eRepublik Official Wiki:To-do list/Admin Requests

Suggestion for Admin.

Archive: 2008, 2009

Scheduled maintenance [DONE]

Hi Admin,
MediaWiki version installed on this wiki is quite outdated (last update occurred in 2011), so we'd need a software update and a periodic scheduled maintenance every six months or less (not more than that).
--Yamisuke «WANNA FIGHT?!» 12:45, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

On a side note, please DO NOT update to wmf branch just like the current installed version but regular one.
--Yamisuke «WANNA FIGHT?!» 11:59, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

About the current version installed, its End of Life occurred in June 2012 (almost two years ago); since we don't want this wiki to get constantly upgraded, we suggest to upgrade to Long Term Support versions which have longer life span.
Last LTS release is 1.19 which has EOL in May 2015; in about two monts 1.23 LTS will be out.
Because of the fact that wiki freezes to blank pages quite often, we immediately need the update to 1.19 LTS release and on next scheduled maintenance the update to 1.23 LTS.
--Yamisuke «WANNA FIGHT?!» 12:19, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Herp derp.
--Yamisuke «WANNA FIGHT?!» 10:22, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

MediaWiki addons

Grzechooo, would you mind to list add-ons required to properly manage a wiki that still aren't installed here?
--Yamisuke «WANNA FIGHT?!» 12:45, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Here is a list of MediaWiki extensions that will grant Wiki Administration a wider maintenance power on wiki.
Before the list, I want to report two fundamental extensions that must be installed: FileManager and Configure; along with these two extensions, we absolutely need the oversight core feature to be enabled.
Here is the list:

• Wiki Editor, advanced editor;
• Lingo, abbreviation glossary;
• Group Portal, defines different custom homepages for each group;
• MassEditRegex, allows mass edit of pages (already installed before update);
• Nuke, allows sysops to massdelete pages;
• Thanks, adds a 'thank' link in edit history of a page;
• sudo, allows users with 'sudo' right to login in other profiles;
• Survey, survey!;
• Widgets, allows to safely embed HTML into pages.

Please do not forget about dependencies.
--Yamisuke «WANNA FIGHT?!» 10:22, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

+1 for MassEditRegex, Thanks, Survey, Widgets, Wiki Editor, Configure, with Configure urgent (see below my topic), --AndyCro Do you need assistance? Then ask me! ;))

0 for Lingo (not having opinion for it), FileManager (I don't see any advantages for it) --AndyCro Do you need assistance? Then ask me! ;))

-1 for Sudo (it could be misused), Nuke (as I don't like nuking before checking what I nuke), Group portal (Portals aren't used at all here)--AndyCro Do you need assistance? Then ask me! ;))

Sign urself, AndyCro beach!
FileManager is needed to deal with mediawiki files; sudo creates a new right that has to be assigned to a newly created group, sudoers; nuke is needed, Group portal may be somehow useful.
--Yamisuke «WANNA FIGHT?!» 17:33, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

I just posted my OPINION. Please respect it. Thank you. --AndyCro Do you need assistance? Then ask me! ;)) 19:34, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

wat
I just exposed the reasons why those extensions are listed here. |:
--Yamisuke «WANNA FIGHT?!» 19:47, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

UberEditor group and rights

We grant some editors the Uber editor title for their efforts into improving wiki; however, a mere title isn't enough: we need them to be able to actually do stuff like editing half-protected pages or renaming/moving files etc. So, can you create the uber group with the properties we'll enlist here?
--Yamisuke «WANNA FIGHT?!» 12:45, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

here is the list of rights uber group should be granted with:

• rollback
• movefile
• autoconfirmed
• patrol
• autopatrol
• reupload
• browsearchive
• upload_by_url
• deletedhistory
• deletedtext
• suppressredirect
• unwatchedpages

--Yamisuke «WANNA FIGHT?!» 14:53, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

While we're at the uber group, I want the following configuration changes pertaining to the group:

$wgRestrictionTypes[] = "uber";
$wgGroupPermissions["uber"]["uber"] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions["sysop"]["uber"] = true;

What this does: adds an option for sysops to lock pages for uber editors -- Grzechooo ^{drop a line} 15:02, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

+1 for Big G! --Yamisuke «WANNA FIGHT?!» 15:05, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

+1 urgent support of this group. --AndyCro Do you need assistance? Then ask me! ;)) 14:08, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Wiki update done by Sysop engineer

Dear Admin, I would really like that one day you would allow one of wiki engineers to help you with maintenance of this wiki. This would benefit both you, as you would get person who knows what he/she is doing and not to pull some erep hacker who doesn't know virtually nothing about the wiki, and it would benefit whole wiki editor community as we would finally be able to implement things faster. If you are not willing to give any of us this right, minimum would be to give a person who can spend ONE freaking HOUR per day in talking with sysops (hell reviewing this page) and do things to improve the wiki. This is my point of view, but I believe that many of us would really like to improve this wiki to become THE place for every info about the game but also a place where people can work to build something. Thank you. --AndyCro Do you need assistance? Then ask me! ;)) 14:08, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

+1 You may start by granting Big G the bureaucrat level, you can only gain by doing it. --Yamisuke «WANNA FIGHT?!» 19:47, 30 April 2014 (UTC)