AFSWiki:Article Protection Policy
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This article describes the criteria whereby it can be determined whether an article should be protected from editing by typical registered users, and restricted to users with special privileges.
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Policy is Under Development
This AFS Wiki policy is still under development. In general, however, a successful wiki community will minimize the number of protected articles, since the community cannot keep such pages accurate and relevant to the community's needs.
Instead of a general policy, the list below contains specific situations where pages have been protected. Over time, the community can weigh the costs and benefits of using edit-protection in these situations, and when general patterns become clear, we can create a general policy.
Situation: AFSWiki Anonymously Readable Whitelist
This page has been protected because its contents are regularly cut-and-pasted into a wiki system configuration file, and a minor corruption of the file syntax could possibly cause the entire AFS wiki to malfunction. Only sysadmins should be changing system configurations. The list is available for viewing by the general community as a convenience, so people know what pages' URLs they can distribute for use by people without AFS Wiki passwords.
Situation: Officially Sanctioned Position Description
In order to maintain quality standards (internal and external) across AFS-USA, volunteer position descriptions are protected and cannot be edited. Position descriptions will be reviewed on a regular basis and volunteers will be solicited to provide feedback and input. The Volunteer Development Department will oversee this process; however, each functional department in AFS will be responsible for updating all volunteer positions that are in their area.
A separate page within each article will exist to share best practices and these can be edited.
Situation: Legalese
In AFS wiki meetings, many observers predicted we would have to protect pages containing legalese. Has anyone seen specific instances where this was necessary?
