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.

Page protection level indicators
I've started work on a new system that will automatically show anyone interested in using the script the current protection levels in place on a page. Currently, the script adds a string of text as the first &lt;li&gt; in (to the left of) the personal toolbar (the one up top with your userlink, talklink, preferences, watchlist, contributions, and logout). You can see it in action using my testcases page for it User:Technical 13/Protection tests. The script is located in MediaWiki:Gadget-protectionNotices.js. I was thinking I would like to just use a simple two icon system to show the protection level and take up as little space as possible. Wikipedia uses a colored lock system for this purpose, but we ain't Wikipedia, so what I am thinking is that we use a colored d20 image or logo image instead of padlocks. The question becomes, which colors do we want to use to mean what things? I personally like the idea of for MediaWiki: pages (which are things that most admins shouldn't even edit),  for fully protected items, and  for semi protected items. Your thoughts and ideas? (I also uploaded &&  if someone likes those colors better)... ShoeMaker (Contributions • Message) 13:50, May 26, 2014 (EDT)


 * I have enabled the gadget for testing. I assume the die's color would be based on the edit protection and not move, correct?
 * None - no edit protection
 * Blue - semi/autoconfirmed
 * Red - full/sysop
 * They do need to have alternate text as Agonshar said, so that users can see the exact combination of edit and move protection for the page when they hover over them. --Zav (Contributions • Message) 22:04, May 26, 2014 (EDT)

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'