April 4 -The 7 Cups Wiki is Live! All the information you need to know!
Hi All -
I am thrilled to announce that the 7 Cups Wiki is LIVE! Please carefully review the information below to learn how it works!! Big thank you to @krinkthemellowunicorn & @ezrabc for their help building the wiki! They have created an incredible tool that I am so excited to share with you today!
Please review the original post annoucing this update here.
What is a wiki?
A wiki is a collaboration tool. You can think of it as a shared resouce to host our communities collective knowledge & shared wisdom! Our community has been using the forums and google docs to house this information for nearly 5 years. The wiki is here to help bring more organization, structure and access to all of our shared resources!
You can access the wiki here -
The wiki is organized using the following structure -
Category (parent topic)
Sub-Category (Topics within parent topic)
Articles (Specific articles related to the parent category & Subcategory)
Here is an image to explain the structure -
Each category and sub-category can house as many articles as needed.
Everyone on 7 Cups will be able to view the wiki! yay! But to start we will limit the privileges of editing/ adding new pages to the following individuals -
Badges who get access to below privileges -
Forum Mentors, Forum Mentor Leaders, Forum Supporters, Ambassadors, 7 Cups Mentor badge, Forum Member Leader, Forum Teen Star, Chatroom Teen Star, Chatroom Mentor, Quality Mentor, Teen Quality Star, group mod leader, Teen Mentor, Community Mentor , intern mentor, group mods, mega member, forum member leader, peer support, community mentor leader, Wiki team badge (sign up for the wiki team here)
Privileges -
creating/editing public pages
creating/editing public categories
creating/editing listener pages
creating/editing listener categories
-------> If you are a volunteer helping with the wiki migration, please watch this video. It explains all of the wiki features, how to use them and where they live in wiki. VIDEO HERE
-----> If you are a volunteer helping with the wiki content migration, please let us know what content you will be migrating. And find others who want to help migrate the same content here!
For everyone..... GIVE YOUR FEEDBACK ...... As you explore the wiki, please share your feedback here! We will be carefully reviewing your feedback and making changes as needed.
So excited for this!!
@Laura
WOW o Yay its going to be so cool and faster to find Links for our members and Guest and New Listeners
@Laura
just wondering...would us therapist get access?
It's public, except for some listener-only categories. There might also be therapist-only categories, but I wouldn't expect to be able to see them as a listener 
However, don't let the word wiki make you think it's a wiki. Unlike a real wiki, just because you can read an article doesn't mean you can edit it.
@annapaviacounselor
@RarelyCharlie - oh, please now.
There are many things that define a wiki. It has never been the case that every wiki page must allow every aspect to be editable by anybody to be considered a wiki.
Being able to edit content in place is an aspect of wiki.
Being able to make new pages on the fly just by [[naming]] them inline is an aspect of wiki.
Encouraging people to work together to curate content is an aspect of wiki.
Citation needed, as they say Seriously, where's the definition of wiki that 7 Cups is using?
It's not that I have a preference for any particular definition. But people who don't know the word are going to assume our wiki is like other wikis they've encountered, or else they'll look the word up in a dictionary. Either way, they're likely to end up confused.
If we're using the word wiki in a special way that only applies at 7 Cups (and I think we are), then we should make it clear to everyone what we mean.
Features like editing in place and a simplified way to make links could have been implemented here in these forums with much less work. In fact, I'm writing this reply in place within the thread, not in a popup.
@KrinkTheMellowUnicorn
@annapaviacounselor - therapists absolutely can read (and with sufficient privileges) edit the public wiki content and we already have a request in for therapist-only categories as well.
A question. under teen hotlines....its blank currently,....but if someone wanted to add resources for Uk or worldwide resources for teens and young people for trauma or addiction or self harm resources, how do we create a sub category or page for that? its currently blank but if we wanted to add resources for sub topics under the main teen resources does wiki allow that
@Rain45
You can only create articles within a sub-category. In this case - teen resources is a subcategory within the parent category of Resources & hotlines. Only articles can live within this subcategory! so make an article for each type of resource you want to share :)
You can also create articles in a main category. For example, the Sandbox contains subcategories and also articles.
@Laura
@RarelyCharlie - Yes, I believe in laura's reply her "only" modifies pages, in that the subcategories may only have pages and not further subcategories, and not subcategories (not say that only subcategories - and not categories - may have pages)
Wiki
Good one
The wiki looks like ti have no version history. That's pretty sad.
@kate @laura @jaydenisheee
It looks like the history is hidden when there is only one version of the article. So if an article has never been edited, you can't tell who wrote it or when. I don't understand why it would have been designed this way.
@kindSoul10
@RarelyCharlie true, I just noticed it has a version history hidden behind a clock symbol.
Yes! When there is more than one version, a clock appears. But there's no tooltip to tell you what it means 
@kindSoul10
@RarelyCharlie - I am not seeing the clock on some pages until I edit the page myself. Another bug.
There is a display/layout bug as well at some widths, but that is minor.
@laura - can we glean all the feedback in this thread for the feedback doc?
@RarelyCharlie - authorship is often downplayed in wikis in the interest of forging collaborative docs.
What is the wiki?
Wiki
Good morning
