Meeting:March302014

March 30, 2014 - Baka-Tsuki General Meeting

The General Meeting will hold place on the 30th of March at thirteen o'clock, Greenwich Mean Time.

The discussion of the following topics will be held on the #baka-tsuki IRC channel, located at the Rizon Chat Network.

Using THIS LINK, you'll be redirected to the Rizon Chat, where you'll have to choose a name before connecting to the channel.

The main topic can be found on the FORUMS.

Topics

Global

• Registration issues:
  • Captcha Implementation (wiki and forum) to reduce the amount of fake/spam accounts.
  • Stay away from IP-Range bans (which affects real users). Using Akismet?
  • Refrain from questions that are outside the knowledge of a normal user.

• Security:
  • Password policy. As well as the renewal rate and complexity. Removal?
  • Set X-Frame-Options to SAMEORIGIN.
  • Redirect Login and Registration pages to a encrypted (TLS) version.

• Re-Organisation/Distribution of powers:
  • Re-Organisation of groups' leaderships.
  • Strip power from the inactive users (Wiki: Translators, Editors ; Forum: All).
  • Add active and trustworthy users (especially Global Moderators).
  • Allow to unban users for specific groups.
  • Create new Translator and Editor groups for Alternative Languages Contributors.

• Baka-Tsuki Blog:
  • Reset Passwords for certain users.
  • Get new regular contributors.
  • Choose topics to be posted there.

• Modify, simplify and remove outdated rules from the guidelines:
  • THIS PAGE by Cloudii sums a lot of things up, but it's still under construction. However, some things can be done now (links on main page).

Wiki

• Wrong link leading to the wiki's Copyrights page:

Replace with https://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Baka-Tsuki:Copyrights

• Changes in the Protect function:

The "supervisors/administrators only" option disappeared, and it's impossible for supervisors to edit pages with that setting.

• Main Page and sidebar:

Making a new layout for the Main Page, and changing the way projects are shown on the sidebar (Darkoneko should say a word about this).

Forums

• Bug while disapproving posts, because of an excessively long justification:

All cases are moved to the right. Remove four of the justification's five sentences.

You have been tested positive as a 100% whole-grain-fed-free-roaming organic Baka or have been diagnosed as a confirmed 100% off-the-charts lunatic.

We are only certified to handle 50% Stupidity and 50% Lunacy, therefore it is with sad regret that you will be placed upon the waiting list to be euthanized.

Fortunately, repeated reports of your condition will bump you up the list, so if you have received this message twice already, Congratulations!
You are now No.1 on the list!

Good bye bye and happy birthday! :)

• Clean up of users created before 2014:

Purge all members without a single post on the forums.

• Guest Posts:

Add captcha or some sort of human validation to the guest post form.

• Sending PMs:

Add the Translator no Roukou and the Fringe Security Bureau in the list. Maybe removing the Seitenkan Cult and the Tsukaima Legion?

• Sub-forums:
  • We could use rectangular thumbnails to shorten a bit the page, with half the current height.
  • A reorgnization would be welcome. 3 sub-forums moved, merged or removed (Shana, KnS, SAO/AW), one created (Kamachi). It isn't a bad deal.

- Moving Shana in the Abandoned/Stalled section.
- Fusing CSR with KnS, removing Index.
- Moving SAO & AW in the Abandoned/Stalled section.
- Putting Index, Heavy Object, Zashiki and Survey in a sub-forum named "Works of Kazuma Kamachi". Or with another title, it's up to discussion.
- Renaming Daiden and Itsuten's subforum with "Works of Takaya Kagami". Same as above.
- Adding DAL's thumbnail. No changes on other subforums.

Minutes

• Minutes can be found on the talk page.