Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.
Are you here to participate in a specific proposal? Click on the proposal tag (with the dark outline) to see only posts about that proposal and not all of the others that are in progress. Tags are at the bottom of each post.
Introducing a new proposals process
Welcome to the new Proposals site!
As we noted in the proposal for this change, we feel we need better way to propose and evaluate new communities for our network. A single post and people expressing interest isn't expressive enough; we think actually asking and answering questions that fit the proposed community's scope can both flesh out a proposal and keep people involved while that happens. Hence, this new community for proposals -- an incubator of sorts.
How to propose a community on the codidact.com network has all the details, but at a high level:
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Start a proposal (wiki post) in the Descriptions category. Describe your community. Plan to edit this description as you learn more from sample Q&A and meta discussions.
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Use the Incubator Q&A category to ask and answer real questions in your community's area of scope.
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Use the Meta category for anything related to specific proposals.
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Use the proposal's special tag (we'll create these as needed) to tie all these posts together. Meta uses the same tag set as everything else, not the usual Meta tag set.
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Invite people you know who are interested in the proposal to participate here.
We'll be phasing this in. We haven't closed the old "site proposals" category on Meta yet, but we hope to soon. First, we'd like to get some proposals started here and uncover anything else we need to adjust before fulling switching over.
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Actually, No.
You had a comprehensive list with all the details in the old place already.
There were people proposing essential topics (Move, SciFi, Worldbuilding, Storytelling and more). And those posts are years old.
There will be only those who are probably willing to "maintain" such a site actively. You won't get every user in the world to vote on such a proposal, because users are awaiting to get into a comfy ready-made place. They are not interested in constructing a new one.
So, consider any site proposal in the other place with a vote of +4 to have at least 4 people who would probably willing to contribute in building up that baby - you cannot ask for more as a starting point. Those sites are actually long time overdue to a point where maybe none of those original people is going to jump in on anything.
I think you have to actively approach them and offer them to create their site. Asking for proposal and proposal and maybe another proposal will get "us"/you no where. (I realized now, there is actually really a 3rd request for proposals in the Incubator - can you see a pattern here?)
You won't get any new information here.
Create the sites, let the community jump into it. If it does not work out after a while, drop/split/rename/merge them. What can you lose? Is server capacity the problem somehow?
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Thanks, this looks like an improvement from my perspective of somebody who is proposing a site. This lets me get on with demonstrating questions and answers without needing to get the site set up first. This solves my issue of being stuck waiting.
I think I'm using this more or less the way you envisioned, but I've already found some details that will need to be decided which I've asked in meta questions. Maybe I should be tagging those "administration?"
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