Courtesy of Polytechnipedia

After working at The Polytechnic, I found that one of the main concerns of its members (besides the unnervingly late section closing times) is that once senior members of The Poly have graduated, layout, style, and other rules and guidelines will leave with them. Without a reliable and organized system in place, new members are constantly needing to “recreate” their role.

Ryan Govostes ’11, Spring 2009 Managing Editor of The Poly, has decided that it is time to change how The Poly manages its style guide. He has created Polytechnipedia, a Wiki-based web page, only available to Poly members, which will be the new archive for Poly-style rules.

Some progress has been made. A few members have started entering some style rules from The Great & Marvelous Book of Arbitrary Style and the Polytechnic Style Guide. So far it is working great, aside from a few Wiki-styling kinks that need to be ironed out. All that’s really needed now, is a workshop of some sort, to jumpstart all the Poly members into using Polytechnipedia.

Some other suggestions made, regarding the development of Polytechnipedia, are making the Wiki available to Poly members when outside of the Poly office. This would allow them to view the Wiki while they are writing their articles or laying out their sections, improving the quality of the article before it has even reached Copy.

Polytechnipedia has been needed for some time. Style rules and job duties will be accessible, and the time spent searching and questioning what needs to be done for a job will be dramatically reduced. Hopefully, everything works out, so the members of The Poly can finally get some sleep.

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