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==Organization==
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==Content==
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The wiki is organized by languages. Taking Bengali as an example, all articles about Bengali should be in the [[Special:Categories|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 http://lrwiki.ldc.upenn.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Bengali/Bengali]. As the wiki develops, a contributor might expand and move the section on [[Bengali/Bengali#Lexicon|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:
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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
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* Bengali [category]
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:Jones's (1997) brief treatment of honorifics differs from the other analyses.
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** Bengali
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but not
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** Lexicon
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:<nowiki>*</nowiki>Jones's (1997) treatment of honorifics is inadequate and inaccurate.
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*** Technical word lists
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*** Names
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:...
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Administrative rights will be granted on a per language basis, and possibly later by subcategories.
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==Who can add to the wiki==
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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 edit the content pages.  
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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
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Each article page has a [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk_pages Talk (aka Discussion) page] associated with it.
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Talk pages as well as other special pages. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk_pages
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These pages are open for anyone to discuss the content of the articles ('''TBD 20:02, 22 April 2010 (UTC)'''). As an example, I've put the basics of using talk pages on this page's talk page in [[Talk:Policies#Using the talk pages| an appropriately titled section]].
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==Content==
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'''The talk pages are not moderated, and the LDC is not responsible for their content.'''
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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".
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==Who can add to the wiki==
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==Organization==
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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.  
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Each language included in this wiki has its own ''namespace'' and ''category''. The two serve different purposes:
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Each article page has a [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk_pages Talk (aka Discussion) page] associated with it. These pages are open for anyone to discuss the content of the article. To see the talk page of the article you are reading, click the "Discussion" tab at the top of the page. To start a new topic, then click the "+" tab at the top of the talk page; or to comment on an existing topic, add a couple of blank lines to make a paragraph break and start your comment. Always sign your comments with four tildes: <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>.
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===Namespaces===
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Namespaces are a way of controlling the file structure of the wiki, to permit editorial access on a language-by-language basis.
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For example, all pages dealing just with Tamil belong in the Tamil namespace. At the moment (28 April 2010) there are two such pages: 
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* [[Tamil/Tamil]]: the main page about Tamil<br>(URL: http://lrwiki.ldc.upenn.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Tamil/Tamil)
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* [[Tamil/Nonstandard encodings]]: a list of nonstandard encodings and fonts specific to Tamil. This list is too long to fit comfortably in the [[Tamil#Encodings|Encodings]] section of the main Tamil page, so that section contains a brief [[Tamil#Nonstandard_and_idiosyncratic_encodings|subsection]] with a link to the list page.<br>(URL: http://lrwiki.ldc.upenn.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Tamil/Nonstandard_encodings)
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We use namespaces to control administrative rights on a per language basis, and possibly later by subtopics. As the wiki develops, a contributor might expand the present section on [[Tamil/Tamil#Lexicon|Tamil lexicon resources]] and move it to a new page, [[Tamil/Lexicon]], with a link from the main Tamil page. Still later there could be entries treating specialized vocabulary resources in detail:
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* [[Tamil/Tamil]]: the main page for the language, also accessible as simply [[Tamil]]
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* [[Tamil/Lexicon]]
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** [[Tamil/Lexicon/Technical word lists]]
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** [[Tamil/Lexicon/Names]]
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and so on.
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===Categories===
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Categories are a way of organizing access to the content of the wiki, to help users find what they are looking for.
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Each language listed on this wiki has its own category, with the same name as the language. Every page dealing specifically with that language is in the language's category (as well as being in its [[#Namespaces|namespace]]), but there are pages that are relevant to several but not all languages. For example, ISCII is an eight-bit encoding system designed to allow encoding of many Indian languages before Unicode came into general use. So our [[ISCII]] page is not in any language's ''namespace'', but it is in several language ''categories''.
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===Pages===
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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 "entry" could also refer to a single resource listing; and 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. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk_pages.
==Editing the wiki==
==Editing the wiki==
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([[User:Mamandel|Mamandel]] 18:51, 16 December 2009 (UTC))
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See [[How to edit wiki pages]], which is not just about how to this or that, but includes policies as well: manner as well as means.
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This wiki uses Mediawiki software. When you start a new page or edit an existing one, there is a link to [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing Wikimedia's Editing Help] at the bottom of the page, below the editing window and summary.  
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All entries should be signed and dated. The easiest way is like this:
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[[Category:Admin]]
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:<nowiki>(~~~~)</nowiki>
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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 [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples#Links 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.
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Latest revision as of 19:44, 19 May 2011

(Mamandel 23:17, 28 April 2010 (UTC))

Contents

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 differs from the other analyses.

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 edit 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 (TBD 20:02, 22 April 2010 (UTC)). 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.

Organization

Each language included in this wiki has its own namespace and category. The two serve different purposes:

Namespaces

Namespaces are a way of controlling the file structure of the wiki, to permit editorial access on a language-by-language basis. For example, all pages dealing just with Tamil belong in the Tamil namespace. At the moment (28 April 2010) there are two such pages:

We use namespaces to control administrative rights on a per language basis, and possibly later by subtopics. As the wiki develops, a contributor might expand the present section on Tamil lexicon resources and move it to a new page, Tamil/Lexicon, with a link from the main Tamil page. Still later there could be entries treating specialized vocabulary resources in detail:

and so on.

Categories

Categories are a way of organizing access to the content of the wiki, to help users find what they are looking for. Each language listed on this wiki has its own category, with the same name as the language. Every page dealing specifically with that language is in the language's category (as well as being in its namespace), but there are pages that are relevant to several but not all languages. For example, ISCII is an eight-bit encoding system designed to allow encoding of many Indian languages before Unicode came into general use. So our ISCII page is not in any language's namespace, but it is in several language categories.

Pages

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 "entry" could also refer to a single resource listing; and 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. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk_pages.

Editing the wiki

See How to edit wiki pages, which is not just about how to this or that, but includes policies as well: manner as well as means.

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