Who are the Leaders now?

Question

I see the Leader badge has morphed into Project Leader.

Does this mean Leaders who aren't running projects are being jettisoned?

There's also a new Team Leader badge.

So are Team Leaders members of the Team?

Are Team Leaders Leaders?

Are they replacing Project Coordinators?

Comments

Another mind-boggling discussion on WikiTree. When will we ever learn?

Answer 1

There are a lot of help pages about this:

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Project_FAQ
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Project_Teams
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Team_Leaders
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Free-Space_Projects
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Project_Coordinators
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Starting_a_Project

Comments

Could there be a "help" tag, and if you follow it, you get fed all changes to help pages?

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Hear, hear RJ.

Answer 2

Project Coordinators still exist.  They manage any number of teams within their Project, which are each headed up by a Team Leader.  

Team Leaders are not "Leaders", nor are they replacing Project Coordinators.

Answer 3

"Does this mean Leaders who aren't running projects are being jettisoned?" No. It's just a new name for "Leaders." Leaders are required to lead/colead a project, so it's just a name change.

Team Leaders are leaders of teams within the scope of a project. In Categorization, we have 4 badged Team Leaders.

Project Coordinators are still coordinating. 

Answer 4

So Team Leaders aren't on the Team and aren't Leaders.  Perhaps a less confusing name could be chosen.

Next question is, can a bunch of people make themselves one of these non-Team Teams without being organized by a Project?

Comments

Communication, RJ.  It's called communication.  If you wanted to set up your own team within a project, you would communicate with the Project's leadership before you went ahead.

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I read his comment to indicate he is asking about setting up a team outside of the bounds of a project.

RJ, my understanding is the project teams are by definition part of a project. They don't exist outside of a project

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Teams are part of projects, so no.  :)

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If you wanted to set up a team outside a Project, you would have to set up a Project first...

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What about all the teams that do exist outside of projects … like for all the challenges?  or are challenges a project?  I thought I saw somewhere that they have team leaders.

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They are not Projects themselves.  They are part of the Profile Improvement Project.

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Does that mean they are sub-projects of PIP and that makes it ok for them to have team leaders?

To quote one of my favorite authors, "it gets curiouser and curiouser".

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Challenge teams do not have team leaders. They have team captains.

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Except in Virginia, where they have team colonels.

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I thought that was Kentucky where the colonel is

not that I wanna brag, but in Alabama we're gonna have team generals with 4 stars

Answer 5

I'll put it another way.  Since there's obviously nothing to stop members forming unofficial teams, what's the advantage of being an official team?

Comments

RJ, me, me, me … pick me for your team … purty pleeeez

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oh goodness gracious now............

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Gaile, I just found this. You never fail to make me laugh.