In order to document the organization, policies, procedures, and other essential data of The Augustan Society, Inc., and to protect it from calamities personal or physical, the entire organization is meant to be described in the Staff Wiki located at <wiki.augustansociety.org>.
This address is served out of our virtual server, located at the RimuHosting site in Dallas, Texas.
The software that drives the Wiki is MediaWiki, an open source and free software supported by the MediaWiki Foundation, publishers of Wikipedia and others. It is hoped that general familiarity with the latter site will ease the learning curve for those who use and maintain the Wiki.
At present, the site is unadvertised, but unlocked. The Five-Year Plan proposes that it be publicized to the membership on a regular basis, but one would hope that it could be more nearly complete before that is done. At present, wide swaths of the Society are undocumented. Nonetheless, anyone who chances upon the site has access to read it.
Authority for editing is presently vested only in the Assistant Webmaster for the Wiki. Authority will be granted to Society Officers, Committee Chairmen, and Deans who apply. Indeed a member volunteer willing to work on the program would also be welcomed.
While it would be desirable for each Officer, Chairman, and Dean to write and maintain the pages relating to their office, the Webmaster is under no illusions that this is likely. As a result, work presently proceeds on a slow but daily basis to add material to the Wiki.