====== Maintainer ======

A **maintainer** is a person assigned or self-assigned to a page, space or section of a wiki who accountably takes responsibility for the quality of some of the content. The role may include that of a:

  * secretary, collecting information from comments and meetings into the wiki
  * refactorer, collapsing redundancy and inserting organization into a wiki
  * solicitor, encouraging input from community members
  * architect, categorizing pages, creating 'project' and 'overview' pages, assigning meanings to labels

===== Usage =====

A maintainer understands the overall taxonomy of the wiki and offers suggestions for tags and labels but also offers template guidance and organizational structure to edited or newly contributed pages.

===== Related Patterns =====

  * [[WikiGnome]], a similar positive role, but with less **explicit** accountability.
  * [[Champion]], the Wiki Champion often is the same person as its maintainer.
  * [[WikiZenMaster]], often the WikiZenMaster and its Maintainer are the same person.
  * If the role of a Maintainer is misunderstood, it leads to [[PageOwnership]]
  * [[OverOrganizer|OverOrganizer]] - an anti-pattern in which someone re-organizes a lot of content without first seeking consensus for the changes.

==== Further Reading ====

  *  [[http://www.communitywiki.org/en/PageMaintainer|PageMaintainer @ CommunityWiki]]