User:Shireen/PvXWiki:User Conduct

Message from the rambling author
The following, upon completion, will be a proposed site policy on User Conduct here at the wiki.

Several Issues have come to my attention that were borderline problimatic when I left six months ago, and now that I have returned, have obviously becomes stifling and detrimental to the reputation and growth of PvXwiki. There is not an open door policy here, and 'elitism' is not the issue, the issue is our current contributor base and their conduct towards each other and new users on this site.

Please feel free to post concepts and ideas on general guide lines and rules of behavior. This is not the wild wild west and people need to conduct themselves with respect and consideration towards other people. If not we will never see respectable growth as a site. I will expand and write up a more formal policy for consideration as things develop, hopefully merging in some of the many site policies that we wish to re-write from the Guild Wiki. Shireen  former sysop  18:56, 28 March 2008 (EDT)

Mission Statement
PvX Wiki’s Goal:  Become the #1 resource site regarding builds for the Guild Wars™ video game. Priority tasks needed to accomplish our goal. 1) Document and maintain accurate quality information regarding the best builds and strategies for the Guild Wars™ video game. 2)  Maintain a loyal, reoccurring user base. 3) Attract new users that will want to return and possibly contribute to the site. 4)  Ensure that the web site remains attractive, well organized, and easy to use.

Document and maintain accurate quality information

 * Our Bread and butter. We have in place a fairly effective model for quantifying and documenting effective guild wars builds.  But like anything we can allways improve upon the system as it is a little too simplistic for accurate measurements.  We need to take our vetting system to the next level, as it currently falls just shy of being phenominal.  We also need to remember lessoned learned from the past:


 * Avoid arbitrary attributes, or at least, have those arbitrary attributes be mearly a note, and not factor into the builds final score.
 * Voting categories need to be expanded, both numerically (for finer articulation of the build) and Categorically (to further define the build).
 * Current Voting rules need to be effectively upheld by the current administration.

Maintain a loyal reoccurring user base
A "User Code of Conduct" needs to be created, maintained, and upheld. Every time you log onto guild wars you sign a user agreement. Every time they update the coding you have to sign the agreement. We have rules on this site that everyone has to obide by, but very few people actually read. A user agreement box with the code of conduct needs to be issued, and checked by every user. Those rules need to be agreed upon by the administrative staff and needs to contain guidlines necessary to promote fairness, civility, and and a pleseant web site environment. Those user deemed habitual offenders will be counseled and if necessary, asked to leave the community.

Attract new users
Create easy to find well maintained sections of the site aimed at new users and contributors. Game training needs to occour, if everyone is upset that we do not have highly skilled people on this site, then lets train what we got!

Ensure the website is maintained and stays attractive
Other than some of our talk pages, our administration does an excellent job at this.

User Code Of Conduct
As a contributor to the site I agree to obide by the following rules:


 * 1) I will allways be curtious and polite.
 * This is a public community, not a private club, anyone has access to this site. Your language and behavior should reflect this.


 * 2) I will make every effort to explain my statements and claims. I will be willing to further explain my reasonings if asked.
 * If everyone starts explaining why this skill is better than that skill, learning will occour and the person who is recieving the explination will be more likely to make better contributions.. Also when you write down why something does or doesnt work it allowed you to evaluate your statments accuracy.


 * 3) I will not make any personal attacks or insinuations regarding a person's intelligence, compitence, sexuality, race or religious orientation at any time for any reason. Any personal disagreements or serious conflicts of personality will be taken off site.  The use of profanity is prohibited.
 * Again this is a public web site. Act as if you would in a nice public place.  If you were to start being rude and insulting in public, the store owners would ask you to leave or remove you from their place of buisness.  It is no different here.


 * 4) I will not blank out, sabotage, ruin, graphiti, insert inapropriate words, or be the cause of any form of vandalism here on the site. I will not eddit other peoples posts on any talk page. Any form of vandalism is cause for immedeate suspension of contributor rights for the named account and possibly the IP adress.
 * The administration here works very hard to keep the information accurate and maintaintain its appearance. We like a nice site and will not tolorate any actions that is detrimental to this affect.  Also, everyone is permitted to their opinion, so I will not censor any statement made by anyone else.  In the event of inapropriate profanity, contact an administrator, the resulting post will be changed to [censored] or ***** or something similar.  We clean up the language and it becomes universal.


 * - Short and simple. It needs work but this (or something similar) needs to be put on the form for page eddits (not necissarily the explinations of these rules).  Every contributing user needs to read and check off that they have read the rules and explinations for those rules at least every 3 months or each time they are updated.  We make it a constant in the communities mind, it will eventually become a constant in community behavior.

Voter Code of Conduct
- Ill let DE fill in here to what he would like. I don't vote much. Shireen  former sysop  17:01, 31 March 2008 (EDT)