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= Categories needed =
== Categories ==
 
# Put everything in the categories listed below
Some important guidelines on categories
# Insert the template for the appropriate category at the top of each page. This will A) create a navigation bar and B) put the page in the mediawiki category. Templates are made by two curly brackets and an equals sign, like this: <nowiki>{{Category=Beekeeping}}</nowiki>
# 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.
# Use straightforward names rather than jargon or acronyms
# 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.--[[User:Conor|Conor]] 01:49, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
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.--[[User:Conor|Conor]] 01:49, 8 November 2010 (UTC)


Here is an outline for categories and sub-categories to be used. This will need to be tweaked over time:
===List of categories===
 
*'''[[:Category:Materials|Materials]]''' - ([[Template:Category=Materials]])
*'''[[:Category:Materials|Materials]]''' - ([[Template:Category=Materials]])
**'''[[:Category:Materials|Materials]]''' > '''[[:Category:Bioplastics|Bioplastics]]''' - ([[Template:Category=Bioplastics]])
**'''[[:Category:Materials|Materials]]''' > '''[[:Category:Bioplastics|Bioplastics]]''' - ([[Template:Category=Bioplastics]])
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*Related thought
*Related thought


= Pictures, pictures, pictures! =
== 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.
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.


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* Available Templates
* Available Templates


= Refactoring needed =
== Refactoring needed ==


Are [[current priorities]] and this [[Wiki wish list]] the only pages that list "How you can help" ?
Are [[current priorities]] and this [[Wiki wish list]] the only pages that list "How you can help" ?
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* [[Wiki wish list]]
* [[Wiki wish list]]
* [[How to help]]
* [[How to help]]
= MediaWiki extensions needed =
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree 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.
[[User:LucasG|LucasG]] 08:53, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
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I think there are no more spam pages now. Thanks for your work Lucas!
--[[User:Elifarley|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
** Not sure if this can be done without [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Tooltip an extension]
** But the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pipe_trick 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

Revision as of 00:40, 9 November 2010

Main => Other => Wiki

Categories

  1. Put everything in the categories listed below
  2. Insert the template for the appropriate category at the top of each page. This will A) create a navigation bar and B) put the page in the mediawiki category. Templates are made by two curly brackets and an equals sign, like this: {{Category=Beekeeping}}

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.--Conor 01:49, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

List of categories

  • 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:

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