I-wiki policies and doctrine

[Darth Wong]

If possible, you might want to include acceptance of this agreement in the registration process, so anyone who contributes has automatically accepted the license agreement.

Good idea. Does anyone know how to do that?

[Sir Sirius]

One license which has been suggested to me is this one, from CreativeCommons.Org (they have many different licenses there).

Few questions (bare with me here, I'm no lawyer). The license says: "Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor..."

Is the manner in which the work is to be attributed specified by the individual authors of the Imperial Wiki or by the Imperial Wiki itself? If the former, isn't that quite impractical? If the later, in what manner is it specified and where?

[Stark]

I take that to mean that you have to reference ownership of non-original content/images from other authors/websites. I'm no lawyer either.

[Bounty]

Policy question: how much information on each universe are you going to allow? I've rewrote an article on Operation Return because Judgeking had cp'ed it from DITL, but really, do we need articles on stuff you can just as easily find on MA or Wookieepedia, or are you going to stick to disputed stuff?

[Stark]

I think that should be discretionary - the main focus is on the vs thing, so huge reams of information about irrelevant nonsense isn't useful. I'm not sure what Operation Return even *IS*, but if it provides information or examples relevant to capabilities, it should be worth keeping.

Clearly we don't need rambling articles about everythinng Julian Bashir ever did and what he was wearing at the time, however.

[Darth Wong]

Policy question: how much information on each universe are you going to allow? I've rewrote an article on Operation Return because Judgeking had cp'ed it from DITL, but really, do we need articles on stuff you can just as easily find on MA or Wookieepedia, or are you going to stick to disputed stuff?

For all of wikipedia's flaws, I never hear anyone lambast it for offering information you could just as easily get elsewhere. The question should not be: "can you see articles about the same subject elsewhere"; it should be: is it justified in a proper evidence-based method, rather than the "mindlessly take "common knowledge" answers at face value" method which is far too common when discussing such matters? Particular emphasis should, of course, be placed on issues where there are such commonly held beliefs that are not consistent with evidence or logic.

[Havok]

I'm not sure if this question is better suited here or in the general IW thread, but since I'm asking about policy I figure I'd ask it here.

I'd like to contribute to the Wiki page, as I find it very interesting, however, I'm not good with the calculations and math side, nor am I all that good at coming up with concise and informative articles that I think would add to the IW. One thing I am good at though, is drawing.

What would be the policy on adding art images to the IW? I don't have anything specific in mind as of yet, but I'm sure there will be a few articles that could benefit from a picture here or there. Maybe diagrams or such.

Also if you are wondering, I do have some skill in drawing and if you are curious as to what type of thing I was thinking about adding you can click the links in my sig for examples.

[General Zod]

What would be the policy on adding art images to the IW? I don't have anything specific in mind as of yet, but I'm sure there will be a few articles that could benefit from a picture here or there. Maybe diagrams or such.

You'd probably have to make sure artwork didn't violate any existing copyright laws and followed fair use guidelines.

[Havok]

What would be the policy on adding art images to the IW? I don't have anything specific in mind as of yet, but I'm sure there will be a few articles that could benefit from a picture here or there. Maybe diagrams or such.

You'd probably have to make sure artwork didn't violate any existing copyright laws and followed fair use guidelines.

How would that work if all the artwork was original?

[Ted C]

I would say that if you have original art or drawings that you want to contribute, you need not fear doing so. Just understand what rights you're giving up under the site's license agreement.

[Ted C]

If possible, you might want to include acceptance of this agreement in the registration process, so anyone who contributes has automatically accepted the license agreement.

Good idea. Does anyone know how to do that?

Presumably the layout of the registration page can be edited, but I don't know how you would get at it. It's not one that you would want a typical user to be able to modify.

[Ted C]

I have copied the legal disclaimers from the main Empire site to the Wiki, and put some content in the "About" page. There is a privacy policy link that contains no content, and I'm not aware of any existing statements regarding privacy policies. If there are none, we should probably come up with some.

Suggestions:

ImperialWiki will not sell information about its users.

ImperialWiki reserves the right to publicize information about users who are behaving like dicks. This includes disclosing the identities or other unique information of trolls and vandals.

[Ted C]

If possible, you might want to include acceptance of this agreement in the registration process, so anyone who contributes has automatically accepted the license agreement.

Good idea. Does anyone know how to do that?

While I don't get an Edit button (presumably because I don't have the necessary privileges), the page that needs to be edited is Special:Userlogin. You might see if you get an edit button when you access it.