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Revision as of 19:16, 6 September 2014

Welcome

This wiki serves many purposes including documentation, useful links, and team contacts. Suggestions have been made that would greatly expand the scope of the wiki. If you'd like to become officially involved or have any questions contact wiki@soylentnews.org. Also, if you are on IRC you can look for FunPika (who leads this team) or mrcoolbp.

Who we are

Wiki Team Main Page
nick	position	timezone
FunPika	Leader	UTC-4 (EST/EDT)
mrcoolbp	admin	UTC-4 (EST/EDT)
cosurgi	admin	UTC+2 (CEST)

Inactive

Note: These are members of the wiki team who have lost their onwiki flags such as admin due to inactivity. If they return, they can receive their flags back by contacting any bureaucrat.

Inactive Wiki Team members
nick	position	timezone
Cactus	admin/bureaucrat (demoted due to inactivity in September 2014)	?
Yahwotqa	admin (demoted due to inactivity in March 2014)	?
Sfm	admin (demoted due to inactivity in March 2014)	?

Todo

Upload existing externally hosted images onto the wiki.
Install more anti-spam extensions if needed
When MediaWiki 1.23.0 is released (likely late April), remove the $wgPhpCli = false; line from LocalSettings.php, since it should no longer be necessary. mediawikiwiki:Manual:Job queue

Documentation

The wiki is hosted on Beryllium.
MySQL password is in the wiki's LocalSettings.php file.
Documentation for the recent changes IRC bot is at WikiRC.

Responsibilities

At the moment we are mainly just dealing with spam, vandalism, etc. that shows up on the wiki.

Competencies

Familiarity with how MediaWiki works (manual is here).

Dependencies

See also Special:Version for automatically generated information about what software the wiki is running.

MediaWiki 1.41.0-alpha (most recent stable branch (ex. REL1_23))
Apache2
PHP
- apc extension
- iconv extension
- intl extension
- mbstring extension
- mysql extension
- zlib extension
MySQL
ImageMagick for image thumbnailing
Git for updating
MediaWiki Extensions listed on Special:Version

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+=== Inactive ===
+'''Note: These are members of the wiki team who have lost their onwiki flags such as admin due to inactivity. If they return, they can receive their flags back by contacting any [[SoylentNews:Bureaucrats|bureaucrat]].'''
+{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
+!colspan="3"|Inactive Wiki Team members
+|-
+| style="width: 20%; background-color: #f2f2f2;"|
+'''nick'''
+| style="width: 40%; background-color: #f2f2f2;"|
+'''position'''
+| style="width: 40%; background-color: #f2f2f2;"|
+'''timezone'''
+|-
+| Cactus
+| admin/bureaucrat (demoted due to inactivity in September 2014)
+| ?
+|-
+| Yahwotqa
+| admin (demoted due to inactivity in March 2014)
+| ?
+|-
+| Sfm
+| admin (demoted due to inactivity in March 2014)
+| ?
+|}
 == Todo ==