Appropedia:Topic experts: Difference between revisions

Topic Experts

• Chriswaterguy
• Lonny

Becoming a topic expert

Do you have expertise? Please conider applying to be a topic expert on the discussion tab above. Feel free to request a new or existing topic category and see Category:Topics needing experts.

Topic Moderator Discussion

The idea behind having and showing topic category moderators is:

1. bring higher credibility to Appropedia
2. bring more experts to Appropedia through incorporation
3. maintain and encourage quality

The topic experts page should have guidelines on:

1. the responsibilities of the topic expert
2. how to become a topic expert (e.g. description
3. how the topic expert is replaced (e.g. after no reply in one month)

This would be better if it:

1. could be administered not in the wiki text
2. would show up below articles and subcategories

these changes will probably take a progammer

Currently I am the moderator for many topic categories. I have in mind a few experts for some of the topic categories, such as adobe and cobb. Are there any offers, e.g. Singkong2005 for Category:Open source?

What do you think? --Lonny 23:32, 14 October 2006 (PDT)

User boxes and tracking changes

Using {{User topicadmin}} places a userbox on your page. E.g. the moderator for the "Water" uses the text {{User topicadmin|Water}}.

You can also add a link to the "related changes" for that category (see link in left column). See Chriswaterguy's page for an example. Or perhaps bookmark the "related changes" page. Be aware, however, that the Related changes link only shows pages directly related to that category, and not, for example, pages in a subcategory.

Related Links

• {{Topicadmin}}
• {{Needtopicadmin}}
• Template:Tlc