Wazeopedia:Wazeopedia

Wazeopedia is the new name for the Waze community wiki, and also the project name for converting the existing wiki into the new framework. First announced in Jan, 2015, the project is being spearheaded by wonderlerm (PM [Help])   a member of Waze staff. Wazeopedia will contain a unique individual wiki instance for each local community, as well as another instance to host global content. Content will be able to shared across the wikis, maintaining the collaboration while allowing the reader a insulated experience.

Framework

The Wazeopedia will be separated into a group of sister wikis. These individual wikis will function on their own, yet also be able to share resources with each other.

The individual wikis inside Wazeopedia will be structured as follows:

• A Global wiki containing content that is valid everywhere, and not subject to local variation. This includes interface guides, global rules, and best practices, etc.
• A Commons wiki will host a repository of images and other resources which may be easily used by any of the other wikis. This will prevent a lot of duplication of the same resources for each wiki.
• A separate Local wiki for each country / local community which wishes to have its own wiki, representing their unique guidance.

Global wiki

The Wazeopedia Global wiki will be built of carefully selected content that is useful for all the local Waze editing communities around the world. Each local community is free to include global content into its own pages. This can be done in the original English, or by creating a modified, translated, or interpreted derivative.

All content in the Wazopedia Global wiki will be verified and maintained for accuracy by a combined group of Wiki Masters and Champs, with assistance from staff. The Champs will also ensure the content is relevant to the global community and not biased to only certain local communities.

Converting from the existing wiki

As of June 2015 the Wazeopedia Global wiki site is not yet available. However, the Wiki Masters team which has been tasked with building the new Wazeopedia examined the pages in the existing Waze wiki, and nominated a comprehensive list of pages which were already global in nature to be included in the Wazeopedia Global wiki. They are currently editing all these pages to meet the standards of the Wazeopedia Global wiki. This is a slow process, as there is a great deal of content to work on.

The majority of these pages which have been nominated for the Wazeopedia Global wiki were heavily biased to the United States, and some other English-speaking local communities. This is because most of the English content wiki was primarily edited by American editors. As part of the preparation for, and the conversion process to move these pages to the Wazeopedia Global wiki, they will have to "globalized". To "globalize" a page the Wiki Masters working with the Global Champs will remove any information specific to the local communities, and replace it with globally relevant information instead.

These local communities will have to decide if they want to either maintain the current page as is, or adopt the new global version for their local community as well.

If they want to maintain the original page, the Wiki Master team will offer to work in tandem with the local editors to make a copy for them before any "globalization" is performed. The local editors may choose to make the copy and separate it from the global page on their own.

Nominated pages for global wiki

While a great deal of effort has been extended to build an accurate inventory of existing wiki pages which have global relevance,mistakes are inevitable. The people parsing the pages to determine if they are globally relevant, are usually not the authors of the page, and may not even be familiar with discussions about the page. It is entirely possibly for a page which was only ever intended for a local community audience to be nominated for the global wiki, or for a page intended for a global audience to have been missed and not be nominated.

To provide feedback and discuss a page which either; you think should have been nominated for the Global wiki, or a page which has been nominated for the Global wiki process that applies to existing pages, pease visit this forum thread. You can ask questions there, and alert the global wiki team to any concerns you have.

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Inventory list of global nominees

The complete list of current pages nomininated for global Wazeopedia can be viewed either on the list for Category:Wazeopedia Global Page, or in this Google Sheet.