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== Current Wiki Status ==
Say what you want about the current sysops, but this era has seen the least amount of uncategorized images, uncategorized pages, and unused files. The disambiguation links were fixed and many of the merged locations have been fixed. If we could come up with a way to deal with orphaned pages (other than linking the few that shouldn't be orphans in the first place) I have a feeling those would be under control, too.

==Other Sysop Functions==
Other than bitching about A/VB, A/D, A/SD, and A/M is there any other area that needs to be worked on? I'm curious about what other janitorial tasks that everyone feels needs to be done.

====My Thoughts====
Personally,.... I think that many of the moderators do an excellent job. My only wish is for them to come out into the lime light a little more. It seems to me like there is so much being done, between moderating discussions on policies, maintaining pages (i.e, A/SD, A/D, ect.), Vandalism Cases, Moderation, and Arbitration that they don't always get as much credit as they deserve. I think it would be cool to thank them in some way, perhaps by having a <nowiki>[single]</nowiki> page logging all changes made by moderators. It could be organized by moderator, with a list of their changes beneath them, that way the community would know exactly how much they do,.... instead of <b>[[Template:Revolution|Bitching]]</b> like <b>[[User:Imthatguy|some people]]</b> do. --[[User:Poodle of doom|Poodle of doom]] 20:54, 20 July 2009 (BST)
:well, thank you for the comment. I know it is supposed to be a janitorial job and you shouldn't expect gratitude for it. I personally keep a [[User:Nubis/WikiMe|page]] (for myself) of what I have done on here. It would be nice if the other sysops did something like that too so that if I get bored with what I am working on I can help them out. --{{User:Nubis/sig}} 21:04, 20 July 2009 (BST)
::It would be nice if every moderator had something like this. Like I said, you guys are never thanked enough for what you really do. And in most cases, your decisions are overly just (always giving people the benifit of the doubt, always fair for all). It would be nice to have something like this update automatically when a moderator makes a change. -[[User:Poodle of doom|Poodle of doom]] 22:18, 20 July 2009 (BST)
::: "Don't be a dick" that should be a rule --<b>[[User:Imthatguy|<span style="color:#000000">DOWN</span>]] [[UDWiki:Administration/Policy Discussion/Community Sysop Demotion|<span style="color:#000000">WITH</span>]] [[User talk:Imthatguy|<span style="color:#000000">THE</span>]] [[Template:Revolution|<span style="color:#000000">'CRATS!!!</span>]] | [[The Brotherhood of Nod|<span style="color:#800000">Join Nod!!!</span>]]</b> 16:17, 11 August 2009 (BST)
::::No it shouldn't. As much as I hate to trot out this line (mainly because I have to do it so often), sysops are not moderators. ''People in general'' shouldn't be overly gratituitous dicks, but apart from their conduct in official matters (which should definitely be civil) there is nothing that separates sysops from regular users in terms of behaviour requirements. {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 14:34, 12 August 2009 (BST)

====Being More ProActive====
What a lot of sops do, is have their own personal projects. Nubis' are above, I'm slightly obsessed with the ''other'' cities. Swiers had Iwitness, the list goes on. Would people like a list of areas on the wiki that need improvements? We need images of a something message in game, search rates in clubs data, that kind of thing? --{{User:Rosslessness/Sig}} 21:19, 20 July 2009 (BST)
:You mean something listing stubs, and things that are a little outdated? That would be nice if the moderators could set something up like that. It could operate similarly to the Recent Changes, where it will show things that haven't been updated in [X] Number of Days, the point of which would be to have the community activly involved in keeping the wiki up to date. That said, if you are talking like things that need to be deleted, or changed,... thats what the Speedy Deletions, and Wiki Talk sections are for. -[[User:Poodle of doom|Poodle of doom]] 22:20, 20 July 2009 (BST)
::I think she means things like - This is a new skill - what does the in-game message read for it? Or this is a new item - where are you finding it the most?  All of these would be quite helpful actually. Not to mention, I love your work on the locations images, Rossie. That was a great idea. Things that, IDK, get this wiki back to be an information fucking source and not some creepy ass RPing drama shit storm?  just sayin'--[[Image:Globetrotters_Icon.png|15px]] '''[[User:DCC/Suggestions|#99]]'''  <sup>''[[User:DCC|DCC]] ''</sup> 02:38, 21 July 2009 (BST)
:::Who's a she? --{{User:Rosslessness/Sig}} 10:37, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::Say when was the last time we had a female as a sysops anyway? If we ever had one that is?--[[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]][[User:MisterGame|<span style= "color: maroon; background-color: white">'''''Thadeous Oakley''''']][[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]]</span> 13:20, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::::So I guess you guys are just completely not believing Nubis, huh. {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 13:22, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::::::Nubis totally has a vagoo.--[[Image:Globetrotters_Icon.png|15px]] '''[[User:DCC/Suggestions|#99]]'''  <sup>''[[User:DCC|DCC]] ''</sup> 17:06, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::::Wa?--[[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]][[User:MisterGame|<span style= "color: maroon; background-color: white">'''''Thadeous Oakley''''']][[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]]</span> 13:24, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::::::[[User_talk:Nubis#Confession|Read this]]. Also Katthew was a sysop briefly in the ''very'' early days of the wiki (she was one of the original lot IIRC but Kevan demoted her). {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 13:28, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::::::Ah transsexualism, and I always thought Nubis represented an all new form of sex besides man/woman...And Kevan actually meddling in wiki affairs? Man, that must have been the wiki prehistory.--[[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]][[User:MisterGame|<span style= "color: maroon; background-color: white">'''''Thadeous Oakley''''']][[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]]</span> 13:40, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::::::::Actually Kevan was more or less the main player in promotions until the bureaucrat system was really implemented, which happened in late-ish 2006 when Vista and Xoid were given the job. {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 13:48, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:J3D had 2 Cool, ALiM, great fire, the list goes on! Problem was the pages were so awesome the wiki self combusted on a fateful day known as 2/10/08 (or 10/2/08 for your crazy americans) when the pure awesanity of ALiMs birthday caused the wiki to crash for 7 hours. --{{User:J3D/ciggy}} 08:23, 12 August 2009 (BST)

The one thing I've been meaning to look into for ages has been the absolutely insane number of [[Special:DoubleRedirects|double redirects]] (and there's a good reason I've only been meaning to do it for so long). Apart from that I don't see anything hugely in need of work, but I suck at spotting things that don't show up on any of the Special: pages. {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 15:46, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:I wouldn't do any of those, they seem to want to double redirect to a merged locations page, which needs unmerging anyways. So the coordinates are fine, the locations should be locations and merged locations should be unmerged and deleted. --{{User:A Helpful Little Gnome/Sig}} 16:10, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::Well that's one of the reasons why I haven't done anything about them (apart from the sheer size of the task) - there's a couple of ways in which they could be dealt with andadsfdfgI'm too tired to be wiki-inggoodnight.{{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 16:13, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:From what I've noticed, the biggest problem on the wiki is outdated-ness. There still are articles that cite obsolite information, a few buildings with incomplete search rates, etc. On top of that all, resources that require regular upkeep, like the [[Building Information Center]] and to a lesser extent [[Necrowatch]], are severly out of date, with only a few contributors. Fixing this, of course, would require a fairly large outreach on the community (I still think there should be a reminder on the front page to help update the BIC).--{{:User:Red Hawk One/sig}} 02:17, 13 August 2009 (BST)

I've been meaning to update [[UDWiki:Job Queue]] for a while, so it can actually serve as a passage for users to keep the entire wiki clean and updated, ie. administration, housecleaning, categorising, suburb archival, closing votes on time, etc. I think if we could find a page that acted as the complete housecleaning portal for the most active of wikizens, we could have a lot of help with those a) annoying projects Ross mentioned above and b) the regular periodic maintenance that any user can do, but are still only done by Sysops anyway. --{{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sigcode|LightSkyBlue}}-- 05:54, 13 August 2009 (BST)
:Yeah, good point. I remember Ross creating a page of "general maintenance stuff" a while ago - the stuff that pretty much always needs doing, such as categorizations, etc. A job queue revival sounds like a good idea, along with a short-term projects page that has just that on it (short-term projects.) {{User:Linkthewindow/Sig}} 05:59, 13 August 2009 (BST)
::I'm happy to work with this further on the Job Queue talk page- we'll need to categorise stuff that has dynamic timeframes, such as deletion votes, promotion candidacies, suggestions votings, stuff like that, and see how we can implement them into a list on the queue. Just general stuff. --{{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sigcode|LightSkyBlue}}-- 06:30, 13 August 2009 (BST)

==self-congratulations are order!==

a first in wiki history: this particular group of sysops is openly panhandling for hero cookies!  --[[User:WanYao|WanYao]] 13:02, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:Not really. {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 13:11, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:"This group"? As in, Nubis? Learn your history tab. --{{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sigcode|LightSkyBlue}}-- 13:34, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::you should ix-nay this whole frothing-with-lame-vitriol-whenever-wanyao-speaks routine, DDR... it makes you look like bill o'reilly. --[[User:WanYao|WanYao]] 13:52, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::Rather than rather than laughing about "hero cookies" as though literally everything any sysop does to try and improve things is a popularity grab and nothing else, shouldn't you be genuinely happy that (for whatever reason, whether it be something you've done or not) an attempt is being made to make the wiki better and to get some discussion going on how to do so? I'm not having a go, I just would've thought that you would be ''happy'' about something like this rather than leery. {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 14:00, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::You got over your 'cry "ad hominem" at every opportunity' phase, it seems. I totally called it, too. --{{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sigcode|LightSkyBlue}}-- 14:04, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::Please can we not start down this road, at least not here. Keep it on the user talk pages. {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 14:06, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::::I would prefer not to have this conversation at all. --{{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sigcode|LightSkyBlue}}-- 14:11, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::::So don't. Participation in any internet conversation is entirely voluntary. {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 14:15, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::::::Not when you're compelled to get the last word in.--{{User:J3D/ciggy}} 14:21, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::::::Indeed.--[[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]][[User:MisterGame|<span style= "color: maroon; background-color: white">'''''Thadeous Oakley''''']][[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]]</span> 14:45, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::And nice work deflecting the fact that you were so, so wrong, with the use of irrelevant personal comments... it makes you look like zombie o'lord. --{{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sigcode|LightSkyBlue}}-- 15:14, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::nooooooowhydidyoudothat {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 15:15, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::::Why the fuck not? I'm not the one who's blatantly wrong. If you don't like it, just ignore it. This whole header that Wan created is never going to be on topic, it can never be salvaged into a decent conversation about the wiki's status, or anything, the whole attempt at stirring up drama is almost sickening. That is all. --{{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sigcode|LightSkyBlue}}-- 15:21, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::::The more times you reply to him in a caustic fashion the more you're buying into his drama-stirring, you know. If you can't counter what he's saying without being dramagenic (yesss I made a new word) yourself you should probably just not reply. {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 15:27, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::::::Similarly to you. For someone trying to overlook it from a higher, less intrusive position you aren't succeeding so much. --{{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sigcode|LightSkyBlue}}-- 15:30, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::::::Trouble in paradise? ;)--{{User:Sexylegsread/sig}} 15:35, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::::::::Could you hand me the popcorn and bananas, dear Sir? --[[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]][[User:MisterGame|<span style= "color: maroon; background-color: white">'''''Thadeous Oakley''''']][[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]]</span> 15:58, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::::::Show me where I have been combative in this conversation, or indeed anywhere on this page. I'm not talking about a total cold shoulder, I'm talking about only posting if you can find a way to do so without being aggressive because you know where that's going to end up. I really want this page to be as drama-free as possible. {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 15:39, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::::::::{{quote|Cyberbob240| I really want this page to be as drama-free as possible}}
:::::::::Sorry, but that had to be done for irony's sake. Seriously? --[[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]][[User:MisterGame|<span style= "color: maroon; background-color: white">'''''Thadeous Oakley''''']][[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]]</span> 15:53, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::::::::No, and you're not being particularly helpful. {{User:Cyberbob240/Sig}} 15:54, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::::::::::Well okay, because you always treated me so nicely in the past I'll play ball for now.-[[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]][[User:MisterGame|<span style= "color: maroon; background-color: white">'''''Thadeous Oakley''''']][[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]]</span> 15:57, 12 August 2009 (BST)


==Wan suck MY dick == 
Nubis and the crew do a lot of fucking work on this shit hole little wiki that they don't shove down your throats like J3D's LOOK AT ME ATTENTION WHORE CREW and the other shitheads that have signatures longer than their names to showcase their pissant little RP fag circle jerks. They do the grunt work because it needs to be fucking done and you self righteous little prigs sure as hell aren't lifting a gods damned finger to improve this place. As a matter of fact, with your latest little whining against the OVERPOWERFUL SYSOP THIRD REICH and making demotion a fucking HUG BOX popularity vote the sysops are going to need something like this to actually show you little asshats that they do more than piss you off by saying you can't fucking have your porn on here and just because someone makes a newbie mistake doesn't mean they have to be permed. Now why don't you take your little butt hurt self and go piss off to where ever the fuck Iscariot is hiding these days?-[[Image:Globetrotters_Icon.png|15px]] '''[[User:DCC/Suggestions|#99]]'''  <sup>''[[User:DCC|DCC]] ''</sup> 17:04, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:There there, calm down. No need to get so worked up. Also, would you mind parting your text with the enter button a bit more, that way it doesn't read like a wall.--[[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]][[User:MisterGame|<span style= "color: maroon; background-color: white">'''''Thadeous Oakley''''']][[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]]</span> 17:22, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::People are either going to read it or they aren't. 
::Spaces
::won't 
::matter
::much

::to 
::them.--[[Image:Globetrotters_Icon.png|15px]] '''[[User:DCC/Suggestions|#99]]'''  <sup>''[[User:DCC|DCC]] ''</sup> 21:39, 12 August 2009 (BST)
:::It does make your words easier to read and prettier to the eye. And while it won't make a huge difference, it will make your point easier to get across. And the fact whether people read it or not in the first place is partly decided by how you present your text. This works this way in any letter-based discussion. Text-composing is an important skill to master in life, DCC. For example, I highly doubt you write job application letters in the same manner you did above. --[[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]][[User:MisterGame|<span style= "color: maroon; background-color: white">'''''Thadeous Oakley''''']][[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]]</span> 22:24, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::Dear prospective employer,<br />Please suck MY dick, you self righteous little prig...<br /><br />Hey, you're right, the carriage return does make that totally professional. Awesome! And Thad... the max. image height for sigs is 14px, fix yours plz <small>-- [[User:Boxy|<span style="color: Red">boxy</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Boxy|<span style="color: Red">talk</span>]] • [[The Rules|teh rulz]]</sup> 22:43 12 August 2009 (BST)</small>
:::::less swearing for a start... unless he is unemployed :) --[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 22:45, 12 August 2009 (BST)
::::::Nice Boxman, but if you paid attention you would have known that I was only talking about leaving gaps in his text to reduce the "wall" aspect of it.--[[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]][[User:MisterGame|<span style= "color: maroon; background-color: white">'''''Thadeous Oakley''''']][[Image:Umbrella_Corp.gif|20px]]</span> 00:06, 13 August 2009 (BST)
:::::::typical op paying attention to anything and just waltzing about spewing their opinions and contribs down our throats. zomgosh.--{{User:J3D/ciggy}} 01:02, 13 August 2009 (BST)
::::::::And you miss that sooooooooooooo much you bitter little fuckstick. --[[Image:Globetrotters_Icon.png|15px]] '''[[User:DCC/Suggestions|#99]]'''  <sup>''[[User:DCC|DCC]] ''</sup> 17:22, 13 August 2009 (BST)

yawn --[[User:WanYao|WanYao]] 05:28, 13 August 2009 (BST)
:yeah i dont know why he's so in love with the ops all of a sudden...--{{User:J3D/ciggy}} 08:02, 13 August 2009 (BST)
::because noobface is a fellow lolzords intranetz forum follower. Basically, they buttfuck.--{{User:Sexylegsread/sig}} 08:20, 13 August 2009 (BST)
:::They've always been buttfucking. but when the dead stuff was happening and nubis was an op dcc hated the ops...--{{User:J3D/ciggy}} 08:39, 13 August 2009 (BST)
::It's actually much more simple than you think. --{{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sigcode|LightSkyBlue}}-- 08:34, 13 August 2009 (BST)
:::and the answer is?--{{User:J3D/ciggy}} 08:39, 13 August 2009 (BST)
::::Dw hes working on it haha--{{User:Sexylegsread/sig}} 10:33, 13 August 2009 (BST)