Waywizard

I want to take this opportunity to introduce a new Waymarking admin, Wayfrog. Wayfrog is stepping into the Waymarking admin role after several years of Waymarking experience both as a group leader and officer and Waymark submitter. He will be taking over the lead from me as Waymarking admin and all question that were previously set to me can be set to him. After more than eight years as a Waymarking admin it became time for me to step aside as Waymarking admin due to personal reasons. Due to these reasons I did not feel I was able to serve the needs of the Waymarking community as well I was wanted to or as well as the community deserves. I know I am leaving the community in good hands with Wayfrog. I will be retaining my admin rights to assist Wayfrog as he may need but I do not expect he will need my assistance much.

These all have been uploaded. It is caused by the sync issue of the two servers. Any time you see the broken link symbol instead of the old icon it means the icon has been uploaded by the syncing has not take place correctly. I will contact GS development in morning and ask that the sync job be run.

I have communicated with the developers on this one. It appears that google has changed how it expects the url to be for these graphics. Thanks Tante.Hossi for pointing out what needs to be fixed.

WW -- The fishing ports icon looks good, but the FOE and Space Invaders icons are broken. Can you please check them? Thanks I will contact developers to run job that syncs them between servers. The next time you access them they might be the opposite, they were loaded at different times and randomly ended up on different servers. The syncing is supposed to be automatic but not happening.

All the icons have been uploaded.

It is far from Groundspeak denial but rather showing both sides of the history of this category. The leader and others in the category have reviewed most of the waymarks in the category the last year. How long the waymarks other than yours waited before getting reviewed I don't know but if they were longer than a month then why did you let them go that long? The leader or others did the approvals Why wouldn't I be motivated to put my own waymark up for vote? Putting it up for vote forces action on it and 3 days later it is approved. Looking at the approval history in this category it looks like this statement applies to equally to yourself for most months in last couple years.

There are no new officers however 3 out of the 4 officers have been active in the last two weeks. The 4th really has a justifiable reason for not being active lately. There are ZERO waymarks waiting for review. RitC is not last one standing, in fact looking at the waymarks reviewed in the last year he is one of the most inactive officers in the category. The leader is far from inactive having review well over half of the waymarks in the category in last year. If RitC was concerned that his own waymark was waiting too long, he could have contacted the leader or just put his own waymark up for vote. (this sends a email to all officers to vote and the waymark would be approved 3 days later)

The changes are more significant so wanted to post here before I upload to category.

oops sorry about the misnomer. My wizard brain couldn't think of the right category name, though I would get it to the right one in the end.

Make sure you activate the category from the group page once you are done making any final changes to the category description. The category will not be visible until that is done even though it has been approved.

The icon for the android category is being adjusted. The color of the above one is "brighter" than the normal palette of the icons and also will be changed to gif format. I expect the adjusted icon will be uploaded in next few days.

The icon should be working now. The servers sync up after a day or so.

I have uploaded the new icon.

The only thing that is required to release a waymark that is stuck in "limbo" is an officer in the group to visit the group page. Any waymarks which were stuck in limbo for that group's category will be released automatically. To check which of your groups have pending votes (thus possibly waymarks stuck) click on group tab on the top of the page and it will list which groups have pending votes with a link to the group page, by clicking link any in vote limbo will be released.

This is one area (waymarks stuck in vote limbo) I can't fix however in this case I would contact the second officer listed for the category as they are usually quite responsive.

I have been around behind the scenes as an admin for the Waymarking site since 2008, you will not see any Waymarks posted under that account but I have full understanding of Waymarking. If there is a category that you have Waymarks waiting an extended period of time you can post the category in the forums as I watch the forums for issue or you can send me an email.

I have just checked and there are no waymarks pending in the Indiana Historical Markers category. The last one in the category was last June approved by the OP.

I have tried to create an icon showing a chute on a hill but all my attempts were a failure, the i saw a sign in the picture on the category description and, as always maintaining same style and based on the existing icons, i have created this one: What do you think? @Waywizard Could you please upload this icon to the category Bobsleigh Chutes and Mountain Slides. Thanks a lot! I have uploaded this icon.

I have uploaded this icon.

This one did not get 100%, there were 2 Nays (remember votes can be hidden). Obviously the category passed with a very high percent and has now been approved by Groundspeak.

I have uploaded these icons to their respective categories.

Groundspeak is aware of the issue and is working to resolve the issue.

Groundspeak is aware of the problem an is working on the solution.

Groundspeak is aware of the problem and is working on it.

Groundspeak is aware of problem and know the cause. It may not be resolved until morning (Seattle time)