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===Objective===
===Objective===


Collect enough choco to bribe [[User:Ruaok|Ruaok]] so he updates [[Moin Moin|MoinMoin]] to 1.5.x.
Collect enough choco to bribe [[User:Ruaok|Ruaok]] so he updates [[Moin Moin|MoinMoin]] to 1.5.x. but stop spamming him about this. :p The relevant ticket is [[Ticket:2320|2320]].
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">but stop spamming him about this :p -- [[User:dmppanda|dmppanda]] 17:10, 05 April 2007 (UTC)
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Note that the syntax and behavior of Cards will change with the update to 1.5.
Relevant ticket is [[Ticket:2320|2320]].


===WikiWardens on this===
===WikiWardens on this===


All! (note that Europeans have the best choco)
All!


==WantedPages==
==WantedPages==
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* don't inhibate sigs for wiki editors without personal pages (they might want to create one later)!
* don't inhibate sigs for wiki editors without personal pages (they might want to create one later)!
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">Or should we create an empty page for them? [[Answer Me|AnswerMe]] please. -- [[User:dmppanda|dmppanda]] 15:28, 05 April 2007 (UTC)
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">Or should we create an empty page for them? [[Answer Me|AnswerMe]] please. -- [[User:dmppanda|dmppanda]] 15:28, 05 April 2007 (UTC)
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">Empty page would be useless. So for me it is not needed. -- [[User:murdos|murdos]] 00:07, 06 April 2007 (UTC)
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">Empty page would be useless. So for me it is not needed. -- [[User:murdos|murdos]] 00:07, 06 April 2007 (UTC) ''Never'' create empty pages. A wanted page is much better than a contentless stub.
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* when in doubt, just leave them alone!
* when in doubt, just leave them alone!


Tips:
===Tips===

* to inhibate a camelcased link, use <code><nowiki>!BogusLink</nowiki></code>.
* to inhibate a camelcased link, use <code><nowiki>!BogusLink</nowiki></code>.
* to inhibate a bracketted link, use entities instead of brackets: <code><nowiki>&#91;"Bogus Link"&#93;</nowiki></code>
* to inhibate a bracketted link, use entities instead of brackets: <code><nowiki>&#91;"Bogus Link"&#93;</nowiki></code>

A short [[WikiZen]] lecture ;-) on [[Wanted Pages|WantedPages]]: Sometimes a wanted page serves a purpose: It carries the information that there is ''something'' that people refer to, but nobody has taken the time to explain what it is, yet. It also helps to create the intertwingled links for a page that does not exist, yet. Tihs way once the page is created, it is already well intertwingled. In rare cases a wanted page can even give a very realistic notion of a 'blank', or taboo, or untold story. IIRC [[MeatBall:SunirResigns|SunirResigns]] on MeatBall was a very interesting example of this (I don't know if any trace remains of it).


===WikiWardens on this===
===WikiWardens on this===
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* [[User:dmppanda|dmppanda]]
* [[User:dmppanda|dmppanda]]
* [[User:murdos|murdos]]
* [[User:murdos|murdos]]
* slowly retreating, but still annoying everybody with his obscure socilogical idesa: ;-) [[User:DonRedman|DonRedman]]


==Monitor incoming pages==
==Monitor incoming pages==
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Maybe we should have also:
Maybe we should have also:
* [[Needs Category|NeedsCategory]]
* [[Needs Categorizing|NeedsCategorizing]]
* [[Needs Spell Checking|NeedsSpellChecking]]. But then, why not just spell check immediately :p
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">Ok for this one, [[Needs Categorizing|NeedsCategorizing]] is maybe better? -- [[User:murdos|murdos]] 00:07, 06 April 2007 (UTC)
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* [[Needs Spelling Check|NeedsSpellingCheck]]
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">Not sure about this one: just spell check immediately :p -- [[User:murdos|murdos]] 00:07, 06 April 2007 (UTC)
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-- [[User:dmppanda|dmppanda]] 15:28, 05 April 2007 (UTC)

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


===WikiWardens on this===
===WikiWardens on this===
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===Recommendations===
===Recommendations===


* Please don't delete pages that present historical interest. These are handled differently.
* Please don't delete pages that present historical interest. These are handled differently. They need
** A good status notice that puts the page into context. If you cannot provide this, ask some elders.
* 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).
** A category histoly
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">Or should we? Empty pages, orphaned, unedited since the wiki migration: is there a point in keeping these? Please [[Answer Me|AnswerMe]] -- [[User:dmppanda|dmppanda]] 17:09, 05 April 2007 (UTC)

<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">As said above, I don't see the point to have empty page. -- [[User:murdos|murdos]] 00:07, 06 April 2007 (UTC)
* 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). They serve as a whitness of people who contributed to MusicBrainz in the early days. It is ok that the wiki evolves without them, but it's not ok to erase these people from our history. Maybe a short sentence like "XY was a contributor to this wiki in its prehistoric times (i.e. before migration to [[Moin Moin|MoinMoin]])" is better than a completely empty page.
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You may want to take a look at [[Abandoned Pages|AbandonedPages]] and [[Orphaned Pages|OrphanedPages]] (and also to [[Stub]]) to find [[Candidate For Deletion|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|WikiPedia]].
You may want to take a look at [[Abandoned Pages|AbandonedPages]] and [[Orphaned Pages|OrphanedPages]] (and also to [[Stub]]) to find [[Candidate For Deletion|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|WikiPedia]].
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* triple check that you're doing the right thing
* triple check that you're doing the right thing
* delete the page
* delete the page
* [[Dont Delete Wiki Docs Pages|DontDeleteWikiDocsPages]]! You '''must not''' do it, it would break [[WikiDocs]]. Luckily you can't, since [[WikiDocs Page|WikiDocsPage]]<code><nowiki></nowiki></code>s are delete protected. If you are in doubt check if the page is in the [[Transclusion Table|TransclusionTable]].


Right now, there are a bunch of pages in [[Deleted Page|DeletedPage]]. They wait for review from [[User:DonRedman|DonRedman]] and others, and they may be deleted at the end of April 2007. Please also monitor [[Candidate For Deletion|CandidateForDeletion]].
Right now, there are a bunch of pages in [[Deleted Page|DeletedPage]]. They wait for review from [[User:DonRedman|DonRedman]] and others, and they may be deleted at the end of April 2007. Please also monitor [[Candidate For Deletion|CandidateForDeletion]].

You do not expect me to give you an ok for each and every page, do you? MB has enough bureaucracy already. I have commented on some, where I disagree. I believe there are some more that could be left if you look at them from a different, gentler angle. --[[User:DonRedman|DonRedman]]


===WikiWardens on this===
===WikiWardens on this===
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* [[User:dmppanda|dmppanda]]
* [[User:dmppanda|dmppanda]]
* [[User:murdos|murdos]]
* [[User:murdos|murdos]]
* [[User:DonRedman|DonRedman]]


==Pages that should point to wikipedia instead==
==Pages that should point to wikipedia instead==
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==Historical pages==
==Historical pages==


Create an entry point like [[History Home|HistoryHome]] for historical pages. Create special categories for historical proposal, historical guidelines, ...
Create an entry point like [[History Of MusicBrainz|HistoryOfMusicBrainz]] for historical pages. Create special categories for historical proposal, historical guidelines, ...


==Promote transclusion==
==Promote transclusion==

Revision as of 12:35, 6 April 2007

WikiWardening > WikiWardening | WikiWardens

Content

Purpose

Early 2007, new attempt is 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 The relevant ticket is 2320.

Note that the syntax and behavior of Cards will change with the update to 1.5.

WikiWardens on this

All! (note that Europeans have the best choco)

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 inhibit the links

Attention.png 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)
    • Empty page would be useless. So for me it is not needed. -- murdos 00:07, 06 April 2007 (UTC) Never create empty pages. A wanted page is much better than a contentless stub.
  • think twice before inhibiting 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"]

A short WikiZen lecture ;-) on WantedPages: Sometimes a wanted page serves a purpose: It carries the information that there is something that people refer to, but nobody has taken the time to explain what it is, yet. It also helps to create the intertwingled links for a page that does not exist, yet. Tihs way once the page is created, it is already well intertwingled. In rare cases a wanted page can even give a very realistic notion of a 'blank', or taboo, or untold story. IIRC SunirResigns on MeatBall was a very interesting example of this (I don't know if any trace remains of it).

WikiWardens on this

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:

Maybe we should have also:

WikiWardens on this

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. They need
    • A good status notice that puts the page into context. If you cannot provide this, ask some elders.
    • A category histoly
  • 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). They serve as a whitness of people who contributed to MusicBrainz in the early days. It is ok that the wiki evolves without them, but it's not ok to erase these people from our history. Maybe a short sentence like "XY was a contributor to this wiki in its prehistoric times (i.e. before migration to MoinMoin)" is better than a completely empty page.

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
  • DontDeleteWikiDocsPages! You must not do it, it would break WikiDocs. Luckily you can't, since WikiDocsPages are delete protected. If you are in doubt check if the page is in the TransclusionTable.

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.

You do not expect me to give you an ok for each and every page, do you? MB has enough bureaucracy already. I have commented on some, where I disagree. I believe there are some more that could be left if you look at them from a different, gentler angle. --DonRedman

WikiWardens on this

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. This may be GoodWikiStyle, but it needs enhancement.

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

Rehaul Categories

Update WikiDocs related docs

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

Historical pages

Create an entry point like HistoryOfMusicBrainz 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)

  • Sure. And we definitely need to separate documentation efforts, and restructuration/wardening. Though, I think both belong here, because of a simple fact: we don't have arms enough to afford the separation... For now, all manpower is here I guess :-) -- dmppanda 19:33, 05 April 2007 (UTC)

Split documentation into responsibilities zones.

  • dmppanda:
    • clean, transcluded
      some work to do, transclusion ASAP

Open Questions

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

Raw ideas and various things todo

  • 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! Random ideas:
    • use some specific style to make nav and intertwingling cards look a bit different (dirty hack: call the card from within a styled table)
    • use "smileys" to underline semantic value of things
    • use different icons in the head of pages, that "reflects" the part of the documentation we are in (eg: categories or "topic").
  • 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?)
  • HelpOnSearching, or you want more? If think we should also document the different behavior between FullSearch(linkto:Page) and FullSearch(Page): the first works on generated content (after macro expanding), although the second seems to work on text source. Both have inconvenience... :| -- murdos 00:07, 06 April 2007 (UTC)
  • move my ass to have Label doc in a decent state
  • discuss if we want to addto ".+Future" pages, or if we want a new category.
  • investigate the behavior of Cards with arguments, and how to use that for status card differentiation depending on the caller page in transcluded pages.
  • discuss if the current structure used on annotation is a good thing (or not) that we could reuse as a "template" for a number of other things (Artist, Release...):
    • all pages have the category of the topic (eg:)
    • Navigation and intertwingling cards.
    • Pages declined following:
      • Mainpage (eg: Annotation)
      • FAQ (eg: AnnotationFAQ, plus category FAQ)
      • Howto (eg: HowAnnotationsWork, plus category Howto)
      • History (eg: AnnotationHistory, plus category History)
      • Discussion (eg: AnnotationDiscussion, plus category Discussion)
      • Future (eg: AnnotationFuture, actually plus category Discussion, maybe Development or something else)
      • Edits doc
      • AdvancedRelationships documentation (not for Annotation obviously)
      • Additional documentation specific to the topic

Bugs!!!

  • Attention.png 2320: Upgrade MoinMoin
  • Attention.png 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)
    • I agree too. But you should definitely add your comment on the ticket, not here ;) -- murdos 00:07, 06 April 2007 (UTC)
  • 1489: Wiki transclusion data in wrong place
  • 1112: Wiki Transclusion should check for correct WikiName and Revision Number
  • Attention.png 849: Provide translations for key documentation

Things here for some reason :-)

  • Could you precise the reason, or drop all these things, please? The page is already quite long ;-) -- murdos 00:07, 06 April 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned redirects (non personal pages)

Some of them may be used by tagger clients:

  • CapitalizationStandardFrisian
  • DanishCapitalisationStandard
  • ArtistNameStyle
  • ChoralWorksNamesTranslations
  • !SpecialUUIDs
  • !AR

Links to pages that I don't want to see anymore in OrphanedPages

  • But these pages are not in OrphanedPages... I don't understand... -- murdos 00:07, 06 April 2007 (UTC)

Bios:

Personal pages redirects:

Personal pages updated at least once in 2007 - no backlinks on the wiki (orphaned):

Personal pages updated at least once in 2006 - no backlinks on the wiki (orphaned):

Personal pages untouched since the wiki migration - no backlinks (orphaned):


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