OLPC:Cleanup
Intro
As information sprawls across the wiki, we're in constant need of help and efforts to keep it tame, trimmed, and usable - purging old/broken information and links, creating and updating portal pages for various user groups and topics, condensing screenfuls of discussion on talk pages into short, accurate, easy-to-read updates... I'm sure you can think of more.
If you'd like to help battle chaos, please join in - just edit pages, no need to ask permission. If you have a request for cleanup, post here. If you've cleaned up a page and want reviews/polishing final touches, post here. Go for it.
Also see Category:Cleanup for pages needing cleanup. Use Template:Cleanup to mark pages in need of revision by adding the words {{Cleanup}} to the top of the article.
Pages needing final touches
- Look over category:drafts pages, see if any are quick .
Areas needing attention
- Glossary could use some thoughtful expansion. Jargon serves a useful purpose as shorthand for technical discussions, but it also poses a substantial barrier-to-entry for new contributors. A more extensive Glossary would be very helpful in allowing outsiders to become insiders.
- Accessibility
- Games
- Emulation
- Communities (including encouraging various communities to get organized enough to make a frontpage, similar to Community:Art)
- Pilots
- Table of Contents - Revise or Remove Katie 10:30, 29 January 2008 (EST)
- or merge ideas into Site map (w/ redirect from one to another)
- Category:Software vs. Category:Activity vs. Category:Linux software
- separate out wiki software pages into Activity vs Linux vs. other
- Category:Linux software
- create standardized format for these pages for consistancy, and remove duplication
- find all standard linux software, tag w/template
- search wiki for 'yum' and 'wget', likely they need this tag.
- Adobe Player, Adobe Flash, Flash Player, etc (or other pages with similar info)
- Combine into one page, organize information
- Examine core wiki pages, (i.e. top pages, or ones in Site map ??)
- Check for current/correct information
- move any 'beta' or 'prelease' information else where.
- Consistency: headers, format, structure, etc
- review all templates
- check for duplication, merge if needed
- review User boxes
- create consistency,
- establish best order, if lots on same page
- review Headers (i.e. page headers)
- create consistency,
- establish best order, if lots on same page
- review Category:Articles_to_be_merged
- Especially in areas of:
- Licensing - combine smaller 'snipit' pages into this one. (Search for the word 'license' or 'licensing')
- Bitfrost and OLPC Bitfrost pages should be merged, see Talk:Bitfrost.This will require the assistance of an admin because OLPC Bitfrost is protected.
- Especially in areas of:
- review Software, and sub-categories
- Some pages cross over, separate into categories
Clean-up tasks requiring admin privileges
- Redirects for deletion
- Pages for deletion
- Work needed on protected pages
- Bitfrost and OLPC Bitfrost pages should be merged, see Talk:Bitfrost.This will require the assistance of an admin because OLPC Bitfrost is protected.
- User pages in Main space
Current major creations and overhauls
- Suggested CSS/skin mods - transclude to your user /shikiwiki.css User:Katie/shikiwiki.css 11:52, 29 January 2008 (EST)
- Site map - ixo
- Home - Nlee,
- ndraft at Home draft, goals at Home draft/Goals. Alternative draft at User:Jordan_Craw/Main_Page
- OLPC:Welcome - Mchua, goals at [[Talk:OLPC:Welcome]]
- Participate - Mchua, draft at Participate draft
Health
Open tasks for the Health Category
- Create a health OBX for interested participants to mark themselves with (should add people to a "Health People" category, or similar
- Clean up the Health Database page.
Weekly zine
- document discoveries, or pages of note