then I found out it is considered inactive, and that in 2010 it was to have its first coordinator elected. I decided to tender my candidacy, update the election page, add myself to the WikiProject membership, announce the election with a Village Pump announcement, as well as work to revive the project itself, getting more people to contribute to this corner of Wikipedia. Let's do it! --Mareklug ^talk 22:43, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Comments and questions for Mareklug

• What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within WikiProject Industrial design?
  • I recently uploaded the first real photo image of a Mac Pro Late 2013 edition to be resident within Wikimedia Commons, and fought a hard campaign persuading technical subjects' editor on de wiki and another on tr wiki/commons to have it be used throughout the article's interwiki space in the infobox, replacing a poor not-to-scale drawing of the machine juxtaposed with the old Mac Pro (the original design rectangular tower). Sadly, this has not come to pass. My image (I took the picture myself) is available on Commons and is being used in an article, but just not the infobox of Mac Pro. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mareklug (talk • contribs) 22:39, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
• What skills/qualities can you contribute as a Industrial design coordinator?
  • I am a veteran Wikipedian, a veteran editor not just of wikipedia but literary magazine and nonprofit literary press; I am knowledgable in industrial design as a hobby; I am well-organized and motivated to revive this inactive WikiProject. Disclosure: I am an Apple Evangelist by avocation and operating systems/hardware use history: My first computer, one that I bought myself, is a Mac IIcx with 8 meg RAM and a 24-bit true color GPU, c. 1987. It is still running, powered on as I type this, connected to the Internet via LAN, the same hardware-firewalled subnet which houses annie, our literary press' 12-core Mac Pro Late 2013 research and production machine. Mareklug ^talk 22:39, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Comments by AndyTheGrump

Original section-title was: "What exactly is the purpose of this election?"

I can see no evidence that WikiProject industrial design is active in any meaningful sense - and have to suggest that accordingly there is nothing to 'coordinate'. Unless and until the project attracts more contributors, an election is premature. Get the project running, then decide what if any formal structure is needed. AndyTheGrump (talk) 03:00, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Well. Andy, any hay about and involving the project, such as putting out a notice advertising this revived election, is calculated to attract contributors, thus revive the project. I am trying to accomplish precisely what you advise. Accordingly, dear Andy, please join this WikiProject. Even if you wikignome within its scope only once in a blue moon, you will have helped build Wikipedia content materially. This is so much more important than jawboning in Wikipedia namespace--Mareklug ^talk 18:48, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Votes in support of Mareklug

1. I don't see why not. There is always good with a coordinator, even with "half-dead" WikiProjects. If a user becomes a coordinator, it means that one user is still active and keeping it alive. (t) Josve05a (c) 20:21, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

   Note: An editor has expressed a concern that Josve05a (talk • contribs) has been canvassed to this discussion.

2. I do think I will do a good job, so after some soul-searching ;), I cast my vote for myself at this time. --Mareklug ^talk 16:47, 15 October 2014 (UTC)