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This Wiki is affiliated to the [[Old Bostonian Association]]: the alumni association of Boston Grammar School, Boston, England. The association is for former students and staff of the school, but this Wiki is for anyone with an interest in the school. You can find out more about the association on its [http://www.bostonian.org.uk web site]. | This Wiki is affiliated to the [[Old Bostonian Association]]: the alumni association of Boston Grammar School, Boston, England. The association is for former students and staff of the school, but this Wiki is for anyone with an interest in the school. You can find out more about the association on its [http://www.bostonian.org.uk web site]. | ||
== Code of practice == | |||
While the OBA Wiki subscribes to the MediaWiki and Wikipedia principle of "be bold", meaning that you should feel free to edit or create any article which you genuinely believe to be relevant to the wiki, please be aware that we have received quite a lot of spam. This usually takes the form of someone creating an account and then either editing their User: page or creating a new article which is clearly spam. Our response is to immediately block the user and any further contributions from the IP address used by the user. | |||
Legitimate subscribers to the wiki should note this. The easy way to avoid summary removal is to start off by editing your User: page ("User:yourusername") to say something about yourself, and your connection with Boston Grammar School. Then please go on to edit or create articles, but make your first contribution, at least, something that will not arouse suspicion that you are a spammer. Once you are established you can start to be a bit more edgy and controversial. Any spurious edits you may make may be questioned, or even reverted, but indefinite blocking is unlikely except in exceptional cases. | |||
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Revision as of 00:28, 8 April 2012
Welcome to the Old Bostonian Association Wiki
This Wiki is affiliated to the Old Bostonian Association: the alumni association of Boston Grammar School, Boston, England. The association is for former students and staff of the school, but this Wiki is for anyone with an interest in the school. You can find out more about the association on its web site.
Code of practice
While the OBA Wiki subscribes to the MediaWiki and Wikipedia principle of "be bold", meaning that you should feel free to edit or create any article which you genuinely believe to be relevant to the wiki, please be aware that we have received quite a lot of spam. This usually takes the form of someone creating an account and then either editing their User: page or creating a new article which is clearly spam. Our response is to immediately block the user and any further contributions from the IP address used by the user.
Legitimate subscribers to the wiki should note this. The easy way to avoid summary removal is to start off by editing your User: page ("User:yourusername") to say something about yourself, and your connection with Boston Grammar School. Then please go on to edit or create articles, but make your first contribution, at least, something that will not arouse suspicion that you are a spammer. Once you are established you can start to be a bit more edgy and controversial. Any spurious edits you may make may be questioned, or even reverted, but indefinite blocking is unlikely except in exceptional cases.