OpenWetWare:Accounts policy/June Meeting

• Jason R. Kelly:The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss/better clarify the new account policy on OpenWetWare. There are a number of applications back-logged that are on the fence and I'd like to get them cleared up. Additionally, the policy has been relatively informal to date (maybe a good thing), and might be worth clarifying.

Todo

1. Approve-industry email in UMS
2. Reject-view soruce email in UMS
3. Flag users for watch list? technically feasible?
4. Update the Join page
5. Process for blocking users / evaluating pseudoscience / advertising / etc; bring up at SC meeting.

Done

1. Policy page thats linked to from block page should be filled out. (just linked to etiquette)
2. Update move guidlines onto accounts page

Agenda

• Institutional Affiliation?
  • What about people from companies who want to advertise their product (or their conferences)?
  • What about people with no current academic affiliation?
• People who just want access to OWW tools? (e.g. "want to learn how the biblo extension works?")
• Teachers/students from high schools?
• Procedure for blocking people who spam?
• add items...

Reference

Wikipedia article on Modifying and Creating policy

Policy pages on OWW

• OpenWetWare:Policy - blank but some auto-generated Mediawiki pages point here so we should probably fill it out.
• OpenWetWare:Accounts policy - examples of denied user requests
• Join - the sign up page has some comments
• Etiquette - general etiquette on the site

Schedule

Time will be M, 6/18 @ Noon-1pm.