The literature suggests that it is fairly important to establish some house rules early on in the design of a wiki, and these should be added to and amended later on, in the light of experience, and feedback from the community.
What type of house rules might be appropriate for our Digital Cre8tor wiki?
Some areas that spring to my mind include:
- Encouraging positive feedback and constructive criticism of other community members' work, which they have published on the wiki
- Regard for intellectual property and copyright when publishing media on the wiki
- Respect for other members of the wiki community
- Everyone has the right to comment on the structure, design and administration of the wiki
- House rules may change from time to time
- Community members will be consulted about changes
- Roles of members of the community (e.g. administrator, tutor, associate, student etc)
- Who has final decision?
What do you think about these areas? Do you have any to add? Please post your comments on the blog.
It's right that all members should be consulted regarding proposed changes. I also agree that it would be a good idea to have flexibility in establishing and developing House Rules and that membership roles should be properly defined - users need to be clear about where they can make additions and changes within the structure, I think.
ReplyDeleteI would maybe add one thing, though I'm not sure it comes under House Rules as such; things should not move around! Once a page and it's content focus is established, it should stay putand not be renamed or move in around the hierarchy.
I think Lesley is right - I think it is probably wise not to move content around once its location is established within the wiki. Maybe we need to restrict the right to do this to administrators, but only following consultation with the rest of the community? If you allow any member to move content around, or if admins move content around willy nilly, it could give rise to the OverOrganiser tendencies as described in my posting on obstacles.
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