Wiki best practice
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Comment about which practices are appropriate to eg:itself belong at talk:wiki best practice. Most of these are summarized as eg:rules. Each of the practices below need to add category category:wiki best practice. They are summarized here only to ensure that there is a good single page annotated summary.
These wiki best practices inform a list of process terms, both proven in political wiki field testing, e.g. Living Agenda. The Living Platform interface was designed as a side effect of the research on these practices. A corporate wiki will inevitably have fewer conflicts, tensions and abuses than a public wiki and many fewer than one dealing in factionally-defined terms. Even a reflexive intranet, therefore, will require only a subset of this list to be robust against any ordinary challenge, conflict, tension or clash of views.
These practices are in the order in which they are usually learned. Feel free to change this order:
- we
- fly-by users find it easy to participate, even just to vote
- edit
- be bold
- evil and stupid
- first edits must be easy; set a wiki edit policy and signal changes in advance
- writing
- naming and scoping
- conserve capitals
- avoid new namespaces but use normative namespaces for verb/term/positions
- prefer verb phrases in actual use, preferably verbs from verb:namespace
- avoid self-links except to accomodate idea/option/policy/configuration forks
- follow topic naming conventions including especially common page name prefixes
- disambiguate plurals
- mark any explicit scope restrictions applying on this page with that link
- categorize pages and adopt target categories if copying pages
- align web and wiki
- adopt mediawiki format
- nest wikis
- ignore incompatible wiki
- document mediawiki gronks: it doesn't get better unless we all complain bitterly
- types of pages
- talk page
- user page
- project pages and other meta pages in normative namespaces
- itself
- reframe mindset towards data/content integrity
- communicating
- use standard directives, e.g. mark undesirable temporary changes for now, standardize edit summary tags
- decide, commit, followup
- login to take actions that result in formal logs, e.g. to ignore pages which changes the list of all pages ignored
- encourage use of informal logs, e.g. eg:done, to record other actions and motives
- explore issues with unsigned positions, e.g. IPA form
- signed positions to communicate wiki management decisions
- transparent wiki governance decisions, at least using a vile mailing list
- content equals schema
- avoid access control except as organization protocols and legal requirements apply
- support factions
- support credentials
- align wiki to mindset
- socialize taxonomy
- reframe goal
- social control and limits
- political virtues
- align wiki to goal
- new troll point of view (NPOV)
- avoid delete until a protocol exists to balance/hide/ignore/delete fairly
- delete spam wherever possible
- control follows content
