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| This page acts as a ground level tutorial for changing the wiki. The other elements of the class (servers and whatnot) are described on the [[about_the_slug::about_the_slug | 'About the slug' ]] page. | This page acts as a ground level tutorial for changing the wiki. The other elements of the class (servers and whatnot) are described on the [[about_the_slug::about_the_slug | 'About the slug' ]] page. | ||
| - | During our class the wiki grew so large that we lost track of it. This caused us to repeat a number of analyses, which wasted much of our precious compute power. I am currently the wiki manager, and am working hard to ensure this doesn't happen again! | + | During our class the wiki grew so large that we lost track of it. This caused us to repeat a number of analyses, which wasted much of our precious compute power. As the current wiki manager I am working hard to ensure this doesn't happen again! |
| ====Modifying the wiki==== | ====Modifying the wiki==== | ||
| - | First please add yourself as a contributor to the [[about_the_class::contributors | contributors]] page! It is akin to the 'hello world!' exercise and will verify that you can indeed modify the wiki. | + | First please add yourself as a contributor to the [[contributors:contributors| contributors]] page! It is akin to the 'hello world!' exercise and will verify that you can indeed modify the wiki. |
| 1. Go to the page. | 1. Go to the page. | ||
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| **Duties;** | **Duties;** | ||
| - | Site managers **start immediately**. | + | Site managers **start immediately**, the ensures that no changes are made to the wiki that are not reviewed by a site manager. |
| - | Site managers should **not** change content (while performing site manager roles). | + | Site managers should **not** change page content (while performing site manager roles). |
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| + | Site managers are responsible for managing and removing discussions. Discussions are publicly viewable, which means we need to limit them as much as possible. The site manager takes the discussion comments into account, makes the necessary changes to the page, then deletes the discussion comment(s) and informs the user of the changes. | ||
| Site managers are responsible for the hierarchy and namespaces of the wiki. As the wiki grows new namespaces will need to be added. | Site managers are responsible for the hierarchy and namespaces of the wiki. As the wiki grows new namespaces will need to be added. | ||
| - | The site managers must oversee the rest of the wiki modifications. This essentially means that the site managers are responsible for hounding the rest of the class to put their pages in the correct namespace. | + | The site managers must oversee the new wiki additions and current wiki modifications. This ensures that the new information is put in the correct namespace, and follows our current style guide. There is a very large [[archive::archive]] for deprecated pages, pages with bad namespaces, and pages that did not follow the style guide. As of 2015 the archiving effort is well underway, but not near completion. New managers will be asked to continue this effort. |
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