Create a new page if you want to remember a particular tool, technique, or website and it’s not private information.
Create a new page if you want to share a resource or some information that has helped you.
Create a new page if you want to direct people to little known sections of your department website.
Create a new page if you want to collect a set of other articles together, e.g. advice for new faculty.
Categorize your new pages into books and (optionally) chapters as you see appropriate. You may create a new chapter or book if you think it makes more sense.
Watch out for outdated content. Some pages in the Knowledge Base have not been updated in a very long time and may not be accurate anymore.
Review old pages and update them or tag them as REVIEWED, TO BE VERIFIED, DEPRECATED, or TO BE DELETED:
Update any article you think is incorrect. Make any and all changes you think are necessary.
Update broken links if you can.
Add REVIEWED as a tag, with the date in the tag value, if the content is up-to-date and all the links are working.
Add TO BE VERIFIED as a tag if you think a page should be checked by someone specific. Please forward it to them and ask them to make any changes necessary.
Add DEPRECATED as a tag and at the top if a page refers to something that is out of date but might be useful to keep around for institutional memory. If non-obvious, explain why.
Add TO BE DELETED as a tag and at the top of a page if you think an entire article should be deleted. Please explain why. Someone with delete privileges will review these pages from time to time.
Keep in mind that changing a page title, changing a book title, or moving a page may break bookmarked links (although BookStack can sometimes still find the right page). You may want to notify the original poster and any updaters if you do this.
To prevent the above problem, if you want to create a link to a Knowledge Base page, use a permalink instead of the address you see in the address bar. To do so, highlight a piece of text on the Knowledge Base page you want to link to, then copy the link that appears. It will look like this: https://kb.ucla.edu/link/961#bkmrk-page-title. You can remove the part after the pound sign (#). These kinds of links are not affected by changing page names, page locations, or book names. See Page Permalinks · BookStack (bookstackapp.com) for more information.
Look for articles where you can contribute, such as anything titled “Has anyone tried …”
