Wiki Maintenance

This is the start of the Wiki Maintenance Group

Some ideas:

Goals

• Introduce new members to the process of editing the wiki
  • create machine equipment labels
  • add authorization details
  • navigation principles
  • basic syntax
• Have a monthly meeting to edit the wiki
• Update equipment pages
• Help inventory
• Category and template creation
• Introduce members to Special:SpecialPages

General Wiki guidelines and etiquette will go here

finding candidates for deletion

Candidates for deletion are pages that haven't been updated in a long time, are incomplete, abandoned. A question you may ask yourself: is the deletion improving clarity or wiki structure?

• Some equipment pages may be candidates for deletion, but if there is valuable information in them consider making them historical pages.
• If there is some information that would be useful or historical in a page consider moving that content to a more appropriate page or making the page historical.
• Do not delete pages in user namespaces.

add redirects

• create redirects to single tool pages based on terms you would search to find that tool.
  • If there is more than one tool redirect to a disambiguation page or a subsection that lists all those tools.

To add a redirect to an existing page (not another redirect) create a new page and add the following text

• #REDIRECT [[the page you'd like to redirect to]]

change incorrect redirects

• all redirects should go to a specific page. If a redirect is relevant to another page or equipment make sure that is redirects there.

deleting redirects

• do no delete redirects in user namespaces
• don't delete redirects unless the following are all true:
  • the redirect goes to another redirect or creates a loop or leads to a page or redirect that doesn't exist
  • and there are no pages linking to that redirect

commenting edits

• when edits are made you should can use the signature button (second button to the right in the edit)--Rtystgeeke (talk) 16:54, 19 November 2016 (CST)
• you can also type ~~~~ characters together to insert a timestamped signature when typing Skm (talk) 14:40, 3 December 2016 (CST)

creating your own user page

• Log into the wiki
• Typing wiki.pumpingstationone.org/user:your_user_name into your browser
• Click the create button in the upper right corner
• Edit your page with your info, tools you know, things you want to learn, and any applicable categories
• Users who are interested in wiki maintenance can edit their user page and add this text to their User page: [[Category:WikiGnomes]]
• If you want to be fancy you can create a redirect by making a new page (with your name or nickname) as the page title and then type REDIRECT#User:(your user name)

Links to important pages

• Special:SpecialPages
• User:Wikibot and Wikibot manual
• candidates for deletion
• orphans: Special:LonelyPages - read this wiki article about how to de-orphan. Do not de-orphan just for its own sake.
• Oldest pages: Special:AncientPages
• Special:BrokenRedirects
• The Wiki
• Category:Broken Equipment
• Category:Candidates_for_deletion
• Spaceops
• Documentation for Semantic Mediawiki Extension
• Wiki Editing
• YouTube Tutorial Videos

Tasks to do

• develop strategy for determining orphan pages, and linking them. Lots of pages are categorized but not linked (any way to differentiate?)
• Talk to Dave about including categories and special pages bar, or coming up with a better search in general
• de-duplicating information
• who can edit the wiki infrastructure? Toba, Hef, Daniel P, Doorman Dave
• who wants to get access to edit the infrastructure? Ron O
• remove pages for deletion
• orphaned pages should exclude pages that are linked via categories
• figure out if Special:Wantedcategories that do not have category: pages should be removed from the linking pages or created
• fix Category:EquipmentPageErrorNoAreahost so that all equipment belongs to an area host or member
• add Category:Retired_Equipment Equipment to equipment that has wiki pages but is deprecated for some reason
  • I'd like to create a new template very similar to the candidates marked for deletion that has a reason or link to a new machine
• add Template:NeedsUpdate to pages with old, incorrect, or missing information
• roll duplicated information into less pages

Ideas for improvement

• email digest to google groups/area host a list of broken tools automatically based on broken tool list
• correlate member pages to list of current members, tag their user page as such