Lemmings of the Light

How to edit stuff on the lemmings site for officers

To get to work with editing pages, click title of the article in question, or check the knowledgebase-overview to get to what you want to change.

If you have the permissions to update the post you're looking at, you'll see the following on the right hand side:

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=> edit is the edit screen (naturally )
=> outline helps you 'file away' the post in the knowledgebase.
=> revisions is where you can view older versions of this page and revert the page to a previous state
=> track is where you can see who viewed this article in their browser (so, who clicked the title, the read more, or the comments. If someone just visited the frontpage they won't show up in the tracker).

When you click on edit, you'll have a few fields you can alter:

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Title: the title of the post

Parent: you won't always see this, but you get this field sometimes. With this, you can change the place of the page within the knowledgebase.

Tags: the tags the post is filed under

Body: the content of the post

Input format: how the content of the post is translated (for advanced peeps )

View/Edit permissions This is where you can update the view and edit permissions, to change which roles can see this page, who can edit it, and who can delete it. Of course you need to be extremely careful with this as officers. You don't have to add more editing options as this will mean a security leak, but you can do it if you want the PR team for example to help out with maintaining a piece of content.
The view option is very nifty though as you don't always want all users to be able to read something.
anonymous user: someone who is not logged in
authenticated user: someone who is logged in but not recognized as a guildie, guest, or guild friend
guest: someone who contacted someone in the guild about the site and wants to look around no strings attached
guild friend: someone who has event signup powers (guild friends are given both ranks: guest and guild friend, as permissions then overlap)

Attached images: if you want to link an existing image or a new image to the post (and insert it)

Log message: you can write in here what you changed, if you changed something

Comment settings There are three options: disable comments to this post, read only, or read/write. If you want to 'lock' a post, you can set comments to 'read only'. If there were never any comments made to the post, or you want to avoid this (like with high lemming nominations) you can set it to 'disabled'.

URL path settings With this option you can create a shortcut to the page to cover up the ugly URL's posts get (with the /node/number). For the guild friends info page there's an URL path/shortcut: /friends

Signup settings if you toggle this, people will be able to sign up to this post. Only event type posts will also have a date and time so they're visible in the calendar, but this is useful for petitions, or grouping information for people who meet a certain requirement. We used this in 'book posts' in the knowledgebase, to create pages where people could sign up if they needed reputation with a certain faction (in the good old days when factiongrinding meant doing instances over and over again)

File attachments: for attaching files to the post, or changeing what files are attached

Authoring information you can make both fields blank if you want to 'reset' the author or date of the article. If you remove the authored by, it will turn "anonymous" (like what we do with guild applications sent in by people that already are users on the website). If you remove the date, it will reset the date to the moment you save it, in a way "bumping" the post on the front page.
For example, if you want to re-post a book post that you feel is appropriate to the current situation/discussions within the guild, edit the page, go here, delete the 'authored on' line, and in publishing options (more on that next) set it to 'post to frontpage'. It will then slide down the frontpage again as time progresses and more articles are posted.

Publishing options this option is awesome as you can 'unpublish' an article (make it invisible except to officers/admins to review if the article should be shown to the public, for example spam), (re)move the article from the front page, and make it 'sticky' so the article will be on top of the frontpage or wherever else the article is filed (for example, among other pages with the same tags). If you un-tick the 'create new revision', the changes you've made to the page will be saved, but it will be harder to go back to your version in the future.

Don't be afraid: every edit you make saves a 'revision' (which is, a version of the page, with your edits) so if something happens, Neti or an officer can easily go to the page and revert it to a previous state!

Here's a page you can sink your teeth in if you want to try it out. Cooking recipies There's a few ex-guildies listed in there Remove them.. remove them all!!! *star wars emperor cackle*

Then when you're ready for the real stuff, here's what we could really use some help with:
- the knowledgebase structure needs tweaking, older content needs to be moved elsewhere, stuff needs to be updated/dusted off
- our forums need to be scoured for guides and content we want to keep, as we'll lose the forums when we move the website to a new version of the website software Still looking into ways to keep the forums backed up, but I think it's best to salvage what we possibly can to save us a lot of work later

If you're unsure about something you can always add a comment to the post and discuss

How to edit profiles on the lemmings site for officers

If you have the permissions to update the post you're looking at, you'll see the following on the right hand side:

=> biography
=> edit is the edit screen (naturally )
=> track is where you can see who viewed this article in their browser (so, who clicked the title, the read more, or the comments. If someone just visited the frontpage they won't show up in the tracker).
=> contact (for a contact form to mail this user directly through the website).

When you click on edit, you'll have a few fields you can alter:

Username: the username. You can edit this, without editing the password, into something more appropriate like the users username. Usually I leave it to people themselves and it hasn't happened yet that someone signed up with something really crass, but you never know

E-mail address: The e-mail address the user entered when he signed up for the site (last known valid address).

Password/Confirm password: Edit this in something different if the user forgot their password, and give your new password to them ingame.

Status: We only block people from logging in to their account if they're 100% horrible, and/or spammers or fake accounts.

Upload picture: For those that want an avatar You can upload a new one if the one the person uploaded is inappropriate.

Theme configuration: What theme the user is using. Aquasoft is the theme we used 2005-2006. Anneke is what we used 2007-2009. Lemmings is the current default theme.

Signature: You can change someone's signature here if you're websavvy and see someone made a HTML error

Private message settings: I have never changed these settings, but here you can change how private messages are handled for this user. Allow private messages means "the user whose profile your editing will be able to receive private messages".

Email settings Again something that is never really used, but something for the user themselves to figure out

Contact settings Wether the person has a contact form!