EDIT: Applications are closed.

First of all, no, GW6 is not finished, I bet you all had that in mind when you saw the topic title but read further and you'll know what this is about!

We have decided to put up a temporary site until GW6 is finished. Currently our main site isn't interesting at all and we really want to have something to attract new members and also let our current members know about what's going on in the community. The site we'll be using works like a blog, it's going to have community related articles about different forum events, updates on GW's situation and just generally interesting forum topics (links included) and so on. Plus it's not only limited to what's happening in the community right now. For example, articles about GW's past events or history are good too. We welcome anything which people would be interested in. That's really the only criteria our temporary site is going to have for articles. It's not going to be something overly serious, it's there to show that we have a very interesting community. A way to increase activity. We have had plans for a community section once GW6 is eventually finished and our aim is to bring forums and main site together.

Which brings me to my next point, we are looking for a few temporary (possibly permanent) staffers who are interested in updating the main site with various interesting community related articles. There aren't going to be any kind of weekly updates and it's a spontaneous kind of thing. Still, that doesn't mean we want people who are going to post one or two articles and then leave it at that. We want staffers who are genuinely interested in keeping the site updated and care for this community. Members who aren't selected for staff can still contact us admins or the staffers if they want their articles posted on the main site or have ideas to share.

Things we require from the staffers:

• You need to know what's going on in the community and you need to have a good understanding of what people could find interesting or funny. This means that we need to know at least something about you so that we can trust you on this task. Of course you are allowed to like different things and we definitely want staffers with different personalities who can provide various kind of articles on many different subjects.
• Decent English is something we absolutely require. The more interesting articles you can write, the better.
• Willing to dedicate time for this. I don't know when GW6 is going to be finished and since it could take months, this site needs to be frequently updated. This doesn't mean you need to be posting news all the time and if you have a few busy days or even weeks and you can't do much work, that's fine, there are still other staffers helping you out. And you don't have to force yourself to make articles if nothing interesting is happening or you don't have any good ideas. Like I said, it's pretty spontaneous. We just don't want our staffers to stop posting articles after a week or two when the novelty wears off. That's all.
• You are absolutely not allowed to post offensive articles or ridicule any of our members. This is a bit difficult one to explain but we trust that you know what's offensive and what's not, and if there happens to be some unclear situation, you can always contact the admins. For example, stuff like Amanda Landale Saga and I swallowed a small piece of aluminum foil would be okay to post since they aren't really that offensive (especially Amanda Landale Saga in retrospect). But pranks like that could get out of hand though so you really need to be able to use judgement with possible borderline cases.

Send your applications to DragonSlayer via private message. You can also contact me on IRC (#gamingw) if you want to talk about a staff position or have questions or anything of the sort but send an application as well. I'll be accepting applications even after the site is up (unless we already have enough staffers, we'll most likely get 5-6) so there's no definite date when I won't accept them anymore. When applying try to tell a bit about yourself, what forums you frequent and what kind of articles interest you the most. If you just want to generally write about everything, that's fine too. It's OPEN FORMAT so don't worry too much about that.

IMPORTANT:
We really want to cover everything what is going on in the whole community so we want people who can cover different forums and subjects. So even if you don't visit General forum or you don't know what's happening with the "core community", that's not a problem. We could still use your help!

IMPORTANT2:
The staffers we choose will not have full moderator rights. You do not get access to staff forum and you won't get a pretty blue name. However, you will be moved to a special staff group and made moderator on a community news forum which will be created after the site is up. This group will receive all the premium features so if you aren't a premium yet, there's that too. Note that premiums and moderators are also allowed to send their applications and they can also be chosen, just like anyone else.

Lastly, thanks to Drule for helping out with everything, he's also the one making the temporary site.

And feel free to post comments/suggestions/whatever here.

how about political opinions, prefaced with DOES NOT REPRESENT GW.

They are fine if it's made clear it doesn't represent the whole community's views and is just your own personal opinion. Plus this might increase discussion in political topics here on GW so yeah, something like this is also fine. Of course we can't allow just any kind of shit to be posted though.

Why would you make an update about political opinion anyway?

It's not an update it's an article???