Wiki wish list

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Categories needed

Some important guidelines on categories

1. Stick to standard names. There is a category called 'Digital Fabrication', so use that; doon't go creating a category called 'Flexible Industry' or something.
2. Use straightforward names rather than jargon or acronyms
3. Don't create new categories that don't fit into the structure of the wiki as a whole. This wiki is a mess because hundreds of people have gone around creating pages like 'Wood Pellet Burner' and putting that in a category called 'Wood Pellet Burner'; this just leads to hundreds of dispersed, unconnected scraps of information. There are currently too many categories - something like 333 categories for about 1700 pages. There should be 100 at most, and these should have a coherent nested structure.

Here is a draft outline for categories and sub-categories to be used:

• Toolset

• • Materials
    • Bioplastics

• • Digital Fabrication

• • Food
    • Food storage and processing
    • Animals
    • Cooking

• • Habitat
    • Construction
      • CEB Press
      • Sawmill
    • Home fittings

• • Energy
    • Biofuels
    • Solar power
      • Solar village
      • Solar turbine

• • Water

• People

• Organizations
  • Resilient Communities
    • Factor e Farm

• The Open Ecology Project
  • Previous events
  • Collaborators
  • PR materials

• Related thought

Pages needed

• Using Templates
  • Very important. Please document at Instructions
• Available Templates

Refactoring needed

Are current priorities and this Wiki wish list the only pages that list "How you can help" ?

MediaWiki extensions needed

• CategoryTree allows the category structure to be seen in outline form

Clean-up needed

• various spam pages need to be removed: "buy Cialis..." etc.
• There are also MANY pages in Chinese characters, probably spam also.

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• I looked at http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Special:AllPages and then http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Special:AllPages&from=%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E5%A9%9A%E5%BA%86%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8&to=%E9%9F%A9%E5%9B%BD%E5%8C%96%E5%A6%86%E5%93%81%E5%93%81%E7%89%8C%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8 which gives us all Chinese pages.
• I looked at some of them at random, and found lots of urls that appear to be bogus. If a Chinese speaking person would have contributed they would have said something in English. So I think it's safe just to delete them!
• I then looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_delete_a_page
• Finally, I tagged the first 3 pages in Chinese with bracket-bracket delete verticalbar reason=spam bracket-bracket.

Suggestion to admins: Please, see if it's easy for you to delete those tagged pages. If that's the case, then we non-admins can help by tagging many pages for you to delete all at once.

LucasG 08:53, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

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Templates needed

• A more compact Site header template, showing just the packages, with a tooltip for each package showing the projects within the package
  • Not sure if this can be done without an extension
  • But the Pipe trick might help
  • July 16: Pipe trick plus redirection will work, no need for tooltip extension
    • See Template:Site Header 2 and Template:ProjectHdr Habitat for examples

See also:

• Template:Site Header 2
• Template:ProjectHdr Habitat - Header for use within Habitat package pages
• Template:ProjectHdr OSA - Header for use within OSA package pages
• Template:ProjectHdr Energy - Header for use within Energy package pages
• Template:ProjectHdr FIP - Header for use within Flexible Industry package pages
• Template:ProjectHdr Transport - Header for use within Transport package pages