Forum:Chat Live! Policy Revision

The current chat policy has been active for around a month, and has resulted in practical absence of activity in the Live! Chat and lack of increased participation by new editors. While it was assumed that new editors would be encouraged to make the required 20 edits in order to unlock the Chat rights, so far this hasn't been the case.

In order to encourage greater participation in the wiki mainspace by the new editors, this policy amendment changes the edit threshold if passed. Instead of 20 mainspace edits required over a fixed two-week period with an edit made every other day, 5 mainspace edits would initially unlock Chat for a week without any more editing needing to be done until one week passes, at which point Chat would be locked until 20 valid mainspace edits have been obtained. If the user has already made all 20 edits before one-week period expires, they're free to continue to use Chat, provided that they know and obey the rules for chat conduct.

Support
1. As proposer. 4Ferelden (talk) 10:36, February 11, 2013 (UTC)

Discussion
As stated above, the current policy unfortunately hasn't brought in new mainspace edits and while the disorderly activity in Chat! might be gone, so has the civil use. However, I'm against totally dismantling it as has been proposed by some users recently, largely because I feel that there aren't enough mainspace edits, but also since we cannot expect a true consensus on the issue in this community by completely ignoring one side of the argument. This policy change would encourage more people to use chat, as they get to use it sooner and would be able to appreciate its benefits over the week-long period before they're asked to make the remainder of the edits. Splitting the edit threshold also makes it easier to accept simply due to the way our brain handles numbers. All in all, we are likely to see Chat become once-again active and see our already detailed database edited further. 4Ferelden (talk) 10:36, February 11, 2013 (UTC)