Marspedia - User contributions [en]

Contributor Categories

2017-11-02T20:12:17Z

Kerri: Made punctuation more consistent.

1a. Contributors of own work: PI's, peer reviewed papers, opinions,
also artwork, fiction, etc.
May be too busy or inappropriate for us to ask them to summarize
someone else's work.

2a. Contributors of work they find: minimal editing, might be willing
to volunteer for assignments.

2b. Contributors, casual: may only suggest "new articles needed."

3a. Editors: those who summarize other's work, might be willing to volunteer
for assignments.

3b. Editor / cleanup: devoted folks who fix up exisiting pages,
wording, grammar, etc.

4a. Readers, devoted: those who come back repeatedly or follow links
to many pages;
they may appreciate a "page of the week" notification.

4b. Readers, casual: if they see a link on the web, they may become
more interested.

4c. Readers, accidental: stumble upon a page and may or may not come back.

Marspedia:Topic List

2017-11-02T20:07:55Z

Kerri: Added a few possible categories/topics for consideration.

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This is a list of topics that we'd like to be fully covered with articles on the wiki.

Mars
* The Planet (overview, scientific details, interesting features & locations, the Moons, etc.)
* History of Mars on Earth (why is it called Mars, theories about it, etc.)

Remote Exploration of Mars
* Orbiters
** Mission pages for every robotic mission, including all failed attempts. (feel free to borrow from MarsNews.com which James Burk wrote all of, but much is likely out of date)
** Chandrayaan
* Landers / Rovers
** Pathfinder
** Spirit
** Opportunity
** Curiosity
** Mars 2020
** Mars Express: Beagle 2
* Future Missions: Mars Sample Return, ExoMars, Red Dragon

Organizations with Mars missions [could use a better category title]
* NASA
* ESA
* ISRO
* SpaceX
Human Exploration of Mars
* Current Plans & concepts: Mars Direct, NASA Design Reference Mission, Caltech missions, Mars One, SpaceX, etc.
* History of plans - David S. F. Portree has done a lot of work in this area and James has his book. You can also pull up his Romance to Reality site which is in archive.org.
* Technologies needed: propulsion (chemical, nuclear, ion, VASIMR, etc.), ISRU, space suits, lander concepts

Permanent Settlement
* Mars Foundation designs: Hillside Settlement, One way mission, Plains Settlement
* Technologies needed: 3-D Printing using in-situ materials, use of lava tubes, etc.
* Fictional Portrayals of Mars Settlement
** Kim Stanley Robinson: Article about Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars and what they did.
*** Based on Proceedings of Case for Mars #2 & #3. (Bruce has copies of these.)
** Also Ben Bova, Geoffrey Landis, Robert Zubrin, Gregory Benford, Paul McAuley (Quiet War, Gardens of the Sun).
** Potential issues/challenges raised in Mars fiction (political/economic relationship with Earth, how government/economics might be affected by conditions on Mars, vulnerability of domed settlements, effects of microgravity on the human body, etc.)
* Commerce (including import/export, etc.)
** Potential Martian industries and exports
** Potential as base for asteroid mining ventures
*** Provide lodging, resupply, and other services to miners
*** Infrastructure
** Potential as base for exploring the outer Solar system
* Other concepts.

Terraforming
* What is Terraforming
* How might you Terraform Mars: plans & concepts
* First 100 year plan / schedule

Miscellaneous Topics
* Whatever you want to write about Mars!

Marspedia:Editorial

2017-11-01T17:45:01Z

Kerri: Cleaned up a few small punctuation issues and such.

==Marspedia Editorial Subcommittee==

The Marspedia Editorial Subcommittee is chartered by the [[Marspedia:Council|Marspedia Governing Council]] to improve and maintain the wiki though a group of volunteer content editors and authors.

=== Next Weekly Meeting ===

'''Thursday 11/2/2017'''

Our next meeting will be next Thursday 11/2 at 11am Eastern / 10am Central / 9am Mountain / 8am Pacific.

[https://zoom.us/j/333203348 '''Join the meeting'''] or dial in using one of the following US numbers (pick one close to you): +1 408 638 0968 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833. The meeting passcode is 333-203-348 - [https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=6OKPUR9eB8Hviub9a22C0rjo8FdKypxt International Numbers].

=== Previous Meetings / Minutes ===

'''Thursday 10/26/2017'''

The Editorial Subcommittee had its first weekly teleconference working session on the Zoom.us service on Thursday 10/26.

[[Marspedia:Editorial_Minutes_10/26/2017|Full Meeting Minutes]]

Action Items
* James Burk to meet with Nicole (& record call) to get her approval for Marspedia to publish her content with a specific content license, including attribution preservation.
* Add a disclaimer section that our choice of licensing for content doesn't apply to the other wikis.
* Add more needed articles to [[Needed Articles]] page and prioritize it.
* Create a list of topics that we want to cover on Marspedia, and use that to add more to [[Needed Articles]].
* Create a teacher landing page with links to key articles and a call to action for teachers to write for us.
* Set up an editorial calendar, and allow volunteer editors to sign up for shifts - James Burk to set up & manage this.
* ''Referred to Technical Subcommittee:'' clean up tag templates so that there is a clear set that can be used for tagging articles as needing various things.
* ''Referred to Technical Subcommittee:'' update the Mediawiki skin used from current Monobook to newer Vector (or a custom version of Vector). This is a prerequisite for updating the home page.

===Slack===

We have set up a Slack (which is a chat tool similar to IRC or instant messaging) to coordinate the activities of the Editorial Subcommittee.

Here is the invite to [https://join.slack.com/t/marspedia/signup '''Join our Slack'''].

=== Editorial Shift Calendar ===
We have a Google Calendar we are using to monitor the wiki and to ensure there is always an editor "on call" to review new submissions. Here is a [https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bWFyc3NvY2lldHkub3JnX2dxdTd0aHJvcXN2bzhiY2c2aDVnNGNkdG0wQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20 Read-Only View of the Editorial Calendar]. To add events, you have to be invited to the calendar and visit the [http://calendar.google.com Google Calendar] application. Email [mailto:jburk@marspedia.org James Burk] for an invite.

===Email List===

We can be reached using the email list [mailto:marspedia-editorial.gp@marssociety.org marspedia-editorial.gp@marssociety.org]. You can join the list by visiting [https://groups.google.com/a/marssociety.org/forum/#!forum/marspedia-editorial.gp/join this link].

===Marching Orders from the Council===

We need to determine what content is needed on the wiki, the process for assigning out & approving new content, and how the editorial committee can keep momentum, either through regular weekly working sessions or some of type of Slack-like tool. It would be great to redesign the home page as well to add some graphics and make it easy for new volunteers to plug in quickly.