[Lnc-business] LPedia

[Starchild]

	Thanks for the clarification. I agree that users should be able to use pseudonyms on LPedia; my only concern is that those responsible for running and maintaining the site be identifiable and reachable. Perhaps a note could be added next to your name, or a separate title, indicating that you are the person to whom to contact regarding edits, along with similar titles or notes for the other administrators indicating their areas of responsibility? Requiring people to go searching through administrators' user pages to find their contact info, or just to figure out who does what at LPedia, seems sub-optimal.

Love & Liberty,

                                    ((( starchild )))
At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
                         RealReform at earthlink.net
                                 (415) 625-FREE


On Dec 21, 2017, at 8:39 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:

> Hi Starchild, we allow people to use psuedonyms on LPedia and any admin decision is appealable to the Committee and each of their identities are known and each committee member that chose to has their contact information on the LP page.  And not all admins are admins in the way you might think, but do merely backend work.  In reality, I am the one patrolling the edits right now alone as their is a lot of backend technical work to do which is not my skillset.
> 
> I have asked each admin to voluntarily put their contact information on their user page, and I think each of them have.
> 
> On the front page it says to get in touch with the page management at lpedia at lp.org which is a permanent email address no matter who is on the committee.
> 
> LPediaAdmin is a manual bot as it were (we use a program called AutoWikiBrowser to do category cleanups and it uses LPediaAdmin).
> 
> It took a bit of code-monkeying to get the list hot-linked you requested as that is not something (believe or not) that MediaWiki is designed to do.  Each program has it quirks.  In the Policies section there is also clear contact information.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Starchild <starchild at lp.org> wrote:
> 
> 	Right on, Caryn Ann, thanks for the prompt fix and letting us know. A positive change!
> 
> 	Still a bit more room for sunshine there however. While the page http://lpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers&group=sysop lists 13 administrators, if I read correctly two of them are apparently bots (meaning that there are actually only 11 administrators?) Of those 11, only two, yourself and Ken Moellman, are clearly identified by name (is there a person who goes by Joe Libertarian?  :-). I also happen to recognize "JWD3" as Joe Dehn of California, but most people won't know that, and I have no idea who the rest of the folks listed there are. A list of names and phone numbers or at least email addresses accompanying the list of admin handles and talk page links would be excellent.
> 
> 	When approaching a committee, website, or other official Libertarian Party entity, I believe it should always be easy for visitors to be able to see who the decision-makers are and how to get in touch with them.
> 
> Love & Liberty,
>                               
>                                     ((( starchild )))
> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
>                         RealReform at earthlink.net
>                                 (415) 625-FREE
>                  
> 
> On Dec 20, 2017, at 6:45 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:
> 
>> At the last meeting Starchild asked for the list of the admins to be a hot link in the header.  That has been done.  
>> 
>> -- 
>> In Liberty,
>> Caryn Ann Harlos
>> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann. Harlos at LP.org
>> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
>> Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee
>> 
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