Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-1393830-20130307045019

Its come to my attention that the wiki has lost just about all transparency in the decision making process. I have seen Kami going around saying "the committee and admins decided this" when the truth is that it was really just Sal, Xil and Kami who made these decisions. Site decisions are only ever being made on chat now in an instant and executed immediately without consulting others who were not in chat at the time. I think it is time that we add more transparency back in to the wiki for those of us who can't always be on chat. Yyp doesn't use chat, so he never has say in anything these days. The same goes for Mr.N and currently Kuro who can only view the wiki from his cell phone right now due to problems with his internet.

We have been making many attempts to gain more users of late but one of the best ways to do so is through more transparency on the site. If the users can see the decision making process and hear the reasoning behind the decisions that are made on the site, they are more likely to accept them than, "we decided on this". What I propose is simple, a page where issues on what to do around the site are raised. Someone raises an issue such as adding to a policy or proposing a major change to some pages and then admins and committee members vote and regular users can chime in. We leave the issue open for a few days so all have a chance to see and chime in. Too often the decision making process is hidden away on chat. This remedies the problem, creates transparency, allows every committee member and admin to have a say and is much more democratic than our current oligarchy.  