WikiCleanup

WikiCleanup
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Created	03/11/2017‎
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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 10 April 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 There are pages for tools we no longer have, outdated pages on tools we do have, and a lack of information on newer tools and on our teams and how the space works.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 (high  , med  , low  ).

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

Page content and maintenance

Missing pages

Hackspace Information

• Location pages -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.  Done (Feb 2019)
• Write History of Nottinghack  Done (March 2019)
• Write About:The Space brief summary with link to Members Guide  Done (March 2019)
• Wiki editing 'quick start' guide - already done at Help:Using the wiki  Done 

• Page about screen printing area

Pages to update

• Teams - add what they are responsibilities etc.  Done (March 2019)
• Team pages need current information  Done (March 2019)

Team:Events needs information

• The Projects page needs purging and re-writing. See talk page at Talk:Projects
• Update Hackspace 2.5
• Tools/We Have - list needs tidy and update - maybe have separate pages for each cat of tool?  

Link to flickr albums

• Links on relevant pages to flickr albums

Page types and boiler plates

See also: User:Mikehaber/Document structure - pattern draft

• Tools
• Projects
• Locations  Done (March 2019)
• New editor welcome

Project Pages

• 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).

• Add Template:Project infobox to projects.

75 Projects are using it as of 06/02/2019

Close out old projects by marking them as Complete or Dormant

About Pages

• About 'infobox' - that is more of a Navbox linking About pages - typically those with sub cat in category:root  Done (March 2019)

Event pages

• Create Template:Event infobox
• Put past events in Category:Events (past)?

Location pages

• 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.  Done (March 2019)

Note: Floor plans are stored here: http://github.com/NottingHack/rodenhouse/tree/master/exports

Rule pages

• Tag top of page with {{RuleArchived}} and content with striked text <s> and {{grey-start}} and {{grey-end}} style.  

Tool pages

• It would be good if members with a particular expertise can add info about tools to wiki. Bob Wood maybe able to help with woodworking tools. Could shout out the google group.

Front page

See also: User:Danspencer101/Mainpage_sandbox

A nice table taken from the front page of CoMakingspace Hackspace wiki in Germany

Features to Consider

• Convert 'list boxes' into template - box style created but not as template
• Tidy alignment.
• Highlight featured pages.
• Make it easier to find task like tidying/ cleaning
• Make it clear how to contribute to the wiki
• No list to members guide
• New Members - link to members guide - wiki is second place to look for more detail
• Random content from :Category:Featured ?

• Move sandbox draft to mainpage  
• Change the sidebar links so that they link to Pages (Or Portals like this?), Not categories  

Physical link to space

• Add QR code stickers/tags in space that link to relevant wiki page

Encourage participation in Wiki

• Encourage general membership to post projects.

Even just a picture is ok, big essays are not necessary :)

- how? see talkpage

Good wiki practice

• List all the namespaces and their functions Help: Category: etc. (partially done at Help:Quick reference#Namespaces)
• Encourage use of edit comments.
• Encourage wikilinking (Perhaps trawl through Special:LonelyPages and update where possible?).

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

• Decorate infoboxes' as appropriate. For example, text white on dark green used in Template:Tool.
• Add fancy CSS

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.

Categories

• Sort out :Category:Featured

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
  • Special:UncategorizedCategories  Done (December 2018 - Category:Root only cat without cat)
  • Special:UncategorizedTemplates (7)  
  • Special:UncategorizedPages (136)  
  • Special:UncategorizedFiles (~1,316)  

• Add categories to Widget: pages  

• Many team pages have a category closely associated with them - add relevant pages (for example, Team:Metalworking will have many pages for category:Metalwork)  

Inter linking pages

• Categories should help readers discover pages by subject. Another way to aid discovery is to link from other relevant pages. See Special:WhatLinksHere in the left hand column. If no other page link to the page can be another reason for readers not finding it.

Temporal

• Move old drives to Category:Pledge Drives (past).
• Make page explaining pledge drives  Done (March 2019)

Archiving

• Archive pages with historical information

Test example of archive style Old Wood lathe using {{grey-start}}

MediaWiki extensions

See also: Special:Version

Most or all extensions will have to wait until the MediaWiki software is upgraded, as per March meeting. However, preparity research can be done - find out the best extension for a particular use and what MediaWiki version it needs.

• Better search  
  • Main search could be set to search all pages (apart from media) to make it easier to find pages in namespaces with a prefix
  • Would it be possible to search rules, guide and wiki all-in-one?
• Wiki notifications  
  • Ping wiki users
  • Send thanks for edits
• Semantic Wiki - data structure for pages, allows form -> infobox
• Extension for dynamic display of Categories within a page
  • Extension:CategoryTree and/or
  • Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)
• Tooltips
• WYSIWYG editing
• Ignore caps on wikilinks (for example, using Category:Utility templates would still link to Category:Utility Templates)
• Embed Google Calendar (for events page) - widget at Google Calendar (MediaWiki Extensions)  

Mobile phones

• Serve styles better suited to mobile phones, see Manual:Mobiles, tablets and responsive design

Templates

• Make merge banner template.
• Fix conditional lines so space doesn't appear under image  Done (February 2019)
• Infobox for Software
• Infobox for Events

• Make template to get left string (see Wikipedia:Template:Padleft and Wikipedia:Template:Str left). This will allow images to be specified with or without File: prefix.

Tidy Pages

• Fix Special:BrokenRedirects  Done (March 2019)
• Fix Special:DoubleRedirects ~30

Wiki meetups

Upcoming

• 2019-04-10 Wiki meetup - New panoramic photos for front page and for Category:Pages requiring photo. New text needed for front page reflecting the purpose of the wiki and point to other documentation - homepage, rules and guide.
• 2019-05-08 Wiki meetup - ?

Past

• 2019-02-13 Wiki meetup - Discussion on 'What is the wiki for?' and how to improve it
• 2019-03-13 Wiki meetup - Process pages tagged to Delete, Nip round space for required photos: Category:Pages requiring

See also

• Nottinghack Wiki:Maintenance

Resources

• London Hackspace wiki - potential source of templates
• comakingspace.de - A nice wiki from a German Hackspace - good front page - Written in English mostly
• EMF camp wiki - example of a semantic wiki that has a structured way to record data
• HACMan wiki - interesting use of CSS to change appearance of wiki
• Wiki color formatting help
• Revspace wiki - dutch hackspace wiki that also uses semantic wiki
• Nottinghack Wiki settings (Github)