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; 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.--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:

• Materials - (Template:Category=Materials)
  • Materials > Bioplastics - (Template:Category=Bioplastics)

• Digital Fabrication - (Template:Category=Digital Fabrication)
  • Digital Fabrication > RepLab Tools - (Template:Category=RepLab Tools)
    • Digital Fabrication > RepLab Tools > RepRap - (Template:Category=RepRap)
    • Digital Fabrication > RepLab Tools > Torch Table - (Template:Category=Torch Table)
    • Digital Fabrication > RepLab Tools > Drill-mill-lathe - (Template:Category=Drill-mill-lathe)
    • Digital Fabrication > RepLab Tools > MIG Welder - (Template:Category=MIG Welder)
    • Digital Fabrication > RepLab Tools > Plasma Cutter - (Template:Category=Plasma Cutter)
    • Digital Fabrication > RepLab Tools > Induction Furnace - (Template:Category=Induction furnace)
    • Digital Fabrication > RepLab Tools > Laser Cutter - (Template:Category=Laser cutter)
    • Digital Fabrication > RepLab Tools > CAD - (Template:Category=CAD)

• Food and Agriculture - (Template:Category=Food and Agriculture)
  • Food and Agriculture > Food storage and processing - (Template:Category=Food storage and processing)
  • Food and Agriculture > Growing plants - (Template:Category=Growing plants)
  • Food and Agriculture > Soil and compost - (Template:Category=Soil and compost)
  • Food and Agriculture > Dealing with pests - (Template:Category=Dealing with pests)
  • Food and Agriculture > Farm equipment - (Template:Category=Farm equipment)
  • Food and Agriculture > Animal Husbandry - (Template:Category=Animal Husbandry)
  • Food and Agriculture > Cooking - (Template:Category=Cooking)

• Housing - (Template:Category=Housing)
  • Housing > Construction - (Template:Category=Construction)
    • Housing > Construction > CEB Press - (Template:Category=CEB press)
      • Housing > Construction > CEB Press > The Liberator Full Product Release - (Template:Category=The Liberator Full Product Release)
    • Housing > Construction > Sawmill - (Template:Category=Sawmill)
  • Housing > Home fittings - (Template:Category=Home fittings)

• Energy - (Template:Category=Energy)
  • Energy > Biofuel - (Template:Category=Biofuel)
  • Energy > Solar Power - (Template:Category=Solar Power)
    • Energy > Solar Power > Solar Turbine - (Template:Category=Solar Turbine)

• People

• Organizations - (Template:Category=Organizations)
  • Organizations > Resilient Communities - (Template:Category=Resilient Communities)
    • Organizations > Resilient Communities > Factor e Farm - (Template:Category=Factor e Farm)

• 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
  • 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" ?

Here's a list:

• Current priorities
• Current tasks
• Wiki wish list
• How to 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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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
  • 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