New version of site

[ancientnloyal]

Very good idea Mike, i'm sure more people have information they wish to share on several topics and with policing, should make a very user-friendly website for the club's fans.

[GeoffN]

Mike posted:
Hi all

I am quite close to having a version of the new site that I will release. Unfortunately its awkward to have two concurrent versions running, so I'm going to bite the bullet and go live straight away (not usually a wise move!). Everyone's help in pointing out broken links and misssing functions will be most helpfull.

One of the major changes will be that everyone will have permissions to update lots of the content on the site. It will work very much like wikipedia in this respect. I am hoping this will encourage the users of the site to maintain an uptodate and compresensive resource about Wigan, rather than that task being done by just a few people. Becuase of this opening of access, we will need moderators for each section of the site to protect against vandalism, duplication and poor english. Is anyone interested in doing this job?

The sections that are open will include News, Profiles, Past Seasons, Directions, Stadiums and more.

Let me know your thoughts on this thread.

Great stuff, Mike!

Count me in as a mod if you like, and I'm always doing a lot of Beta testing for other programs, so I'll do my best with the broken bits!

Will it be like Wiki in that you'll know who did any editing, so any vandals can be spanked?

[Mike]

GeoffN posted:

Will it be like Wiki in that you'll know who did any editing, so any vandals can be spanked?

Yep - and a history for each object for ease of restoration, and moderator alert emails. All these new features will take a while to get working smoothly and in a way that everyone gets on with.

[mike binder]

ill help with 1 ever i can mike ,dont get on much to police though and i cant help with spelling

[WiganWarrior]

Mike

Ill mod whatever for you

[Fraggle]

Mike posted:

GeoffN posted:

Will it be like Wiki in that you'll know who did any editing, so any vandals can be spanked?

Yep - and a history for each object for ease of restoration, and moderator alert emails. All these new features will take a while to get working smoothly and in a way that everyone gets on with.

Sounds like you've been busy Mike, I'm looking forward to seeing the new site and am happy to help in any way...

[GeoffN]

Fraggle posted:


Sounds like you've been busy Mike, I'm looking forward to seeing the new site and am happy to help in any way...

It will definitely need Fraggling from time to time...

[medlocke]

Will we be able to use the explorers back button on the new site, as it does me tits in every time i do it on here and the page has expired. (or is it just my PC)

[Fujiman]

medlocke posted:
Will we be able to use the explorers back button on the new site, as it does me tits in every time i do it on here and the page has expired. (or is it just my PC)

Mozilla Firefox doesn't seem to have that problem Medlocke

[medlocke]

I keep meening to switch to firefox i've got it loaded but can't be bothered loading in all my favourites again, might try it again though