Usenet Big-8 Management Board - User contributions [en]

Conversion from Dokuwiki to MediaWiki

2011-11-29T18:22:48Z

Jik: Reverted edits by Jik (talk) to last revision by Moleski

In the summer of 2010, the board decided to move the wiki from [http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki Dokuwiki] to [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki.]

The purpose of this page is to show the correlation between the Dokuwiki URLs and those in MediaWiki.

== Index ==
{|{{Prettytable}}
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blogs:announcements
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Announcements
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blogs:queue
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Main_Page
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blogs:whats_new
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/What%27s_new
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=board:start
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Board:B8MB_Members_Private_Site
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:asf_hats
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/The_Apache_Software_Foundation%27s_Concept_of_%22Hats%22
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:b8mb
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Big-8_Management_Board
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:b8mb_members
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Big-8_Management_Board
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:big-8_list
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Big-8_newsgroup_list
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:binary_problem
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Changes_in_ISP_Usenet_Policies_%282008%29
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:compliance
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/How_to_Use_Checkgroups_and_Control_Messages
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:creation
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Newsgroup_Creation_FAQ
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:creation_diagram
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Diagram_of_the_Current_Newsgroup_Creation_Process
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:faq_maintainers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/FAQ_maintainers
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:glossary
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Glossary
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:index
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Special:AllPages
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:isc_archives
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Internet_Systems_Consortium
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:links
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Usenet_and_Big-8_Links
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:mail-to-news
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Mail-to-News_Gateways
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:mini_faq
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Responsibilities_of_proponents
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:mod_relays
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Moderation_relays
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:moderation
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Category:Moderation
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:navigation
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Help:Contents
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_faq
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News_FAQ_%28periodic_posting%29
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_providers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News_Service_Providers
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_readers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Newsreaders
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:newusers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Questions_Frequently_Asked_by_New_Newsgroup_Users
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:nsp_bug
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Problems_with_moderated_and_unmoderated_groups_on_nonstandard_setups
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:other_hierarchies
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Other_Usenet_Hierarchies
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:refs
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/FAQs,_RFCs,_Standards,_Specifications,_etc.
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:removal
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Category:Group_Removal
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:rfcs
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Requests_for_Comment_(RFCs)
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:text_editor
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Text_editors
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:usenet
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Usenet
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:verizon
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Main_Page
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=history:1987_guidelines
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/1987_Guidelines_for_Group_Creation
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=history:big-8
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Big-8_Usenet_hierarchies
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=history:big-8_management
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/How_the_Management_of_the_Big-8_Developed
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=history:charters
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Charters
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=history:great_renaming
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/The_Great_Renaming_%281987%29
|-
|colspan="2"|'''The next entry needs clever rewriting. This is for the archives. The asterisk represents the rest of a url. That part of the old URL needs to be attached to the prefix for the new URL.
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=nan:*
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Nan:*
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ngp:charter
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Charter_for_news.groups.proposals
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ngp:intro
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News.groups.proposals_FAQ
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ngp:mods
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Moderation_policy_for_news.groups.proposals
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ngp:ng
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News.groups
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:binaries
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Types_of_Proposals_That_Are_Discouraged
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:board_candidates
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Adding_Members_to_the_Board
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:board_voting
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Board_Voting_Policies
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:change_mod
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Changing_the_Moderation_Status_of_Existing_Groups
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:creation
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/How_to_Create_a_New_Big-8_Newsgroup
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:discouraged
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Types_of_Proposals_That_Are_Discouraged
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:last_call
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Final_RFD_/_Last_Call_for_Comments
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:membership
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Board_Membership_Policy
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:mvi
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Moderator_Vacancy_Investigations
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:names
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Naming_newsgroups
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:proposals
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Draft_Proposal_System_Outline
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rfd
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Content_and_Format_of_a_Request_for_Discussion_%28RFD%29
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Removing_newsgroups
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup_rfd
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Content_and_Format_of_a_Group_Removal_RFD
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:usenet_headers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Usenet_headers
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:ngp:charter
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Charter_for_news.groups.proposals
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:ngp:intro
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News.groups.proposals_FAQ
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:ngp:mods
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Moderation_policy_for_news.groups.proposals
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:ngp:ng
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News.groups
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:answers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News.answers_Liaison
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:deadgroups
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Dead_Groups_Task_Force
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:mentors
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Group_Mentors
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:moderators
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Usenet_Volunteer_Moderators
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:nspc
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News_Service_Providers_Committee
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:polling
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Polling_Techniques
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:polltakers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Usenet_Volunteer_Polltakers
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:techteam
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Technical_Team
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:volunteer
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/How_to_Volunteer
|}

Board policies

2011-11-29T18:22:20Z

Jik: Reverted edits by Jik (talk) to last revision by Deross

== Board Policies ==

[[:Category:Big-8 Management]]

[[Board:Internal Policies]]

Main Page

2011-11-29T18:13:35Z

Jik: Reverted edits by Jik (talk) to last revision by Moleski

== Mission ==

''The [[Big-8 Management Board]]:''
* ''[[creation|creates]] well-named, well-used newsgroups in the [[Big-8 Usenet hierarchies]];''
* ''makes [[Changing moderation status|necessary adjustments]] to existing groups; ''
* ''[[rmgroup|removes groups]] that are not well-used; and''
* ''assists and encourages the support of a canonical [[Big-8 newsgroup list]] by [[Usenet]] sites.''

== Site Map ==
{| {{Prettytable}}
|-
| '''[[Big-8 Management FAQ]]'''
|-
! Core Information about the Newsgroup Creation Process
|-
|[[creation|Newsgroup Creation Policies]]
|-
|[[Newsgroup Creation FAQ]]
|-
|[[news.groups.proposals FAQ]]
|-
|[[Content and Format of a Request for Discussion (RFD)]]
|-
! Core Information about Group Removal Process
|-
| [[Removing newsgroups|Group Removal Policies]]
|-
| [[Group Removal FAQ]]
|-
| [[Content and Format of a Group Removal RFD]]
|-
! General Information
|-
| [[History of the Big-8]]
|-
| [[News Service Providers]]
|-
| [[Newsreaders]]
|-
! Reference Materials
|-
| [[FAQs, RFCs, Standards, Specifications, etc.]]
|-
| [[Glossary]]
|-
| [[Usenet and Big-8 Links]]
|-
! General Policies
|-
|[[Changing Moderation Status]]
|-
|[[Moderator Vacancy Investigations]]
|-
|[[Types of Proposals That Are Discouraged]]
|-
! Board Policies
|-
|[[Board Voting Policies]]
|-
|[[Board Membership Policy]]
|-
|[[Adding Members to the Board]]
|-
! Working Groups / Committees -- Public Pages
|-
|[[Dead Groups Task Force]]
|-
|[[news.answers Liaison]]
|-
|[[Usenet Volunteer Polltakers]]
|-
|[[Group Mentors]]
|-
|[[Technical Team]]
|-
|[[Usenet Volunteer Moderators]]
|-
|[[News Service Providers Committee]]
|-
|[[How to Volunteer|Want to Volunteer?]]
|-
! Contact Us
|-
|align="center"|[mailto:board@big-8.org e-mail the Board]
|-
|align="center"|[mailto:webmaster@big-8.org e-mail the webmaster]
|-
! Working Groups / Committees (login required)
|-
|[[Board:B8MB Members Private Site|B8MB Members Private Site]]
|}

== About This Web Site ==
The purpose of this site is to make the structure and functions of the [[b8mb|Big-8 Management Board]] as intelligible and accessible as possible. If you have questions, suggestions, or corrections, please [mailto:webmaster@big-8.org e-mail us.]

Conversion from Dokuwiki to MediaWiki

2011-11-29T14:28:21Z

Jik: /* Index */

In the summer of 2010, the board decided to move the wiki from [http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki Dokuwiki] to [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki.]

The purpose of this page is to show the correlation between the Dokuwiki URLs and those in MediaWiki.

== Index ==
{|{{Prettytable}}
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blogs:announcements
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Announcements
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blogs:queue
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Main_Page
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blogs:whats_new
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/What%27s_new
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:asf_hats
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/The_Apache_Software_Foundation%27s_Concept_of_%22Hats%22
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:b8mb
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Big-8_Management_Board
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:b8mb_members
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Big-8_Management_Board
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:big-8_list
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Big-8_newsgroup_list
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:binary_problem
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Changes_in_ISP_Usenet_Policies_%282008%29
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:compliance
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/How_to_Use_Checkgroups_and_Control_Messages
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:creation
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Newsgroup_Creation_FAQ
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:creation_diagram
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Diagram_of_the_Current_Newsgroup_Creation_Process
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:faq_maintainers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/FAQ_maintainers
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:glossary
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Glossary
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:index
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Special:AllPages
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:isc_archives
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Internet_Systems_Consortium
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:links
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Usenet_and_Big-8_Links
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:mail-to-news
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Mail-to-News_Gateways
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:mini_faq
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Responsibilities_of_proponents
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:mod_relays
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Moderation_relays
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:moderation
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Category:Moderation
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:navigation
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Help:Contents
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_faq
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News_FAQ_%28periodic_posting%29
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_providers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News_Service_Providers
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_readers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Newsreaders
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:newusers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Questions_Frequently_Asked_by_New_Newsgroup_Users
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:nsp_bug
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Problems_with_moderated_and_unmoderated_groups_on_nonstandard_setups
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:other_hierarchies
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Other_Usenet_Hierarchies
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:refs
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/FAQs,_RFCs,_Standards,_Specifications,_etc.
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:removal
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Category:Group_Removal
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:rfcs
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Requests_for_Comment_(RFCs)
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:text_editor
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Text_editors
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:usenet
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Usenet
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:verizon
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Main_Page
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=history:1987_guidelines
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/1987_Guidelines_for_Group_Creation
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=history:big-8
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Big-8_Usenet_hierarchies
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=history:big-8_management
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/How_the_Management_of_the_Big-8_Developed
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=history:charters
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Charters
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=history:great_renaming
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/The_Great_Renaming_%281987%29
|-
|colspan="2"|'''The next entry needs clever rewriting. This is for the archives. The asterisk represents the rest of a url. That part of the old URL needs to be attached to the prefix for the new URL.
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=nan:*
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Nan:*
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ngp:charter
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Charter_for_news.groups.proposals
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ngp:intro
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News.groups.proposals_FAQ
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ngp:mods
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Moderation_policy_for_news.groups.proposals
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ngp:ng
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News.groups
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:binaries
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Types_of_Proposals_That_Are_Discouraged
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:board_candidates
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Adding_Members_to_the_Board
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:board_voting
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Board_Voting_Policies
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:change_mod
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Changing_the_Moderation_Status_of_Existing_Groups
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:creation
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/How_to_Create_a_New_Big-8_Newsgroup
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:discouraged
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Types_of_Proposals_That_Are_Discouraged
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:last_call
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Final_RFD_/_Last_Call_for_Comments
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:membership
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Board_Membership_Policy
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:mvi
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Moderator_Vacancy_Investigations
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:names
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Naming_newsgroups
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:proposals
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Draft_Proposal_System_Outline
|-
|style="background-color:#00DDDD"|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rfd
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Content_and_Format_of_a_Request_for_Discussion_%28RFD%29
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Removing_newsgroups
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup_rfd
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Content_and_Format_of_a_Group_Removal_RFD
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:usenet_headers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Usenet_headers
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:ngp:charter
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Charter_for_news.groups.proposals
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:ngp:intro
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News.groups.proposals_FAQ
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:ngp:mods
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Moderation_policy_for_news.groups.proposals
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:ngp:ng
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News.groups
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:answers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News.answers_Liaison
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:deadgroups
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Dead_Groups_Task_Force
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:mentors
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Group_Mentors
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:moderators
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Usenet_Volunteer_Moderators
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:nspc
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/News_Service_Providers_Committee
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:polling
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Polling_Techniques
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:polltakers
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Usenet_Volunteer_Polltakers
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:techteam
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/Technical_Team
|-
|http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=workgroups:volunteer
|http://big-8.kamens.us/wiki/How_to_Volunteer
|}

Board policies

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== Board Policies ==

[[:Category:Big-8 Management]]

Main Page

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== Mission ==

''The [[Big-8 Management Board]]:''
* ''[[creation|creates]] well-named, well-used newsgroups in the [[Big-8 Usenet hierarchies]];''
* ''makes [[Changing moderation status|necessary adjustments]] to existing groups; ''
* ''[[rmgroup|removes groups]] that are not well-used; and''
* ''assists and encourages the support of a canonical [[Big-8 newsgroup list]] by [[Usenet]] sites.''

== Site Map ==
{| {{Prettytable}}
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| '''[[Big-8 Management FAQ]]'''
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! Core Information about the Newsgroup Creation Process
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|[[creation|Newsgroup Creation Policies]]
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|[[Newsgroup Creation FAQ]]
|-
|[[news.groups.proposals FAQ]]
|-
|[[Content and Format of a Request for Discussion (RFD)]]
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! Core Information about Group Removal Process
|-
| [[Removing newsgroups|Group Removal Policies]]
|-
| [[Group Removal FAQ]]
|-
| [[Content and Format of a Group Removal RFD]]
|-
! General Information
|-
| [[History of the Big-8]]
|-
| [[News Service Providers]]
|-
| [[Newsreaders]]
|-
! Reference Materials
|-
| [[FAQs, RFCs, Standards, Specifications, etc.]]
|-
| [[Glossary]]
|-
| [[Usenet and Big-8 Links]]
|-
! General Policies
|-
|[[Changing Moderation Status]]
|-
|[[Moderator Vacancy Investigations]]
|-
|[[Types of Proposals That Are Discouraged]]
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! Board Policies
|-
|[[Board Voting Policies]]
|-
|[[Board Membership Policy]]
|-
|[[Adding Members to the Board]]
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! Working Groups / Committees -- Public Pages
|-
|[[Dead Groups Task Force]]
|-
|[[news.answers Liaison]]
|-
|[[Usenet Volunteer Polltakers]]
|-
|[[Group Mentors]]
|-
|[[Technical Team]]
|-
|[[Usenet Volunteer Moderators]]
|-
|[[News Service Providers Committee]]
|-
|[[How to Volunteer|Want to Volunteer?]]
|-
! Contact Us
|-
|align="center"|[mailto:board@big-8.org e-mail the Board]
|-
|align="center"|[mailto:webmaster@big-8.org e-mail the webmaster]
|}

== About This Web Site ==
The purpose of this site is to make the structure and functions of the [[b8mb|Big-8 Management Board]] as intelligible and accessible as possible. If you have questions, suggestions, or corrections, please [mailto:webmaster@big-8.org e-mail us.]