Manifesto
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Our Manifesto
WickedSim.org (we also have the .com to prevent commercial interests muscling in) is dedicated to the following principles:
- All site content should be moderated by the medical simulation community;
- Anyone can contribute sensible input;
- Get the words right;
- Don't over-illustrate: keep bandwidth low;
- Don't trash somebody else's work --- rather beg to differ!
- Opposing viewpoints are welcome and should be clearly stated;
- Website structure should evolve with minimal imposition of pre-conceived ideas;
- No ads.
We're really not keen to put advertisements on this site, now or ever, but the other principles are open to negotiation. Our underlying principle is that we wish to be collegial and co-operative in creating a brilliant website. In doing so, the community is infinitely more powerful than the individual. We can all learn together.
Logging in and editing
We'd prefer it if you would log in prior to editing, but at present we haven't mandated this on most pages. As the site evolves, we anticipate that contributors will have to log in before they can edit certain more stable pages. Generally when we've made templates, we've limited editing privileges, for obvious reasons.
Language of communication
It's reasonable for everyone contributing to this site to use the same language. There seems to be only one reasonable choice, and that is the international language of science --- English. We'll aim for 'international' English, and will try not to be too picky, so let's not have flame wars about US versus UK spelling, for example. Note that anyone obsessively going through pages and 'correcting' UK or US spelling will not find favour, at least with the wiki administrator.
Funding
This website is supported solely by contributions. At present they come from two sources: personal funding by Lara Hopley (an Anaesthetist from Auckland) and Johan van Schalkwyk (a Perioperative Physician from Auckland). If you wish to support this website, we'd rather you contributed by giving of your time in preference to making donations. Okay, if you really insist on giving us money, then speak to us :-)
Johanvs 16:38, 21 March 2007 (EDT)
