MEpedia talk:Science guidelines

Volunteer Slack?
Under the "Less is more" subsection, it says "go to the Volunteer Slack". What is a "Volunteer Slack"??? Pyrrhus (talk) 21:31, 14 March 2019 (EDT)
 * Pyrrhus, Slack is a technology that's basically a very fancy chatroom service; you can make a Slack for a specific group and then it offers the possibility of having different, easily searchable threads for different topics. I take it there is an MEpedia Slack, although I'm not part of it and don't know the Slack's name or who to ask for an invite, so eventually we should probably try to find out how users who wish to can join (personally I don't love using it; I find it overstimulating and would rather discuss with editors here, but it's good to offer different options as different people will undoubtedly have a variety of different preferences and accessibility requirements.) Meanwhile if you want, you can check out the tech at Slack.com though; the basic service is free, you only pay for upgrades (like storage if your group has more than 10,000 messages, etc.) Poking around, I do see an MEAction Volunteers Slack (meaction.slack.com) and you can sign into it if you have an meaction.net email address. But I don't know if MEpedia has a separate one or if MEpedia is a "channel" in that one; also don't know if you have to get an meaction.net email or if possibly existing members (or especially, moderators) can add send invites to others to join the Slack, if that is the right one. So many questions! Sorry I'm probably giving more questions than answers here! Canele (talk) 19:29, 19 March 2019 (EDT)
 * Thank you so much Canele! That is very very informative.  I prefer discussing things here on MEpedia too, but we desperately need to enable communication between contributors any way we can.  I'll ask around to see how I could join.  Now, whom do I ask?  That would be a good question for the Slack group! ;)
 * Pyrrhus (talk) 21:12, 19 March 2019 (EDT)
 * The best bet as far as I know would be User:JenB, or maybe she can suggest who best to go to with MEpedia questions if it's someone else? (I'd also love to ask about either adding to the CAPTCHA whitelist or getting set up to take of that myself, which I'd be happy to do, just don't know who best to ask for the necessary permissions.) Thanks for any guidance! Canele (talk) 22:13, 19 March 2019 (EDT)

Rename to MEpedia:Science guidelines
Any objection if this page "Science Guidelines" is renamed to "MEpedia:Science guidelines"? Since this page is about the MEpedia project itself, it really should belong in the MEpedia namespace. ("MEpedia:") Pyrrhus (talk) 20:43, 18 March 2019 (EDT)
 * I'm for it! (Again!) Canele (talk) 19:30, 19 March 2019 (EDT)