(log) by Lord Brawl Fri Jan 13 2006 at 12:14:59

Last Month

I hope everyone had a happy holiday season, and has come back to e2 refreshed and ready for lots of noding in 2006. I look forward to lots more actual content!

Content issues

Question of the month: What's the rule on transcripts?

We put this question to our copyright experts, Lometa and GrouchyOldMan. Lometa replies:

Good question! Even though the words are spoken on the public air waves the story ideas and transcripts are work products of playwrights and are under copyright. However if write up in question is public speech then it’s in the public domain.
She refers us to E2 FAQ: Copyrighted Material for more detail.

FAQ Facts

A few questions were asked about e2 FAQs:

  • Who's in charge?
    haze is the leader of the E2 FAQ Editors Group, a sub-team of admins who keep the e2 FAQs more-or-less current.
  • Why are there some FAQs we can't see?
    There are 'document' nodes (such as Everything FAQ) that are normally used for FAQs. There are also various flavours of 'superdoc' nodes. Superdocs are different than regular documents because they can execute code, to run stuff like fezisms generator or to make database queries. Some of these superdoc types are restricted to admin (e2god) users. Other users don't have the necessary execute rights, so even if you could see these docs, they might not work right. But it's sometimes the case that a FAQ was mistakenly entered as a superdoc type, and could be converted. If there's something you think should be open, but isn't, ask me or haze about it.
  • What are good FAQs to recommend to beginners?
    Consensus is that Everything FAQ and E2 Quick Start are the best.

Senior admin (e2gods) staff changes

e2gods

ToasterLeavings, bluebear, and dizzy have not been active as site admins, and they therefore are leaving the 'e2gods' usergroup. All 3 will remain on the gods roster, and thus have access to the admin controls, but they won't be part of day-to-day e2 site administration. At the moment we have no plans to re-fill these slots.

Update (17 January): Gritchka has chosen to step down from the e2gods team as well. Gritchka has been a tireless worker and a source of much wisdom, and will be much missed.

Content Editors

Chiisuta and Devon have both stepped down from Content Editors due to 'real world' demands on their time and attention. We wish them both the best with their respective projects and challenges. Simulacron3 has also decided to leave the admin team, but will remain active on the site.

I also contacted a number of CEs who were not very active on the site to confirm their status. m_turner, Simpleton, sneff, fuzzy and blue, ac_hyper, and arieh are leaving the Content Editors usergroup for now. I do plan to refill these slots....

Potential Content Editors

I got quite a few messages, emails, etc. about the Content Editors bio from last month, most of which were positive, for which I thank you. There were a number of new volunteers for the position. While I tried to spot them all, I might have missed some ... please let me know if I missed your post or message about this.

Here are those who volunteered publicly as CE candidates, in no particular order.

One further application was submitted privately, but has not yet been posted. Two former editors suggested that they might rejoin the team, but have not yet prepared bios. (He hinted, hintishly.)

A few other users have posted day logs in the CE bio format, but did not explicitly volunteer:

I don't know who I'm going to pick yet. There's a wealth of data to digest, some questions to ask, and some conflicting advice to mull over. It's great to have so many good choices. Stay tuned for answers in next month's log -- or sooner, when $ suffixes start popping up in unfamiliar places!

Volunteer Update!

A few new volunteers were flushed out by this month's editor log:

I'll be happy to consider them as well.

Contacting Lord Brawl

Some folks would rather email me, which is fine:

lord_brawl at (this web site)
If you're sending me a bio, please understand that if you are chosen as a Content Editor, I'm going to insist that you post it in a day log or on your home node. One purpose of the bio is to help the noderbase to know the admins as fellow noders, rather than a faceless cabal. So it needs to be public.

Next Month

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