Talk:Wiki Etiquette

From the eMail discussion, we seem to disagree on a good few of the points below:

• ''Don't leave blank pages without a declaration that you are intending to come back at some point to do it - and do so! (Each page has a discussion page which is intended for discussion about the content of that page: changes suggested, work in progress, etc)''

  • Conventional wiki wisdom positively encourages leaving blank stubs to pages that need to be created.

• ''Check the history of a page before making any changes''

• This is a good point - it should avoid repeated misconceptions

• ''and be sensitive about editing other people's work''

  • nothing is lost and operating on the basis that most people will be making changes in good faith, let them carry on!

• If you are about to make some more significant changes (e.g. entirely rewrite an important page, or change the category structure), send a mail (to Central) saying so. That way you can flush out people who might also be intending to do that, also find people who might want to review the changes

• Mail folk in the 'history' to ask if they want to review your changes

• For both of these points, perhaps a better thing would to encourage people to watch the pages they are interested in so the wiki will tell them when there are changes and they can view/disagree/amend

People watching the more important pages can enquire why the changes were made and revert to the previous version if need be but we should operate on the basis most people try to make changes in good faith and should not be too afraid to make changes.

--NeilGood 20:52, 2 September 2010 (UTC)