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
- Gijs and Hellosimon are the only users who have access to the server, i.e. to help upgrade mediawiki or install custom addons
Deletion
- 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
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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
- Review/lock last month's newsletter
- Copy the newsletter template to the next draft newsletter
- Update the redirect at Next newsletter
- Update the table at FlightGear Newsletter
- 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.