OER creation: Hierarchy

3. Content

3.3. Hierarchy

Within OER WMS, a hierarchy of the individual relationships between actors can be created. It should be clear who is responsible for which element of the system’s operation. For these resources, the most well-established is so-called “flat hierarchy” or the “bottom up” approach, i.e. that these resources function best on the internal motivation of their members and not on being centrally directed from the top down. The principle of subsidiarity is supported, which in this case means dealing with problems during their creation on the lowest possible level (typically by a mistake being corrected by the first editor to notice it). Within OER MWS, we can identify several roles within the hierarchy of a resource (See the table below).

Table. Description of possible OER WMS actors.

Role	Role description
Initiator, project leader	Initiators are key individuals in each OER WMS project. They are the ones who create innovation in the form of creating these resources; their role is to convince others around them of the advantages of these resources and motivate their colleagues to take part in them.
Ambassador	An actor who spreads awareness and motivates potentially interested parties to become involved in the project. These can be people like teachers, students or Wikipedists (within the Wikipedia student education program).
Work supervisor	Assigns and checks content creation (of specific articles). This can be a teacher leading his/her students to create these systems during lessons.
Beginner – student	A newly engaged participant in the project who needs to be given methodological support. The whole community of wiki systems stands on the continual integration of beginners.
Editor	This can be both a student contributing on a voluntary basis or a paid content editor.
Senior editor	Experienced editors become senior editors, who monitor the creation of content and select articles to be created, expanded or updated.
Administrator	The project administrator is responsible for administering the project from a technical standpoint, blocks potential vandals, and gives rights to individual users.
Senior administrator	The senior administrator is in charge of the financial and legal matters associated with completing the project.
Reviewer	An expert who has taken part in reviewing created materials and thus heightens the quality of content.
Technical support	An IT employee supervising continuous updates to MediaWiki software.
General public	Everyone who wants to get involved in content creation or its modification (e.g. only correcting grammar).
Technology (artificial intelligence, bots, etc.)	Software detecting vandalism and unsuitable words.