Administration Questions

From STS Roundtable

Next Steps

The following are the minimal steps that we need to put in place for the wiki to go live.

1. Identify critical roles for the wiki. Several roles have been identified as crucial to moving the wiki forward. It is expected that, initially, people are likely to fill several of these roles. The stewards should be responsible for helping identify specific users to fill the roles as soon as possible. These roles (role names have yet to be finalized) are all needed to be able to bring the wiki live:
   1. Contributors at large: This group are contributors who we would hope to provide significant background documentation around STS principles for the purpose of providing a body of knowledge that the STS community has at its disposal. This likely includes the history of STS, standard practices, definitions, new areas of research etc. This information could potentially be provided by the 'gurus' of the STS community and while we would hope that they can contribute it directly to the wiki, it is not expected that this information meets any specific editorial standards.
   2. Wiki Shepherds: As the wiki is a new medium for this community, it will likely need promotion for both contributors and users of the site. The shepherds will help define what data we want to have available on the site prior to going live and identifying potential candidates for contributing that data.
   3. Format monitoring: This role would largely play the role of content editor, identifying style guidelines and helping enforce those guidelines or modifying articles to meet the guidelines where appropriate.
   4. Technical administrator: This role is specifically to be able to provide technical support to the other three roles, answer questions about how to meet specific objectives of the others and/or identify if the objectives are even possible within the constraints of the wiki software.
2. Timing of the wiki:
   1. Target go-live date of June 30, 2008 (suggestion only at this time). This suggested go-live is so that the wiki has been live for several months prior to the October meeting, allowing us to gather feedback in October.
   2. At the October meeting, a 'wiki session' will be added to the agenda that allows us to present a primer on the wiki to STS Roundtable members, with the request that members contribute to the wiki during the meeting.
   3. Develop an online shareplus presentation to show users how it works
3. Guidelines suggested for conducting ourselves on the wiki are listed below. The following list is not exhaustive and needs to be prepared as a site policy. Further guidelines need to be prepared as per the tutorial.
   1. We will not accept anonymous input
   2. Critique positively rather than negatively
   3. Reasonable expectations of civility
   4. Self-organizing (??)
4. Prepare a value statement of the goals of the wiki

Discussion

Feel free to edit the above if you are making clarifications and/or have suggestions. If you wish to discuss how to meet these objectives, please use the discussion page.