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New site setup process?
I proposed the new site Electrical Engineering, and I see that the basic framework has been created. Thanks.
However, there is a difference between the basic mechanics of a site, and a fully up-and-running site. Now that the dev team has worked behind the scenes to create the site, how can we now take it the rest of the way, preferably without having to involve them? Some specific issues:
1 - I want to put up a single page explaining more about the site, what is on topic, what is expected of questions, etc. Basically, I want a "Site Introduction" page I can fill in.
2 - Most, if not all, of the original core group should be moderators. How does that happen?
3 - What are the moderation tools? We'll need to delete bad/spam questions, delete comments, handle flags, etc.
I'd really like to take it from here with as little involvement of the dev team as possible. I expect they'd like the same thing.
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I'm not fully familiar with everything that's possible and not with the current software, but I'm a moderator on two Codidact sites (Writing and Scientific Speculation), so hopefully I can provide some useful insights.
1 - I want to put up a single page explaining more about the site, what is on topic, what is expected of questions, etc. Basically, I want a "Site Introduction" page I can fill in.
Moderators can add help pages to individual sites, which are linked from /help on the respective site (which is "Help" in the top bar), through "Create a help center page" under "Moderator tools" in the side bar. We might want to have some discussion about what pages should be common across all sites (and just filled in with content for each respective site) to make them easy to find. For example, I found the fact that the site scope page on SE was always at /help/on-topic useful. The usefulness of its content varied, especially on beta sites, but what was there was always there and not somewhere else so once I learned that pattern there was no need to go looking for that content.
2 - Most, if not all, of the original core group should be moderators. How does that happen?
Each such person should create a Codidact account (to the extent that this hasn't already been done). Once that has been done, an administrator can set that user as a moderator. Each such user will, of course, need to somehow show that they should have moderator powers.
3 - What are the moderation tools? We'll need to delete bad/spam questions, delete comments, handle flags, etc.
Everything you mention is available, as well as some other things. What's available is linked from "Moderator tools" which becomes available once you're logged in as a user with moderator privileges on the site in question. If there's something in particular that you (broad "you") feel is needed, but which isn't available, certainly go ahead and suggest it as a feature-request here on Codidact Meta.
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