Reviewing Pages

Where to start!

1. If the wiki is messed up, fix it—links, spelling, formatting, awkward words, tense agreement, person.
2. If something belongs in another place, move it. If it is a significant change, enter a comment (this prevents misunderstandings). If it is a huge change, enter a comment ON THE WIKI PAGE and in the Comment box. 
3. If something isn't working out but you're not sure how to fix it, enter a comment and leave a message for the group or ask another editor.
4. Work with the time you have and add meaning.

Add or update content

Make sure content is on the "right" page and is not duplicated or out of sync with related content. Domain members are initially responsible for contributing, categorizing and populating the BOK with content. Domain editors will validate other domain member contributions.

Validate

Validation includes:

• Categorization
  • Maintain integrity and correctness of information
  • Organize and maintain page content and layout
  • Clean up and consolidate pages and categories
  • Reduce clutter and confusion for users
  • Add context and navigability
• Formatting or reformatting
  • Make sure content is logically outlined and has conceptual integrity.
  • Regularly clean and refactor. Given the fluididity and speed of wiki development, both are needed regularly. Entire pages or pagesets may need to be reorganized.
• Templates
• Parent and child relationship pages
• Relationship to the site map
• Content linking
• Grammar
• Spelling
• Source references
• Audience

Explain your edit

Make comments on your edits and keep them friendly. These comments will help others understand the changes and may improve the content further through shared understanding. Before making significant changes to content, discuss with the contributor. Consider using the Sandbox to demonstrate your change. Whenever possible, avoid overt opinions and work in a way that will avoid reverting pages. Be inclusive, not exclusive.

Minor edits to existing pages, such as formatting changes, grammatical improvement and uncontentious clarification, may be made at any time. Discuss and publicize major policy or guideline changes to the contributor and the domain members.

Working with the TCBOK is about collaboration, community and creativity. All contributors are responsible for a dialogue and negotiated meaning. Deleting is a major source of contention and discomfort; refactoring and polite editing are preferred. Negotiate to yes for a "sign-off" on all large changes.

Fix problems if you can; flag or remove them if you can't. Preserve as much content as is reasonable. As long as any of the facts or ideas added to the article would belong in a "finished" article, they should be retained and cleaned up on the spot. If you think a page needs to be rewritten or changed substantially, go ahead and do it, but preserve any content you think might have some discussion value and comment in detail about why you made the change. Improve poorly presented content by rewriting the passage. The editing goal is to guide articles through higher levels of quality and this can take time.

Instead of deleting text:

• rephrase 
• correct inaccuracy but keep the content 
• move text within an article or to another article (existing or new) 
• add more of what you think is important to make an article more balanced 
• request a citation 
• perform a quick search for sources; add a citation 
• add cleanup to problematic sections <request cleanup if needed> 
• repair dead links if a new URL for a page 
• merge an entire article into another article with the original article turned into a redirect 
• remove nonsense, vandalism and material that constitutes a copyright violation
• handle unsourced and contentious material