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− | {{archive list|archives=[[/Archive 1|August 19, 2011 - September 8, 2019]]}} | + | {{Talk archive |
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− | = Explanation of Wiki Cap nomination hiatus = | + | | arc1link = Team Fortress Wiki talk:Wiki Cap/Nominations/Archive 1 |
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− | == Rationale ==
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− | With my sincere apologies to the editors at large. We have to read the
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− | writing on the wall at some point.
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− | TF2 is spinning down into maintenance mode, Valve is moving to an outsourced
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− | device-and-app store model as a company and as a whole we don't have the level
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− | of staff cohesion we used to. Both in terms of us mostly being a skeleton crew
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− | at this point and - more importantly - lacking the community engagement
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− | required to have substantial loc reviewers for each given language. And due to
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− | TF2 having slowed down in general, most of what gets nominated is for loc
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− | editors. STS being dissolved and removing the badge-incentive there didn't help
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− | us much either despite itself.
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− | Otherwise, I'm sensing a possible problem occurring with the queue at this
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− | point that I thought we ALL - staff and regular editors alike - agreed wouldn't
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− | become a problem. Which is that the hat is turning into a compulsory
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− | participation trophy that people think <b>must</b> be awarded on a systemic basis.
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− | This is not true and never has been. In fact it's contrary to the point of the
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− | hat as a token for valuable contributions to encourage more of them <b>per the
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− | years-old disclaimer we put in the Active nominations section</b>. We owe it to
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− | past recipients to maintain our branding for scrutiny. And fact of the matter
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− | is that issues with the last two nominees - including the flimsiness of their
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− | reviews and nominations in the first place - is good enough of a canary for me
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− | to call it quits on this experiment for the time being. We cannot - and I
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− | personally will not - allow the hat to turn into a blue ribbon based on friends
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− | nominating friends and staff having to take single reviews at face value.
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− | <b>One more time for anyone in the back not listening</b>: We owe it to our
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− | recipients past and <i>future</i> to maintain the strong branding of the hat.
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− | And it's our responsibility as community project stewards to do this even if it
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− | causes us the badfeels in present time.
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− | Again, I apologize to editors at large who didn't get to participate. But we've
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− | been doing this on a consistent volunteer basis for over 10 years now. This
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− | project was a success by any standard and maintenance mode is an inevitability
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− | sometimes.
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− | == FAQ ==
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− | === Is this closure a proposal or RFC? Are we voting on it? ===
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− | That time came and went. The primary issue at hand is staff
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− | cohesion, staff interest and lack of a sibling project (with their own badges)
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− | like STS to source from organically. Our system doesn't match the activity
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− | level from editors currently either.
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− | === Why though? Is this closure forever and no more wiki caps? ===
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− | I'm letting our old staff off the hook for volunteer work they have long since
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− | moved on from in spirit anyway. And work which is unfair to ask current staff
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− | to do for the time being without strong support. How long it lasts is mostly
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− | dependent on how long it takes Valve to decide they want to pay attention to
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− | fundamentals again and bring the community together. Finally fixing a few high priority bugs is a good sign.
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− | === Let's just make more people staff or force current ones to vote more actively! ===
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− | We have, but this doesn't solve the issue of loc-based nominees getting ever-harder to strongly verify/review. And in keeping with how stringently we've reviewed past nominees.
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− | === Let's just lower the vote threshold/requirements and devalue all past awards! ===
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− | <b>No.</b> And my response will be much the same to any similarly self-evidently bad ideas.
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− | -- [[User:Lagg|Lagg]] [[File:Backpack_Stickybomb_Launcher.png|24px|link=User_talk:Lagg]] 18:44, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
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