Hi WikiTreers,
We've worked up a plan for changing the Profile of the Week into the Collaborative Profile of the Week.
The idea is to change the emphasis from selecting a great profile as the winner to creating a great profile through broad-based collaboration.
There are still questions to work out, especially how the profile should be selected.
This question is for Paula, Eric, Terry, and others who have led the Profile of the Week and hopefully will continue to do so, but it's also directed at all project leaders, and anyone who might like to be involved in the Collaborative Profile of the Week.
The Profile of the Week is really important.
I'd go so far as to say that anyone who cares about WikiTree should care about the ProTW. These are the profiles that get the most attention from new members and non-members. Because of they way they're linked and promoted they also affect our Google rankings. This means they affect all our profiles.
So, how should the profile that will be collaborated on and featured be chosen?
A description of the kind of profile we want to choose is here:
It seems to me that leaders of other projects should be involved. This has always been a goal of the Profile of the Week, but often other project leaders haven't stayed interested. We need to make an effort to make sure that important profiles from various projects are featured for two reasons: 1.) To create examples of great profiles of that type. 2.) To attract attention to the project.
We could encourage project leaders and others to categorize any profile they think would make a good Collaborative Profile of the Week in "Nominated Profiles" or "Profile of the Week Nominees." Then the leaders and members of the ProTW would just have to select one from that category every week.
We've discussed involving the Profile Improvement Project, perhaps by making the ProTW a sub-project of it. PIP members could lead the way in making sure that important but imperfect profiles get categorized as nominees.
Voting with Google +1's might still be used. Maybe the selection process doesn't even have to change from what it is now, where nominees are made and discussed in the project's Google+ group. We should probably do this at least for the next couple weeks since there are nominees already in the pipeline.
What do you think?
Chris