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BRGS Wiki Events and Changes

Mass Retirement

It's that time of year again, when BRGS's most revered teachers hang up their whiteboard markers for the last time. This year, no less than four of the greats are retiring, Mr Ashton, Mrs Gregson, Mrs Helm and Dr Robinson. I'm sure you will join us in wishing them all the very best for their impending retirement, and in offering our thanks for all the memorable lessons and events they took part in during their BRGS careers. I think it is safe to say that many past students would not be where they are today without the input of these teachers, and that the school will be a changed place without them.

The Moderators, 20th July 2007

Note to All Users

Please read the following Statement, addressed to all of our users.

New Email Address

Thank you

Chris ^{talk - mod} 20:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC), on behalf of the moderators

Uploads

Now work again, we think! If you're going to upload photos please ensure that they are small in size (less than 150KB ideally). If you have a large photo you can compress it with some free programs such as Picasa. Furthermore, you need to put a description on the photograph so we know who/what the subject is.

The Moderators

Birthday Alert

It would appear, after browsing through some ancient, dust-covered MSN chat logs, that the BRGS Wiki's birthday has been and gone! The wiki officially came into being on the 9th March 2006, at precisely approximately 22:43:53. So a happy and belated birthday to us all!

With one year and a bit down, with only two major crashes and one move of host, the Wiki is doing pretty well. Traffic has increased hugely, and the site has been much more successful than we ever imagined. We are currently looking into some graphical updates to the site in celebration, but in the spirit of the Wiki's "when it's done" mentality, don't hold your breath!

The Moderators

External Sites

A lot of pages are now linking to external sites. While this is perfectly acceptable, we would like to point out to all users that BRGS Wiki is not responsible for the content of external sites. Clicking on an external link is completely at your own risk.

The Moderators

Offline

Apologies for the massive downtime for the past week or two. Suddenly everything went blank - and I'm still not exactly sure why. This has hopefully been more or less fixed with upgrading the wiki software again - hopefully not breaking too much. Great crash landing into our first birthday (which I believe is sometime in March)! I will fix the backup version to be more up-to-date and editable in the future. Sorry again, Clizard

Caption Competition - Appeal

Just a couple of notes:

• Please do not directly upload photos to the Caption Competition page as we need to make sure they are suitable first!

• They don't necessarily have to be of teachers, but make sure the subject doesn't mind appearing

Chris ^{talk - mod} 09:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Adbots

The wiki has recently started being visited by adbots. If you see any page with adverts on, please tell us on either Moderation Requests or the Community Portal. Also, if you're blocked and the reason is 'adbot'; then your IP address corresponds to one. Try to use a proxy server to get around this.

The Moderators

MySpace and the Wiki

We'd like to point out to all of our users that this isn't for making MySpace-style pages about yourselves or friends, but a fact based website. Unacceptable content involves such things as "personality tests", personal tributes and anything else to that effect. Basically, it needs to be kept in the third person, ("He has done... and likes...), and the use of full English is once again required please!

Examples of what we're looking for include the pages for Heskey, Doc Rob and so on. Please have a good look at these and get some ideas! Of course, there is nothing stopping you from linking to your personal MySpace page from your wiki entry if you want, but bear in mind it will then be viewable to everyone who visits this site!

The Moderators

The New Year

This year, we intend to help the Wiki grow even more, and over the coming weeks we will hopefully be establishing new sections, and listening to requests made in the Wiki Discussion section. If you have any ideas as to how we can grow further, please tell us!

Also, as the new term begins at BRGS, we hope our current users will spread the word about this wiki, but please ensure that any new edits conform to our editing guidelines. We would once again like to emphasise that "txt spk" is instantly deleted, so take your time to write out your entries in full English!

Finally, we hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas holiday and are looking forward to a great 2007!

The Moderators

Traffic in 2006

Clizard 5th January 2006

Update

The wiki continues to grow with the Main Page passing 10,000 views and the database currently holding 1 articles. However, this increased popularity means that we are now a bigger target for vandals. If you see any vandalism (which includes blanking pages), please at least report who did it on Moderation Requests; even if you revert the vandalism yourself, so that we can judge whether they need a ban. Thank you!

The Moderators

A note on "poking fun"

It is currently our policy that if you add something "poking fun" at someone, we have to view this as a derogatory comment that the person in question would not see the funny side of.

This is unfortunate, but we cannot check up on everyone's sense of humour. To be on the safe side, any comments of this nature will be deleted, or at least edited. Therefore, please ensure your comments cannot be viewed as offensive, even if that is not how they are intended!

Chris mod 16:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Accounts

We strongly recommend that you create an account if you haven't already done so, as this gives you several more options to play with. It's completely free and takes roughly ten seconds...

Chris, 18 November 2006

"Old news" has been moved to the Archive

At BRGS

Recommended Visits

The Community Portal is a great place to suggest ideas and gauge reaction to your plans.

The editing guidelines should be read before you dive in, as you can get some great tips on how to format your work, and avoid the wrath of the moderators!

If you can think of a way to improve this site, please suggest it in the Wiki Discussion area.

Any requests for moderation of pages can be made in the Moderation Requests section.

The moderators can be contacted in several ways - check here for ways to do this!

Archive

All "old" or redundant content is now in the Archive.

Recent System Change Log

BRGS Wiki:System Changes