OLPC:Cleanup
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[edit] Open tasks
We need to add a lot of this directly to the opentasks template:
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- Patrol: recent changes, new pages
- Cleanup: Category:cleanup
[edit] Pages desperately needing help
[edit] February barnraising
1) Sitemap[s] (good consistent/maintained/watched pages for the public),
- update Table of Contents and other metapages - organize a "wiki getting started" section similar to that for the XO; at least in outline -- longer-term : provide a community site map of contributors and projects
2) Categorize outdated pages, archive long pages
- "needs update" "deprecated" and "archive", "to be avoided"
3) Collections of 'User information' boxes and badges for self-identification of interests and areas where they want to help.
- OBX proposals (last updated by Xavi and MitchellNCharity)
4) Cleanup of orphans, stubs, and more
- OLPC:Cleanup - OLPC:Pages for review for pages that get {{delete}} and other tags - OLPC:Reviews (content review and project review) - OLPC:Features (featured collections, activities, projects, and media) - a stub-sorting/merging/removal campaign
5) Project organization and sorting
- Category:Projects, Category:Software ideas, Category:Content ideas, Category:Hardware ideas ---- add a Category:Ideas to contain the above? - make navigation-templates, categorize the above into "ideas" "active projects" "inactive projects" and "in use" - make page-templates to help people generate new pages more easily (See the top of the activities page for an example)
6) Category and template organization
- review/prune the category hierarchy - review Special:Allpages
7) Newbie-welcoming pages
- OLPC:welcoming committee - OLPC:About, OLPC:Welcome, a "why make an account" page - Help:Contents and links to tutorials - connection with meta-wiki, wikieducator, wikiversity, wikipedia, wikibooks, curriki, and connexions (a bus stop tour?)
[edit] Wiki on-going restructure
You can help with cleanup activities by tagging pages for:
- Deletion as a consequence of a {{delete}} tag. Caveats apply meaning that it could be deleted - not necessarily that it will be deleted. A sub-category for deletion is specific for #REDIRECT pages tagged with {{deletere}}
- Merging as a consequence of {{merge}} (seeing all those bits-of-pages, siblings could be found to merge with, or other central pages.)
- Clean-up as their current state is sub-standard in some way and needs work.
If you can't find a page, check the:
- Move log - many pages have been moved leaving redirects (that could've been deleted later)
- Delete log - many things have been deleted...
NOTE: Given the amount of editions (flooding the Special:Recentchanges) you can parameterize the URL in the navigation bar http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=250 changing the limit as stated below.
[edit] Restructuring resources
The wiki provides the Special Pages of which the following is an extract that could prove useful.
NOTE: the built-in search is a bit spotty in actually finding things. The obvious alternative would be Google using a site search limited to wiki.laptop.org or just laptop.org.
| Long pages | Long means usually means too much to read - note: it doesn't compute embeded pages |
| Short pages | Empty or stub pages should be reconsidered |
| Orphaned pages | Unlinked page should fit within the corpus - note: it could be categorized |
| Dead-end pages | Although valid are also pages that don't invite further exploration of the wiki]] |
[edit] Maintenance resources
| Broken redirects | When deleting pages, redirects may have slipped |
| Double redirects | When moving pages, previous redirects don't change |
| Uncategorized categories | Categories should form some kind of hierarchical tree of specialization |
| Uncategorized pages | Pages should fit into at least one branch or area discussed in the wiki |
| Unused categories | Categories should have articles to hold on to |
| Unused files | Files (images and others) should be linked / used somewhere |
| Wanted pages | Is a mixed bag, as it includes mispelled links (ie: upper/lower case) together with close-but-not-quite pre-existing pages, and truly wanted pages. Noise here is rather high due to users never having edited their page and many non-existant Talk pages referenced via templates. |
- soon I'll add a bit about the special categories, but in the meantime refer to the ones mentioned above in the ongoing process.
[edit] Things to be aware of
[edit] Categorization & OLPC boxes
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The liberty the wiki provides in creating pages is wonderful, albeit a bit anarchist; particularly if pages are orphaned or if they are simple dead-ends. Even if they are isolated, categories can help. Finally, templates are a way to systematically format data, and possibly categorize pages in some structured way.
Useful templates should be simple to build and to use. As {{Status box}} and {{Educator}} have somewhat proven, their evolution and ability to incorporte both broad and specific details that are relevant and meaningful hasn't been that easy. My conclusion is that they will systematically fail until we have a comprehensive and structured understanding of too many things that are currently highly volatile.
The solution proposed is a set of atomic templates and a way to group them in a visual way. Needless to say that this is not intended to be just a 'visual effect'; the real purpose is to categorize pages so that they can be retrieved. Although the practice is not much different than normal categorization (ie: making sure the appropriate [[Category:whatever]] appears in the pages) it does provide a more consistent (and easier) way to:
- Provide not only a category, but also some contextual information about it's belonging there
- For example, a user using the {{user teacher}} box, will end up in the Category:Educator, the same as another user using the {{user teacher primary}} or {{user teacher university}}, but visually you can tell the difference.
- If in the future we want to 'split' the categorizations, modifying the appropriate OBX templates will result in them being sub-classified based on just the template itself, or maybe some parameter required by it.
Not everything will be nice and comfy with them olpc boxes but hopefully they will provide the incentive to create simple templates that address a specific need, for example providing links and categorizations in a visually consistent manner so that the readers and users of the wiki can profit from them.
Also, they are supposed to be nice and cool looking :)
Please take a look at the proposed / possible boxes being thought so that the initial set of useful boxes can be built and used. --Xavi 21:00, 6 July 2007 (EDT)
[edit] FAQ subpage structure
I'm trying to beat the FAQ back into some usable shape. Some short instructions are at Answering questions - the associated talk page is the place to talk about how this is working. Homunq 14:10, 30 January 2008 (EST)
[edit] See also
- Wiki
- Wiki cleanup for particular page creation/editing requests
