Well,What if you restricted it to only offcial members/designers/promoters or whatever wouldent that bring down the people who just come to vandalize.

Ok, so there's obviously there are several method we could use to go about this vandalism thing. We're eventually going to formally establish a rule on that, but for now I guess we could just keep tossing ideas around.

Right now, I'm leaning towards either Rebecca's or James's idea, which could possibly be combined with Diana's idea if need be.

The reason why I'm still hesitant on Rebecca's idea is because the original purpose I had in mind for a cB Wiki was to follow up on the cB News Staff's idea of a community "blog" that could be accessed and edited by a majority of the community.

I want to give the community as much freedom on this as possible. Of course, it's also a matter of whether or not the community can handle that freedom.

Well, I hear ya. But it still can be accessed by anyone who basically just puts forth a little bit of effort and asks. :)

The wiki will imitate the forums and just become a big circlejerk.

But it'll be the open-source circle jerk that anyone can edit.

But...but...we have a thread on kids talking about anal sex. Why don't you shut that down?

I didn't post pictures. I posted a link that had pictures as part of an encyclopedic article. Wikipedia is not censored, so don't go there if you can't handle it.

Besides, it's a pedantic difference. We still have a thread going on a very in-depth discussion of anal sex that isn't locked. The only difference is that you don't mind text-only discussion, but what if someone else does? I mean, what if I'm offended by the discussion of anal sex? Should we close the topic? Anal sex isn't PG-13, last time I checked.

Plus, that thread includes a picture, too. It also includes the phrase "happy ass ramming" in the first post.

Bullshit. Browsers show URLs before you click on them. And I linked from the phrase "circle jerk".

Furthermore, the two pictures accompanying the article are historical artwork. Should we remove pictures of all nude statues from CB, too?

(Never mind, formatting is screwed up?)

Okay. But where do we draw the line? A number of people have complained about the threads in the Boys Locker Room and the Health forum, too, but rarely are any closed or even edited.

Clearly this is a question that needs to be addressed, especially if a wiki is hosted, because judging by the content of the forums, there will be inappropriate content. And as we see, CB's "rules" are vague at best.

http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=172258

Please continue it there guys. I know it seems like I'm being rigid (and it wouldn't be the first time people have thought that), but really, I like the idea of CreateWiki and it would be nice if the integrity of that idea and feedback regarding that idea would be discussed here.

The only thing I feel strongly about is how CB is Serious Business!

i like this idea. i can see the wiki being used for the tutorial sections, but its quite a departure from the current way of contributing, where a member submits something to get approved.

im going to check out the software locally on my computer and see if i can integrate it with cb4. since the member interfaces of cb4 is tightly integrated, if there is a significant change in that aspect, we'll to wait and include it sometime after the cb4 launch. and since wikis usaully utilizes its own own member databse, it looks like it so far. ill have to see and get back to you guys.

if we dont include it with cb4, itll be included probably by summer time.

Alright, cool, Jusun.

So, I guess we sit tight until then...

Thank you for doing your part to improve the community.

So, quick question--if this goes into action, there's obviously going to be people writing about situations they don't fully know about. For example, the situation between me and Justin or how JAK stands at the moment. These two both involve me directly, and I'd rather not air out dirty laundry for the entire cB community to see, especially because it isn't exactly anybody's business. At all. So the question is: is there going to be some sort of "waiver" (for lack of a better word) in terms of what information is disclosed? Should people have to approve of what is written about/involving them before it is made official?

I'd be in favor of information going through a queue and then, if the information is highly personal, then approved by whatever person or persons is most affected by the information. I know regular Wiki doesn't require review before edits on most pages, but I suspect the articles on CreateWiki might become a tad less educational-informational and more gossipy-informational.

And when I mean queue, I mean a mod or, if we should create a whole new group, a CreateWiki mod would be able to see the information, forward it to whoever they believe should see it, and if that person or those persons approve, accept the edit and it would be published.

Kinda takes the wiki out of CreateWiki, doesn't it?

This all is starting to sound too much like a xangapedia, for the lack of a better word.

Exactly.

The original purpose of the cB Wiki (that I had in mind, at least) was primarily for the community's pleasure. I would rather stick to the original concept of the community (everyone and anyone) being allowed to add or subtract information from the Wiki. (However, this would be a privilege, not a right.)

I actually never thought of the Wiki as becoming a source of "educational-informational" content, but in fact, more of the "gossip-y" (community events, insides jokes, etcetera) type of information. However, the Wiki definitely has the potential of being the former, or even both.

Although this would be a open-edit Wiki, any information added should try to remain as neutral as possible, or, at the least should not offend anyone. Also, I wouldn't have a problem with people being able to request for information to be removed (and to not be added again).

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This post has been edited by Duchess of Dork: Apr 10 2007, 07:35 AM

Ok, I don't have modding power in here, but given that you seem to be a returning member of some description, and certainly know what you're doing is in total violation of cB Guidelines, consider yourself suspended forthwith.

*Apparently someone beat me to it. Kudos.

...josh?

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almost 3 hours later and that's still there.

Dang, fuck_the_mods, that was a tickling assumption but neither of us have been talking shit about you. I'm glad you falsely assumed that, unless we never would've gotten this corrected.

And dang, I didn't even know you made fun of black people. I don't think I even have to say anything about that, that speaks for itself. But once again, I'm glad we had this little talk. Now we both know something about each other.

Haha..why do people keep posting this stuff in this thread?