User blog:Zanzan28/Simply Put

Here is a chat log from the meeting held on Monday, October 8th on the Activity Imp Deparment. Please look at the end of this blog for info on how to answer a questionare. Please post it in the coments to this blog to be reviewed. Thanks

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'''Zanzan28 '''Little we are having a meeting right now, so we sadly have to ask you to leave chat for about an hour '''Zanzan28 '''Okay, so to continue '''Bryans1008 '''Erm...mind if I say something? '''Zanzan28 '''So now I am offering a few mins for questions '''Bryans1008 '''Okay, I understand the "new goal," but we can't just toss the old functions. '''Zanzan28 '''I'm not saying we should '''Lissyboo '''You're saying, like a... buddy program? Though I agree with Bry, I like the idea. How exactly would we include old functions into the new ideas? '''Zanzan28 '''So we should focus energy elsewhere '''Lissyboo '''Yes, mainly becuase admins are not always on. Though, I only let admins, Rollbacks or B-crats GM my battles, I would have to wait until one is on. '''Zanzan28 '''Which is one of the reasons that with this department '''Lissyboo '''I like it. '''Zanzan28 Thanks xD Bryans1008 '''questionnaire? '''Zanzan28 '''Yep '''Lissyboo '''Like a mentor thing, kinda? '''Zanzan28 '''Exactly '''Zanzan28 '''the guide will openly explain the war '''Lissyboo '''May I ask a question? '''Zanzan28 '''yah sure '''Lissyboo '''How exactly would someone explain the war slowly? I'm usually very quick with explaining things. '''Zanzan28 '''just one day be "so on the outside of Hogwarts there is a war going on... and at the same time charms class is cool because...." '''Peislandgal '''^so we are expected to be on everyday with this buddy? '''Lissyboo '''Yes, thank you. '''Zanzan28 '''Well not EVERYday '''Lissyboo '''I think, if the person is on at the same tiem you are, usually, you can try to help him/her as much as possible. '''Zanzan28 ^ Lissyboo Yay:) Zanzan28 heya bondy Bond em7 Hi, sorry I'm late Lissyboo Hey, Papa Bond~ Jiskran Hi, Bond. Zanzan28 just having our small but still cool meeting xD Bond em7 Great Zanzan28 I'll post a chat log after to show you what was discussed Bond em7 No problem. Zanzan28 so who wants a questionnaire!?!? xD Lissyboo I do!:D Zanzan28 even if your not openly considering the department you may want to do it for fun    Lissyboo if I go 'Omg who am I???" i'm blaming myself. Zanzan28 '''so the questionnaire's functionality is thanks to Jiskran
 * 1) So I would like to thank you all for coming to this study group
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 * 3) And today I will introduce to you the new workings of the Activity Imp department.
 * 4) So before I begin I will show you guys the agenda for the meeting
 * 5) Zan will officially unveil the new workings of the Activity Implementation Department.
 * 6) Questions can be asked and imput submited. (3-4 mins)
 * 7) The questionare for becoming a member of the department will go around.
 * 8) An explaination of how this department will fit into the entirity of the wiki will continue/begin.
 * 9) More questions can be asked and more imput can be submited. (3-4 mins)
 * 10) Anything else that is required from another Bureacrat, or issues that should be brought up involving the administration, policy, and other things (all of course to some extent relating to the new department) will be handled.
 * 11) Final question and imput submition. (5-7 mins)
 * 12) So for our first part of the meeting
 * 13) I will officially introduce the new workings of the department
 * 14) So the Activity Imp Department, in the older days
 * 15) the job of the department was to implement the actually cool new features to the wiki, and help the story of the wiki become actualized in the roleplays
 * 16) GMs, Coders and all people were welcomed to be a part of the department
 * 17) But soon enough
 * 18) the department's duties began to be absorbed by everyday users
 * 19) People would pick GMs by anyone online
 * 20) People would implement the story by themselves
 * 21) So the usefulness of the department began to fall
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 * 1) at the same time of the activity imp department's usefulness falling, so did the necessity of new users
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 * 3) At the moment this wiki has many active users.
 * 4) But have you noticed that about 80% or even more than that, are administrators, rollbacks, and bureaucrats?
 * 5) So the older users get the titles and rights, but we have nothing to do but govern and guideourselves without the new users
 * 6) So now think of yourself as a new user
 * 7) you've just finished the harry potter books, and you are extremely excited about being a part of it
 * 8) so you find a roleplay wiki
 * 9) It happens to be this one
 * 10) You come in, you get sorted, and your ready to be a proud member of your house
 * 11) you buy your supplies, and you create your character page
 * 12) And your ready to go to class and...
 * 13) WHAM
 * 14) Suddenly you see that most of the users on this wiki are roleplay about some foreign "war"
 * 15) The idea of going further than roleplay within Hogwarts, with no backstory, no help frightens you
 * 16) Your confused and yet no one is there to explain anything about why this war is going on/
 * 17) No one is RPing in Hogwarts because they are roleplaying as adult characters in this war
 * 18) Suddenly you feel lonely, as if all these guys are in on some joke you don't understand!
 * 19) So as you feel neglected, you
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 * 22) my dog was about to run out of my house xD
 * 23) so you feel neglected
 * 24) your upset, you can't make friends because everyone is upsessed with this war, the order, all things you don't understand
 * 25) So you quit.
 * 26) You outright leave the wiki
 * 27) You've been here a week, and there has been no effort to explain to you what is going on, no effort to include you, no effort to RP with you.
 * 28) so you quit
 * 29) I personally see a lot of that going on around here
 * 30) we have short term users
 * 31) who are just stopping by and want to see if this is worth their time
 * 32) And it isnt
 * 33) because they just don't get it
 * 34) So instead of the old activity imp
 * 35) We are changing it-
 * 36) To Implementing the Activities.
 * 37) instead of GMing and putting in story pages
 * 38) we will pair up with these new users, and we will personally oversee they feel welcomed
 * 39) And that is the new found goal of Activity Imp
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 * 1) Yah of course bryans
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 * 1) I'm just saying that those functions haven't been used
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 * 1) Well the old functions like GM
 * 2) GMing has been completely changed
 * 3) into "whoever is on and not in the battle will do it"
 * 4) That's where we are currently with these old ideas
 * 5) and other than that
 * 6) the department created location pages, and ran the triwizard tournament
 * 7) location pages have been taken over by the users as well
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 * 1) we are asking in the questionnaire the times you will be on
 * 2) the other is to help the new user, and pare them up well
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 * 1) During this meeting
 * 2) I was planing to hand out a questionnaire for this department
 * 3) This department is like no other before, requiring that your in a near by time zone as the user your helping,
 * 4) and of course that you will get a long with and like spending time with new users
 * 5) and being a bit of an older sibling to them
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 * 1) So I am going to explain the functionality of the department next
 * 2) unless there are anymore questions at the moment?
 * 3) Okay
 * 4) So I'll get into Part 2 then
 * 5) So Part 2 is the functionality of the department
 * 6) How will we put this all into play
 * 7) Well after this I will be giving you a the questionnaire like I said before
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 * 9) we will use that to see if your right for the job of hanging out with the new comers
 * 10) the reasoning behind the questionnaires are the importance of making a first impresstion with the users
 * 11) but anyway
 * 12) please be aware THIS PLAN IS OPEN TO CHANGE
 * 13) and will not be installed immediately
 * 14) AT the moment, we have a sorta set up idea in mind
 * 15) When the new user goes through their sorting they will also write their timezone
 * 16) the sorter will know/ look at a list of the timezones of the members of this department
 * 17) and assign via how many little buddies the administrator has
 * 18) and the time zone
 * 19) if they can take on another buddy
 * 20) Jisk offered up the idea of a personality question/test that could be included with the storting
 * 21) which I like as well
 * 22) so activity imp members will check once every other day
 * 23) if they have received a buddy
 * 24) a new buddy*
 * 25) they will send a personal welcoming owl to the person and get to know them well
 * 26) They will answer ANY questions that new user has about the wiki, no matter how annoying or similar it may have been to others
 * 27) and they will keep smiling
 * 28) and be nice
 * 29) a part (albeit a small part) of this admins job is to RP with their buddy
 * 30) and it's even better if they have a student character for them to do so
 * 31) a student or professor
 * 32) the admin will explain SLOWLY the goings on with the war
 * 33) but will also let the user live in the happiness that is Hogwarts
 * 34) And after about a 1-2 weeks
 * 35) Bryans1008 has left Hogwarts.
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 * 1) and answer any questions there as well
 * 2) and then the two will part ways, still being friendly to one another but the activity imp member will have received a new buddy
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 * 1) the next day
 * 2) "so that charms professor fights in the war at the side of the minister who's name is Einar Faris"
 * 3) just don't push the war on them
 * 4) let them ask for it
 * 5) and then give it to them, and let them go explore that world themselves
 * 6) if they are not pushing for it you would simply do what I just did
 * 7) little info points every day
 * 8) and then nudge them out of the nest into open warfare xD
 * 9) does that answer your question?
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 * 1) but the job does expect you to be on at the VERY LEAST every other day
 * 2) and report when you will not be available for longer than 5 days
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 * 1) which is surprising
 * 2) Because I hate tests.
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 * 1) its quick and easy
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 * 1) To keep things, relatively privet
 * 2) I ask that you go to the Template:Activity Imp
 * 3) and copy and paste that
 * 4) then create a template entitled
 * 5) Template:Activity Imp/USERNAME
 * 6) fill in the username with your own xD
 * 7) and here is my example
 * 8) Template:Activity Imp/Zanzan28
 * 9) And then I ask that you PM me your finished product when your done.