Help:Spaces

This page in a nutshell:

Just like a phone book is divided into white, blue, and yellow pages, Centiare is divided into thirteen (13) distinct Spaces.

In an effort to keep information organized into neat, appropriate "boxes", Centiare content is classified into thirteen different Spaces. This page will briefly outline what each of them is intended to hold.

(By the way, each Space has its own "Talk" mirror, where users can have conversations about topics or articles, without affecting the articles themselves. So, technically, Centiare has twenty-six (26) Spaces, including "Talk".)

The first X Spaces are available for editing by all registered users of Centiare.

Main Space

The grand poobah of MediaWiki Spaces, Main Space is where contributors write articles about any topic under the sun -- except that on Centiare, we have a rule that Main Space is reserved for things that don't have standing in a court of law, including deceased persons with inactive estates.

Most Main Space articles are intended to be freely edited by the Centiare community, and their contents are released under the provisions of the GFDL. There is one major exception class:

Some Main Space articles that have been lovingly created by one or two contributors may qualify for evaluation by Centiare's Editorial Review Board (ERB). Upon successful endorsement by the ERB, the article will be protected from any further editing by the Centiare community, the copyright shall be recorded in the original contributor's name, and the GFDL license shall be removed. General contributors and the original authors may still comment on the article in the appropriate "Talk" page.

Naming: To create a page in Main Space, one simply appends the article title to http://www.centiare.com, with a slash "/", followed by the title of the article. For example: http://www.centiare.com/Sir_Isaac_Newton.

Directory Space

The mighty muscle of Centiare's many Spaces, Directory Space is where contributors write articles about any topic that has standing in a court of law. This would include commercial enterprises, property, non-profit organizations, governments and agencies, living people, and deceased persons with active estates.

Note: during this important time of building up our new directory, users are allowed to create Directory Space articles about entities which they do not own or have a legal interest in. Of course, you may not use Centiare to libel others. Also, if and when the rightful owner of an article topic appears, they can and will "claim" the space, which will be transferred immediately by a Centiare sysop.

Naming: To create a page in Directory Space, one appends the word "Directory", a colon ":", and the article title to http://www.centiare.com. For example: http://www.centiare.com/Directory:Van_Doren_Oil.