Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Google/Alphabet task force

Organization

@Tcrow777: @Varnent: Do either of you have any ideas for how to organize the Wikiproject? StudiesWorld (talk) 13:14, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

I don't expect much more more than the way things are now, at least in the short-term future. We're in a quiet news phase right now, and all the commotion regarding the Alphabet bombshell has subsided. One key area I think we should all focus on is averting the tragic level of misinformation disseminated by the edits in the hours after the Alphabet announcement. Wikipedia messed up, and it's a miracle our mess ups didn't end up in news coverage.

For projects as small as this, it's important that we don't spend so much time editing WikiProject pages and delegating tasks, that we lose focus on actually building and editing mainspace articles; large projects need rules and traffic control, small ones don't really need it, or benefit from it. That being said, presentation is key to recruitment: broken templates, empty project page sections, red links, etc. signal abandonment and/or neglect. The quantity of the task force organization should match the quantity of task force participation, but the quality should always be our best. Tcrow777 ^Talk 12:27, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

I tend to agree that for now - it's going to be important to clean up errors and focusing on mainspace edits. However, we should finish setting up some of the base setup of the project. I wonder if Task Force vs. WikiProject makes much of a difference? It can also be helpful to add the banner to article talk pages to get more attention and define article scope. WikiProject X is also developing some helpful resources. --Varnent (talk)^(COI) 17:55, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

I agree with all of what you said but it is a wikiproject not a task force. StudiesWorld (talk) 16:57, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Then it should be renamed and treated as such. Although I personally think it is very unlikely to succeed as a separate WikiProject given the activity level of the Google WikiProject. I would strongly encourage not changing to something separate. --Varnent (talk)^(COI) 17:31, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

@Varnent: If we do every change, would you help the conversion? If, we succeed independently would you rejoin? StudiesWorld (talk) 10:53, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

@StudiesWorld: I would certainly rejoin. I am nervous about helping with the rest of the changes as I generally only like to do edits I can "defend" if asked to. I am not really sure how to explain to folks that this effort falls outside of what WP Google is working on. To me, there's too much overlap to avoid the groups working together, and doing that as separate WikiProjects seems less logical to at least me personally after looking into how other Tasks forces and WikiProjects got going. --Varnent (talk)^(COI) 12:06, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Recruiting

What would be the best method for recruiting new members? StudiesWorld (talk) 13:14, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

I think use of banners and functional templates will be the best method. --Varnent (talk)^(COI) 17:55, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

new branch

Verb is a new company under Alphabet

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50.193.19.66 (talk) 16:49, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Requested Move of X

There is an open discussion on moving X (incubator) to something else that uses a more common disambiguation word. Your input would be welcome and appreciated. --Natural R_X 15:37, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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