Manifold Atlas:Editing protocols

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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 subections,
    • 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 authors names alphabetically.
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