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EditMaintainer
What is it?
A maintainer is a person assigned or self-assigned to a page, space or section of a wiki who accountably takes responsibility for the quality of some of the content. The role may include that of a:
- secretary, collecting information from comments and meetings into the wiki
- refactorer, collapsing redundancy and inserting organization into a wiki
- solicitor, encouraging input from community members
- architect, categorizing pages, creating 'project' and 'overview' pages, assigning meanings to labels
Usage
Examples
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Related Patterns
- WikiGnome, a similar positive role, but with less explicit accountability.
- Champion, the Wiki Champion often is the same person as its maintainer.
- WikiZenMaster, often the WikiZenMaster and its Maintainer are the same person.
- Maintainer - If the role of a Maintainer is misunderstood, it leads to PageOwnership.
Further Reading
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