DDO wiki:Administrators' noticeboard/Projects

How To Use This Page
The purpose of this page is to encourage project collaboration among the wiki editors. It has been known to happen that multiple editors decide to undertake the same or similar projects and work on it separately, when it would be much more efficient to have all interested editors collaborate on the same project.

For this page, the definition of a "Project" is a relatively major change to a page or a series of pages on the wiki. Projects would include things like: adding a new series of quests, updating new focus orb images for an entire item type, beautification of pages, template construction/revamps. General edits are not considered projects and will be removed from this page. Examples include: fixing typos or grammatical errors, any thing discussion related.

Here is the preferred template to use when adding a project:

Administrative Projects
Projects listed in this heading are for major undertakings that will require administrative rights on the wiki to accomplish.

User preferences
I'd like to get some input on an idea I have to allow administrators to help assist users fix preferences they may have accidentally changed and do not know how to fix themselves. In order for me to accomplish this project correctly, it will need to be done in two stages.
 * 1) The first stage will be for me to make modifications to user right groups, which I think should have its own discussion exactly what we want the hierarchy of user groups to be and what rights should belong in each group. There are multiple things that need to be fixed here from the simple things like all registered editors should be able to make changes to the wiki via the API (using javascripts for certain functions for everything from tagging pages for deletion to posting PPOI notices on user talk pages or even for administrators protecting or deleting pages or making changes in users in groups) to the ability for administrators or crats to be able to promote people to superuser (which I'm wondering if we need at all or can we just roll it into another group?) etc...
 * 2) The second stage for this particular proposal will require me to write an admin-only gadget that will allow administrators to post code to users' common.js pages that will change the setting(s) in question upon a page load and then remove itself from their common.js. I've dabbled in creating such a script before and am certain it can be done without much fuss.
 * I look forward to everyone's replies on this idea, and am creating two sub-sections to this post below for discussing the individual stages. &mdash; previous unsigned comment by Technical 13(&thinsp;t &thinsp;&#124;&thinsp;e &thinsp;&#124;&thinsp;c&thinsp;&#124;&thinsp;d&thinsp; &#124;&thinsp;r&thinsp; &#124;&thinsp;b&thinsp; ) &#32; at 18:16, October 20, 2014 (UTC)

Preferences gadget discussion
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DDO Wiki Projects
Projects listed in this heading are for any planned, proposed, ongoing, or recently completed projects dealing with the upkeep and maintenance of this wiki.

Template Projects
Projects listed in this heading are for any planned, proposed, ongoing, or recently completed template projects.

Image Projects
'Projects listed in this heading are for any Image related projects. New items, updating images, etc...'

General Projects
'Projects listed in this heading are for any project that does not fall into any of the above categories. Anything from adding new quests, to updating data because of recent updates/expansions'