Glossary/AdoptPage

Glossary | Adopt-a-Page

Volunteering to adopt a Glossary page is great way to participate in and contribute to the M³ Community.

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Step 1: Choose Page

Either select an existing page, or identify a page you think should exist but doesn't.

Note: although joint adoption is possible, generally, we recommend choosing an unadopted page over one that is already actively maintained by someone else.

Step 2: Contact the M³Wiki Team

Email library@mmtproject.org with the subject 'Glossary Adoption'.

Include in your (brief) email:

• Any relevant information about your background and interest in volunteering;
• The page(s) you want to adopt and why;
• The extent of the commitment you are able to make; and
• Any other information we should know.

Step 3: Onboarding

After you email the team, we will respond to arrange a meeting to complete onboarding.

Step 4: Editing

Start editing an existing page or create a new page.

New Pages

To create a new glossary page, add a line to the Glossary Index and relevant List page (in alphabetic order) using the following format:

* [[Glossary/Example|Example]]

Then double click on the newly created hyperlink and populate.

For standard formatting, see the following page templates:

• Nathan Tankus (people)
• MMN (groups)
• U.S. v. Wells Fargo (2d Circ. 2019) (law)
• MMT (concepts)

Glossary pages are a constant work-in-progress - we encourage editors to aim for ever-greater nuance, detail, context, and references.

That said, during the preliminary expansion phase we are generally prioritizing breadth over depth, so would prefer people spend 20% of the time to get to 80% page completion on multiple pages, than devote the other 80% of the time chasing the last 20% on any individual page.

As a general rule of thumb, 'initially complete' pages should satisfy the "1-2-3" rule:

• 1 general paragraph about the item;
• 2 paragraphs about its relationship to MMT (the first focusing on direct/immediate relevance, the second providing broader contextualization and nuance)
• 3 bibliographic references (included in a dedicated sub-folder on the Zotero library)