Quadropolis Service List

Suicizer | 2013-10-14 17:35

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According to the last email I've send all admins/moderators, I'm planning to let every admin, moderator or user choose a certain service to focus on.
The reason for this is as Quadropolis is being maintained by only 2 á 3 persons, while a lot of ideas, suggestions and things which actually were once planned to do are being pushed further towards another date.
As this situation won't last forever (admins/moderators tend to 'burn up' after a certain period of high activity and leave Quadropolis for good or only appear about once each month), I'm trying to get the team of admins and moderators more focused on certain goals (which can't be reached in the way it goes around like now).

As a lot of admins and moderators didn't reply to this Forum Topic, neither to any email I've send about this, I've decided to give the public the chance to rise up as a worthy admin or moderator (which greatly depends on the task, your skill and quite a bit on your past).

As it eventually is the meaning to get a proper running Quadropolis with a team of dedicated and reliable admins/moderators (towards each other), I've listed certain 'key-ranks':

- Website Host
* Just host the freaking website and keep it in the air.
- Coder (you should know how javascript and php works)
- Debug.
- Improve the mechanics of the website.
- Add more control on blocks itself; like letting users (partly)
decide what nodes appear in the recent content block).
- Create an Admin/Moderator Forum.
- Add more options to the profile of the user (like a rewarded title, improved tracking list, etc).
- Vanish the errors/warnings on certain lines within a certain page in the admin logs.
- Organizer
- Gets (all kind of) events, polls, (forum) discussions on track.
- Public Host
- Provide supportive comments towards other users.
Your face mirrors the community of Quadropolis and vice versa.
- Maintainer
* Keeps important nodes, pages and lists up to date.
- Userlist
* Activate accounts which truly are human, send them a notification that they have been activated.
- Guides
* Update them so they provide the correct information again and if possible, make it more simple and logical.
- Packaging Guide
- User Guide
- Mapping Guide
- Scripting Guide
- Modding Guide
- Fragging Guide
- Modeling Guide
- Menu Items
* Like doing New Content and Highly Rated pages right (this time).
- Announcer
* Actually the 'informer'.
- Find bugs.
- Bring up ideas and/or suggestions on certain problems.
- Publish news.
* Keep the news about games and changes within Quadropolis updated for users.
- Quadropolis
- Sauerbraten
- Red Eclipse
- Assault Cube
- Tesseract
- Reporter
* Interviews players, mappers, coders and clan leaders.
- Server Host
* Advertises Quadropolis to the community again by using a server.
- Sauerbraten
- Red Eclipse (Skiingpenguins is working on it)
- Assault Cube?
- Tesseract?
- Artist
* Improves the quality of the looks of Quadropolis.
- Create Icons.
- The actual icon of Quadropolis.
- Icons within pages like the admin log, ranks, moderation queue, etc.

The tasks arranged so far on individuals;

- Website Host
            - Kz1
- Coder
            - Kz1
- Organizer
            - Suicizer
- Public Host
            - Everyone which tend to be a little bit active fulfills this role when providing supportive comments towards other users.
              Your face mirrors the community of Quadropolis and vice versa.
- Maintainer
            - Q009 volunteered for this, although with some help.
- Announcer
            - Everyone which still has some spare time left to be a public host.
              However, publishing news from certain games, events, etc is way different than bringing up
              certain ideas or suggestions on a certain problem.
- Reporter
            - Death14 has raised his hand to try this task.
- Server Host
            - No one yet. Although Skiingpenguins is attempting for Red Eclipse.
- Artist
            - Q009 so far (although he wishes some help as well). Some others attempted as well but actually never kept going.

Do not fear a name behind a certain 'role'. It's better to have 2 persons working on the same task than 1 as both can fall back on each other.
If you have thought about any more tasks or want to volunteer for a certain task, just leave a comment. Questions won't be ignored as well.

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Q009 | 2013-10-15 11:31

I definitely could take care of guides. Having someone to help would be nice too.
As for the icons - yeah, I can do it. But it depends on the kind

Due to my inactivity for a while I had to reply on this node

Suicizer | 2013-10-16 21:57

Although it's being appreciated, some others could help also.
About the icons, I have a quite nice idea about the actual icon for quadropolis (which the other icons might be based on), but not sure if I could make it on my own.

skiingpenguins | 2013-10-17 01:33

We need word-wrap inside the content areas of nodes

Suicizer | 2013-10-18 16:37

Word wrap is existing on all nodes, just not on stuff which uses the <pre> html command. I've used so to create a simple and quick table instead of using javascript.
Anyway, If you got anything else in mind which you feel good about to do so, feel free to raise your hand as there is plenty of work to do.

IgC | 2013-10-20 15:13

Months ago i've offered you to make a full working new site but you didn't want it.
Anyway I could work a bit on the branding of this... thing..

the red corner OBVIOUSLY represent the selected cube in sauer.

@Who edited: Fixed width and height? with even wrong ratio? nah
Here's the solution: Add

.nodeContents img {max-width: 50%;}

right under .nodeContents in line 167 of style.css

Suicizer | 2013-10-26 10:34

I did as you seriously couldn't see the overal view when being on a lower resolution screen than yours. Screenshots don't need to be scaled by half as default. I could have rather specified just "50%" instead of givinvan actual resolution.

IgC | 2013-10-26 16:11

max-width: 50%, as i suggested, won't scale any image by default, but just those who are larger than, in this case, 50% of their container [the node div]

skiingpenguins | 2013-10-26 13:49

I like that Q. The font looks good too.

IgC | 2013-10-26 16:13

Not really a font, I've made it my own on Illustrator
it's just an idea uh.. could be anything else. Give advices :)

skiingpenguins | 2013-10-26 18:04

Make it a font then :p

I think we should use that for something

IgC | 2013-10-26 22:47

kinda useless for anything wich isn't a big title/banner..
the concept about it is to make everything styled that way, i'm making some layout-ing on that.. i'll show some

skiingpenguins | 2013-10-26 13:49

For the RE server, what specifically should it do? Besides having maps from Quadropolis is there anything special about it?

IgC | 2013-10-29 08:37

I've noticed that this site isn't beeing tracked by any analytics services, like the famous Google's one.
Thinking that we're trying to improve the traffic on this site without any real tool to check if we're really doing it or if all this things aren't changing anything.. isn't a bit silly?
Google Analytics will tell quite anything about who comes to the site, from where and, what does they do/watch ect.. so it's really usefull to see what we should improve, how, and if our work is beeing appreciated.

I can provide this service even immediately, at the price of adding the Analytics script in the tag of the site.

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

ga('create', 'UA-45239329-1', 'quadropolis.us');
ga('send', 'pageview');

the script tag is beeing stripped out from the text, even inside a code tag.. ehh..

Anyway if agreed I'll provide you weekly reports or even some chat about how's going.

skiingpenguins | 2013-10-29 12:22

+1 for this, i use google's stuff for my own site. solid free service.

IgC | 2013-11-04 11:10

As far as i know, even big majors use it.. it's maybe the best one in the world..

Suicizer | 2013-11-04 11:18

Well, let's take some action about it shall we? Perhaps contact Kz1 about it.

IgC | 2013-11-05 14:12

I tought he would be reading this.. without him we can't do so much..

Suicizer | 2013-11-06 08:36

That he wouldn't be reading this (at least not in a small amount of time) isn't the end of the story. Just approach him instead.

skiingpenguins | 2013-11-06 22:09

you do it

IgC | 2013-11-07 13:46

yeah. we're too shy!

Suicizer | 2013-11-11 21:41

Don't be shy, he's our trusted pall; the host!

IgC | 2013-11-12 20:08

and you should be the "Organizer" >.>

Suicizer | 2013-11-12 20:10

That doesn't mean I should be the messenger between 2 individuals...

IgC | 2013-11-12 20:34

yes it does. we don't know eachother. you should at least make us meet.
- idea: a meeting on IRC with all the ppl involved?

Suicizer | 2013-11-12 20:41

That's why we should have a admin/moderator forum...

IgC | 2013-11-21 18:32

I'm not the keymaster and we're still on this crappy old thing.
that's why you still don't have an admin forum.
So, what about this meeting?

Suicizer | 2013-11-21 19:24

Sigh okay, I'll bring your meeting. All involved will receive an email soon about it (as others doesn't seem to care).

iCrab | 2013-11-21 12:51

Icons are my speciality. :)

Suicizer | 2013-11-21 13:36

Nice to hear, because then we got one more which would like to join that side of the project.

Pyccna | 2014-04-18 22:28

I'll bugcheck if you want; if it's broken I'll find it. Just don't expect a lot.
До свидания и Спасибо
-P

Suicizer | 2014-04-18 22:58

So the role as announcer or just that specific task?

Pyccna | 2014-04-19 00:11

Whatever you want to put me down as.
До свидания и Спасибо
-P

Death14 | 2014-04-20 01:36

It appears as if you have no 'Reporters'
Since I'm fairly useless at doing anything else listed, I'd be willing to help out with this role.

Suicizer | 2014-04-20 13:08

Well, start interviewing folks and come up with some good articles.

Death14 | 2014-04-21 01:43

Sounds good. Is their a particular format or guideline I have to follow for interviewing?

Suicizer | 2014-04-21 08:50

No, as there only has been 1 interviewer so far in the Sauerbraten community. The format? I have no idea unless you mean .txt, .doc(x), .html or .php

windastella | 2014-04-21 11:29

I think he mean what to ask and the format of the article to write.

Suicizer | 2014-04-21 17:27

Interview people which have or had a certain (important) role within the development of a game based on Cube Engine or Cube Engine 2 (See Games). This may be a developer, but also an artist or even a mapper or player (preferable people not greatly involved on Quadropolis).

Chasester_aka_you | 2014-04-21 02:03

is there a position for the anarchist cuz i would gladly take that position :)

Death14 | 2014-04-24 06:06

Thanks Suicizer.

windastella, that was exactly what I meant. :) ty

windastella | 2014-04-24 06:26

you're welcome :)

rabe | 2014-04-24 13:54

I could write some tutorials, if wanted.

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