FamilySearch Wiki talk:The Purpose of Site Moderation

On the original "Moderation" portal page the following links to stub articles was included. After more than a year, the stub articles were never expanded by the community. Rather than delete the stub article pages, I've copied them here as a way to preserve the thoughts and ideas that were originally generated concerning the role of moderator for content in the wiki:

• See "The purpose of site moderation" to understand the how moderation will help the community of volunteers who are using and contributing to FamilySearch Wiki.

All moderators in the Wiki are invited to help write the following articles. Each article is specifically related to being a moderator. Sharing your experiences in the Discussion tab would be a great place to start. The thoughts and ideas you add to the Discussion tab will assist anyone who wishes to write the article. The articles listed below were started as stub articles. Your participation in this effort will help all moderators.

Being the Moderator of a Community

• How can a moderator expand and grow the community?
• The best practices for communicating with domain community
• Ideas for recruiting writers to fill in content holes
• Policies and procedures for moderating non-English language Wiki pages
• How to recognize moderator candidates and, or nominate someone to be a moderator?
• What is the escalation path when issues arise?
• What is the best way to resolve content-centered community conflict?

Being the Moderator of Content

• To what extent should facts in articles be verified?
• To what extent should grammar, style, and spelling be reviewed by a moderator?
• Reverting Content to Previous Version When should content be reverted back to a prior version? What is proper etiquette when it is necessary to revert content to a prior version? (use "Undo" from the History tab)
• When should a page in the Wiki be protected from additional edits? How is this done? (this has to do with the "three-revert" rule)
• Archiving Pages and Restoring Archived Pages What is the process for archiving pages? When should pages be restored from the Archive?
• Moderating the deletion of pages How does the moderator discover that pages have been incorrectly deleted? "Watch" all the pages in your area of expertise. When you are watching the pages, you will automatically be notified when a page is deleted.
• What should be done when a page needs to be deleted?
• How to Patrol a Wiki Article