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Actually, I have several notes for you; | Actually, I have several notes for you; | ||
# | # Accounts are named for ''roles'' and not for people. For example, the account for our President, is [[User:President|User:President,]] not User:KevinVogtmann. It's best if we separate personal content, which you might find at User:KevinVogtmann from official by-the-president content that Kevin creates ''in his role as President.'' Think about what happens one day when we elect a new president: you wouldn't want "presidential" content on the wiki to suddenly be owned by the person who is no longer president. For these kinds of reasons, we want to separate the ''role'' of President from the ''person'' serving as President. | ||
# The same reasoning applies not just to CreatorSpace officers and board members, but also stewards and co-stewards. | # The same reasoning applies not just to CreatorSpace officers and board members, but also stewards and co-stewards. | ||
# I have pre-populated all the officer, board member, and steward pages with simple content naming the person serving in that role. The | # I have pre-populated all the officer, board member, and steward pages with simple content naming the person serving in that role. The page [[User:President]], for example, reads "Our President is Kevin Vogtmann ('''[https://creatorspaceteam.slack.com/archives/D06KDMXAZDM @kevin]''' on Slack). As President, Kevin also serves on the [[BoardOfDirectors|Board of Directors]]. Kevin also serves as [[User:ElectronicsSteward|Electronics Steward]]." | ||
# Feel free to add as much content as you like to pages for the roles in which you serve, but please leave the existing content at the top of the page. | # Feel free to add as much content as you like to pages for the roles in which you serve, but please leave the existing content at the top of the page. | ||
# If you find mistakes or typos in the pre-created content, please let me know so I can correct it. You are free to make your own corrections, of course, but I would like to do it myself because doing so may prompt me to remember mistakes I've made on other pages too. | # If you find mistakes or typos in the pre-created content, please let me know so I can correct it. You are free to make your own corrections, of course, but I would like to do it myself because doing so may prompt me to remember mistakes I've made on other pages too. | ||
#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. 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 | #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: | ||
<ol start=" | <ol start="9"> | ||
<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 | <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> | ||
</ol> | </ol> | ||
Thank you for your attention! | |||
Jim Thompson, [[User:WikiSteward|Wiki Steward]] | |||