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# 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.
# 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:
I'm finding it relatively easy to categorize the pages to do with different technologies, but pages about collaboration, guiding philosophies, organizational things, project management etc are more slippery. We will need a well-structured framework for these too.


Here is an outline for categories and sub-categories to be used. This will need to be tweaked over time:


*'''[[:Category:Materials|Materials]]'''
*'''[[:Category:Materials|Materials]]'''

Revision as of 01:49, 8 November 2010

Main => Other => Wiki

Categories needed

Some important guidelines on categories

  1. Stick to standard names. There is a category called 'Digital Fabrication', so use that; don'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.

I'm finding it relatively easy to categorize the pages to do with different technologies, but pages about collaboration, guiding philosophies, organizational things, project management etc are more slippery. We will need a well-structured framework for these too.

Here is an outline for categories and sub-categories to be used. This will need to be tweaked over time:

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

Pictures, pictures, pictures!

Please add pictures to as many pages as possible. It doesn't matter if they don't provide extra information; they just make the page nicer to look at.

Pages needed

  • Using Templates
  • Available Templates

Refactoring needed

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

Here's a list:

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.

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)

I think there are no more spam pages now. Thanks for your work Lucas! --Elifarley 00:02, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Templates needed

  • A more compact Site header template, showing just the packages, with a tooltip for each package showing the projects within the package
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