Difference between revisions of "Help:Issue Tracking"

Revision as of 11:12, 17 March 2014

A place to put all issues that need to be fixed, enhancements that have been suggested, specific requests for help, and other misc items that need to be worked to help improve the USAFA Rugby Alumni.

Issues

1. Update 1961/1962 portals per Harry's instructions
2. Update main page to Women's box to match naming convention.

Enhancements

1. The 69 Fall season is really in the decade of the 70's as it is the beginning of the class of 70's senior year... Let's move that to the next decade

Help Requests

1. Show Harry how to edit portal structure, both adding and deleting boxes and moving boxes to different columns.

Wiki Setup & Configuration

1. Change default search to include pages in the Help and Portal namespaces.
2. Modify the Special:RequestAccount page to:
   1. Add statement to query the wikiadmin email address (wikiadmin@usafarugbyalumni.com) if new account isn't approved within three days;
   2. Show wikiadmin email address in bold;
   3. Add note to include info in bio explaining new user's association with USAFA Rugby; and
   4. Reduced the default min required words in the bio from 50 to 20.

ToDos

1. Continue building Seasons portals.
2. Update Main page links to Seasons portals after they are created.
3. Create portal template for coaches
   1. Box for picture
   2. AFA coaching history
   3. Other rugby coaching history
   4. Narrative
4. Work on Terms of Service
5. Talk w/Harry about governance

Fixes To Common Problems

Portal boxes are mis-aligned or boxes from one column are placed in another column

This is normally caused by a small coding error, most often the inadvertent removal of a curly bracket (}) or a pipe (|). These two special characters are used extensively in wikitext and when they are missing can cause formatting problems, especially with portal boxes and tables.

The following is the last few lines from the Portal:1968 Fall Men/Team Record portal box:

|Yakabowskas
|Carl J
| 70
|-
|Keith
|Dave
| 71
|-
|}

And, here is the code with the last two wikitext characters (|}) missing at the bottom:

|Yakabowskas
|Carl J
| 70
|-
|Keith
|Dave
| 71
|-

When those two special characters are missing, the entire display of the portal changed so that all of the right hand portal boxes (Leadership, Memorable Events, Media) were displayed inside of Team Record box.