Knowledge Base changes

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This page has been created for several reasons.

  • It would be nice to have a place where new editors can introduce themselves and meet existing editors.
  • It would be good to allow new editors to safely propose content changes (minor or major) prior to implementing them.
  • It would be good to have a central location to discuss the style, content and organisation of this Knowledge Base. (Some of the ideas in Talk:Knowledge Base can be migrated here, leaving that page solely for discussion of the front page article itself.
  • This page was an attempt to address incidents that have occured on the KB where some groups of editors have been unaware of major changes being made by other groups of editors.

This page is the primary place to announce new suggestions. Whenever possible, issues should be discussed in a more appropriate place, such as the discussion page of the article or category that the suggestion affects.

Once suggestions are resolved, they are moved to Knowledge Base changes/Archive.

Welcome to new editors

Hello! Great to have you here. Please add a comment here :-)

  • Hello Knowledge Base! FJ reporting to duty! *bows at all* FatJohn 11:30, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
  • I guess I'm new, I am "name already taken" from the forums, hello to everyone! --Lethargy 21:34, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Ownership and dispute resolution

Prompted by the comments in this forum thread, I believe we need to some sort of dispute resolution mechanism and general guidelines in the KB. Otherwise, disagreements can easily escalate into edit wars and contributors leaving. The obvious solution is to have the Sysops handle these things, but I don't know if there are enough active Sysops to present a decision ("The Sysops said so, so I'll do it" vs. "Np is crazy, screw him"). Thoughts?--Np 21:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I also noticed that thread and it wasn't a nice read. I've been overrun a few times myself. Usually with an accompanying explanation though. Maybe you need more sysops then. If a policy is made, it should be promptly introduced to new editors to make sure they're aware of it. PS. I wish all KB editors should "watch" this page. Could it be automatically inserted into new editors watchlist? --FatJohn 01:28, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
First, what do you mean by "ownership"? Should articles be "owned" by different editors or Sysops who have the final say on edits, for example, give Vectorspace all the plugin articles, Tanstaafl all the Thunderbird articles and you and Unarmed take the preferences articles? Or did I misunderstand?
Second, I think that the current system of resolving editing disputes by posting to the article's Talk page should work in 99% or the cases. Hopefully, other editors would add to the discussion but if not, or if the issue still isn't resolved after a reasonable period, I suppose a Request for mediation page might work, something similar to the Pages voted for deletion discussion? Or, maybe one of the involved parties could simply post a "Mediation request" here, on this page? Once such a request is made, further editing of the page by the disputing parties should cease until the editing conflict is resolved. Such a mediation request could also be looked at as as a request for "quality review" of the article, since after all, what we really want is for the article to be well written, understandable by the intended reader and technically accurate. I mentioned in the forum thread that some sort of "KB quality control" process is needed, besides just hopinf that errors are caught and fixed as people review the recent changes or happen to read an article and spot a problem. Alice Wyman 01:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)