FlightGear wiki:Notes to administrators

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This is a collection of notes to administrators to help them with the maintenance that regular users cannot do.

Common tasks

Wiki maintenance

• Input name

  and Hellosimon are the only users who have access to the server, i.e. to help upgrade mediawiki or install custom addons

  Deletion

  See also {{delete}} and {{delete-sp}}.

  • Before deleting, check the page history.
  • An old page with lot of edits and views should probably not be deleted, but instead be turned into a redirect to a page that has a similar subject. Also, deleting a well-visited page can cause a lot of broken links on the forum or in the devel list archives

  Dealing with spam

  • Newly-registered users whose first and only contribution clearly and unambiguously was spam can safely be blocked indefinitely and have their contributions deleted.
  • Make sure the edit summary does not contain the offending links and other content, just the word "spam" and possibly a few words more.
  • To add new blocking reasons, see MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown
  • If the wiki is regularly being spammed with similar page titles, consider adding a regex to MediaWiki:Titleblacklist

  Periodically recurring tasks

  This section is a stub. You can help the wiki by expanding it.

  Newsletter releases

  • Proof reading & Cleanup (Does not have to be done by an administrator per se)
  • Layout fixes (Does not have to be done by an administrator per se)
  • Creating the next newsletter (Does not have to be done by an administrator per se)
  • Edit protection (locking)
  • redirects (next/last): http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Last_newsletter&redirect=no

  FlightGear releases

  See also release plan.

  • Updating development repository status templates

  Maintenance categories

  • Some of the maintenance categories, in particular Category:Considered for deletion and Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, should have a look regularly.

  This page is intended for fellow wiki admins to keep track of recurring tasks and provide some guidelines/tips, i.e. also useful for new wiki admins or those who haven't been active in a while. Please do extend/update this article so that others can more easily help with recurring tasks. Thank you!

  Monthly

  Newsletter

  1. Review/lock last month's newsletter
  2. Copy the newsletter template to the next draft newsletter
  3. Update the redirect at Next newsletter
  4. Update the table at FlightGear Newsletter
  5. If necessary, update the Category:Changes after releases article so that the next changelog can be more easily created

  Quarterly

  Release Preparations

  • Help write/review the Next changelog
  • Update the redirect
  • Update {{current release}}

  Release announcement

  • Update {{news}}
  • Update the table FlightGear History and the infobox in FlightGear

  Misc

  • Our custom Nasal syntax highlighting module is usually forgotten after MediaWiki software updates. Note that only people who have access to the server can fix this issue.