User:Teratornis/Wiki tasks

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This subpage is about administrative improvements I would like to see on RationalWiki. Even though I am an administrator with some powers, I try to tread as lightly as possible, by documenting everything I want to do before I do it. If you are not me and you want to comment on something, please do so on the talk page rather than on this page.

To-do[edit]

These are tasks I have not completed yet (or persuaded someone else to do for me).

Interwiki links[edit]

  • Interwiki links
    • Write a help page describing the interwiki link prefixes available on RationalWiki.
    • Propitiate the site administrators to add some more prefixes, and document exactly how so they don't have to waste time thinking

Categories[edit]

  • Categories
  • Discussion about this task is ongoing on User talk:Teratornis/Wiki tasks#Categories - I will take no action until consensus emerges.
    • The consensus appears to be that nobody minds as long as I don't break anything that already exists, and I don't expect to break anything. Although admittedly, breaking things can be fun. Good thing I finished adolescence long ago.

01:24, 25 October 2007 (EDT): my first tiny project relating to categories will be to add the missing sort key to pages in Category:Help. The general sort key one normally adds to sort by page name without the page's namespace prefix is: 

{{DEFAULTSORT:{{PAGENAME}}}}

However, some help pages have subpage names, and we only want the page name component after the last slash to be the sort key. For example, a page like:

should have the sort key: 

{{DEFAULTSORT:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}

which sorts the page under "E" on the Category:Help page.

One slight complication is that some pages transclude the {{Essay}} template, which adds a default sort key of {{PAGENAME}} rather than {{SUBPAGENAME}}. I might mention on Template talk:Essay that sometimes {{SUBPAGENAME}} would be better. Of course the user can manually override the default sort key by inserting sort keys into each category link on a page. A stranger complication is that Help:Howtohint has a default sort key of "Goat!". I understand the attempt at invoking the local goat meme, but I don't think this improves the site. I'll just leave the broken sort key as it is in the article, just in case the author is in love with it.

Index[edit]

  • Work on my User:Teratornis/Index page, making it like the Editor's index to Wikipedia, only about rationality-type topics. See: User:Teratornis/Index/About and User talk:Teratornis/Index for technical details.
    • It would be nice to have a comprehensive index to all the typical arguments about God, creationism, etc. that come up repeatedly, with links to state-of-the-art answers.
    • The most straightforward way to start would be to index all the articles and pages on RationalWiki.
    • Linking to external sites such as God Is Imaginary and Internet Infidels would be useful; perhaps a separate index page would be best for that.

Templates[edit]

I wish to do several tasks relating to templates:

  • Adapt some useful templates from Wikipedia:

Infobox templates[edit]

20:34, 18 October 2007 (EDT): So far I have found only one infobox template on RationalWiki:

There may be more; I have not examined every template yet. There seems to be no category for infobox templates yet. Make one:

  • [[:Category:Infobox templates]]

Navigation templates[edit]

RationalWiki had several navigation templates before I arrived:

These templates use a kind of infobox style, i.e., they float to the upper right of a page. This might clash a little with actual infoboxes, if RationalWiki starts using them (I don't think any infobox templates are here as of 21:32, 27 October 2007 (EDT)).

Wikipedia has a large number of navigation templates that stretch across a page, and usually appear at the bottoms of articles. See: wp:WP:EIW#Series for more information, and check the examples:

I imported some stuff to RationalWiki we need to create them easily:

Navigation templates will be handy for sticking on the index. They can go right under index entries.

I will make these navigation templates first (giving them short names because I will need to add them to many pages):

Shortcuts[edit]

20:53, 18 October 2007 (EDT): another feature to support the index. Pick some shortcut prefixes that do not conflict with any existing namespaces or interwiki link prefixes. Some obvious candidates:

  • [[RW:]] - a shortcut to topics in the RationalWiki: (Project:) namespace, namely on these pages.
  • [[RWI:]] - a shortcut to topic headings in the index.

Other shortcut prefixes might be useful.

Supporting pages:

  • Template:Shortcut - displays a shortcut in a nice box; I copied this from Wikipedia already.
  • [[Project:Shortcut]] - documents how shortcuts (will) work on RationalWiki.
  • [[Project:Shortcuts]] - annotated list of shortcuts on RationalWiki.
  • [[Category:Redirects from shortcuts]]
  • [[Category:Redirects]]
  • [[Category:Administrative]] - look for any equivalent existing category.

See the analogous pages on Wikipedia:

Talk page guidelines[edit]

Customize MediaWiki:Talkpagetext[edit]

Done[edit]

When I or someone else finish a task, move it here.

Style classes[edit]

  • Style classes
    • At least enough to make the {{Tl|talkheader}} template work correctly.
      • {{Tl|Talkheader}} needs the messagebox standard-talk style class which an administrator can add to MediaWiki:Common.css here (which seems to be <gasp> empty now).
      • A comparison page on Bicycling Wiki which an administrator could simply copy here: MediaWiki:Common.css

Administrators[edit]

RationalWiki is a mobocracy. I just needed to find out who handles technical stuff. Other helpful users left information for me on User talk:Teratornis:

And see:

Concise lists[edit]

Think about donating some money[edit]

I'm taking kind of a shine to this place. I'm even thinking about donating some money. That would seem to require figuring out PayPal for the first time in my life. All this fangled technology.

See also[edit]

External links[edit]


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