BattleTechWiki:Minor News
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Minor News details some of the smaller changes to BTW that do not warrant Main Page atttention but would be of interest to the regular members of the Project.
[edit] 2009
- July 12: Upgraded the Manual of Style essay to policy.
- July 11: Updated the Notability policy with one minor but important factor regarding article pages.
- July 11: Unveiled the long-dormant Editing policy and created the Etiquette essay.
- July 10: The Canon policy was updated with the sub-policy of "consensus can change" and the addition of the "Lengthy discussion" and "B-E-D" methods for reaching consensus.
- July 09: Edittools have been added to the edit fields.
- July 09: Automatic Welcome has been instituted for new registrants.
- July 08: Nic added the following extensions to the site:
- He also added the auto-suggest function to the search box.
- June 29: Updated the front page Sidebar to read To Do List from the more specific task of Wanted Pages.
- June 29: A new template tag has been added: Update Needed, to be used to identify articles needing to be updated with a specific source, whether its currently under the moratorium policy or not.
- June 18: Updated the front page Sidebar to read Help & How-to from only Help.
[edit] 2008
- August 26: Consensus was reached regarding setting standards for character articles, with the guidance to be developed by the BattleTechWiki:Project Biographies team. An allowance for deletion was included. Proposal here.
- August 26: Consensus was reached regarding the authorization of additional categories for character articles on BTW, with the proposal passing. The decision: a) all character articles will be included in Category: Characters (as the parent category), b) that all character categories be tracked at BattleTechWiki:Project Biographies, in order to keep, "standards consistent and the categories themselves under easy and constant review." Proposal here.
- August 26: Consensus was reached to rename Category:People to Category:Characters. This also decided that all previous characters removed from Category:People would be returned to the newly renamed category and that all future characters would also be included. Proposal here.
- August 26: Minor News page bursts back into relevance.
- August 25: Minor News page fades into oblivion.
[edit] 2007
- November 30: New policy Privacy has been rolled out.
- December 06: New candidate policies, Notability and Vandalism, have been rolled out and need discussion participation.
- December 08: The existing policies have been broken into two categories: 'completed' and 'under construction', with the latter receiving the appropriate template. Further, some essays previously residing in the About BTW category have been recognized as policies and moved accordingly.
- December 09: New user warnings, namely counter-vandalism templates for blanking, spamming and straight vandalism, have joined the pre-existing Personal Attacks warnings. Vandal patrollers now have some official-looking tools at their disposal.
- December 09: New policy Be bold has been rolled out.
- December 10: A new candidate policy, Consensus, has been rolled out and needs discussion participation.
- December 11: A new candidate policy, Disruptive Editing, has been rolled out and needs discussion participation.
- December 11: New policies Libel and No Legal Threats have been rolled out.
