History:Wiki Wardening

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Purpose

Early 2007, new efforts are made to push the wiki forward and drastically enhance both the documentation quality and the wiki health state as a whole. This page serves as a fast moving memo for WikiWardens to coordinate their work. It has no special structure, no rules, will be heavily edited, and most discussion started here will certainly be DeleteWhenCooked. Still, ideas and discussion that are worth keeping may be moved to another page if there is a need for that (like WikiWardeningHistory).

If you see anything in the documentation or in the wiki that should be addressed, report it here, or contact a WikiWarden.

Obtain MoinMoin upgrade

Problem

We are stuck with an old MoinMoin full of deranging bugs and badly outdated.

Objective

Collect enough choco to bribe Ruaok so he updates MoinMoin to 1.5.x.

• but stop spamming him about this :p -- dmppanda 17:10, 05 April 2007 (UTC)

Relevant ticket is 2320.

WikiWardens on this

All!

WantedPages

Problem

In its current state, this is unusable. Counts around 877.

Objective

Bring it down below ~500 links.

Recommendations

• A lot of links in there are "just bogus" (accidental CamelCase, wrong use of brackets ["ASIN"], etc). All of these should be "fixed" (edited so that they don't link anymore).
• Some links in there are typo-ed, and should be properly edited to point to the correct page.
• Some links are outdated (page has moved), they should be fixed also
• broken sigs: some WikiZen have troubles spelling their own names :-) (Ruaok, among other) - help them for their own good!
• missing redirect: some WikiZen have a personal page, but use a differently named wiki account. Create the redirection page for them.
• Jazz/Label/* created quite a lot of bogus links, as they often contain records catalogs, with camelcased names. These pages will eventually disappear. Meanwhile, you can inhibate the links

Just don't "inhibate" anything you see there! Specially:

• don't inhibate sigs for wiki editors without personal pages (they might want to create one later)!

• Or should we create an empty page for them? AnswerMe please. -- dmppanda 15:28, 05 April 2007 (UTC)

• think twice before inhibating things that looks like BadWikiName of otherwise valid WantedPages.
• when in doubt, just leave them alone!

Tips:

• to inhibate a camelcased link, use !BogusLink.
• to inhibate a bracketted link, use entities instead of brackets: ["Bogus Link"]

WikiWardens on this

• dmppanda
• murdos

Monitor incoming pages

Problem

Pages are created by everybody, from WikiMasters to WikiNewbies. The later usually don't use categories, don't sign their edits, don't intertwingle things, use BadWikiNames, don't check spelling, introduce bogus links, or even create completely useless pages.

Objective

Monitor all page creation, and at least mark these pages with the relevant WikiTags:

• NeedsEditing
• NeedsIntertwingling
• NeedsRenaming
• NeedsRestructuring
• NeedsUpdating
• CandidateForDeletion
• DeletedPage
• Stub

Maybe we should have also:

• NeedsCategory
• NeedsSpellingCheck

-- dmppanda 15:28, 05 April 2007 (UTC)

... or at best, do the work immediately.

WikiWardens on this

• dmppanda
• murdos

DeletedPage

Problem

We have quite a lot of pages completely useless or irrelevant to MusicBrainz.

Objective

• They should be removed, and if any, all the links to them replaced by proper links to other resources (eg: WikiPedia).
• Update and simplify the informal "deletion mechanism" (that we inherited). Update the relevant documentation.

Recommendations

• Please don't delete pages that present historical interest. These are handled differently.
• Please don't delete personal pages, even empty, even abandoned for years, even orphaned (though you may eventually edit them to at least be of CategoryPerson).

• Or should we? Empty pages, orphaned, unedited since the wiki migration: is there a point in keeping these? Please AnswerMe -- dmppanda 17:09, 05 April 2007 (UTC)

You may want to take a look at AbandonedPages and OrphanedPages (and also to Stub) to find CandidateForDeletion. Also, you may want to review pages that don't directly pertain to MusicBrainz (pages on foreign technologies/random topics for example). Most of them should be superceded by their equivalent (better and maintained) pages at WikiPedia.

Tips for WikiWardens not member of the PageDeletorGroup:

• if you're sure a page should be deleted, add a DeletedPage tag somewhere in it, with some arguments
• if you think, but are not sure a page should be deleted, use CandidateForDeletion instead
• subscribe to this page, so you are notified of changes on it and can answer people
• wait a month. If no one reacts negatively, either change the tag from CandidateForDeletion to DeletedPage and wait a bit more, or if it is already a DeletedPage, bug somebody in PageDeletorGroup so that he deletes the page effectively

Tips for members of PageDeletorGroup:

• do a full text search on the wiki to list all links pointing to the DeletedPage: something like [[FullSearch(linkto:DumbPage)]]
• replace or inhibate all links
• triple check that you're doing the right thing
• delete the page

Right now, there are a bunch of pages in DeletedPage. They wait for review from DonRedman and others, and they may be deleted at the end of April 2007. Please also monitor CandidateForDeletion.

WikiWardens on this

• dmppanda
• murdos

Pages that should point to wikipedia instead

See DeletedPage above. Maybe maintain a list of these here.

Jazz

Problem

This is my mess. There are several problems with the Jazz/Label/* pages which include:

• bogus camel links (see WantedPages)
• pages appear orphaned

Objective

• Migrate all relevant data into MusicBrainz (now that we have labels!).

Recommendations

Just ignore these pages whenever they appear (but in WantedPages)

WikiNewbies

Create a page for WikiNewbies with good practice guidelines on this wiki. -- murdos 16:52, 05 April 2007 (UTC)

With a (short) checklist of things to verify (intertwingling, categories, spelling, etc).

Rehaul Categories

• WikiTags
• Split* Maybe split* Read/rewrite/enhance categories descriptions
• Check what's in CategoriesDiscussion

Update WikiDocs related docs

Attachments, includes, cards, etc. Also see MoinMoin 1.5 migration.

Historical pages

• Create an entry point like HistoryHome for historical pages. Create special categories for historical proposal, historical guidelines, ...

Promote transclusion

I'm not sure WikiDocs and transclusion are directly related to WikiWardening: a TransclusionEditor sure need to be a WikiWarden of his wikidocs pages, but a lot of wikipages don't need to be WikiDocs. Might be related to restructurating/documenting distinction. -- murdos 16:52, 05 April 2007 (UTC)

Split documentation into responsabilities zones.

• dmppanda:

  • clean, transcluded

    some work to do, transclusion ASAP

Open Questions

• Category nesting (murdos).
• think of a masterplan about categories.

Raw ideas

• Promote the use of cards (don't forget that Cards on navigation don't really behave nicely)

• But don't overuse them ;-)

• Build templates for cards
• niceify the documentation!
• investigate Cards/Intertwingling ideas (think WikiPedia "portals")
• differentiate restructuring tasks (defining categories, renaming, ...) and improving content tasks (updating docs, ...)
• find some documentation about FullSearch macro (where the heck is it located?)

Bugs!!!

• 2320: Upgrade moin
• 2672: Cards and transclusion behavior
• 1962: Transclusion hasn't work so well so far, lack of manpower

• We need to prove that wrong! -- dmppanda 15:48, 05 April 2007 (UTC)

• 1799: WikiDocs does not produce valid XHTML
• 1530: Show transcluded wiki page in user profile in main site.

• Not sure this is a so good idea. I for one don't want to see my big blurb/notes appear in my (very short) bio. -- dmppanda 15:48, 05 April 2007 (UTC)

• 1489: Wiki transclusion data in wrong place
• 1112: Wiki Transclusion should check for correct WikiName and Revision Number
• 849: Provide translations for key documentation

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