DEVELOPER DIARY: Dupe Wiki Page Deletes Coming....

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Edited By coonce

Hey dudes - this post is mostly geared towards our wiki mods, but should be a heads up for anyone who comes across duplicate wiki content on the site.


Andy and I just finished adding wiki delete functionality to our local development versions of the site - so wiki mods (and staff) now have the functionality to delete pages via wikid (our wiki management system).

Points of note:
  • Users will not have points deducted from their wiki totals because a duplicate page has been deleted.
  • Mods, if you find it necessary to move images, forum topics, etc. to another object (like from the 'dupe' paged to the 'real' page) - go ahead and do so BEFORE you delete the page from the site - because once you do that, you will not be able to get to any sub-pages of the deleted content.
  • Mods, these deletes DO NOT go through moderation. They take place right away - so please be careful with what you are deleting.
  • As a safeguard, we will only provide the Delete Object button on pages where the 'Importance' of the object is over a certain threshold. If you need to delete content that does not give you the Delete Object button, contact a staff member and provide the URL of the page you need deleted.

So the code is working, and we're writing some tests for it right now - if all goes well, we will probably deploy this on Monday.
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#1  Edited By coonce

Hey dudes - this post is mostly geared towards our wiki mods, but should be a heads up for anyone who comes across duplicate wiki content on the site.


Andy and I just finished adding wiki delete functionality to our local development versions of the site - so wiki mods (and staff) now have the functionality to delete pages via wikid (our wiki management system).

Points of note:
  • Users will not have points deducted from their wiki totals because a duplicate page has been deleted.
  • Mods, if you find it necessary to move images, forum topics, etc. to another object (like from the 'dupe' paged to the 'real' page) - go ahead and do so BEFORE you delete the page from the site - because once you do that, you will not be able to get to any sub-pages of the deleted content.
  • Mods, these deletes DO NOT go through moderation. They take place right away - so please be careful with what you are deleting.
  • As a safeguard, we will only provide the Delete Object button on pages where the 'Importance' of the object is over a certain threshold. If you need to delete content that does not give you the Delete Object button, contact a staff member and provide the URL of the page you need deleted.

So the code is working, and we're writing some tests for it right now - if all goes well, we will probably deploy this on Monday.
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#2  Edited By Systech

Nice. Way to make things easier, guys!

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#3  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

Yay!!!!!! This is much needed. Great job duders.

Also, to the mods, have fun going through the months and months and months of delete & combine requests :P.

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#4  Edited By Claude

Why so happy but glum. It's more code, plenty to play with.

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#5  Edited By Not_Rage

All my concept pages will be deleted!

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#6  Edited By mracoon

Finally, this is something that has been needed for a loooooooooooooooong time, as can be seen by the giant backlog in the D&C forum.

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#7  Edited By JJOR64

Awesome.  I hope this will make the Wiki better.

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#8  Edited By Luke

Awesome!  This pwns so hard! 

Thanks for all your hard work coonce, making a community I'm really down with an even better place to be a part of! 

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#9  Edited By citizenkane

Our Wiki Mods are probably jumping for joy right now.

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#10  Edited By jakob187

User won't have Wiki points deleted for their dupe pages?  Hrmmm...oh well.  Sounds good for the Wiki mods!  = D

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#11  Edited By NuclearWinter  Moderator
Thank you!
 
This is greatly appreciated by all of the wiki moderators.
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#12  Edited By Hitchenson

Dayum, you Moderators sure do a lot of work for very little thanks. So cheers dudes!

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#13  Edited By Death_Unicorn

Great work!

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#14  Edited By coonce
@jakob187: @jakob187 said:
" User won't have Wiki points deleted for their dupe pages?  Hrmmm...oh well.  Sounds good for the Wiki mods!  = D "
The way we see it -- users didn't know that they either: 
a) started a dupe page 
b) were contributing to a dupe page 
 
So, they did earn their points, and it wasn't necessarily their fault that the page was a dupe. Of course, if you see abuse, you are free to deal with it as you see fit. Thanks - good question.