[wp-docs] Suggestions for WordPress Codex

[Jiehan Zheng]

Yes. One more point, may I ask for a higher permission on WordPress Codex?

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Tommy Yang <yt940928 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I was invited by Jiehan Zheng (who is currently the maintainer of
> http://cn.wordpress.org) today to help translate Codex documentation into
> zh-cn since I'm more familiar with MediaWiki than him. I was shocked after I
> have read several pages.
>
> 1. Some users have added advertisement in the documentation
> 2. (more shocking) None of the sysops have noticed that and remove that.
> 3. When Jiehan asked me what to do, I told him "Remove the ad and give that
> user a warning." He told me there're no user warning templates. (even more
> shocking)
> 4. (the most shocking)I tried to find a place to tell the sysops about
> this, but I can't find any pages on Codex for reporting vandalism and abuse.
>
> I understand that on any wiki we ought to assume good faith. However, I
> think WordPress Codex is somehow out of control and this is not acceptable
> in my opinion.
>
> As a patroller and rollbacker in zh Wikipedia, I'd like to offer some
> suggestions:
>
> 1. Add a page for all contributors to report vandalism and abuse since
> sysops may not understand languages other than English.
> 2. Add a Village Pump page for every locale to help contributors cooperate
> more smoothly.
> 3. Improve policies, guidelines and templates. Some basic policies,
> guidelines and templates are still missing. Such as the signature policy,
> {{inuse}} template, user warning templates and welcome templates in
> different locales. Many policies, guidelines and templates can be imported
> and altered from Wikipedia.
> 4. Consider using the http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs extension
> and allow *trusted* editors to review pages.
>
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