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Moderator Page

I thought that perhaps the moderators should have somewhere to discuss certain guidelines, particularly with respect to blocks/bans etc. In my opinion this is better than all of us having different views on what to do!

Any thoughts? Add them below if you want. I've made it so that only sysops can edit this page - it may also be an idea to add it to your watchlist so you can easily see what's going on.

Old or resolved discussions go in the Archive.

New Sections

We really need some new sections creating to help the wiki expand. Perhaps we should make suggestions here and then announce them publicly?

On a side note, myself and Clizard have had to endure a Speech Night filled with staff asking us about then wiki...... so at least it's notorious!

Chris ^{talk - mod} 23:37, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Added BRGS News, which is aiming to be a news service. Obviously we need the Mods who are actually still at BRGS to help kick this off! Any ideas?

Chris ^{talk - mod} 12:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

The School IP

Due to further vandalism today, such as the blanking-out of Heskey's page, the school IP address has been blocked indefinitely.

Do not unblock the school address at this time, as the majority of all vandalism happens on this IP, we assume by people who (mistakenly) believe that they can hide behind it. Furthermore, it also means that fewer edits (in theory) will happen during the day, hopefully then cutting down on unchecked vandalism due to all the mods being at school/uni/work/in bed..

Thanks

Chris ^mod 15:02, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Contact information

I think posting someone's contact information beyond their email address (so stuff like their home address, telephone/mobile number etc.) should be a bannable offence. Jonny ^{talk • mod} 16:46, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

How to make your signature even more awesome...and I have too much spare time...

1. Create User:Your_name/sig.
2. Put your signature on it (i.e. copy from the nickname box).
3. Change your preferences to use raw signatures.
4. Set your nickname to {{Nosubst|User:Your_name/sig}}.

This makes it a dynamic template - whenever you change your signature on User:Your_name/sig, it's updated all over the wiki. It might be an idea to protect these, as anyone who changes the page will then have the changes shown all over the wiki; which will make it easy to do a DoS attack.

I didn't spend half an hour trying to work out how to do this >_<. Jonny (talk)

Erm, OK.. does this work? Chris ^{talk - mod}

Yep, it took me ages to work it out. The advantage is that if in the future we get a page we want to link to (for example, if BRGS_Wiki:Administrators is done properly), it'll be linked to in the past as well, so people will easily be able to see it. Plus I like the novelty factor :P Jonny (talk) 17:28, 13 December 2006 (UTC) (and it's easy to see which pages you've signed on).

Policy here?

I was wondering what the general policy is for comments like the ones on that page. Are we leaving them, deleting them, toning them down or what? Jonny (talk) 21:55, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Not sure.. I think we can leave it mostly... except maybe tone down the Mr Fitton bit Clizard 22:05, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Okay, how about it now? Jonny (talk) 22:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

good good - Clizard 22:24, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I'm guessing we should stress that "allegedly" these things have happened, as it's impractical to confirm them. Unless they are offensive, and hence bannable, then they should stay. Chris ^{talk - mod} 22:30, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Form pages

Wow, I seem to be posting a lot on here lately...Anyway, I was thinking, should we allow forms to have a section on their form pages to say what they think about themselves. In effect, an area exempt from the general feeling on keeping it NPOV, but still within the guidelines of insults and grammar etc. It won't harm anything, and as long as we check them, it should be ok. Jonny (talk) 23:41, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Since traffic has slowed down recently, i think it should be considered, to get traffic going again, or to just give us more work, as there is very little these days. Kronos^mod 19:34, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't think the BRGS Wiki has to be absolutely NPOV anyway, just not offensive - positive pages are always appreciated. On the other end of the scale, with negative pages, the offensiveness, insults and bad grammar generally go hand in hand. In terms of traffic December looks set to be an overall increase in traffic over November, and is at least on the same level of traffic. Blocking some of the school range to edits has helped reduce minor edits, even though not all edits from school were vandalism. Overall edit levels have perhaps decreased. I think other new sections should be focussed on rather than writing about students, which is generally difficult to moderate (which is one reason why we have some year reps - to try and check facts).

Clizard 00:09, 19 December 2006 (UTC)