BRGS Wiki:Current events

Email Addresses Required to Edit If you notice that editing is disabled even if you have an account then you may need to enter your email address in "my preferences" (top right). This is to reduce the amount of spam we get. You can set your email address to be visible only to you, but it may also be seen by server administrators for maintenance purposes. The confirmation was supposed to be enabled previously but it seems the MediaWiki configuration settings in this area are a little slippery. Had I actually tested this properly, I would have known sooner. Since this is a major change then I thought I'd post it here. I should mention, if you don't receive an email then please email Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination with your account name, checking your email address is correct first, so you can be confirmed manually. You can also try another email address if the first one didn't work. Clizard 10 January 2011 Rooms A project has begun to try and fill the wiki with every room in the school! Hopefully you can get involved and improve the wiki! 28th June 2010 Socially Networked The BRGS Wiki now has a fan page on Facebook. Join up and suggest it to your friends, and keep editing! The link is here. 29th May 2010 Historical Stats It's been a while since we had an update on page hits. Well done for the recent massive increase! This measures the number of pages visited on brgswiki.org in each month since launch. 26th March 2010 Happy Birthday! The BRGS Wiki is four years old today! Thank you to everyone who has helped expand the site over the past few years, keep up the good work! 9th March 2010 Privacy Policy There is a new privacy policy in place, to make sure life outside of school isn't mentioned. Be aware that this site must be factual and directly relevant to school life. 28th February 2010 Admin Policy At the moment, we have a few Administrators who are doing a good job of keeping the site running smoothly. If you are interested in helping out, you must have a good standard of edits to date. You must request Admin status as outlined in the Administrator_Policy, and the senior members will come to an agreement over whether you will be promoted or not. 6th February 2010 New Bans Policy Firstly, don't be alarmed. Most users of this site are valuable and sensible editors, and have nothing to fear! However, for the minority of people who seek to vandalise the site, there is a new bans policy in effect. Please check here for the sequence in which bans are handed out, and here for a list of unacceptable edits. 2nd February 2010 System Upgrade Finally upgraded to MediaWiki 1.15. There's a few styling issues that still need to be merged into the latest skin. If any unusual problems come up in the next few days please let us know. 25th August 2009 We're Still Alive! The wiki is still open for editing, and is checked whenever possible by our dedicated team of moderators. We really need some input from current students at BRGS as we left some time ago. Anyone who wants to update some of the pages on teachers, places etc is more than welcome to do so. 2nd July 2009 New Email Address & Year Upping Unfortunately we've had to retire our old email address (contact[at]brgswiki). I'll still be checking every so often, but please use the new one Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination , hopefully we'll evade spam for some time with this new address. In the past we've had masses of editing required to put everyone up a year, so I've come up with a prototype way to fix this. Hopefully it'll work in most cases. The prototype help file for how to do it (which works currently if you're in the 2005, 1999 intakes) is Help:Year Upping. I hope this will be useful, any feedback very welcome. DB 13,7,8 updated on 17 July 2008. 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. 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 "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