Discussion: Technical Content Policy
The Technical Team has been working on a policy to formalize several aspects of site policy within our domain that had been inconsistently or incompletely defined previously. This will also permit site members to understand what they are and are not able to do within the site, as we continue to grow and users continue to experiment with article styling and content.
Policy Draft: http://topia.wikidot.com/staffcollab:tech-policy
This discussion is open to operational staff or higher, or junior staff with their captain's approval.
Simplified summary:
- Pages must be placed in the appropriate category. (e.g. component, fragment, adult)
- Regular pages may not have colons in their URL
- Formalizes restrictions on how HTML, iframes, and javascript may be used
- Flash content is prohibited
- All components must be approved by Tech prior to posting
- All images, components, themes, etc., must be hosted on the SCP Wiki
- Max file size is 4 MiB. Files are recommended to be less than 2 MiB
- Formalizes restrictions around very large images and art page hosting
- Use of redirects by non-staff is restricted
- Certain page elements may not be removed/obscured
- See section for full list, includes page tags, rating module, top bar, page buttons
- Formalizes how offset-based articles are constructed
- Describes how page parenting can be used
- The SCP Style Resource is a Tech-maintained collaborative page
- Page tags are defined by Tech and applied by MAST
- All pages must have a title
