Manifold Atlas:Editing protocols

This page describes the different editing possibilities for evolving pages in the Atlas.

1 Open-editing pages

• Open-editing pages can be edited by any registered user.

• Open-editing pages offer the possibility of massively parallel collaboration for recording, organising and developing information about manifolds.

• Open editing-pages require scientific co-operation and team-work a la Wikipedia.

• You should feel free to:
  • edit typos,
  • fix mistakes,
  • add hyerlinks,
  • add new sections and subsections,
  • improve presentation and organistaion (but think carefully here).

• You should think carefully before making significant changes to existing text.

• When in doubt about a prospective edit use the discussion page or email the other active users on the page.
  • If there there is no response after a couple of days, proceed with your planned edit.

• After making changes, especially major changes, it is helpful to leave a remark on the discussion page explaining or describing your edit.

2 Author-based pages

• Author-based pages can be edited only by a single author or team of authors:

• Author-based pages offer the possibility for an expert or team of experts to develop information about manifolds in public and over the web.

• Besides having restricted editing, author-based pages are open to development, editorial review and discussion just as an open-editing page.

• All users can write on the discussion pages of author-based pages and provide feed-back, questions or suggestions.

• A new author can be added to an author-based page at any time if all the current authors agree to it.

• If all authors agree, an author-based page can be released to become an open-editing page at any time.
  • However this is, in general, an irreversible process.

• The author template appears at the top of each author-base page making the responsible authors immediately visible.

• The Atlas convention is to list author names alphabetically.