Wiki URL Sticky

Matt_K · by **Matt_K** » 2018-04-08 11:10 a.m.

Hey Moderators,

Please keep this on the DL as we're working on fleshing out some of the details! Brian and I have been working on a Wiki site that is housed within trombone chat. We used Wikimedia, which is the same software that Wikipedia uses, so it's very frequently updated. We also used some of their most commonly used modules (one of them was updated less than a week ago!) so support for it *should* be pretty reasonable. It's a little confusing at first if you've never made changes to a Wiki but I really dig the format and I think it'll be quite a useful tool moving forward.<br/>

However, one of the things that is confusing is it has a very minimalist interface. Meaning that there are basically no menus! If you want to navigate to certain areas to moderate, grant user permissions, etc. you have to manually alter the URL. And, without some special modification to the software, you can't really hide anything. So in light of these, I'm going to make this a sticky that we can use as our moderation "menu" so that we don't have to memorize all of these URLs.<br/>

Moderation Addons

Special:Moderation - <LINK_TEXT text="https://trombonechat.com/wiki/index.php ... Moderation">https://trombonechat.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Moderation</LINK_TEXT>

This moderation addon is the main component of the moderation effort. Basically, any edits must be approved by someone who has these privileges. We will give everyone here privileges to approve these. After we get into the swing of things, we may also provide automatic enabling of posts for certain members based on the ratio of high quality edits they do. The default behavior is to let anyedit stand because the Wikipedia team has a boatload of volunteers who can revert bad changes in real time... we don't have THAT kind of resources available to us!

Built-in Moderation