A Community is a collection of Users, which can establish collective ownership over Pages. A Community is a Page, which means it has editable body content. Community members could be automatically granted certain Permissions, such as having their edits skip moderation.
The purpose of the community is to create a public-facing "brand" with which members can identify. If one wishes not to create a public spectacle, you can create user groups to assign permissions in bulk.
Theoretically a community could contain only one user (its creator) but the intent is that the community would grow and the creator would invite other members.
Structure
Owner = User who created the Community
List of Users who are members of the Community
Has a community “Page” (inherit properties from Page object) - This Page's thumbnail will be used as the Community thumbnail
Creator can add users to community
Creator can appoint users to become Admins, which can add or remove people from the community
List of Users in Community
List of Pages in Community
List of Categories
Activity feed of all the actions being done on Community Pages
Pages can be created by Users on behalf of a Community they’re a member of.
Community splits
If a community reaches some kind of irreconcilable disagreement about the direction of their pages and their project, it should be easy for Users to split off into a new community, and importing old pages from the old community to kick-start the new community.
This is one of the core value propositions of WeWrite, because previously such an irreconcilable disagreement would result in users being banned from a wiki, and a user would have to find some other place to promote their ideas. Perhaps even setting up an entirely new wiki.
Privacy / visibility considerations
Show / hide community member list
Show / hide number of members
Show / hide amount of contributions (includes owned pages)
Philosophical thoughts
Communities allow for the social construction of shared realities.
Example users
Teams inside of organizations
Trusted collaborators
