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Specifying Who Can Do What in Your Wiki Pages and Folders

  Wiki page and folder owners can specify which visitors to their
  pages can do what wiki operations with them.  The regulations are
  expressed according to operation versus role categories, or versus
  specific user ids.

  Every page has a regulations form with controls for the page - only
  the page or folder owners, or Managers, can change the settings, but
  anyone can view them.  See these settings by following the "Advanced
  Actions" link in the page footer.

  The following table describes the terms used in the controls.  It's
  followed by descriptions of some ways the controls are used for
  common community scenarios.

  <table cellspacing=20>
    <tr valign="top">
      <td>
        <table border=1>
          <tr>
            <th colspan=2 bgcolor="eeeeee"> Operations </th>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th align="left" valign="top"> Create </th>
            <td>
              Enable people to create pages for new wiki names.  They
              will be presented with a <font color="green"> **?** </font> 
              question mark to create a new page with the current page
              as its parent.  Those not allowed to create new pages
              from the current page will see an
              <font color="green"> **<sup>x</sup>** </font>
              instead.
            </td>
          </tr> <tr>
            <th align="left" valign="top"> Edit </th> <td>
              Change the text of the current page.
            </td>
          </tr> <tr>
            <th align="left" valign="top"> Comment </th> <td>
              Append comments to the bottom of the page.  This is a
              more controlled way to get feedback than the more
              free-wheeling full-edit ability.
            </td>
          </tr> <tr>
            <th align="left" valign="top"> Move </th> <td>
              Rename or delete the page, or change its designated
              parent(s).  When renaming, links to the old name will
              <em> not </em> be automatically adjusted to track
              change.
            </td>
          </tr>
        </table>

      </td>
      <td valign="top">

        <table border=1>
          <tr>
            <th colspan=2 bgcolor="eeeeee"> Role Categories </th>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th align="left" valign="top" NOWRAP> Nobody </th>
            <td> Not even managers or page owners - but they can
                 reset the policy.
            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th align="left" valign="top"> Owners </th>
            <td>
              The fundamental category, users with the 'Owner' role
              for the page.  Those owners and a few other people -
              those with Manager role and owners of the folder - can
              also set page regulations, establishing which page
              visitors can do what on the pages.
            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th align="left" valign="top" NOWRAP> Non-Anon </th>
            <td> "Non-Anonymous" -
              This category further extends to include *any* logged-in visitor.
            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th align="left" valign="top"> Everyone </th>
            <td>
              This category further includes anonymous visitors.
              Indistinguishable from one another, there's no way to
              assign responsibility for their actions - which may
              sometimes be your aim.
            </td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>

  <ul>
    <li> Page owners can use the <strong> Additional Allowed Users
         </strong> boxes to enable an operation for specific users,
         regardless of the Role Category settings </li>
    <li> Finally, if you select the <strong> Propagate to Offspring
         </strong> checkbox at the bottom of the column for an
         operation, then this setting will be passed to all offspring
         pages that you are allowed to regulate. </li> 
  </ul>
  
  Page Ownership Inheritance

    Page owners control the way that ownership is determined
    for new pages that are created from their pages.

    By keeping ownership, they keep control over the way
    that any immediate *or* indirect offspring pages are
    used, since the ownership inheritance setting is,
    itself, inherited.  Thus they delegate specific operations,
    but retain control over the policies.

    By allowing ownership to the page creators, they enable
    the page creators to set their <em> own </em> policies -
    essentially, delegating complete authority over the
    subpages.

    By selecting both - ie, original owner and new page creator
    getting ownership of the new page - the original owner can keep
    a hand in the regulations for the subpages.

  Policy Scenarios

    These basic operational regulations together with the ability to
    specify how the control over the regulations is passed on enables
    a wide range of policies within any region of a wiki.  Page owners 
    can establish policies for a wide range of community dynamics, from 
    classic wiki's free-wheeling, open policies, to completely
    constrained.  Below are some salient scenarios, within hints about 
    implementing them.

    Classic wiki -- By setting regulations wide open, but retaining
    ownership, all pages created from their page will be wide open,
    and page creators cannot change the regulations to constrain
    operations.  The original page owner can enable or disable ZWiki
    enhancements, like immediate rename and delete, depending on how
    closely they want to emulate the classic wiki.

    Perhaps more interesting, page owners can hand off control over
    the wiki subregions springing from their page, in finely tuned
    ways.

    Page owner delegates control over contents of particular subpages -- By
    creating the pages and specifying the particular users that have
    (only) edit privileges there.

    Page owner delegates control of subtopic or project areas -- By
    creating the links to the subpages for the subtopics, and arranging 
    for the target owners to click the **?** question marks and create
    the subpages.  By granting ownership of subpages to the creators,
    the creators get full authority over the subpages, to change as
    they might wish *and to set policies for delegation to others*, as
    they wish.

    Page owner opens a subtopic for a free-for-all -- By creating a
    subpage and enabling all operations to all visitors (or to logged
    in visitors, if responsibility auditing is desired), but retaining 
    ownership for themselves.  Essentially, the original page owner
    creates a "classic"-style subregion.

    Page owner creates a discussion page -- By creating a subpage
    where anyone can append comments, but the page owner (and anyone
    they designate) has edit privileges.  This way the page owner and
    lieutenants can edit the discussion text to make in-line response
    acknowledgement marks, consolidate mature discussions, etc.

      By opening the 'create' privilege, in addition, the original
      page owner enables commentators to spawn offspring discussion
      pages of their own.  The original owner can determine whether or
      not those offspring pages are constrained to the original
      discussion format, by deciding whether or not to retain
      ownership of the spawned pages...