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Community portal

Welcome to the community portal. This is the place to find out what is happening on BoroondaraWiki. Discuss its operations, policies, design, and areas for improvement within the site.

If you were looking for...

Past discussions: see the archives.
Help: see Help:Contents.
A place to ask a specific user something: please use the appropriate user's talk page.
A list of BoroondaraWiki's Staff: see BoroondaraWiki:Staff.
A Sandbox: see the BoroondaraWiki Sandbox.
Information on when to nominate something for deletion: see the deletion policy.
A place to request something of an administrator: use the administrator's talk page.
Somewhere to see the wiki's ongoing development and tasks: see the Trello board

Introduction

BoroondaraWiki is a growing wiki on topics related to Boroondara, with a total of 644 pages. However, many articles are stubs, or otherwise need attention and need your help!

Cleanup projects

Things to do

Patrol new pages and new images.
Expand short pages.
Change links to disambiguation pages
Respond to talk page comments and deletion candidates giving your opinion.
Create wanted pages, files, categories and templates.

Discussion

Please start new threads under a level-2 heading, using double equals-signs and an informative title: ==Informative title==. If a thread is related to an ongoing discussion, consider instead placing it under a level-3 heading within that discussion.
When posting, please sign and date all contributions, using four tilde characters "~~~~", which is translated into a signature and a time stamp automatically.
If discussion is already ongoing at another page, or there is another page which is a more natural location for a discussion, please continue the discussion there, and only put a short note of the issue, and a link to the relevant location, on this page.

Related resources

Telling Tales –	Official local history wiki of the City of Boroondara Library Service containing some limited information
Balwyn Historical Society –	Local historical society for Balwyn and its surroundings.
Camberwell Historical Society –	Local historical society for Camberwell and its surroundings.
Canterbury History Group –	Local historical society for Canterbury and its surroundings.
Hawthorn Historical Society –	Local historical society for Hawthorn and its surroundings.
Kew Historical Society –	Local historical society for Kew and its surroundings.
Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre history collection –	A collection of historical images, materials and other information about Surrey Hills.
Boroondara Council history resources –	A part of Boroondara Council's website dedicated to information on selected parts of the city.

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New domain!

An update as of today - BoroondaraWiki has evolved from its temporary .xyz domain name to the permanent .org domain. The old boroondarawiki.xyz will still continue to redirect to the current site for the foreseeable future. If this has broken anything or caused any issues, please let me know. Philip (talk) 13:41, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Influx of spam

If anybody has been keeping an eye on Special:RecentChanges recently, you will have seen the wave of spambot registrations recently. I've just added a DNS blocklist so hopefully this will help to cut down on their numbers. We'll see how it goes... Philip (talk) 13:09, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Well that clearly didn't work... I'll be working on a number of other strategies for the long-term. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled registrations until I can implement these measures and make sure that they are configured properly. Philip (talk) 01:06, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Upgrade to 1.27

As of today, the wiki is running on the latest MediaWiki software, version 1.27.1 (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27). I postponed upgrading until the first minor release came out to help address any security/other issues before they arise. Everything should be working fine, but in case it isn't, please let me know. Philip (talk) 05:16, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Trello board

If anybody is interested in seeing the ongoing maintenance and development tasks for the wiki's backend, check out the Trello board (now public!) https://trello.com/b/PLFLOs5T/boroondarawiki-development Philip (talk) 09:25, 28 December 2016 (UTC)