Wiki Maintenance

From Pumping Station One

The Wiki Maintenance Group is an ad hoc group of members that work together to improve the wiki in a variety of ways, generate some standard procedures, and help ensure the quality of PS:One's wiki. We hope that the Wiki will be something that members will find useful in their time at PS:One, a historical record and source of truth for the organization, and be generally useful for the broader online Hacker/Maker community.

Goals

  • Introduce new members to the process of editing the wiki
  • Have a monthly meeting to edit the wiki
    • Wine Wiki Wednesdays (borrowed from i3 Detroit)
    • connect with other members directly on Discord #wiki-love
  • Update equipment pages
    • Aid areas, hosts, and volunteers report status, best practices, etc
  • Account for all areas and volunteers - names, contact methods, handles
    • should use user pages in the wiki?
  • Help inventory all the equipment
    • Get master equipment list from each area host
  • Category and template creation
  • Document and describe the organization structure - Diagram
    • Create an overarching plan/structure of wiki information
    • History of PS:One
    • Board, Officer, Committee, Area Host Procedures
    • New Member Onboarding
  • Introduce members to Special:SpecialPages
  • Networking Staging Page Networking Reorg Staging Page

General Guidelines and Etiquette

Consider reading [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplified_ruleset Wikipedia's Simplified Ruleset]

add tags to pages that need updating

{{NeedsUpdate|your reasons for deletion go here}}

Category:Pages_with_broken_file_links

note that a piece of equipment has been removed

  • edit the source
  • in the "where:" type "Removed" (no quotations, capitalization matters)
  • you should see a banner at the top of the page that says the equipment is removed

finding candidates for deletion

Candidates for deletion are pages that haven't been updated in a long time, are incomplete, abandoned. A question you may ask yourself: is the deletion improving clarity or wiki structure?

  • Some equipment pages may be candidates for deletion, but if there is valuable information in them consider making them historical pages.
  • If there is some information that would be useful or historical in a page consider moving that content to a more appropriate page or making the page historical.
  • Do not delete pages in user namespaces.

linking orphans

add redirects

  • create redirects to single tool pages based on terms you would search to find that tool.
    • If there is more than one tool redirect to a disambiguation page or a subsection that lists all those tools.

To add a redirect to an existing page (not another redirect) create a new page and add the following text

  • #REDIRECT [[the page you'd like to redirect to]]

change incorrect redirects

  • all redirects should go to a specific page. If a redirect is relevant to another page or equipment make sure that is redirects there.

deleting redirects

  • do no delete redirects in user namespaces
  • don't delete redirects unless the following are all true:
    • the redirect goes to another redirect or creates a loop or leads to a page or redirect that doesn't exist
    • and there are no pages linking to that redirect

locking pages

undeleting pages

commenting edits

  • when edits are made you should can use the signature button (second button to the right in the edit)--Rtystgeeke (talk) 16:54, 19 November 2016 (CST)
  • you can also type ~~~~ characters together to insert a timestamped signature when typing Skm (talk) 14:40, 3 December 2016 (CST)

creating your own user page

  • Log into the wiki
  • Typing wiki.pumpingstationone.org/user:your_user_name into your browser
  • Click the create button in the upper right corner
  • Edit your page with your info, tools you know, things you want to learn, and any applicable categories
  • Users who are interested in wiki maintenance can edit their user page and add this text to their User page: [[Category:WikiGnomes]]
  • If you want to be fancy you can create a redirect by making a new page (with your name or nickname) as the page title and then type REDIRECT#User:(your user name)

Links to important pages

Infrastructure Editors

  • who can edit the wiki infrastructure? User:Folf
  • who wants to get access to edit the infrastructure? User:Tachoknight
  • remove pages for deletion

Tasks to do

  • Check out the punch list!
  • all tools are categorized into each area.
    • create list for area hosts to audit - remove old equipment, add new equipment pages
    • any way to make area show a list of active machines only?
  • Fix links that point internally but use external links (/wiki/ problem with bad links)
  • develop strategy for determining orphan pages, and linking them. Lots of pages are categorized but not linked (any way to differentiate?)
  • come up with specific search queries for targeted actions
  • de-duplicating information: create a banner, roll duplicated information into less pages
  • orphaned pages should exclude pages that are linked via categories
  • figure out if Special:Wantedcategories that do not have category: pages should be removed from the linking pages or created
  • fix Category:EquipmentPageErrorNoAreahost so that all equipment belongs to an area host or member
  • add Category:Retired_Equipment Equipment to equipment that has wiki pages but is deprecated for some reason
    • I'd like to create a new template very similar to the candidates marked for deletion that has a reason or link to a new machine
  • add Template:NeedsUpdate to pages with old, incorrect, or missing information

Ideas for improvement

  • email digest to google groups/area host a list of broken tools automatically based on broken tool list
  • correlate member pages to list of current members, tag their user page as such

Wiki Overhaul

User:Carlfk/meeting_notes

  • Rename wiki to not have a colon in {{SITENAME}}
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