Editing Online Communities and Crowds (Spring 2025)/Community advising report (section)

=== Overview ===
As a final project for the course, you will be required to complete a Community Advising Report. For this report, the goal is to take what you have learned in the class and apply it to an online community or crowd that you have observed or participated in. You are invited to serve as an expert adviser to the community or crowd and to provide evidence-based insights into how to better address a specific challenge they face. 

Unlike with the Wikipedia Advising Report, you will select your own community/crowd and challenge. You are encouraged to choose a community/crowd of which you are a member/leader and where you could, even if only in theory, deliver your recommendations to other members/leaders and have some chance of seeing the recommendations debated or adopted. You are expected to draw on sources and evidence from the course as well as any additional materials you deem relevant/useful. Please note that you are required to submit a proposal explaining the setting and topic of your planned report and to secure written approval of this proposal.

A note of encouragement and caution: Interesting, more complex problems often elicit more interesting, complex  advice. While you can choose something kind of straightforward and obvious and say the obvious thing (e.g., "Wikipedia should make it less confusing for newcomers"), this probably won't be very compelling or engaging and will likely result in a less insightful report. Better reports will tackle meaningful problems, marshall interesting insights, and draw on intelligent reflections and analysis to provide more concrete, specific, and sophisticated recommendations that carefully consider potential drawbacks and unintended consequences.