Knowledgebase Etiquette

Please Do

• Update articles in your area of expertise.
• Review oldestold articlespages and either update them,them or marktag 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.
  • Add REVIEWED ON date,and the date at the bottom of articlea page if the articlecontent is up-to-date and all the links are good.working.
  • Add TO BE VERIFIED as a tag, at the toptag if you think ana articlepage should be checked by someone specific. Please forward it to them and ask them to make any changes necessary. If you’re not sure who, forward it to the appropriate person in the Help Desk Directory http://programmers.ucla.edu/helpdesk/
  • Add DEPRECATED as a tag,tag and at the top Ifif ana articlepage refers to something that is out of date but might be useful to keep around for institutional memory.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,tag and at the top of ana articlepage if you think an entire article should be deleted. Please explain why. Someone with delete privileges will getreview aroundthese pages from time to confirming your judgement and deleting it in a few days.time,
• IfKeep youin thinkmind anthat articlechanging titlea shouldpage betitle, changed,changing thisa willbook title, or moving a page may break bookmarked links,links but(although becauseBookStack can sometimes still find the kbright errorpage). pageYou suggests possible alternatives, this might not be so bad. Especially if you keep the first part of the title the same. If youmay want to notify the original poster and any updaters,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 wouldappears. beIt great.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 …”
• Add yourself to this page: http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/how-do-you-keep-up-with-technologyHow do you keep up with technology?
• PostCreate ana articlenew page if you want to remember a particular tool, technique, or website,website and it’s not private information.
• PostCreate ana articlenew 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 knowknown sections of your department website.
• PostCreate ana articlenew page if you want to collect a set of other articles together, e.g. Adviceadvice 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.

Please Don’t

• Post a new article without searching to see if it’s already in the knowledgeKnowledge base.Base.