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Whether you are a welcome guest or you are taking on duties as a host, we expect each other to follow the dictates of common courtesy and good manners.

As a wiki we welcome your participation and contribution as long as you follow some basic rules:

This site will thrive or fail based on everyone's participation. If we can make this a welcoming, collaborative and participatory environment, then people will want to join and contribute. If not, the work will not be worth the effort. Please, help us thrive!

Site Rules:

  • Rule #1 - Decorum: We hold ourselves to a higher-standard here: show everyone courtesy and conduct yourself so we can all be proud of each other.
  • Rule #2 - Words First: No Videos without at least the transcript of what you are showing and why.
  • Rule #3 - Clean Formats: Use the Wiki-pages where you can, if you post files please use Rich Text Format (RTF), HTML or other common, open formats not PDF's or DOC's
  • Rule #4 - Quality Matters: Please take the time to make it worth sharing, plan ahead, and edit out the mistakes, the pauses and poor language!
  • Rule #5 - Size Matters: Respect our Web-Host, DreamHost.com, don't add pictures or videos where you don't need them, edit things to keep them small, use outside links for videos and large pictures if you can.
  • Rule #6 - Constructive Criticism: We all will make mistakes, and we can all learn from them, but when pointing them out let's do it in a cheerful and positive way.
  • Rule #7 - Diversity Requires Tolerance: Benefit-of-the-doubt seasoned with a dose of humility is our recipe for getting along.
  • Rule #8 - Keep it Real: By its very nature Science embraces the unknown, but this site is for the technology and inventions that have a firm base in history and the practical. Any pages or discussions that go outside of accepted science need to be handled clearly as such! We may build a wing for fringe-science eventually, but to start with folks I'd like to keep this to things school teachers can use as a reliable resource.


Style Recommendations:
Please choose and edit your content carefully and respectfully.
Well written and concise should always be the goal.
It shouldn't have to be said, but let's keep the language appropriate for a school-age environment.
Some subjects just require a lot of words to handle well, when they do, try to break things into coherent sections and use summary phrases or headlines to help folks navigate.
Assume we are all intelligent, but we may not know all the concepts you are discussing. I expect to develop pages to describe foundation concepts and scientific principles - please use links to those pages or if they don't exist help make them - even if all you do is create the wiki-page and put an "under-construction" sign up.
It is easy to embed other sites, such as Wikipedia, within our site - if a good webpage already exists, use it with discretion - be sure people know what they are looking at, and where it is from.