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Latest revision as of 12:37, 28 September 2026

Eric Jordan
RMN-0668-12
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Going to use this as my workbench.

TASKS

What else does Category:Wiki Maintenance need?
Get the GovTree and DocTree stuff deployed.
Get list of active chapters and develop plan for that (edit: got it). We need to focus on the people who are here.
- Start on a Help Page for standing up a Chapter in the Wiki.
Next Meeting Prep:
- Ship and Class list templates.

New Member Page

For now, I am going to just drop a list of things here that are candidates for inclusion. I'll put them in order and tidy up later:

List of abbreviations
BuTrain:Quick Start Guide
We have Category:Portals, though they need a little sprucing up.
- Something about how to nominate someone for an award would be great. I couldn't begin to tell you the process. Edit: Ah, that is at TRMN.org. So link that.
- Manuals needs some links to TRMN.org downloads, too.
Explain about MEDUSA: you can't do much without it.
TRMN Contact List is already on the front page. New Members: Point them specifically to Member Services?
Bolthole. That is another way to get help if, for instance, you can't get into MEDUSA or the Forums or whatever. And there is NOTHING in the intro courses about it.
TRMN.org because we should not assume they found that site first.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SHEPHERDING AND MENTORING NEW MEMBERS? If a new member has a question and cannot ask their Chapter Command Triad (because they don't have one, in many cases), what is their Point of Contact? BuPlan is supposed to be in charge of Recruitment, BuPers is in charge of Members.... I know too well the pain of getting passed around like a hot rock--and I finally just gave up and joined a chapter based in Hawaii. Who are they supposed to ask? And do the people being asked know that is their job?

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 Going to use this as my workbench.
-* Category whitepaper
+==TASKS==
 * What else does [[:Category:Wiki Maintenance]] need?
-* "All the bureaus pages probably need updated to reflect the definitions found in the executive committee policy."
+* Get the GovTree and DocTree stuff deployed.
+* Get list of active chapters and develop plan for that (edit: got it).  We need to focus on the people who are here.
+** Start on a Help Page for standing up a Chapter in the Wiki.
+* Next Meeting Prep:
+** Ship and Class list templates.
-===Category Whitepaper Notes===
-''If you have stumbled over this, know that I think better when I can type things out.''
-OK, so, I have been tasked to craft a Category system for Mantipedia.  Done it before, for other contexts, but this one is a bit tricky.
+===New Member Page===
+For now, I am going to just drop a list of things here that are candidates for inclusion.  I'll put them in order and tidy up later:
-I think the best thing to do is come at it from two directions at once:
+* [[List of abbreviations]]
+* [[BuTrain:Quick Start Guide]]
-A. To an extent, from the top down.  We have Seven Bureaus.  We have from 8-12 Branches/Services depending on how you break out the Civilians.  We have the Board of Directors, the Steering Committee, other Committees, and the two Houses of Parliament (including the Peerages with the Lords, even though not all are Seated).  Each of these has at least some small corner of Mantipedia that is about them, and some of those corners are rather large. That is potentially up to 24 "Top Level" Categories, not counting the purely administrative Categories and stuff used to keep the Wiki Running.
+* We have [[:Category:Portals]], though they need a little sprucing up.
+** Something about how to nominate someone for an award would be ''great''.  I couldn't begin to tell you the process. Edit: Ah, that is at TRMN.org.  So link that.
-We need to aim for the lower end on that number if we can, and as much as possible reflect the hierarchy of the organization, for reasons both practical and aesthetic.
+** Manuals needs some links to TRMN.org downloads, too.
+* Explain about MEDUSA: you can't do much without it.
-B. But we also need to build it from the page-level up.  I want to pick some example pages from across the Wiki, reflecting the different areas, and ask: "What categories should this be in?"  That will give a better idea of what the "branches" look like on the "tree", and how they intertwine.  It will also let us draft an SOP for different page types.
+* [[TRMN Contact List]] is already on the front page.  New Members: Point them specifically to Member Services?
+* Bolthole.  That is another way to get help if, for instance, you can't get into MEDUSA or the Forums or whatever.  And there is NOTHING in the intro courses about it.
-So, what kinds:
+* [https://trmn.org TRMN.org] because we should not assume they found that site first.
-# "Document": Policies, Orders, Directives, Advisories,  we got lots of them.  Honestly, might want to examine a few, these are going to be *quite* varied.
+* WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SHEPHERDING AND MENTORING NEW MEMBERS?  If a new member has a question and cannot ask their Chapter Command Triad (because they don't have one, in many cases), what is their Point of Contact? BuPlan is supposed to be in charge of Recruitment, BuPers is in charge of Members.... I know too well the pain of getting passed around like a hot rock--and I finally just gave up and joined a chapter based in Hawaii.  Who are they supposed to ask? And do the people being asked know that is their job?
-# Units.  This is a little lower on the priority list, right now, but: some idea what a unit page's categories might be like.
-# A Peerage page.  Need to look at these more closely anyhow.
-# An Award Page
-# A Manual. Let's do the Marksmanship Manual, it seems to have NO categories. (This needs to come under Documents as well as the relevant Service)
-# A Billet page. No, two. Let's use Bosun, and Service Head.
-# Rank Page.  Let's look at Brigadier General.
-# An Academy page.
-# A Uniform page.
-# A convention page.  Manticon
-# Missile Pod.  Why? Because it fits nowhere else.  Maybe Customs and Traditions under Miscellaneous?
-# A Portal page.
-# Something on the Board level, one of the Committees.
-Do this, and the things in the middle will quickly become obvious.
-==Testing that Template Issue==
-{{hms-test|Talisman}}