Wiki Curation

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' I have folded the info here into the wiki maintenance page gregor

The wiki is ongoing work, and the forces of chaos must be held back on an ongoing basis as when users add new pages they are rarely aquainted with how to use a wiki. Secondly, trying to get users to correctly categorize pages or wikify links every single time when they make new ones etc. is a lost cause as it is a real hassle for them.

On Wikipedia there are the content creators, and then there is the organizational work. Content creators should try to do as much of the organizational work as they can, but some always remains undone.

The Wiki curation team Development Team helps with this. This page is is a resource for the team and other wiki users.

User levels

• Creator
• Administrator
• beurocrat

Etc.

Useful tips and tricks an reading on how to use the WikiMedia software

• Capitalization matters. Category:Steam_Engine is not the same category as Category:Steam_engine. Same deal for page titles.

• The current approach to organizing things on the OSE wike depends on categorization.

-To put a page in a category, add [[category:whatever]] to the top of the page.

- To create a subcategory within another category, simply go to the subcategory-to-be page, click edit and add [[category:anothercategory]] to the page.

- Pages can be in as many different categories as you wish.

- Categories are created automatically whenever you put a page more than one page in a category.

The wikimedia software used for OSE is the same open source software used on wikipedia. It looks simple but it is a vast and powerful piece of software with many built in tools.

To view the current tree of categories see special:categorytree and enter "main" in the box.

Here is some reading that Curators will likely find interesting: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category

See also

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Wiki_maintenance http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Wiki_instructions