Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9062114-20140206023805

With The Elder Scrolls Online coming up, the Wiki is going to probably get an increse in users, particularely ones who edit the Mainspace articles, but with this means unfortunately, more vandals are bound to show up. In addition, users who may unintentionally mess up pages due to lack of experience in editing. My point is, I think the Wiki needs more Patrollers to be here for when this starts to happen. To guide the new editors, to stop the vandals, and to create the pages necessary for The Elder Scrolls Online.

The only thing is, becoming a Patroller is not very easy on this Wiki currently, where you need to be nominated by another user. It can sometimes take a long time for someone to be nominated even if they have the skills needed to be as part of it, and some users who may be able to help as a Patroller may never be able to do it, just because they may not be well known enough for someone to nominate them. A way we can get fix these issues, I think, can be by having users apply to become Patrollers, like with The News Team, The Chat Moderators, and The Forum Moderators. This way, users who edit can choose to apply for the Patroller position, and less well known users might have the chance for people to check them out.

If you look at the list of The Chat Moderators and The Forum Moderators you would see those lists are high with active users, and are growing. While the Patrollers have one or two members who actually do their job on a regular basis, and don't get nominations very often. I personally think that if we made becoming a Patroller an apply-for-part system, it would incrase the numbers, drastically and we would be prepared for when a lot of new users come with The Elder Scrolls Online.

I think the system for voting should be the same as for The News Team, The Chat Moderators, and The Forum Moderators. Where someone applies, and the community votes, and at the end of the week they get their results. Those who can do it, will be voted in, and those who can't will not be given the title, it's like what the wiki does with the other staff members.

What do you think about this, would it help the Wiki or hurt it?

 