User:Mary s
- Work top down
- start with the main corridors and organize by significance, the key talking points clearly identified
- start with the texts of the Revelations, paragraph for paragraph, identifying the main idea, creating new pages as needed, linking to extant pages and corridors
Tasks
- Review A-Z for glaring issues
- missing citations
- extraneous detail
- lacunae (skimpy pages)
- missing concepts: does the page represent the NM teaching?
- incorrect citations
- Contribute
- whatever appeals to them in their studenthood
- the key ideas from each Revelation
- formatting is completely optional; phone training is available and also optional
Practicums
- training for contributors is optional, for people who find the code daunting
- they collect a batch of quotes with main idea identified
- add to the wiki, message Mary to set up a time for formatting tutorial
- over the phone, see the changes added for : Quote marks, spacing, ref tags.
- schedule a follow-up to cover: ref name="tags," headings,
Assignments
Wiki Reviewers
Read the wiki A-Z taking assigned sections looking for
- 1) traces of old-style edits ("Excerpts" Long quotes" etc.--these need SEO headings);
- 2) links;
- 3) page view tallies;
- 4) citations needing links or formatting;
- 5) gaps--quality or quantity--does the page reflect the NMfG teaching on _____?
- 6) corridors identified?
- 7) fluff. paragraphs with too much or too irrelevant content.
- 8) anything unusual.
Training provided. Independent and not time-sensitive. Annual review of the assigned section. Requires: a spreadsheet for checking off yes/no on corrections needed (i.e., "needs links" "needs more")? Editing privileges or skills not needed but encouraged. Attracts: Writers, would-be writers, "wise remaining hidden" or sensitive, building strength in mental environment.
Ref tag review
Add chapter names to all chapter references. Spot-check the references for accuracy & consistency. Add links to all on-line Revelations and chapters or to the book title wiki page.
Reader-editors
- proceed through the teachings and
- highlight major ideas,
- mark text to add to wiki (annotate on the pdf, a Word doc or copy to a Google Doc).
- work at will, following self-chosen Revelations.
Reader-compilers
- same procedure as Reader-editors except they take assigned Revelations. We need
- the core texts: The proclamation, The Recitation, The Voice of Revelation, The Reconciliation, The Initiation
- School session selections
- major corridors: Messenger, Allies, Great Waves, God, Future World, Pillars, Practices; and sub-corridors: Inner knowing, Intervention, Political and Economic forces, Nature,
- books: Wisdom 1 & 2
Requires: comprehension of main idea in fewest words; editing privileges or skills not needed but encouraged. Attracts: Any student who reads closely and regularly. Need (not in this order):
- 1. all online teachings
- 2. all public teachings
- 3. the newest available
- 4. Free School session selections
Content specialists
take a corridor and review it for adequacy. Which teachings are not adequately covered? What are the ideas found only in the NM--are they found on the wiki?
Review the videos from the Messenger’s Vigil: note citations from Revelations to check the page on the wiki for The Messenger: is it organized according to the categories as presented in the focus for each night of the Vigil, is it complete in representing each aspect of the person and work of the Messenger? Some Revelations cited are not publicly available; include those passages by transcribing directly from the video or seek support from the Society in excerpting the exact quotation.
Image downloaders
Every photoquote posted to appropriate page? Requires stronger editing skills than text only.
Internal linker
Copy the "list of all pages," keep it current, add links.
- Mary's personal wishlist
- forces of nature
- Mental Environment--has no mention of the collective mind of all the thoughts of all sentient beings here on Earth
- Does anybody know what Revelation was received on March 18, 2007? Quote #3 on this page needs a reference.
- Need more development
- Signs
Questions
Discussion pages. Discuss: user-generated content on discussion pages
Pending issues
Store citations that need attention here; "The world is growing dark, and this greater promise is needed now. Only the light of Knowledge, the greater intelligence that the Creator has bestowed upon the human family and upon all the races in the universe, only this now can enable you to comprehend and respond. For you return to God on God’s terms, God’s Messages must be comprehended, as they truly are and are intended to be. There will be much struggle and contention with this, and the Messenger and the Messenger’s followers must face this difficulty, this frustration and exercise great patience. Such a Revelation will not be accepted at the outset, and only the few will be able to respond completely. But as time moves forward and as the world grows more turbulent, the New Message will gain a greater attraction, greater recognition and greater relevance." [1] (taken from the Messenger)
"It is unlikely you have found this quite yet, but you who are hearing our words have come to the point where Initiation can occur. You must listen with your heart, not with your judgment and your ideas and all of the requirements you think are required for the Revelation to be real and to be meaningful to you, as if you could determine such things.
Even in people’s misery, they still do not have the humility to recognize that they cannot establish the terms of engagement regarding their primary relationship with the Creator and with the Will of Heaven." [2] (taken from inner listening)