It all seemed fine to me.

I would like to see my bio under my articles, not some guest thing.
Also position of Contributing Editor should be added, so authors(me) can feel special.

So basically what you are saying is that you want to join the Editorial team.

Seems fine to me. How does it sound to you Liam?

Quoting: sobkasI would like to see my bio under my articles, not some guest thing.
Also position of Contributing Editor should be added, so authors(me) can feel special.

I would have no problem doing this for you, If you can give me a day or two I can add that new level of editor.

I have now made it so only I can delete my own comments and articles, just a little bit of protection for when we open up stuff a bit more in future for other editors, needed for lots of reasons I don't need to state I'm sure.

Sobkas, working on your permissions soon.

Okay Sobkas should now have the user level of accepted submitter, which gives you the "Contributing Editor" badge, thanks for the hard work on the wine update articles :)

Quoting: liamdaweOkay Sobkas should now have the user level of accepted submitter, which gives you the "Contributing Editor" badge, thanks for the hard work on the wine update articles :)

Thanks.
I was thinking about contributing more, maybe a regular column and if there was at least one for every day of the week(I can cover only one day, max two), readers would be more likely to visit site regularly.
I especially like the solution from the escapist [site](http://www.escapistmagazine.com/):
a "WEEKLY CONTENT SCHEDULE"

Regular columns with different authors each week can reduce load on them and encourage more contributions.

Pool of games(on wiki where people could state the interest to make one) that needs a review would encourage more reviews and prevent a work duplication.
Now only to get a good idea for a column that lasts more than few weeks :(

I was thinking about reviewing a really old linux games, column would be called "A past of the blast"(need a better one), it will cover the needed tweeaks to make the game work, review of the game and look at the state of Linux gaming at the release and subsequent drop of linux support(or not).
Right now I'm thinking about: https://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/exile3/linuxexile3.html

I can co-edit a feature "Furious Penguin Play" about things in linux gaming scene that made me "furious". It's not like I'm angry about linux gaming every week, so more than one author might be needed. If there is no apropriate topic that week, authors can bring stories from the past.

I will also cover new issues of World Wine News and Wine releases.

I would like to encounter other to submit more ideas. With enough of them, there is a possibility of establishing a weekly publication SCHEDULE that will cover every day.

Sorry for this info dump, but wanted to make my plans known.

I like the idea of regular scheduled stuff, which is why we have the Funding Crowd already, so feel free to start some sort of schedule.

Furious Penguin Play does sound amusing, but I am not sure there will be enough content to be so often. That and I don't want us to come across too angry ;)

I have created a wiki page for it here:
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/crowdfunding/index.php5/Article_Schedule

I have added a wine to a golum logo and I would like to use it with wine stuff, any objections?

Hah looks good to me! For the tagline image it would need to be 350 in width (so just add extra white background).

Quoting: liamdaweHah looks good to me! For the tagline image it would need to be 350 in width (so just add extra white background).

I prefer transparent backgrounds.

That's good too.

In the admin review section there is now a public preview link, you can give this out to anyone to check over before you publish it (like a developer of the article you are doing for example).

Comments are of course disabled on the preview link and it gives a notice at the top to state it is a preview.

Been meaning to add that for a while, hope it's useful for others.

I have adjusted the bbcode parser today, if any articles don't look right let me know ASAP. I couldn't see any issues on the latest articles.

What exactly is the difference between an Editor and a Contributing Editor? I was never quite clear on that.

I will add that info to the first post it's been a work in progress behind the scenes.

Editors - Regular contributors for something, like Samsai for the regular GOL Cast and Muntdefems for all his sales work and The Funding Crowd stuff.

Contributing Editor - Helps out now and then, but doesn't really commit to anything. Has less access to things on the admin panel too.

Sidenote: I will be looking to move non-regular contributing editors down a level to Contributing Editor to better describe their roles, that applies to anyone. No point having anyone posting around with an Editor status that doesn't actually do any articles.

Using the preview link from admin articles submitted will now let you view page 2 heh woops.

I'm accepting sponsored articles now, so if you see stuff out-of-the-ordinary from me I assure you it's not spam.

They will be clearly labelled as a "Sponsored Article" with a tag.

Thanks to the first attempt we will not be doing it again as they approved it with a sponsored tag and then requested I removed it, to which I refused to do.

Quoting: liamdaweI'm accepting sponsored articles now, so if you see stuff out-of-the-ordinary from me I assure you it's not spam.

They will be clearly labelled as a "Sponsored Article" with a tag.

Thanks to the first attempt we will not be doing it again as they approved it with a sponsored tag and then requested I removed it, to which I refused to do.

I don't see any reason to not try it again, but now with a more reputable advertiser(gambling site, really?).
Like in the old proverb: "If you fall from the horse, shoot it and make a lasagne" or something like that.
"Sponsored Article" tag could be of a different colour to make it more visible.
And don't get discouraged by some minor problems, You are doing a damn good job as chief editor of gol, boss.

Quoting: sobkasI don't see any reason to not try it again, but now with a more reputable advertiser(gambling site, really?).

IMO, it's better to chase advertisers who are in-line with the intended audience of the content (in this case gaming and Linux related stuff).

Also, I think I just accidentally reported your post thanks to a misclick >_<

Had this been discussed previously? I was surprised to learn that sponsored articles were being looked at.