Policies

From the LDC Language Resource Wiki

Revision as of 18:47, 12 February 2010

(Mamandel 18:49, 16 December 2009 (UTC))

Organization

The wiki is organized by languages. Taking Bengali as an example, all articles about Bengali should be in the wiki category "Bengali", and their wikipage pathnames should begin "Bengali/...". As we start up this wiki, there is a single page summarizing and describing the Bengali resources the LDC knows of; the page title is "Bengali", but its wiki name is Bengali/Bengali, and its URL is http://lrwiki.ldc.upenn.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Bengali/Bengali. As the wiki develops, a contributor might expand and move the section on Lexicon into a separate entry Bengali/Lexicon, with a link from the main Bengali page. Later there might be entries treating specialized vocabulary resources in detail:

• Bengali [category] (page name: Category:Bengali)
  • Bengali (Bengali/Bengali, also accessible as simply Bengali)
  • Lexicon (Bengali/Lexicon)
    • Technical word lists (Bengali/Lexicon/Technical word lists)
    • Names (Bengali/Lexicon/Names)

...

Administrative rights will be granted on a per language basis, and possibly later by subcategories.

As a wiki is something like an encyclopedia, the units of content are often referred to as "entries", as well as "pages" in the usual web sense. But a wiki has other web pages than its content proper, such as (in one way) this Policy page, and (in another way) the Talk pages as well as other special pages. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk_pages

Content

This is a publicly accessible research resource, not a listserver or debating forum. Content should be accurate, objective, useful, and civil. An entry may say

Jones's (1997) brief treatment of honorifics is different from the others.

but not

*Jones's (1997) treatment of honorifics is inadequate and inaccurate.

Who can add to the wiki

Anyone with web access can read the wiki. But because this is an academic resource, only people we have approved and registered as editors can post to the content pages.

Each article page has a Talk (aka Discussion) page associated with it. These pages are open for anyone to discuss the content of the articles. As an example, I've put the basics of using talk pages on this page's talk page in an appropriately titled section.

The talk pages are not moderated, and the LDC is not responsible for their content.

Editing the wiki

(Mamandel 18:51, 16 December 2009 (UTC)) This wiki uses Mediawiki software. When you start a new page or edit an existing one, there is a link to Wikimedia's Editing Help at the bottom of the page, below the editing window and summary.

All entries should be signed and dated by typing four tildes in parentheses:

(~~~~)

The wiki turns the four tildes into your user-id and a time stamp, and the parentheses separate that from the content. (Don't use square brackets, which the wiki software will misinterpret in this context [although in general they're OK; see Links in Editing Help].) As the creator of this page, I've signed it at the top. We may also have contributors creating single sections; I've signed this one as an example.