User talk:Wolffauer

To Do

• Approve new users
• Patrol recent changes
• Categorize uploaded files (photos & devices mostly)
• Delete unused files
• Review the earliest pages on Special:AncientPages and see which need an update (list is by last modified time).
• Fill out/finish: Customs & Traditions
• Add RP info to events 2001-2006
• Add events 1960s-2001
• Start timeline
• Fill in Award stubs
• Where was EK 12th Night 2002?

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-Archery/message/7966 indicates 12th night was in Barony of the Bridge.

Ideas for activity topics

• Historical Context
• Activities
• Groups
• Authorization Forms
• Awards
• Marshallate
• Bibliographies
• More Information

Approving New Users

Duplicate Account Email Text

If a user account is requested by someone who already has one, we reject the request and set the email text as below (filling in their old user name and associated email address). The user name can be found by seeing what links to their persona page. The email address can be found using Special:UserCredentials and their user name.

Greetings!

You already have an account on the wiki.

Your old user account name is: 
The email address associated with your account is: 

The wiki can reset your password at:
http://wiki.eastkingdom.org/index.php?title=Special:PasswordReset

In Service,
  Michel Wolffauer 

Welcome Email Text

If a user account is requested, and the email address confirmed, then the account is created with the user info set to a redirect to their persona page (Ex: #REDIRECT [[Michel Wolffauer]]) and the below message in the email. Create their persona page using the populace boiler plate.

Welcome!

Please let me know if you have any questions or run into any problems.  If the name on your populace page is incorrect, please use the Move tab at the top to rename it.

- Michel Wolffauer
  mike@knauer.org

EK Wiki hints:
* http://wiki.eastkingdom.org/index.php/Help:Edit_a_Page
* http://wiki.eastkingdom.org/index.php/Help:Add_a_Picture

Unconfirmed Account Email Text

When an account has not been confirmed after a few days, I email them the following message. In addition to checking on their request, it lets me test their email address. If the address doesn't work for some reason, then they will never be able to receive their password, so the request is deleted. If they don't respond within a week, the request is deleted. In either case, they can always request an account again later.

Greetings!

I noticed that you had started the process for getting an account on the EK Wiki, but didn't finish.  You 
should have received an email from the Wiki to confirm your email address. (Possibly got put in your spam 
folder?) After confirming your address I would get a notice to activate your account.  

Are you still interested in an account?  If so, I will go ahead and active it.

In Service, 
  Michel

Scratch Pad

thanks!

Thank you for your clarification on official branch establishment dates! --Vika (talk) 10:42, 30 March 2018 (EDT)

Thanks for clearing out that common.js file. I saw that you guys didn't have gadgets enable for MediaWiki (not sure if you ever planned on it), and I wanted to get wikEd working to give some additional browser tools. I went down the user script route first and when it didn't work, realized that you probably didn't have user scripts enabled. So I just blanked out the page rather than keeping it around. Ultimately, I wound up installing wikEd through a greasemonkey/tampermonkey script. Dbachen (talk) 11:45, 12 April 2018 (EDT)

Question 2, On the edits you made to mine and Molly's page 1) the removal of the IB populace icon next to location -- I formatted mine based on how Eldritch did his. I'm guessing that the idea here is a consistent format and to not use images in the location list? 2) Same idea regarding the inclusion of the date of the device/badge. You don't want anything other than the pure text description. Is there a more appropriate location to put that? In the main page itself, one of those sections? Or skip it entirely? I'm making assumptions based on the kinds of edits made, and want to make sure I follow the right steps next time to keep things cleaned up, but the rules (as displayed) were pretty light. I'd hate to overburden folks with what they can/cannot do, but I plan to help others setup their pages too and just wanted to know if you had another set of guidelines I might reference. Dbachen (talk) 11:54, 12 April 2018 (EDT)

Thanks. Oh, you mean to use a Move instead of a Redirect for Molly's proper spelling? I see that you had to update the included template files for EkExchequers.. if I had used the move, would it have automatically updated the template as well? Or would it better (assuming I notice the need) to notify you (via the talk page of the template?) that a change needs to be made? It's been years since I was actively working as a wiki editor, so I'm coming back up to speed again. What's the process for cleaning up other people's pages? For example, now that you've fixed mine about the IB logo, and I know that's what you want, should I go and change Eldritch to keep it consistent? Would that make him mad? I guess the proper thing to do would be to make the edit, but then add a comment on the talk page about why you made the change.. if it's a change to a page where you see that there is a related user account, as opposed to a page which was created for someone, at least you'll have a conversation point with them. I'm now the Iron Bog Herald, and there wasn't a wiki the last time I was in this position.. So I'm going to push to get our folks added.. Just wanted to make sure I'm being contributory and not stepping on toes. Dbachen (talk) 12:34, 12 April 2018 (EDT)

You have to review every edit? *ack* that's a lot of work.. i'll try to do better with the little changes and preview.. I thought I noticed that certain things weren't showing up in my preview and not until I saved it (maybe it was one of the templates not applying in the preview.. if I see it again, i'll let you know). Thanks for adding the gadget. i think its a good tool that will make it easier for everyone to do better formatting in the future. Re: templates, I thought I looked at one and saw that it was restricted to the WikiEditor role, but when I went back and looked, it looked like I have access now. Either I misread it, or it was a specific template.. if I run into something like that in the future, I'll let you know. Thanks for your time. Dbachen (talk) 13:30, 12 April 2018 (EDT)