Anabaptistwiki:About

The Global Anabaptist Wiki is an interactive community of Anabaptist-Mennonite groups from around the world. Initiated by the Mennonite Historical Library at Goshen College, the site is committed to helping individual groups: 1) tell their own story; 2) post and preserve electronic archives; and 3) become better informed about other groups in the global Anabaptist fellowship. Like all wiki-based projects, this is a collaborative venture that relies on the local expertise of many people.

Contributing Content

Who Can Contribute?

Anyone can contribute content to the Global Anabaptist Wiki, but not everyone can directly edit content. To prevent vandalism, pages on the Global Anabaptist Wiki are protected so that only administrators can access them. Without administrative access, you can only view articles.

How to Contribute

If you are not an administrator and you have original content to contribute or editing suggestions, send your content or comments electronically to a regional administrator. To add content directly to the Global Anabaptist Wiki you must obtain Administrative Access.

Where Can I Contribute Print Resources?

The Mennonite Historical Library (MHL) is a research level library located on Goshen College's campus in Goshen, Indiana that collects bibliographies, texts and images on topics related to the Radical Reformation, the Anabaptists, Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish and various related groups. The MHL gladly accepts donated print materials from all Anabaptist-related groups around the world. If you would like to donate print materials about your group to the MHL email mhl@goshen.edu or call (574) 535-7418.

How Do I Get Administrative Access?

Anyone who has interest in directly editing and contributing content about his or her own Anabaptist related group has the right to request administrative access to the Global Anabaptist Wiki. To become an administrator do the following:

1. Request an account by choosing a username and password.
2. After creating your username, send a request John D. Roth, Director of the Center for the Study of Global Anabaptist History, (johndr@goshen.edu) including the username you have chosen and an explanation about who you are and what content you wish to contribute.
3. After you have been granted administrative access, you will need to log in using your username and password in order to edit.

What Content Can I Contribute?

Articles

The Global Anabaptist Wiki is primarily made up of encyclopedia style articles that include basic information, annotated bibliographies, and electronic resources about different branches of the Global Anabaptist church. Create new articles about your Anabaptist-related group or edit existing articles or stubs. Articles should relate directly to the Global Anabaptist church. They may cover specific congregations, conferences, organizations, or Anabaptist-related themes. To learn more about article structure and style for the Global Anabaptist Wiki click here.

Electronic Documents

The Global Anabaptist Wiki also serves as a repository for electronic resources about different Anabaptist group. If you'd like, upload your group's Confession of Faith or Constitution. If you know of relevant papers or articles about your group you may upload them after obtaining appropriate permission from the author, journal, periodical, and/or publisher.

Pictures/Videos

Upload relevant pictures and videos to the Global Anabaptist Wiki to visually represent your group. Contribute maps, time lines, promotional videos or any other sort of visual materials that would enhance articles on the Global Anabaptist Wiki.

Audio

If you have any audio resources that relate to your group, feel free to upload them. Contribute interviews, sermons, conference recordings, or any other audio materials that relate to articles on the Global Anabaptist Wiki.

Help Guides

Check out the Media Wiki Help Guide for general information about reading, editing, and personalization. Meta Wiki also offers an excellent Help Guide.

To practice editing using Media Wiki software before editing an actual page on the Global Anabaptist Wiki, use Media Wiki's sandbox. If you'd rather, Meta Wiki also has a sandbox you can use to experiment.