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I've granted Fishtank's and Wofzau's WordPress account Editor status. I'll do the same for Benedict's as soon as his WordPress account is ready (let me know if you're having any trouble)

As an Editor, you can edit any Contributor's posts before their status is made to be Published (ie. they're Published)

If one of our Editors stands out above the rest, I'll probably give one Editor the ability to publish posts... so I won't have to be bothered with that responsibility.

Our Editors have a far more limited reach than traditional WordPress Editors. This is probably a good thing, because I can assign Editors without risking any actual damage to the website. So don't worry about messing anything up, because you can't tongue

Our Editors can't make pages, but most of our pages actually fetch their content from hidden posts. These posts are filed in the Pagetree category (part of a hack I cooked up -- this website is pretty much just WordPress on hack steroids)

Currently these page/posts are set to Private status, but I'm going to have to figure out an alternative to this sooner or later. The page content will be fetched regardless the status of the post however for now. So special care will have to be taken when working on pages.

I'm going to ask that you never use the Visual Editor option in your WordPress profile. In generally ask that Contributors not use this, and I'm tempted to hack it out of our system altogether. But as Editors you've a special responsibility not to fuck up others' posts - which the Visual Editor has been known to do (I've disable that option in your profile's btw) ...Therefore you need to be familiar with a minimal set of HTML concepts. Basically all you really need to know, is just like when posting in forums were you've probably made use of BBCODE (eg. [b]bold[/b]) you can do the same with HTML, only instead of square brackets, use angled ones (eg. bold) ...this seems simple enough but people tend to have serious trouble/anxiety when it comes to html. Other than all the stuff you've probably used with BBCODE, the only other thing I ask is you put paragraph tags, , around paragraphs. This isn't technically necessary for WordPress (because it will automatically insert them if absent) but it's a good habit, because sometimes hacks I use might work around normal WP procedures, and on the Pages I like to have tighter control over presentation (which you loose when you let WP go auto formatting your stuff)

edited: Also use tags to force a newline (ie. before you press enter after a line of text)

If you want to have credits given to you as an editor on any post/page you can make a Custom Field (via the WP interface) called "editors", and put your user number, followed by a space, then your display name (your user number is in the address bar when you're on your WordPress profile page) ...the number is important, the following name is just for fallback and notation. Btw, I haven't implemented this feature yet but I will no problem. Oh and if some editor has already put their name their, just hit enter to make a newline after theirs, and type in your own number / name on that line.

For posts (that go in the news blog) all of the different languages are in the same post. Stuff in English goes between [lang_en] and [/lang_en] tags. And Spanish [lang_es] and [/lang_es], and so on. For pages, each page has it's on post. The Spanish version of a page goes in the Pagetree/es subcategory. We also translate little phrases around the site and page titles from this page I setup:

http://www.digitaldevildb.com/maintenance/locales/es/ (might look funny on older browser -- haven't taken pains with it yet, considering it's not an official part of the website)

I gave Fishtank Spanish translation privileges, which basically will just let her edit that page, but Emilio pretty much has that page under control for now.

Many of our pages written by Tony (the original site founder) have very editorial type language in them. If any of our new editors would like to edit his stuff to tone that down, that would be awesome.

In the meantime, though technically I've already published this post... I still haven't put up an English version of it, because I haven't had time to edit Emilio's own translation into English:

Quote from: http://www.digitaldevildb.com/bbs/index.php/topic,953.0.html

ATLUS announce in one of their ATLUS Faithful mails, that the re-make of Megami Ibonroku Persona, will reach North America by the fall of this year. It looks like ATLUS USA is taking the Persona really serious since it was the series that attracted a lot of people to the Megatenfranchise that they're going to localize the game the same year that it will be released in Japan.

More information will be revealed the following weeks so maybe we can expect the exact date for the release or some cool goods that will be included with the game.

So if one of you just want to post an edit job of that into the forums, I can publish it (recall our Editors can't technically edit published posts)

Also go ahead and post that you're going to edit it, so we don't end up with two edited versions ok wink

WordPress btw will tell you if someone else is currently working on a post. So best to do your editing work online.

Ok! You have your marching orders, now hop to it!! Just kidding, but them's the ropes smokin