Wiki Patterns

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

• 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.
• Maintainer - If the role of a Maintainer is misunderstood, it leads to PageOwnership .

• PageMaintainer @ CommunityWiki