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 and add you to the relevant Glossary team' chatrooms.
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)