Brickipedia:Forum/Move

See Brickipedia:Forum/Move/Archive and Brickimedia:Forum/Move/Why.

OK, so there is overwhelming community support for moving off of Wikia, and we have now created the new [en.brickimedia.org/wiki/ Customs site]. It is currently being set up, so editing is disabled, but it should be up and ready for the move by the end of this coming week.

The [customs.brickimedia.org/wiki/ Customs site] is also up, and my plan is to get it going first. Hopefully, by Monday or Tuesday you will be able to upload all of your customs to the new site rather than here. So, don't submit any more to this site please, and wait until the new site is up so that there can be some difference between the new one and the old one.

There is currently much discussing that needs to be done regarding the new site. These are rather boring, but they need to be done so we can establish some sort of guidelines on how things are done on the new site. Things like how to categorize images can be discussed there, since that is where images will be hosted on the new site, separate from each of the projects so that they're all in one place. If you do have questions, see meta.brickimedia.org/wiki/Moving FAQ.

Below are some sections for discussing things that need to be done on Brickipedia in particular.

And, as Sannse will probably tell me to say, this site will stay open after we leave. However, I really hope that everyone moves with us. If people are left here, then this site will compete with the new one and quite possibly cause the new one to fail. It's in your hands - this new project can succeed, but we need your help.

Badges

So, there are currently three kinds of badges on the new site:

• System gifts, given automatically for edit milestones and other actions. I need admins to start making some of these system gifts on Brickipedia and Customs, and find images for them. Leave a message on my Meta talk page and I can give you access to do this. Things like 5 edits, 10 edits, 10 comments, 100 edits, etc. Use your imagination :P
• Private badges, which can be made by an admin and then given to users. What kinds of badges do we want these to be? I'm thinking that we should have some based on the number of points you had on this old Brickipedia, to compensate users for losing their past badges. Also, we should have ones for time milestones like contributing every day for a year, etc. Private badges can only be given by the person who made them, so maybe we'll need to create an account with only that permission for the admins to use and give out those badges.
• Public badges - admins can make them, but users can give them to other users. Kinda like barnstars. Which ones should we have?

Please leave your thoughts! Ajraddatz (Talk) 15:35, March 2, 2013 (UTC)

• Even on this site, the badge system has been controversial, and encouraged a lot of users to make pointless/nonconstructive edits in order to obtain them... so for this reason I'd have to vote against re-implementing the current badge system as it irks me so. Barnstars though, or maybe special badges that only admins can give out, would be a nice alternative. - 15:42, March 2, 2013 (UTC)

  I know how you (and I, and a lot of people) feel about the automatic badges. I want to put an emphasis on the user/admin-given gifts, but there still need to be the automatic ones to keep people happy. The automatic ones could be made a bit harder to get, but the ideal would be to have admin-given badges for things like quality contributions to a single page, etc. Any ideas? Ajraddatz (Talk) 15:49, March 2, 2013 (UTC)

  I want to dev a thing allowing points to be gained for the number of characters edited/changed per edit. Possibly I could include this with badges... - nxt