Staff Wiki
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 Staff 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 Staff 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 nearly complete before that is done. At present, many parts 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, history suggests that this is unlikely. As a result, work presently proceeds on a slow but daily basis to add and edit material.
Note that much of what is covered by the 700-plus pages is historical, not current data. This is a natural consequence of the Society's approach, which is to take programs without current support and mark them as dormant, not dead. Some of these, especially the more esoteric Study Groups, may never be reconstituted. They remain in the Wiki as a record of the Society's history.
