BRGS Wiki:Community Portal/Archive

This is an archive of the suggestions made here.

Moderators and General Discussion

• People who object to their pages may of course edit them. Lower school I think should be able to request their removal. In case of someone wiping a page of content, I will generally reverse and then balance the page to positive/neutral content if necessary. Clizard 02:15, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

• An update on inappropriate pages: Current policy is a 1-3 day ban for non-school ips (practically, edits outside school hours that are against the basic editorial guidelines). We currently have moderators from upper sixth and the previous year's upper sixth, however we could do with representatives from other years also, if interested, add your account before (and also make sure you've added constructive edits to the wiki before). Pages can now be protected to be editable by members only. Once I get time to test and sort out the system, this will become an effective tool to preventing repeated malicious edits, without completely restricting pages like before. There's also a few other things on the new system that need to be tweaked still. Clizard 02:15, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

• "I'm interested in becoming a year representative" - Kronos Year 10
• I'll be a representative; but I don't have many edits under a username (as opposed to an IP address); so you might want to wait. Jonny 19:40, 20 November 2006 (UTC) Lower 6th
• Thanks guys. I've also seemed to muck up image uploads so I'll try and fix that now. Some have complained... more will do so soon Clizard 00:03, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Uploads need a lot of work with retransferring all the old files, since it's no longer compatible. Good news is that all new uploads work. Bad news is that all old images are broken until I get them fixed. Shouldn't take too long! Made my edits invisible whilst I do this. Clizard 18:42, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Now reversed will try something else. Clizard 19:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• I would like to become a year representitive, if we don't already have one - Lamby Year 9

To-do list

• Need a page for the legend that is Mr Chadwick

• ATTENTION! Mrs Greaves' section in the retired teachers department needs some serious expansion before we forget any of the great stories connected with the mother of all language teachers. Any assistance much appreciated.

• Where is the page on Mrs Hughes??!! There should be a huge section on her quotes, like 'My knobs a bit stiff' from Tuesday

• Perhaps we could add something about school trips since these are fairly regular and static between years. The area below supply teachers may be a good place to place a link to a school trips category.

Category created 20/11/06 - Category:School_Trips

Protected pages

I think the Main Page should be completely protected even for registered users as it doesn't need editing anyway: you just go to the relevant section and it automatically updates. Also, the Current events page might as well be protected as it's only mods who are going to be adding news and protecting it removes the possibility of vandalism. Contact would also be better fully protected to avoid people substituting their email addresses in or something. Jonny 22:21, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Agreed and done :) Chris 22:25, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Thankyou! Jonny 22:26, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I think we should limit the number of protected pages, as protection is only needed when vandalism is a real problem. This may be the case with Kroll and Heskey - but not all the time so they don't really need protection. Wikipedia uses protection to stop massive vandalism, e.g. George Bush. I'm not sure if our legendary students stir up this much controversy/hate. Main page and technical pages are fine when it's important. Clizard 00:03, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

The "legends section" discussion

• As students are no longer allowed on the Legends page (for what reason?), I propose a new category for Legends within the Student body, whether it be the student body as a whole, or by year group (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Sixth Form) - ie Students that are well known in their year groups and other year groups for various reasons. These students include people like James Hesketh, Simon Kroll, James Lendrum, and Felix Mulderrig, etc. Each year group knows who these Legends are, and so each year group should be allowed to mark them as Legends.

• Yeah, that seems a bit stupid really; because now we're just going to end up with two categories for basically the same thing. Why aren't students allowed in the Legends category? (I'm not a mod; just adding my thoughts) Jonny 21:32, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

• Adding to what I earlier proposed - should students be allowed back into the Legends Category, it may be worth splitting the Legends category as a whole into Teacher, Student, Building, Other rather than having two 'Legends' categories.

• I think that would work: if we had a master 'Category: Legends'; then add Category: Student Legends; Category: Teacher Legends and Category: Other Legends into there. Then simply lock the master page, so that people can't be accidentally added into there and use one of the minor categories for whatever you want. Then they'll be categorised; everyone will still turn up on the master 'Legend' page, but it'll be more organised. Jonny 22:15, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

• OK; I just did that. Category: Student Legends; Category: Teacher Legends and Category: Other Legends are all in the master category Category:Legends. (Sorry for messing up Recent Changes whilst I did it. Jonny 22:39, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

• I think this is a decent compromise, as personally I don't believe students who spend two, five, seven.. whatever years of their life in school can really compare with someone who has been "enriching education" for forty years or more. But I think this could work - well thought up Chris 23rd Nov