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#Those of you serving in more than one role will have more than one account on the wiki. I'll pick on Kevin again, because he is both our President and Electronics Steward. Kevin has both the [[User:President]] and [[User:ElectronicsSteward]] accounts because he serves in both roles. For those of you in similar positions: please, please, please, use the account appropriate to the content you are creating or editing. Kevin will use the User:President account when he is, say, writing a page about CreatorSpace official policies or something like that, and he will use the User:ElectronicsSteward account when he is writing about the Electronics Room. I know it's inconvenient to have to log in to different accounts like this, but it's important for the wiki that content authors are appropriate for the content in question. | #Those of you serving in more than one role will have more than one account on the wiki. I'll pick on Kevin again, because he is both our President and Electronics Steward. Kevin has both the [[User:President]] and [[User:ElectronicsSteward]] accounts because he serves in both roles. For those of you in similar positions: please, please, please, use the account appropriate to the content you are creating or editing. Kevin will use the User:President account when he is, say, writing a page about CreatorSpace official policies or something like that, and he will use the User:ElectronicsSteward account when he is writing about the Electronics Room. I know it's inconvenient to have to log in to different accounts like this, but it's important for the wiki that content authors are appropriate for the content in question. | ||
#We do not have shared accounts, so disciplines with more than one steward will have two accounts. For example, our Laser discipline has both [[User:LaserSteward]] and [[User:LaserCoSteward]] accounts. Valorie will use the steward account and Austin will use the co-steward account. | #We do not have shared accounts, so disciplines with more than one steward will have two accounts. For example, our Laser discipline has both [[User:LaserSteward]] and [[User:LaserCoSteward]] accounts. Valorie will use the steward account and Austin will use the co-steward account. | ||
#If any of you with "official" accounts also want a personal account, I can create one for you. I will also offer personal accounts to all our members who want one. I believe that personal accounts are Good Things for the general membership to use to show off personal projects, share knowledge, and generally explore personal interests. Eventually we will have rules about these, but they will almost certainly boil down to: be excellent, no spam, no porn, and no politics. | |||
This one is important, so you may see me repeat it elsewhere: | This one is important, so you may see me repeat it elsewhere: | ||
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<li>In our present setup, ''any registered user may edit any page.'' This is common to many wikis, even Wikipedia. I have set up the wiki so that only registered users can edit our content, but beyond that there is no control. I've looked at the mechanisms for implementing a permissions model so that we can restrict the editing of certain pages to specific users. For example, we could restrict Laser content so that only the [[User:LaserSteward]] or [[User:LaserCoSteward]] accounts are able to edit that content. These mechanisms all require extensions to MediaWiki, and there are several such extensions. I've played around with some and have found that they tend to be hard to understand, hard to configure, and often have bugs or unpredictable behavior. I've made the executive decision that, for the time being at least, we will try to get by without editing restrictions.</li><li>Please try to resist the temptation to change pages you don't "own". Instead, ask the owner to make the changes you want. If you're not sure who owns a particular page, just look at the change-log (click View History at the top) and that will tell you who the owner is.</li><li>Please act in the community spirit that you always have! It's that spirit that has made CreatorSpace such a success. We are all adults and all want the wiki to succeed. If we do have problems down the road, I can always add content restrictions.</li><li>''Please not that all content edits are logged!'' So if you do mess up someone else's page, we will know who you are :-) </li> | <li>In our present setup, ''any registered user may edit any page.'' This is common to many wikis, even Wikipedia. I have set up the wiki so that only registered users can edit our content, but beyond that there is no control. I've looked at the mechanisms for implementing a permissions model so that we can restrict the editing of certain pages to specific users. For example, we could restrict Laser content so that only the [[User:LaserSteward]] or [[User:LaserCoSteward]] accounts are able to edit that content. These mechanisms all require extensions to MediaWiki, and there are several such extensions. I've played around with some and have found that they tend to be hard to understand, hard to configure, and often have bugs or unpredictable behavior. I've made the executive decision that, for the time being at least, we will try to get by without editing restrictions.</li><li>Please try to resist the temptation to change pages you don't "own". Instead, ask the owner to make the changes you want. If you're not sure who owns a particular page, just look at the change-log (click View History at the top) and that will tell you who the owner is.</li><li>Please act in the community spirit that you always have! It's that spirit that has made CreatorSpace such a success. We are all adults and all want the wiki to succeed. If we do have problems down the road, I can always add content restrictions.</li><li>''Please not that all content edits are logged!'' So if you do mess up someone else's page, we will know who you are :-) </li> | ||
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