Talk:Missouri Academy Wiki Page

Essays

One of the major objections to the OpenTextbook project is that textbooks are best written by one person. Every book has been injected with something of it's author, go the arguments, and a book tweaked by a multitude of people is bound to, at best, unfocused.

Of course, that same arguments could have been applied to Operating Systems. Many of us know how this has panned out.

Nevertheless, while I write Form over Content the idea that my central idea might be diluted by various poor edits is troublesome. Sure, I could come back and fix what I percieve to be errors, but that invites a sort of edit war.

Something to be avoided.

Therefore I propose that contributions by users that are obviosly essays be of an uneditable status, protected, in the jargon of wikimedia. Any changes will have to be proposed in the talk page of an essay and recieve three votes with consent of the author, or 6 votes without the consent of the author, in order to be implemented. We should also have some sort of special tag denoting an essay ( and, idealy, its author ), much in the same way that we have tags for stubs.

When I publish Form over Content I will do so in the manner outlined above, protected and with a tag, unless objects are raised here. -goofyheadedpunk

Trolls

Trolls can do a lot of damage to a wiki. I forget where, but the wikipedia has statistics saying that over 90% of trolling activities are done by anonomous users. Might we think about disallowing anonmous edits on all but talk pages? I know it's sort of distasteful, but one troll could really mess things up in a hurry. -Goofyheadedpunk

I really don't like the idea, but it would go a ways towards preventing trolling, which is bound to happen eventually. For the moment, though, I put a request on the front page. -Chrax

Yeah. I just don't want to come back from class one day and find HORSECOCK on every page, made by some random IP. -Goofyheadedpunk

A valid concern. -Chrax

I agree -Squishypickle

So are we going to do something now, or just wait and see? -Goofyheadedpunk

Images

There needs to be a way to upload images. If not that, the <img> tag should be enabled to enable remote linking. --Squishypickle 19:43, 23 Dec 2004 (EST)

Also, let's change the background. But not to the damn academy flame. If you really want that, that can be at the top left (instead of the [[{flower}]] that there is now.

I'm not sure who posted this on the front page, but I think it belongs in the discussion section instead. I agree about the background change and I'm looking for alternatives. As far as using the Academy flame at all goes: I say no. This website is not related to the official Academy website in any way, and using their image would make it seem as if it were. The flower should also go though. - Mpnolan 22:40, 23 Dec 2004 (EST)

I would say its a bit related. Maybe a student carrying a torch, attempting to burn down the barrier to free expression. Thats an idea. --Squishypickle 23:50, 23 Dec 2004 (EST)

Should we try to impliment a threaded type discussion for the discussions pages? just so it will tab over correctly depending on where you click to reply? Andy 21:31, 24 Dec 2004 (EST)

Its not that necessary if you use subject/headlines like this

Subject

Stuff

reply

what? thats no way!

Its what the do at the wikipedia

Google

In order for this site to be visible to potential students, which I think should be one of the main goals as this information seems to be most valuable to potentials and underclassmen, we need to be visible on Google. Has the site been submitted to Google? Also, I think more emphasis should be placed on the wiki in the rest of the site (my thoughts: we can scrap all but the contact database). Thoughts anyone? -Chrax

Wait! Scrap everything? That makes me sad... - Stuey

*Everything that's not the wiki* -Chrax

I realize that... now. But it's a good idea. The Main Page is sort of ... lacking - Stuey

Yeah. All that information could be put in the wiki and linked to in an obvious way on the main page. A pretty colored box could say "Student Organizations" and have links to each. Other pretty boxes could have other useful information. -Squishypickle

Something like this:

Student Organizations
Stuff Stuff Stuff Stuff

I agree. Everything could easily be in the wiki. As a bonus, if it were all in the wiki, it wouldn't be so terrible. -Goofyheadedpunk

List of all pages link on navbar

I think adding the List of all pages to the side navigation bar would be a good idea. I've already had to come back to the main page to click it a few times. - Mpnolan 05:53, 26 Dec 2004 (EST)

Good idea. The location is Special:Allpages -Chrax

On another note.. I've been looking around, and I don't see how to change that stuff. Do you have to have access to the source? -Chrax

I don't. I believe only Spandy does. When he gets back I'm going to request SSH access. - Mpnolan 21:13, 26 Dec 2004 (EST)

i dont know how many people feel this way, but its easier for me to search for a page when the alphabetical order is up and down instead of across. is it possible to change this? and do you want to change it? -Sillyputty

I don't think it's possible without changing the code somewhere, as it's a special page. Another thing on the list for Andy to look into when he gets back. -Chrax

I do agree... the acrose alpha thing is weird. - Stuey

Where is andy? -Squishypickle

I think he is in California with his Dad... but I'm not sure. All I know is he's not here! - Stuey

That jerk...abandoning us