Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4544033-20150205200218

Hello everybody!

For those who do not know, Guilds have started up here on the wiki. Guilds are teams of editors working together on key projects to expand and clean up the wiki. Since its still a new thing, most of us do not fully understand how they work. I figured to help out the guild masters and the guilds themselves, I would point out a few facts to help everybody.


 * As of now, four guilds are marked as active. A active guild needs a "guild master" who leads the team.
 * Each guild has the choice to set up "team colors". For example, Oblivion has red lettering on black.
 * Guild masters are in charge of the guilds, not the Administrators. While I do give advice when I can, it is up to the Guildmasters how to handle their teams. Admin's
 * As of now, to join an active guild, you need to message the guild master and request to join. If you join without asking, guild leadership has the right to remove you.
 * You do not need to join a guild if you do not want to. Guilds may focus on projects you work with, but you do not need to be a part of the guild just to edit. The guilds are there to help editors who wish to work together to help handle larger projects without anybody getting overwhelmed and burning themselves out. If you want to handle your own things on your own, you are free to do so, so please do not join guilds "just because" or because you think you need to.
 * While none of the guilds have set up rules against it, please refrain from joining every guild you think you can help with. The guilds will best flourish when their members can help as often as possible.  If you can handle working with two guilds, that is great, but do not stretch yourself to thin.
 * Emperor Jajajrkine has stepped up as guild supervisor. Similar to me, he is there to advise and assist the guilds however he can, but cannot force the guilds to do anything.  This should not effect the guilds independence.
 * We are trying to work out a fair set of rules for starting guilds. Until we have some clear rules set out.  Please do not create or request new guilds.  We do intend to expand the project, but lets not get ahead of ourselves.

I hope this helps with some questions, thoughts, or concerns. I do hope to see many of you taking on team projects and joining guilds. This is still a new project, so we still have things coming up for the guilds. While all the guilds are open to new members, Teams Online, Arena, and Morrowind are in need of members to help push things along. If you have any questions, you can ask them here, or you can message me, the Guildmasters, or Jajarkine, and we will assist the best we can.

Thanks and happy editing. 