SysopEdits

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 should go in the Archive.

The School IP

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

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)

Complaint

We've had a complaint from Darren Vass, who to my knowledge is an IT teacher at BRGS, regarding the level of vandalism on this site. Personally I think we're doing all we can do, but please read the Email and see if we can come up with any ideas??

Chris ^mod 18:20, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

An Autumn Clean

I've tidied up some pages that were looking a bit messy, and had out of date material (basically the following):

HowToEdit

Community Portal

News

And a few others, including this one of course!

Also created archives for the "out of date" discussions, all of which are linked to from the original page(s).

(Apologies for the horrendous mess I've made of recent changes :S)

Chris ^mod 15:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Blocks/bans

I've created a new bans page with the guidelines discussed here, seems acceptable. If in doubt check out the bans page first so there's some consistency in decisions.

I've also started a page regarding what constitutes vandalism. For both these new pages please jump in and add/edit anything that needs doing!

Chris ^mod 15:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Moved to Archive

• I think a four tier system is too complex when there need only be one level. The real problem is people continually wasting our time.
• Vandalism be defined as making pages that insult people; maliciously changing redirects; defacing reasonable edits or any other edit that significantly degrades the quality of the wiki.
• All vandalism will be reversed when recognised.
• Repeated vandalism shall result in a ban of 1 or 3 days depending on severity, except no ban be applied during school hours and therefore is likely that a school IP is being used.

Clizard 22:30, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I've updated the Bans page with these simpler guidelines. Much better! Chris ^mod

Main website

Has anyone asked the school to put a link to this wiki on the actual school website? I'll do it if you want (most mods seem to have left!); but I was thinking that if we do that it'll increase the prominence of the wiki loads; and we'll hopefully get a load more visitors. Jonny ^{talk • mod} 22:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

• I had this discussion with Mr Haycocks quite a while back (several thousand years) and their policy was not to link to external websites that weren't necessarily reliably going to stay the same after they were 'vetted'. I don't think they'd put a link to this from their site anyway, partly due to its highly dynamic nature. Clizard 22:30, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I doubt it would increase popularity at all, almost everyone knows about it currently anyway, although, it would be nice if the school did recognize this wiki, and include it in assemblies and such, or help to fund it...or something. Kronos^mod 19:26, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

How to make your signature awesome

I only just realised you could do this.

1. Go to 'Preferences'
2. Check the 'Use raw signatures' box.
3. In the 'nickname' box, type your name + a link (as you want it to appear). e.g [[User:Jonathan Parton|Jonny]]
4. Follow it with <sup> .
5. Put something like [[Special:Listusers/sysop|mod]]. Or whatever you want to appear.
6. Type </sup>.
7. Press save.
8. Whenever you sign, it now comes up like this: Jonny ^mod 17:37, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Genius! Chris ^mod