Main principles and guidelines for working on the Wiki

One: As mentioned, while registering, please provide your email address, real full name as username, and your real first and second name.

Two: The perspective from which a topic is discussed should be made explicit. As a general principle, on each page, the three perspectives (Institutions, Actors & Stakeholders, Technology) should be considered (or provide arguments why this is not reasonable). Note that not all topics are suitable to be covered from all perspectives. Rather, it is important to make those limitations clear within the contributions. Triangulation: Triangulation is a social sciences approach to understand real-world phenomena using different theoretical perspectives and methods in order to compensate for the specific weaknesses of each individual method and theory and to strengthen the value and legitimacy through combined use. When multiple perspectives towards Smart Grid Transitions are taken into account, the probability is the highest that analysis, target horizons and policy options can be understood in a differentiated manner, priorities can be set in an informed manner and incompatibilities and synergies can be identified and orchestrated. The Glossary therefore looks at phenomena from three different perspectives: - Institutions (Rules, Regulations, Norms, Cognitive Frames, Social Networks) - Actors & Stakeholders (Agency, Practices, Behaviour, Strategies) - Technology (Energy System Functions & Infrastructures & Technologies)

Three: Geographical constraints (e.g., does a rule only apply to one country? Is a term relevant for a specific country or region (e.g only EU)?) should be made explicit in the (sub-)headline of each page as well.

Four: Contentious terms and concepts – use footnotes: terms and concepts that may remain “contentious”, in the sense that they are used differently as agreed within the ISGAN Wiki and may cause frequent misunderstanding, should be indicated. This should be done by adding footnotes where contentious terms and concepts are explained. You can add footnotes by using double parentheses. Furthermore, within footnotes, please consider adding links to wiki internal and external pages, where a contentious term and different meanings of it are explained.

Five: Check for consistency with existing glossaries, at least cross-check with IEEE definitions and IEC definitions for consistency. Existing online glossaries and vocabularies may be useful for defining terms. Please make use of them. You find an overview of some of the already existing glossaries and vocabularies within the Wiki. Examples include Electropedia and the IEC Glossary.

Six - word limit: There is no clear word limit per page. However, as soon as your page exceeds a reasonable number of subtitles and navigation becomes difficult (~more than 8 subtitles), consider switching to a new page or splitting.

Seven: Adding references is obligatory when working on wiki pages. Please make sure to use the citation style APA 7th edition.

Eight: For each published image, please assure to comply with copy rights. When adding images to pages, always provide copyright information on the copyright page copyright and insert a link to your entry below each image.

Nine: Each page requires a page owner. The page owner is responsible for a final check of the content with respect to the main principles and rules listed here. The decision about Page Ownership is made at a dedicated time consensually (e.g. Inter-WG Meetings). It is recommended that page owners activate notifications for each page, which can be done as explained above.