Talk:Sample Article Structure
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Thank you --DErik (talk) 23:10, 30 April 2023 (PDT)
4/25/2023 - At the bottom of this page you reference "write to me" and use your personal email. I would posit this should point to the MediaWIKI Admin alias. Why? We're building a data repository that will likely outlast us. Finding and changing individual addresses such as this is a lot of work. Adjusting the membership of the official wiki admin email alias is not. And I do mean the WIKI ADMIN, not the MRT SIG ADMIN - those are, or should be, separate functions. That address is: RCGRS_Wiki_Admins@rcgrs.com and purposely does not mention the SIG as the SIG and the tools we use are not the same thing.. --Eric Timberlake (talk)
Yes, I wrote that in the first person rather than the third person. It is really intended to be a request for information on how to do that, rather than an explanation on how to do it, and it is I that doesn’t know how to do this yet. Do you? But you are right that such things should be to an alias address rather than a personal one, even in this case. However, I thought we had agreed that the Wiki admin email addresses would be removed. And the Wiki admin and the SIG admin are the same, and probably always will be. I don’t see a divergence on this yet. If the RCGRS Site admin (currently Tristan) wants to take over in the future, then we can discuss it further, but I don’t see that happening, now or ever. The articles that are going to be put out there, even references to the newsletters, will need to monitored and approved by the SIG or at least the SIG chair(s). We can’t allow a lot of ad-hoc additions and edits to what is put out there. It would turn into chaos. So I’m even questioning if we should let just anyone in the RCGRS add/delete/modify stuff that’s in here. Especially if this goes beyond the scope of the MRT - like to becoming a library of sorts with indexing the newsletters and having references to multiple things like other club newsletters. This could get out of hand real fast that way. That’s why I want to keep the focus on the MRT for now. And that means a single point of administration. —Don Erikstrup (talk) 23:10, 30 April 2023 (PDT)
I never agreed to removing the dedicated WIKI admin alias. A subject for discussion at the next meeting, I suppose! ;-) As to "a real mess" - this isn't Wikipedia - the consequences of erroneous information are slight and can be addressed without much drama. I don't "cite" ever, for instance - I just hyper link interesting information, so I can't speak to that issue. My only point is that when you suggest to people they can ask for help with the wiki, they should be provided single unchanging email alias link is all.. That's all I'm pointing out/suggesting here.. --Eric Timberlake (talk)