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What the Wiki Committee did in September

tiyire: (Fanlore our story)
[personal profile] tiyire
Monday, October 15th, 2012 03:19 pm
September was a busy month for Fanlore! We started a new challenge, Stub September, and invited people to work on unfinished pages. Many thanks to our editors, who did fantastic work like they always do. As a result of discussions about the definition of a stub we created a new template, ExpandArticle, and in the process noticed that we could delete some that are no longer in use.

We held an editing chat on September 22 for editors to talk about Fanlore editing that was fun for everyone involved (we hope), and as usual we resolved to hold them more often.

An animated discussion arose around the question of how best to distinguish pages about podfic from pages about fic. While the debate was misrepresented in other places, the discussion on the Fanlore dreamwidth community was productive. We hope the solution is satisfying for everyone.

Spam-fighting, getting ready to make the forum public, and the mediawiki upgrade are among our ongoing efforts. The latter is almost ready and we hope to be done with it soon. The upgrade will come with some design changes because we are switching to a different default skin.

You can find the OTW newsletter for September here.
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What the Wiki Committee did in August

tiyire: (Fanlore our story)
[personal profile] tiyire
Monday, September 10th, 2012 03:51 pm
For those who are not subscribed to [community profile] otw_news, the OTW newsletter for August was posted here. Here is an extended and updated version about the Wiki committee's activities:

We have finally made progress in the fight against the spambots! Phoenix has been very busy banning known sources of abuse, and as a result the bot situation has improved considerably.

We are still testing the mediawiki upgrade - thanks to Emufarmers for his work on that - and working on the forums. So far we have heard positive feedback from our gardeners.

In behind-the-scenes news, Wiki has a new Board liaison who once was a committee member herself - Ira Gladkova.
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What the Wiki Committee did in July

aethel: (fanlore)
[personal profile] aethel
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 08:09 pm
For those who are not subscribed to the [community profile] otw_news community, you can read the Fanlore section of the OTW's July newsletter here. Here is a modified and updated version of the Wiki Committee news:

This month we implemented ReCaptcha with the help of Systems to battle the spambots. Unfortunately, it didn't work as well as we hoped (details here), so we're back to looking for other options.

Wiki has two new members who volunteered to help us fight against spam and upgrade our version of mediawiki: Welcome, Emufarmers and Phoenix!

We are also happy to welcome three new Fanlore gardeners: Sparcicle, Espresso Addict, and Greenygal.

Our second big project, the forum, is still under construction and looks better every day.
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OTW June newsletter

aethel: (fanlore)
[personal profile] aethel
Saturday, July 7th, 2012 08:54 pm
For those who are not subscribed to the [community profile] otw_news community, here is the Fanlore section of the OTW's June newsletter:
In the meantime Wiki has been waging its own site battle against a wave of spam. The Wiki Committee is working with Systems to research and test better spam protection options. In the meantime, this filter hides the sea of red. They also welcomed new staffer Tuulia to the committee, and proposed some more fanworks categories (check out the Dreamwidth discussion post here).


And by spam, we mean spambots who are utterly defeated by the impenetrable wall of our four-hour page-create block and the heroic warrior-gardeners standing ready with banhammers behind the barrier. Thanks, gardeners! We are testing a new captcha right now and will let you know when it is implemented.

Not really news since it's not ready yet, but we haven't forgotten the Fanlore forum and are working on setting it up. Stay tuned!
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Wiki in February

aethel: (amanda [by taraljc])
[personal profile] aethel
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 07:49 pm
For those who are not subscribed to the [community profile] otw_news community, here is the Fanlore section of the OTW's February newsletter:
The Wiki Committee is slowly getting back together for the new term. With two people returning and four new committee members, we are still getting to know each other and are very happy to welcome coian, lab, LunaMoth116 and Tiyire! We have great plans for this term, including a forum, so wish us luck.

Systems continues to work on our spam problem and has more anti-spam weapons in its arsenal. Currently, users may notice that there is a temporary block on creating pages for the first four hours after they register an account. Meanwhile, the gardeners are fighting the good fight and have blocked more than 1,000 spam accounts in the last 2 1/2 months. That means the RecentChanges page can look a bit like a blood-drenched battle field, but you can hide the carnage with this filter.

In Fanlore news, editors have been busy adding information on lots of different topics. Editors who want to document fanfic writers' websites can now use a new template and category for Author Pages. Several editors have been holding Merlin editing parties on the weekends, and almost all fanwork pages and images have been added to the date categories--if you want to get an idea of what (mostly media) fandom looked like 30 years ago, check out 1982. More fandoms welcome!
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