ProleWiki:Trusted Editor Permissions

You've probably been linked this page as you received your Trusted role on the wiki and/or Discord server. Congratulations!

This quick read will bring you up to speed on what permissions you receive now that you have the Trusted role, and what this means for you overall.

What does being Trusted mean?

Being trusted ultimately means that you've done quantitative and/or qualitative edits on the wiki over time (usually a period of a month or two, possibly earlier if you've done really good work).

We decided to set up the trusted role early on in ProleWiki's life, originally to fight against spam waves. Over time, the Trusted role became useful to manage ProleWiki effectively as it grew: it helps the administration find out at a glance who is a long-term editor on the project.

There are no quotas to fill on ProleWiki, and you will never lose your Trusted role once you receive it.

What is not the Trusted role?

Becoming a trusted editor is something all new editors will receive if they stay with ProleWiki and edit productively. It doesn't make one better than other editors, it's not an award for good conduct or obedience. It's really just a way of identifying who is editing a lot and has been with us for a long time.

It does give some new permissions which we'll go into in the next sections.

Permissions on the wiki

The biggest change is that you can now create pages as well as upload files on the wiki. The easiest way to create a new page is to search for it: you can use the magnifying glass icon on the left sidebar or just find it here: https://en.prolewiki.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=page. Search for the page you want to create (please remember ProleWiki is case-sensitive!) and it will tell you, near the top of the page:

• Create the page "page" on this wiki! See also the search results found.

The look of the Edit button using our default theme (you can change your theme on your user settings page)

Then, you can simply click on the red link that the search page shows you to start editing this new page you want to create. Don't forget to save your edit even if you haven't added much!

What we mean by case-sensitivity is that Michael Parenti is not the same as Michael parenti! You can see the first one is blue (i.e. the page exists) and the second is a redlink, the page doesn't exist. This is a problem inherent to MediaWiki.

To get around this, it's necessary to create redirections, which we won't get into in this onboarding page.

We recommend using the visual editor if you are new to MediaWiki; it will open by default when you click on "edit" on a page.

Other permissions granted

Moreover, as a Trusted editor, you get to involve yourself more in the ProleWiki project.

First, you will get access to the editor channels on the Discord, which will allow you to talk directly between trusted editors.

Secondly, you will be able to suggest how to use our Donation excess and vote on proposals. This is done on the Discord most of the time.

Finally, you will be able to join and create work groups. Work groups are a project we've been trying out since early 2023 with great success. If you're interested in doing something for ProleWiki other than editing (or outside the website itself), then it's possible for you to propose your project to the administration who will then help you set it up. You will then be able to manage this project somewhat autonomously and with other editors.

One such group for example is the book club that meets on our Discord server. It was created by one of our editors and managed autonomously by him (meeting times, setting up book polls, etc.)

Another group is the agitprop group, maintained by the administration, responsible for work on social media (creating videos, posting tweets, replying to comments, etc.)

Any idea can be submitted for consideration to the admins, whose responsibility is to 1. evaluate the possibility and goals of this group (considering our resources) and 2. help you set up and manage this group as much as they can.

Tutorial page on editing

We are slowly setting up a page that explains how to edit on MediaWiki (the CMS we use). Please find it here:

ProleWiki:MediaWiki Tutorial

Once done, this tutorial will essentially have taught you how to use MediaWiki like a pro and autonomously edit ProleWiki.