Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-16461120-20151211154519/@comment-122657-20160318222736

Spencerz wrote: Nathan, here is the list we spoke about:


 * Run the bot for page moves to clear out the Category:Move and Category:Undecided Move queues: Anything in the Move category has been personally reviewed by me, and is ready to move. The Undecided Move category has also been viewed by me; if it's over 14 days and should have been moved to the Move category, than it should be taken care of. Everything less than 14 days in that category can sit there, but there would be no massive concern if it was moved early. Anything not in those two categories (i.e. Undated Move or Non-Substituted Move) is purposefully left out pending ongoing discussions or sources, and should be left out of the move process.

Working on that now. Understand that the move bot was completed before we had some naming conventions in place, so not everything gets fixed 100%. Image names, for instance, stay the old name at the moment. But I believe every page linking to the old character name has the old name replaced with the new.

Spencerz wrote:
 * We want to inquire about the other stagnant move categories (Category:Rename, Category:Move Comic, Category:Move Comic Volume, Category:Move Image) and whether we have any options to clear those by any method other than moving pages by hand. We've spoken about it before, but what is the reasoning behind these categories not being touched by the move bot? We have pages in those categories that are nearing six full years since they were tagged for moving, and if the bot can't handle them, we'll need to look into moving them (very carefully) by hand to clear that backlog.

The reasoning is that those moves have different processes than a character move. Different sub-pages need to be re-named, and different links need to be updated. I never completed a bot that fixes each of those. I had planned on it, and started work on the volume and image ones, but they never completely worked, not even temporarily, and when a bot works partially, it's even more difficult to manually clean up than just manually moving things on your own.

On the up-side, I believe they are less complicated than Character pages to move by hand, and semi-auto bots like AutoWikiBrowser should help.


 * Pending any other further input, promotion of the nominated users to "Moderator" status (if you don't know what this is, please visit Thread:846814 and read up on the latest posts there). We seem to have a majority of consensus on these nominees, and the consensus is "Yes". I am currently waiting on two users to confirm that they want to be promoted, and I hope to have an answer from them by tomorrow.

I'll promote the nominated users who have already answered (if there are some), and promote the other two whenever you say they're ready.


 * Related to the above, we want to look into the options of having the newly minted "Content Moderators" given the power to move pages, and deleting files (which they currently lack). I know we can change move access on a Wiki-by-Wiki basis, but I don't know what options there are to allow moderators that access. We'd like to also extend that option to deleting unneeded files, but I don't know enough to know if that's currently possible.

I don't think we have the ability to change the abilities the different levels have. I believe they're pretty firmly set up by Wikia as they roll out, but then again, I don't know much about where they landed on the idea, since I haven't been around a lot lately. Has Wikia put out any announcements or tutorials about changing abilities for user types?


 * Something for me personally, but I want have your input on whatever this pet project was and if you mind me nuking it from the deletion queue.

Sure, you can delete that. I was toying with the idea of using categories as the disambigs, so that any page in the category would automatically show up in the choices. It's much easier to manage categories than it is adding/removing names from a list on the page. :)

If I ever need it again, I can reinstate it.


 * This is something I'd like to delve deeper into with the entire team, but I want to gauge your input on deactivating Funmov's admin status, as a general housekeeping task. Funmov's been gone well over a year with no contact.

I don't have any problems with that. Let me know when the team gives a vote, or if the time runs out on one and no one responds, lol. Any status taken away is pretty freely given back later, should they come back and desire to do it again.