Project Redcap:Community portal: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 17:14, 31 March 2025

This page is about the community of contributors to Project: Redcap. For the broader community of Ars Magica players, see fan community.

This community portal page is a workspace for administrators and contributors. It's the hub where we propose ideas, share news, and coordinate on plans for evolving this wiki.

This page is meant to be edited! Add your own proposals and thoughts. Don't be afraid to use the Discussion page!

2025 Feature Requests

If you have any extensions or other features you want to request, please list them here. See Special:Version for what is currently installed.

2025 Annual Maintenance

Annual maintenance was completed on March 30, 2025. The following tasks were performed:

Full database backup
Wiki upgrade to version 1.43
Installed Extension:JsonConfig
Removed end-of-life extension Ploticus
Updated all other extensions

Known issue: You may see error messages "Error creating thumbnail: File missing." The image files are where they're supposed to be; try editing the page and see if the thumbnail gets rebuilt. If that doesn't help, please add a sub-bullet with a link to the page and we'll look into it.

Work in Progress

User:Andrew Gronosky ~~will get email working for the wiki.~~ DONE
User:Andrew Gronosky ~~will get the Contact page working.~~ DONE
User:Andrew Gronosky is updating, consolidating, and generally improving all the pages in the Help and Project: Redcap namespaces. Contact him if you want to help!
User:Andrew Gronosky will apply the | Don't Repeat Yourself principle to the Help and Project: Redcap namespaces, plus pages such as contributing.

Announcements

See Project Redcap: Current events

Rename (move) Project Redcap: Current events to something like "Project Redcap: Announcements?"

Change Proposals

Proposed 2024-01-24: Remove page Project Redcap:Copyrights. Move copyright related content to Project Redcap:Terms of Service and trademark related content to Project Redcap: General disclaimer. The Copyrights page has 17 inbound links that would need to be updated, and a redirect should be created so any inbound links from the internet can go to the new content User:Andrew Gronosky

Ideas

Revisit Purpose

In light of the news that Ars Magica Definitive Edition will be community licensed, we have a chance to expand the Project Redcap: Purpose purpose of this site. We can use it as a publishing hub, a one-stop shop for the Ars Magica community to develop new open-licensed content for Ars Magica. I think this will take some thought about how to organize and label such content. Users who don't want their open licensed content edited willy-nilly by other users should post on their own non-wiki websites and link to them from Project:Redcap. User:Andrew Gronosky

Add Bureaucrats

Users with administrator privileges are called "bureaucrats" in MediaWiki documentation.

I'd like to see people volunteer for the bureaucrat role. Bureaucrats share the work of:

Creating user accounts when requested
Responding to moderation requests -- which happen rarely
Patrolling the "recent changes" page and deleting spam and banning user accounts.

Update Main Menu

Consider updating the main menu to added pages such as:

A landing page for contributors, such as Project Redcap: Getting Started
A landing page for help

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 {{Note|type=reminder|This page is meant to be edited! Add your own proposals and thoughts. Don't be afraid to use the Discussion page!}}
+== 2025 Feature Requests ==
+If you have any extensions or other features you want to request, please list them here. See [[Special:Version]] for what is currently installed.
+==2025 Annual Maintenance ==
+Annual maintenance was completed on March 30, 2025. The following tasks were performed:
+* Full database backup
+* Wiki upgrade to version 1.43
+* Installed [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:JsonConfig Extension:JsonConfig]
+* Removed end-of-life extension Ploticus
+* Updated all other extensions
+{{ambox |
+type=notice |
+text='''Notice 2025-03-30:''' If you notice bugs following the upgrade, please add them to the list below. We want all the bug reports in one place, please, so posting to the forum or Discord isn't wanted.
+}}
+* '''Known issue:''' You may see error messages "Error creating thumbnail: File missing." The image files are where they're supposed to be; try editing the page and see if the thumbnail gets rebuilt. If that doesn't help, please add a sub-bullet with a link to the page and we'll look into it.
 == Work in Progress ==
-* [[User:Andrew Gronosky]] will get email working for the wiki.
+* [[User:Andrew Gronosky]] <s>will get email working for the wiki.</s> DONE
-* [[User:Andrew Gronosky]] will get the [[Contact]] page working.
+* [[User:Andrew Gronosky]] <s>will get the [[Contact]] page working.</s> DONE
 * [[User:Andrew Gronosky]] is updating, consolidating, and generally improving all the pages in the Help and Project: Redcap namespaces. Contact him if you want to help!
 * [[User:Andrew Gronosky]] will apply the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself | Don't Repeat Yourself] principle to the Help and Project: Redcap namespaces, plus pages such as [[contributing]].
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 See [[Project Redcap: Current events]]
 * Rename (move) [[Project Redcap: Current events]] to something like "Project Redcap: Announcements?"
+== Change Proposals ==
+* Proposed 2024-01-24: Remove page [[Project Redcap:Copyrights]]. Move copyright related content to [[Project Redcap:Terms of Service]] and trademark related content to [[Project Redcap: General disclaimer]]. The Copyrights page has 17 inbound links that would need to be updated, and a redirect should be created so any inbound links from the internet can go to the new content [[User:Andrew Gronosky]]
 == Ideas ==