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Garry's Mod add-on that allows users to wire up components in order to make more elaborate automatic and user-controlled contraptions.
http://www.wiremod.com
Apache License 2.0
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Revival of the wiremod wiki, forum, and server #562

Closed ghost closed 9 years ago

ghost commented 10 years ago

As far as I can tell, the wiremod server, and wiki are both dead, and neglected. The issue is also pretty bad on the fourms too, with only two active moderators left, but at least it is not completly abandoned.

Here are the steps that could be taken:

  1. Someone needs to get in contact with admins in control of the servers.
  2. The admins need to pass on control to someone who will take care of the servers.
  3. Recruitment must be started. This will light a flame of helpfulness if it's done right. As everyone who wants to become a mod, or admin, will attempt to help.
  4. If an admin plans on retiring in the future, the admin must be replaced so this does not happen again.

This might be a sensitive issue but these issues are hurting the Wiremod community more then any bug could. As far as I can tell nobody that is actively working on Wiremod is an admin on any of the sites that are about Wiremod.

Xandaros commented 10 years ago

I don't really use the wiki, but: I don't see any spam or disallowed content on the forums, so why exactly do we need more moderators? The forums seem to be stable enough, it is very rare that they are not accessible and I don't have any problems with the functionality, so why exactly do we need more administrators?

AbigailBuccaneer commented 10 years ago

I'd rather see the Wiremod Wiki moved to GitHub.

ghost commented 10 years ago

@Xandaros The problem is not about removing spam, but restoring a drive for people to use wiremod. An admin does more then just moderate, an admin starts events, promotes people so they feel commited to Wiremod, Makes changes so things don't stagnate, among other things. On top of that problem only two moderators are left, at some point there will be nobody to replace them as there is no admin to make a new moderator.

ghost commented 10 years ago

@AbigailBuccaneer That would help, and when someone makes a change they may be required to change the wiki to reflect that change, or at least add an issue that it needs to be added. Since the last change in a year or two to the wiki has been made by me, and @Divran, The wiki might as well be moved here. I don't know what moving it would involve.though.

ghost commented 10 years ago

Is anyone able to contact an admin from the forum, or wiki? @AbigailBuccaneer, and @Divran should be made admins on both sites, so changes can be made. Not that other people here shouldn't be made admins, I'm just pointing out the people who appear the msot active to me.

Divran commented 10 years ago

We already have admin access I think. Or at least moderator access.

ghost commented 10 years ago

@Divran Test your powers. How do we go about updating the Wiremod workshop?

AbigailBuccaneer commented 10 years ago

The Workshop is (or theoretically should be) automatically updated whenever anybody pushes anything to the workshop branch.

AbigailBuccaneer commented 9 years ago

Nobody can be bothered to make any real progress on this, and if they did then it'd be more appropriate under a new issue (eg. "Revive official Wiremod build server" and "Move documentation to GitHub wiki").