WikiCleanup

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WikiCleanup
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Created 03/11/2017‎
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Note Note: We're aiming to meet on the second Wednesday of each month to manage the cleanup project and help members interested in contributing. The next meeting is scheduled for 13 March 2019 at 6pm.

This wiki has been in place since at least 2012, and many pages have not been updated in years. There are pages for tools we no longer have, outdated pages on tools we do have, and a lack of information on newer tools and on our teams and how the space works. The plan is to bring this wiki back up to date, and make it a better resource our members find useful and interesting.

Its worth mentioning that our wiki is probably one of the better ones, when compared with other Hackspaces in the UK.

How to help

You can help by simply picking any page at all and updating it! Be Bold with your changes, nothing is lost when the wiki is edited; We can always revert back.

Every wiki page has a discussion page (see tab at top left of page). For general wiki discussion or to request help there is the #wiki channel on Slack.

Priority List

Priorities listed by topic -  To do  tag priority level (tag  ) and listify ideas

Reorganisation of project pages;
  • Maybe have separate subcategories for projects that of large 'Projects (by team)' and ones that are more or less solo 'Projects (by member).
75 Projects are using it as of 06/02/2019
Close out old projects by marking them as Complete or Dormant
  • Encourage general membership to post projects.
Even just a picture is ok, big essays are not necessary :)
- how? see talkpage

Deletion  

  • The wiki is seven years old and has a lot of pages that haven't been updated in years. Pages that genuinely aren't required can be tagged with: {{delete|date=DD/MM/YYYY|reason=Cruft}}
Please also include a reason which can then be discussed before wiki admin deletes.
Most pages that contain historic pages can be de-categorized and tagged with Template:archive

New pages

Hackspace Information

  • As part of a wider documentation project in the hackspace we should create a page for each area of the space, and keep all relevant information on the wiki for members and guests to view.
  • Add area infobox with map showing location.
  • Write About:History Page
(Category:Featured - our story pages may help)
It currently contains an article that should be moved to Featured
This is quite a big one that it feels like people want to see more about.
  • Encourage Teams to update their [[Team:]] pages with current contacts/ members

Front page

A nice table taken from the front page of CoMakingspace Hackspace wiki in Germany
  • Convert 'list boxes' into template.
  • Tidy alignment.
  • Highlight featured pages.
  • Make it easier to find task like tidying/ cleaning
  • Make it clear how to contribute to the wiki
  • Change the sidebar links so that they link to Pages (Or Portals like this?), Not categories
  • No list to members guide
  • New Members - link to members guide - wiki is second place to look for more detail

Tools and equipment

  • Add some how-tos and reminders.
  • Add Template:Tool infobox to Tools & Equipment pages
12 Tools are using it as of 24/01/2019
  • Tools/We_Have could be useful page - need updating - links to tool page if relevant, images don't need to be with 'thumb' borders.

Locations

Each location ie, room, area and storage place could have a page. This in turn could link to pages of what is in that area and vice-versa. Location pages could have an infobox with a floor plan image indicating where it is.

Wiki documentation

Naming conventions and categories

  • Have a naming convention for categories template etc. - for example, only capitalise first letter unless proper noun. Start with category type word first, for example, 'Category:Templates emoji' rather than 'Emoji templates'.
  • Move articles that have been placed at the top of a category pages, for example Category:Rules and previously Category:Network. Move them back to article space.

Adding dates

A lot of the information on the wiki is lacking dates. This can be helped by adding date= parameter to any relevant template. Also categories like Category:Project started in 2012, Category:Tools and Equipment acquired in 2013 etc. could help.

Style

Make infoboxes' top text white on dark green (like boxes on front page). For example, Template:Tool.

Rule pages

Rules are no longer updated on wiki (since 2016), make template for rule pages saying historical and pointing to rules.nottinghack.org.uk.

Encouraging wiki editors

  • Welcome template.
  • Meetup for editors.
  • Update MediaWiki software/settings to allow thanking for contributions. Enable WYSIWYG editing?

Photos

  • Photos are great! If a photo is needed, any page can be tagged with Template:Photo.
  • Also, many photos are on the flickr, unfortunately a lot don't have descriptive titles.

Categorise all uncategorised pages

Categorise all uncategorised pages. Especially useful for template pages, as it avoids making a template that already exists. We could make a tag for uncategorised pages. See Special:SpecialPages:

Topics needing better coverage

  • Try to get info crafty tools and arty things as these seem to have little documentation currently. Things like screen printing are totally absent from the wiki.

Archiving

  • Archive pages with historical information

Boiler plates

  • Tools
  • Projects
  • Locations
  • New editor welcome

MediaWiki extensions

See also: Special:Version
  • Better search
  • Semantic Wiki - data structure for pages, allows form -> infobox
  • Variables?
  • Tooltips
  • WYSIWYG editing?

Templates

Fix conditional so space doesn't appear under image (there is/was a problem with hidden newlines being inserted, resolved apart from space under image) Solution may be at Wikipedia:Help:Conditional tables  

Wiki meetups

Upcoming

  • 2019-03-13 Wiki meet up - Process pages tagged to Delete
  • 2019-04-10 Wiki meet up - ?

Past

See also

Resources

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