Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-452-20130322205750/@comment-452-20130403183712

Apparently the reason halo.wikia [http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Enough_Usergroups! removed their usergroups] was due to them not being useful enough, but I figure having them is definitely better than not having them.

I think the trick to making them work is to ensure they're as useful as possible - a clear list of what people can to do help, rather than just vague groups like "Characters group, dedicated to improving character articles!" with nothing else.

One thing I'm doing to further that goal is using DPL to list all relevant articles tagged for cleanup on each project/team/clan/group page, so there's at least a constantly updated list of things that can be done within each scope.

I haven't found any examples on wikia that specifically do that, although the WikiProjects on wikipedia keep a progress bar of articles which have reached "featured", "good" and other classes.

Wikipedia also has "article alert" subpages which do something similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Article_alerts - they use a bot to keep them up to date, rather than DPL.

edit: Something I didn't notice earlier is that within each WikiProject, they also have "Task forces", such as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Call_of_Duty (which also calls itself ""the call of duty wikiarmy") Among other things, the task force pages list all categories and articles within the scope, as well as some stubs - so this is very similar to what I came up with.