Editing PlanetMath (section)

===Content development model===

PlanetMath implements a specific content creation system called ''authority model''.<ref>[http://planetmath.org/?op=getobj&from=collab&id=34 Noosphere's] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034756/http://planetmath.org/?op=getobj&from=collab&id=34 |date=March 4, 2016 }} authority model</ref>

An author who starts a new article becomes its ''owner'', that is the only person authorized to edit that article.  Other users may add corrections and discuss improvements but the resulting modifications of the article, if any, are always made by the owner.  However, if there are long lasting unresolved corrections, the ownership can be removed. More precisely, after two weeks the system starts to remind the owner by mail; at six weeks any user can "adopt" the article; at eight weeks the ownership of the entry is completely removed (and such an entry is called "orphaned").

To make the development more smooth, the owner may also choose to grant editing rights to other individuals or groups.

The user can explicitly create links to other articles, and the system also automatically turns certain words into  links to the defining articles. The topic area of every article is classified by the [[Mathematics Subject Classification]] (MSC) of the [[American Mathematical Society]] (AMS).

The site is supervised by the Content Committee. Its basic mission is to  ''maintain the integrity and quality of the mathematical content and organization of PlanetMath.''<ref>{{cite web |author=Username * |url=http://planetmath.org/?op=getobj&from=collab&id=130 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126222624/http://planetmath.org/?op=getobj&from=collab&id=130 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-11-26 |title=ContentCommittee Charter |publisher=Planetmath.org |access-date=2013-09-06 }}</ref> As defined in its Charter, the tasks of the Committee include:
* Developing/maintaining the standards for PlanetMath content
* Improving individual PlanetMath entries in its Encyclopedia, Book, Paper, and Exposition)
* Developing topic areas
* Developing/improving site and user documentation
* Managing the PlanetMath Request list and Unproved Theorems list
* Improving categorization and other meta-attributes of entries.
* Developing software recommendations for improved content authoring and editorial functions.