Meta:ICANNWiki Content Planning
This meta space for ICANNWiki Content Planning lists resources and concepts that are being worked on or need work performed in them.
Draft Content Guide for ICANNWiki
Scope
ICANNWiki is concerned with all matters related to Internet Governance, not being limited to ICANN. The scope of this coverage is wide, but should not normally encompass subjects that would already be better covered elsewhere.
For a clear-cut example, it might be notable to outline that a person comes from a certain geographical region, for example, if they were responsible for bringing Internet connectivity to the Brazilian city of Embu das Artes. In that case, an external link to Wikipedia’s article on Embu das Artes would be ideal, rather than creating an article for ICANNWiki.
For a more subjective example, an article on router devices might be better covered by Wikipedia’s article on Router (computing), although that might not be the case if an ICANNWiki volunteer wants to contribute their expert insights into how this affects Internet Governance. Meanwhile, an article on the practice of routing traffic can be assumed to be better covered by ICANNWiki’s specialized community in our Routing article.
Style
Given the global nature of the ICANNWiki project and the diversity of its users, an academic tone is not expected from contributions. However, a professional tone is required. Usage of slang and stylistics outside of common language rules is discouraged exactly to ensure an even playing field for all contributors. This normalization will be enforced by community managers and administrators.
The main language of the wiki is English, and any variant of that language is accepted, with spellings such as color and colour being equally valid and with no need to normalize them. Our focus is on stabilizing the main version of the wiki before branching out to other languages, but exceptions can be made if they are coordinated with administrators.
In the case of companies, NGOs, and programs, the writing of materials relating to their work must be neutral, without marketing products or services. It is valid and welcome to state what an entity does and how that is related to Internet Governance or how that entity participates in ICANN. Entities are allowed to list their services, but that should not be done as a sales pitch. Occurrences of blatant marketing posting will be moderated.
Notability
The criteria for notability of an article are that of being relevant to Internet Governance or ICANN in general, without the need for further qualification as long as that connection is firmly established. The bar is intentionally set lower than that of Wikipedia in order to accommodate concepts and community members that would not otherwise be fit to be included there.
Standardization
Defined
- ICANN Meetings: ICANN {Number with leading zero} (as the main page) + ICANN {Number with leading zero} - {Location as spelled by ICANN} (as a redirect)
- Example page: ICANN 41
- ISOC Chapters: Internet Society {Country Name} Chapter
- Example page: Internet Society Armenia Chapter
Pending
- Which should be the root page and which should be the redirect: Registration Data Access Protocol and RDAP, as well as all other acronyms. Wikipedia normalization would dictate that the full name should be the root.
ICANNWiki feature documentation
All users
- Video embedding
- Provided via Extension:EmbedVideo.
- Usage: {{#ev:service|id|dimensions|alignment|description|container|urlargs|autoresize|valignment}}
- Example: {{#ev:youtube|mQr3zTKvnyE}} embeds a Youtube video of ICANN 40's opening press conference.
- Audio embedding
- Built-in via MediaWiki.
- Usage: [[File:Filename.extension|Caption]] (Incomplete?)
- Example: [[File:Test.mp3|Test]] embeds a media player for the file.
- Timelines
- Provided via Extension:EasyTimeline.
- Usage: See documentation.
- Example: ICANN Historical Timeline
- Mathematics
- Provided via Extension:Math
- Usage: Unknown
- Example: Unknown
- External data
- Provided via Extension:External Data
- Usage: See documentation.
- Example: Unknown
- PDF
- Provided via Extension:PdfHandler
- Usage: Unknown
- Example: Unknown
SysOps and devs
- Special:CheckUser: Insights into technical information of users.
- Special:Nuke: Mass deletion of articles tool, for recent changes only.
- Special:ReplaceText: Mass text replacement across multiple articles.
- Special:BatchUpload: Batch file uploading via Extension:SimpleBatchUpload.
- Extension:SpamBlacklist: MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist, MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, MediaWiki:Email-blacklist, MediaWiki:Email-whitelist
- Extension:Approved Revs: Sets an "approved revision" of an article that will display by default to readers instead of the current revision.
- Extension:PageNotice Places a note in every article within a namespace.
- Special:Interwiki (dev only): Internal shortcuts for other wiki projects.
Trusted Sources
Useful data sources
- ICANN History Project
- ICANN Open Data Initiative
- BigBang
- The History of Computer Communications
- Computer History Museum
- Internet History mailing list
- ICANN Learn
- Relevant podcasts:
Resources
Wikimedia
Pages
- Acronyms
- Special:AllPages
- Special:LonelyPages
- Special:DeadendPages
- Special:LongPages
- Special:MostLinkedPages
- Special:PopularPages
- Special:ListRedirects