Wiki Launch Information! Yay!
The Wiki is here!
My dear friends, it is with great excitement, that the long awaited wiki is nearing its release date. It has been in utero for many months now and it is ready to make its grand appearance.
It will launch early next week - Monday or Tuesday most likely. Yay!
To start, we will be giving the base permissions to our volunteer teams with the badges listed below. The idea is to get some central content migrated over in the first week, set the tone for the wiki and provide any necessary feedback on the wiki tool. From there, we can open up the permissions further to include more people.
Privileges -
creating/editing public pages
creating/editing public categories
creating/editing listener pages
creating/editing listener categories
Badges - Forum Mentors, Forum Mentor Leaders, Forum Supporters, Ambassadors, 7 Cups Mentor badge, Forum Member Leader, Forum Teen Star, Chatroom Teen Star, Chatroom Mentor, Quality Mentor, Teen Quality Star, group mod leader, Teen Mentor, Community Mentor , intern mentor, group mods, mega member, forum member leader, peer support, community mentor leader
We are also creating a new badge! So if you are part of community centered moderation or you just want to join the wiki team, please fill up this form and we will get you plugged in and ready for the launch. The new Wiki Team badge will give you all of the necessary permissions to help out!
For those of you who plan on helping to migrate / add content - please share in this sheet what you plan to move over. Please work together/ in teams! Not everything needs to get migrated over. The wiki is not for conversation. So anything that exists in a the forum/ google sheet but its not for ongoing conversation, could possibly be moved.
Examples of content we may want to migrate -
1) is a topic guide
2) site guidelines or rules
3) Best practices threads
4) project information threads
Once the wiki is ready to launch, I will provide detailed information about how to add/ migrate content. And how to give us feedback!
Sooooooo Get Excited!!!! The Wiki is Nearly here!!!!
OMG, I'm so excited for this! c: Cannot wait to have it launched soon!
@Laura
What's wiki??
@caringStrawberry47
@Laura - again .... what is a wiki? Y'all seem so excited about this but unfortunately I'm not sure why 
The only "wiki" I know of is Wikipedia, and I'm not even sure this is actually a wiki as you mean it here. (okay fine call me old 
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@Emily619 (I think that's your username) and other amazing teen listeners/members here at 7cups
I agree. This is an important question. There's a risk that the word wiki is being used by people who don't really know what a wiki is, and the thing we'll end up getting won't be a wiki at all.
In a wiki, anyone who reads some information can change the information. It's unlikely that kind of thing will ever happen at 7 Cups, probably for good reason, too.
One of the problems we have at 7 Cups is that useful information is stored in at least two different places—in the forums, and offsite (for example, in Google Docs). When we have our wiki, information will be stored in at least three different places—in the wiki, in the forums, and offsite (for example, in Google Docs). It's difficult to feel excited by this.
Another interesting thing about a wiki is that it's very simple to set up. Creating a wiki would probably take me less than half an hour. But creating the 7 Cups wiki has probably taken around half a year. This is another reason to think that what we're getting probably isn't a wiki in any meaningful sense.
@cyanPlatypus6370
@cyanPlatypus6370
A wiki is a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users. The badges that Laura listed above are the badges that will be eligable to edit the wiki 
Yay!!!
Exciting stuff
Oh, you bet I'm gonna join in.
Happy Easter to all you 7 cup fanatics hope everyone had a marvelous and productive day with there family and friends!! Hurahaaay
From Pink Water
@Laura This sounds great. Will transfer over some helpful info to the wiki.
Sorry...I'm dumb but i didnt understand what it meant...
@cityxescape a wiki is a site that can be edited by different authors and it usually saves a version history. In short: if you know Wikipedia, that is an example for wiki sites.
@kindSoul10 ahh i see but like what can we do she said?
@cityxescape we have lots of articles spread over the site and she's looking for volunteers who help to mocr those resources to the wiki.
@cityxescape The wiki will be launched sometime today, so I imagine it'll all make a bit more sense once we can see what it looks like!
Laura, it really is good news.
Keep us updated.
Thanks!!
That's amazing!
