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Contribute to the story of Maysville, Kentucky

A Tutorial for New Members

Last edited by Code Monkey. Show all authors.

About this website

The Maysville.com project has one goal: to help you share what you know about Maysville, Kentucky. Here we host community written pages — written about wide variety subjects related to our small town. Users can provide feedback, comments, and related information. We're basically a platform for sharing information, with multiple ways of doing that.

While Maysville.com exists mainly to help local residents share information with each other, we're also a source of information about Maysville to the outside world. Well-written and informative pages provide a previously unavailable bridge between local residents and visitors to our community. By collaborating together, we can share the story of Maysville as never before. The Maysville.com site facilitates that, allowing anyone to write and manage pages through a browser on any computer.

So what subjects can I write on?

(Almost) anything you like. You pick the subject and write it the way you see fit. We don't go overboard on content guidelines, nor do we try to enforce any particular viewpoint – your content should be written as you want it to be written. Of course, pages are subject to the Terms of Service and Content Policy to ensure a good experience for all users and compliance with applicable laws.

What if someone else has already written about that subject?

No problem, you can still write your own pages. In fact, the Maysville.com project is a forum for encouraging individual voices and perspectives on topics. As mentioned, no one can mandate how you write about a topic. If you do a search on a topic, you may very well see more than one page in the search results. Of course, people are free to disagree with you, to write their own content, to post comments and ratings.

Adding Content

As an author, you can change the way readers can collaborate with you on your content by choosing between three different collaboration models.

Open Collaboration
This setting will allow anyone with a Maysville.com account to modify your content and these modifications will be immediately public. Choose this setting if you are willing to have your work modified by anyone, at any time.

Moderated Collaboration
This setting will allow anyone with a Maysville.com account to suggest modifications and corrections to your content, but these modifications will not be visible to the public until you or an administrator has reviewed and accepted them. At that point the person who edited your content will appear in the contributors list, and their modifications will become part of your content. Choose this setting if you would like to accept suggestions from your readership, but you would like to review them before they are incorporated into your content.

Closed Collaboration
This setting will allow only you (or administrators) to modify your content, and these modifications will be immediately public. Choose this setting if you only want to publish content rather than collaborate with other users. This, of course, makes you solely responsible for your typos. ; - )

Creating Sections

It's easy to divide pages into different sections. Sectioning a page helps organize information and also creates the Contents box you see above that allows readers to skip to the section they're most interested in. To create a new section, first type an informative header, like the "Adding Content" header used for this section. Click and drag to hilight the text and choose "Heading 2" from the Format drop down menu on in the page editor. The Contents box is created automatically by scanning the page for Heading 2 marked up text.