Hey everyone! I have a suggestion that the Scratch Team could add, it is a wiki-editor-only forum.
My ideas are that it would be a completely new section, with 3 different sub-forums.

• Administrator +
  
• Experienced Wikians
  
• Ordinary Wikians
  

It would look like this:
I have another idea for it, maybe in the about scratch forum it could just be 1 wiki forum.
I hope it gets added!

Now you are probably thinking, MClovers, we already have the community portal. Well, Scratchers can access that and see. The wiki forum would make it so no Scratchers can see!
Cheers
MClovers

Good idea +1

I think that there should only be a Wikian forum, since EW+ already have a Skype voice chat that they use for private discussion.

However, I'll have to semi-support since there already is the Scratch Wiki talk:Community Portal.

Also, there's the fact that all forums that are locked like this check something related to the normal site. How would it know if you are a wiki contributor?

Also, not enough people know about the [wiki] tag. They should do something about that.

Support, this would be very useful for any help with editing and stuff.

But I think it should be restricted to contributors, like if you didn't make a request to sign up for the wiki, then you can only view the forum unless such.

I support this, as long as it receives the same level of moderation as the other forums. All topics in the “Wiki Forum” must directly relate to the Scratch Wiki, and anything about hobbies, what they're coding in Scratch (unless it involves something historic/notable in the Wiki), etc., should be pushed to other forums.

I also feel like it should be open to everyone who have questions such as “what is the Wiki?”, “where can I find the Wiki?”, or “how can I become a Wiki editor?”, preventing a large amount of people from feeling excluded.

Wiki editors should also be encouraged to use the Community Portal.

duckboycool wrote:

Also, not enough people know about the [wiki] tag. They should do something about that.

I know about it, but I rarely use it. I think I've only used it once, so far.

Austinato wrote:

I support this, as long as it receives the same level of moderation as the other forums. All topics in the “Wiki Forum” must directly relate to the Scratch Wiki, and anything about hobbies, what they're coding in Scratch (unless it involves something historic/notable in the Wiki), etc., should be pushed to other forums.

I also feel like it should be open to everyone who have questions such as “what is the Wiki?”, “where can I find the Wiki?”, or “how can I become a Wiki editor?”, preventing a large amount of people from feeling excluded.

Wiki editors should also be encouraged to use the Community Portal.

duckboycool wrote:

Also, not enough people know about the [wiki] tag. They should do something about that.

I know about it, but I rarely use it. I think I've only used it once, so far.

I don't think it should be open to everyone. We could discuss Wiki Wednesday stuff.

I think it would be a good idea to make it public to everyone; that way, people who don't have a wiki account can also make suggestions to improve it and all of that.

WolfCat67 wrote:

I think it would be a good idea to make it public to everyone; that way, people who don't have a wiki account can also make suggestions to improve it and all of that.

ALL the forums shouldn't be public to everyone.
Maybe just a new forum. “Wiki Anncouncments”

MClovers wrote:

WolfCat67 wrote:

I think it would be a good idea to make it public to everyone; that way, people who don't have a wiki account can also make suggestions to improve it and all of that.

ALL the forums shouldn't be public to everyone.
Maybe just a new forum. “Wiki Anncouncments”

“Scratch Wiki” (accessible by everyone, everyone can create new topics and post)
“Wiki Announcements” (accessible by everyone, only wiki admins and up can create new topics, anyone can post)
“Wiki Discussion” (accessible by everyone, only wiki editors can post)
They're all accessible by everyone to make sure that it's thoroughly moderated.

WolfCat67 wrote:

MClovers wrote:

WolfCat67 wrote:

I think it would be a good idea to make it public to everyone; that way, people who don't have a wiki account can also make suggestions to improve it and all of that.

ALL the forums shouldn't be public to everyone.
Maybe just a new forum. “Wiki Anncouncments”

“Scratch Wiki” (accessible by everyone, everyone can create new topics and post)
“Wiki Announcements” (accessible by everyone, only wiki admins and up can create new topics, anyone can post)
“Wiki Discussion” (accessible by everyone, only wiki editors can post)
They're all accessible by everyone to make sure that it's thoroughly moderated.

We only need one - Wiki discussion. It'll be used by non-wiki contributors for suggestions. Other than that, wiki contributors have essentially the entire wiki to discuss wiki related things.

WolfCat67 wrote:

MClovers wrote:

WolfCat67 wrote:

I think it would be a good idea to make it public to everyone; that way, people who don't have a wiki account can also make suggestions to improve it and all of that.

ALL the forums shouldn't be public to everyone.
Maybe just a new forum. “Wiki Anncouncments”

“Scratch Wiki” (accessible by everyone, everyone can create new topics and post)
“Wiki Announcements” (accessible by everyone, only wiki admins and up can create new topics, anyone can post)
“Wiki Discussion” (accessible by everyone, only wiki editors can post)
They're all accessible by everyone to make sure that it's thoroughly moderated.

“Wiki Only/Wiki Wednesday” (accessible by wiki editors, wiki editors can post)
It would be useful to make a Wiki Wednesday forum so wiki editors can discuss what the new articles are gonna be.

duckboycool wrote:

Also, there's the fact that all forums that are locked like this check something related to the normal site. How would it know if you are a wiki contributor

You could put in your wiki details.

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I think we should just use the CP. I don't see any need for a private forum. There's not really anything private about the wiki we need to talk about on a regular basis. About Wiki Wednesday, if people that don't edit the wiki don't want to see the suggestions for it, then they don't have to look.

WolfCat67 wrote:

I think it would be a good idea to make it public to everyone; that way, people who don't have a wiki account can also make suggestions to improve it and all of that.

Yes, I think this would be a good idea. At the moment I don't see any obvious forum where you can do this(?)

duckboycool wrote:

Also, not enough people know about the [wiki] tag. They should do something about that.

Agreed. I know about it, but I only learned about it after a couple of years of foruming. :P

WolfCat67 wrote:

I think it would be a good idea to make it public to everyone; that way, people who don't have a wiki account can also make suggestions to improve it and all of that.

I agree. Once I saw somebody make a topic in the suggestions forum for updating something in the wiki, because there was no other place to do it.

I feel that just this forum should be fine. I don't think we need any more than this.

The whole point of the wiki forum was to make it only for wikians. Their could be another forum called public wiki. Everything else, WIKIAN-ONLY.

Mostly Support and Different Suggestion - Is there a specific need for it? Yes, I am aware that we have the CP that all wikians can use, and Scratchers can see the CP. There is nothing on there that we need to hide from the community. Therefore, I dont think a forum for Normal Wikiansis necessary. And since Admins and EWs are in the same usergroup, I would suggest one forum that is hidden - after all, the SDS forum is hidden. Be aware that not all Admins or EWs have the availability of Skype. Overall I believe that there should be different forums than what you have listed.

Visible to the Community:
The Scratch Wiki - Suggest articles, point out errors, or ask for basic wiki information
Join the Wiki - Get help with your application, find all your resources

Hidden from the Community:
Experienced Wikian and Admin Forum

customhacker wrote:

Visible to the Community:
The Scratch Wiki - Suggest articles, point out errors, or ask for basic wiki information
Join the Wiki - Get help with your application, find all your resources

Hidden from the Community:
Experienced Wikian and Admin Forum

I support this for reasons I already said.

Semi-Support. I like the idea of one for every wikian, but the others seem to just exclude Scratcher's, which is something I discourage.

VideoGamerCanInvent wrote:

Semi-Support. I like the idea of one for every wikian, but the others seem to just exclude Scratcher's, which is something I discourage.

The SDS forum is only open to SDS curators.