[wp-docs] Suggestions for WordPress Codex

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I think it will be better if this work processed by WP staff, because we
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Jiehan Zheng <zheng at jiehan.org> wrote:

> 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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