Wiki Expectations

General Responsibilities
The creation, use, and maintenence of this wiki serves only one purpose: to make the MSU Lab run more smoothly.

Here are some general expectionsfor all lab members associated with the wiki:
 * Keep your information up to date. If there is an emergency and we need to know something about your responsibilites to a project or about how to contact you--it is your responsibility to make sure that we can.
 * Be honest. This wiki is fully timestamped and all edits to it have the user account marked on them. If you flirt with this rule, you will be caught, so don't try. Likewise, no trolling.
 * Report problems. If you encounter problems or feel that something could be done to this wiki to make it more effective, don't let it sit. The webmistress of this wiki project for now is Jessica Wallace. Contact her with any questions, comments, complaints and or concerns that you might have.
 * Use common sense.

Abilities of Admins
All pages of this wiki will be protected so that edits to it cannot be made by people who are not members of the lab. If you are an undergraduate, you will most likely be an admin.

Admins have the ability to: An even more extensive list of Admin abilities are found at the user group rights page here.
 * delete and undelete pages, page histories, images, or files
 * lock (protect) a page so it cannot be edited or renamed by users without admin rights
 * block a user name or IP address from editing
 * revert bad edits
 * edit the wiki's skin and format

Ablilities of Bureaucrats
If you are a graduate student or a project head, you will most likely be named a bureacrat. This is one step above an Admin.

Bureaucrats have the abilitiy to: Again, look at the user group rights page here.
 * delete and undelete pages, page histories, images, or files
 * lock (protect) a page so it cannot be edited or renamed by users without admin rights
 * block a user name or IP address from editing
 * revert bad edits
 * edit the wiki's skin and format
 * make other users into bureaucrats
 * grant and revoke administrator rights
 * grant and revoke rollback rights