User:Nixeagle/WikiDiscusion Maneger/Guide

Getting Started

 * Click on the .exe file to start the program and wait until it puts your username up in the title bar.
 * Find and press the 'Refresh' button. This will load in the days AfD votes.
 * Find an interesting Discusion, and click on it (in the upper grid). After doing so, do one of the following to go to that item:
 * press ENTER
 * Double click the item on the list.
 * Press the view selected item button.

To Vote

 * Click on the Discus tab (upper panel)
 * Type in your argument
 * Pick your stance (Keep, delete, etc).
 * Don't add a bullet point to your Discusion, the program does that.
 * Also, don't worry about signing your name as the program takes care of that as well.
 * The program will automatically put the first 100 characters of your Discusion into the edit summary, so voting is a one step process.
 * Click Discus and wait until the program blanks the text of your Discusion. (find another article to Discusion on)

Single engine

 * Click on the 'search engine statistics' tab. (after you have selected an article, shown above)
 * The search terms that automatically selected are shown in the text field. If you want to change them, do so.
 * Click on a search engine in the list.
 * Hit the search button
 * It will display the count and show the search page in the 'non-wikipedia Browser' (in the bottom panel)

All engines

 * Click on the 'search engine statistics' tab. (after you have selected an article, shown above)
 * The search terms that automatically selected are shown in the text field. If you want to change them, do so.
 * Press the search all button.

To copy search engine counts
This will copy the link and the count to your clipboard (allowing you to paste in the Discusion field).
 * Select the search engine from the list (that you already searched) and click 'Copy Url'. This copies the url and the count to your clipboard
 * Paste to with the rest of your Discusion.
 * The format of this is [ The last bracket is not added, so add it yourself. (minor bug that I can't figure out and am not going to waste my time on right now)

For the new 8.9 release
If you run into problems: ==User:Eagle 101/WikiDiscusion Maneger/ModRules
 * First open and go to the Statistics tab
 * Next, under the user area add in a value in the drop down menu
 * Last, click the reload and enjoy
 * WP:IAR

The list of approved and banned users is here: User:Eagle 101/WikiDiscusion Maneger/Banned

Below are the expectations for WikiDiscusion Maneger moderators.

Adding approved users
stuff here

Banning
Users may be banned temporarily and/or indefinitely from using WikiDiscusion Maneger if:


 * 1) They are confirmed sockpuppet masters, as established by Wikipedia administration.
 * 2) They use WikiDiscusion Maneger to engage in blatant violations of WP:CIV or WP:NPA. Examples:
 * 3) Using WikiDiscusion Maneger to follow another editor around with the intention of making disruptive comments or otherwise harassing said user.
 * 4) They use WikiDiscusion Maneger to engage in blatant violations of any other guidelines. Examples
 * 5) Using WikiDiscusion Maneger to engage in any form of vandalism (including spamming of any kind).
 * 6) THEIR NAME IS TAWKER AND THEY EDIT CONFLICT ME

To ban a user, edit the "Banned users" section of User:Eagle 101/WikiDiscusion Maneger/Banned and add # to the list, where USERNAME is the exact username of the user. ==User:Eagle 101/WikiDiscusion Maneger/VerifyUserStatusPage Short page for WikiDiscusion Maneger user verification. ==User:Eagle 101/WikiDiscusion Maneger/Welcome

The newest stable release is v0.8.12. If you don't have v0.8.12 - Please update
 * beta v0.8.12 is out - please update v0.8.9-0.8.11 to fix a number of bugs.

Maneger Please look for the latest release here

When you update to v0.8.12, make sure you delete the old XML file used by v0.8.9 to prevent a problem with the signatures.

Help is at this page--- You can also get to the bug report page, feature request page, and the help page via the 'Extra' button on the menu.