Re: Things to be done in the Curia
ok let's go by points
Originally Posted by
Dismounted Feudal Knight
I'll likely propose text for the Guide to the Curia and header updates to copy and paste in at some point. A lot of the material has fallen by the wayside and become obsolete, it definitely needs updates to be of service. It can also just be far shorter: it almost seems to mirror the Constitution in places when it ought to be additive, and references to the various staff awards can link to relevant articles elsewhere. This would compliment a simplified Constitution... probably best for that to come first. I digress.
Ok so I'll put your name in the OP as a volunteer; if by any reason you need to drop this, just update me. And yes, I agree that the first step is definitely to simplify the Constitution, that's why it's my top priority.
I'd consider the Guide to
Patronizing New Citizens and
Citizenship templates to be historic material, perhaps linked for posterity in a revised
Guide to the Curia but otherwise detached from the header system and pointing to GttC for current material.
*See below in the section about the Living History
The Citizen's Handbook is a nice gesture but seems a bit redundant at this point. Not sure if updates would help or hinder it.
Good point, I'm not suggesting to redo it, just check if needs updates. I'll probably poke Brew at some point about that.
Good to hear regarding the Consular Handbook & Task thread. That's something I wanted to work on but didn't get far enough on in my past term, so it's good that it sees completion now. It's really not a difficult job, it's just a lot of little things to remember + maintenance and busywork in handling threads. In an alternate timeline many of the Consul's duties would be semi or fully automated, or at least simpler to navigate by interface. Most of the effort is someone posting threads that need to be tracked once in a while.
Yeah I think almost every Curator/Consul after Shankbot wanted to redo it, but you need a madman to do a crazy work 
All in all I think I did a good job, I've always been good at condensing stuff into easy to use guides (and I wrote plenty of technical manuals for tech products back in my early career).
Wiki pages relevant to the Curia are in different stages of quality and 'up to date'ness, something which I've worked with on and off and I'll continue to update those intermittently.
List of Citizens has been slipping and could use an eye to update it, both with current citizens and the award nomination stuff that it tracks (the latter is much lower priority though). There is room for improvement including articles on historic Curia pieces and the articles for current functions. Unlike most of what would be suggested here, this is a domain any registered user can contribute to directly (just need to log in on the wiki/get a wiki account as applicable). You can even dump what you know somewhere and it can be glued together more elegantly later. I can troubleshoot most wiki concerns directly, even 'I need an account'. Or you can contact Content Hex as official representatives. Lots of flexibility here.
Damn, I had in mind to add the Curial wiki pages to the list but forgot it. I'm adding the List of Citizens, regarding all the other Curial pages in the Wiki I'm of two minds. You know well I did quite a lot of edits to them, but honestly apart from the aforementioned List of Citizens, I'm tending to consider the rest of them a duplicate of info one can already find elsewhere. Probably worth to rethink the whole "history" part of the Curia and move it to the Wiki? In any case there's no obligation for the Curia to update those pages, so if no one like us will look at them, they will remain unmanned.. I'm all for deleting stuff that isn't relevant anymore, but anywyas we'd better discuss this elsewhere since this is not really connected to actual Curial duties/work.
I'll add that the Living History forum has not been living for a long time. This is an area I would be interested working with, as I've been doing a lot of history stuff lately anyway. Though he hasn't been around in a bit, I imagine PikeStance would be willing to help get it up to speed. Perhaps there are others, I'd especially welcome people who have lived the history. It serves well in the areas it covers, but that is now a small period of time and there is a lot of history that has moved on. I think this would mainly be the domain of 1-2 individuals working to update the index pin, copying threads of public interest script-style into it, and seeing how it may compliment related sections on the Wiki (eg: the Wiki can summarize events, the Living History forum gives primary sources). If nothing else, one of the images of the index pin is broken.
This was something I was going for with Proconsuls, but it seems we need another way or that proposal needs to be reworked for acceptance. Unless Flinn wants to put a particular amount of time into it/delegate to a censor, but the Living History forum is a bit out of the way and one of the more isolated elements of a Consul's scope. It lives at the mercy of whoever wants to maintain it at a given time. If it can be updated to reach modern times then it will be a pretty minor thing to update going forward, I think.
I'm all for proactive stuff and History isn't really my bread and butter; I mean, it won't be my personal priority at all to work on the Living History, but ofc anyone is welcome to do so. I was in favor of the Proconsul proposal and voted yes, but now I can see how you can't really "force" someone into doing that kind of work with the excuse of an elected position; someone really has to volunteer for it and later on we can propose them for a Curial Award or even a Phalera if the work is egregious enough.
I'm adding the Living History part to the OP, in any case.
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