User:Kynikos/Tasks

Schedule

• News, Forum, Translation Team thread
• Special:Recent Changes, (#Catch-up notes), ArchWiki:Reports, #Discussions, #Quick reminders, #Ideas
• Bot schedule
• Dec 15 (weekly): ArchWiki Translation Team (Italiano), Special:Watchlist
• Dec 15 (weekly): fix some direct links: internal ([1]), official packages ([2], [3]), AUR packages ([4]), bug reports ([5]) and Wikipedia ([6], [7]) (filter the lists with !/^User([_ ]talk)?:/i, use Wiki Monkey's editor assistant)
• Dec 15 (monthly): Special:UncategorizedCategories, Special:UncategorizedPages, Special:UncategorizedTemplates, Special:WantedCategories (bot plugin available)
• Jan 1 (monthly): update ArchWiki:Maintenance Team#Statistics
• Jan 5 (monthly): Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Deletion, Special:BrokenRedirects, Special:UnusedCategories, Special:UnusedTemplates

Catch-up notes

Check what happened between 2012/07/24 and 2013/04/14:

• [ ] ArchWiki talk:Reports
• [ ] ArchWiki:Requests
• [ ] Beginners' Guide (Talk:Beginners' Guide)
  • [ ] Beginners' Guide/Preparation (Talk:Beginners' Guide/Preparation)
  • [ ] Beginners' Guide/Installation (Talk:Beginners' Guide/Installation)
  • [ ] Beginners' Guide/Post-installation (Talk:Beginners' Guide/Post-installation)
• [ ] Encrypted LVM (new)
• [ ] Help:Talk (new)
• [ ] Installation Guide (Talk:Installation Guide)
• [x] pacman
• [ ] Pacman - An Introduction (new, [8])
• ...

Discussions

• Complete lists:
  • my contributions
  • Special:WhatLinksHere/User:Kynikos
  • search
• General pages: Help talk:Style, ArchWiki talk:Reports, ArchWiki:Requests

1. Help talk:Style/Formatting and Punctuation
   • User:Kynikos/Formatting and Punctuation
2. Help talk:Style#Daemon operations
   • Also Help:Style#Kernel module operations requires an update
3. Help talk:Style#Daemons and modules wording
   • Add phrasing examples for daemon and modules rules in Help:Style (including blacklisting modules)
4. Help talk:I18n#Language namespace(s) in place of suffixes?
   • Liberalize the naming of the articles (and categories? but absolutely not templates), and at the same time require that all localized (non-English) articles have the language suffix added to their title, be it translated or not, including redirects
5. ArchWiki:Requests#Move/Merge articles to external wikis
   • Check the backlinks before deleting
6. Talk:International_Communities#Style: list versus table
7. Help talk:Style#Better structuring: redefine scope of Help:Editing, Help:Template, Help:Reading, see Category:Help
   • Merge similar articles, e.g. Help:Editing and ArchWiki Cheatsheet
   • Rewrite them more schematically, like Help:Style
   • Mention magic words and Template:Lowercase title in Help:Style#Layout
   • Help talk:Style#Make discussion pages part more visible
8. Help talk:Style#Request to change recommended package installation style
9. Help talk:Style/Edit summary
10. Help talk:Style/Edit summary#Proper use of "This is a minor edit"
11. ArchWiki talk:Reports#Minimum supported kernel version
12. Talk:Table_of_Contents
    • Talk:Table_of_Contents#"also in" links
    • Talk:Table_of_Contents#"also in" translations
    • Talk:Table_of_Contents#Add Table of Contents link into left navigation panel
13. Help talk:Style#Category pages - tree or otherwise?
14. Help talk:Style#CSS updates
15. Help talk:Style/Article summary templates
16. Help talk:Style/Article summary templates#A crazy idea (about Summary templates, Overview templates and categories)
17. Help talk:Style/Article summary templates#See also or Related in Article Summary?
18. Help talk:Style#Lists of related links
19. Help talk:Style#Definition of related link
20. Help talk:Style/Package installation: FS#26383
21. Template_talk:App#Introducing default argument
22. Template talk:AUR?#Opinions
23. Template_talk:Grp#i686-centric
24. ArchWiki talk:Reports#System recovery category
25. Help talk:Style#Title case
    • Talk:Article Naming Guidelines#Article title capitalization
26. Help talk:Style#Style vs. Usability
    • Add a feature request and discuss about changing the color of :visited links #457 #258 #048
27. Help talk:Style#Reducing formatting bloat
28. Help talk:Editing#Where to put ?
29. Help talk:Editing#Hypertext metaphor
30. Talk:Beginners' Guide#Guide restructuring and Talk:Installation Guide#Proposed changes to Beginners' Guide and link to Post-Installation
31. Talk:Beginners'_Guide#A_single,_unified_official_install_guide
32. Talk:Beginners'_Guide#User_management
33. Help_talk:Searching#Using quotes to find what I really want: report MediaWiki bug?
34. Template talk:Sn#Deprecate?
35. Help talk:Style/Migration to new Code formatting templates#Template:Keypress
36. ArchWiki talk:Reports#New templates: color templates for table cells
37. Talk:Common_Applications
    • Talk:Common_Applications#What_is_common.3F
    • Talk:Common_Applications#Lightweight_Applications
    • Talk:Common_Applications#Lists of such kind are to be replaced by wiki categories
    • Talk:Common_Applications#Improving the title
    • Talk:Common_Applications#Further improvement
    • Talk:Common_Applications#Dead links
    • Talk:Common_Applications#Categorization
    • Talk:Common_Applications#Replace by a page containing the LnF awards
    • Talk:Common_Applications#List-o-mania
    • Talk:Common_Applications#See also visibility
38. Talk:Common_Applications/Games#Classification_method
39. Template_talk:Games_navigation#Remove_.22Native.22_prefix
40. Talk:Netbook_Games#Merging: see also [9]
41. Category_talk:Template#About reformed templates
42. MediaWiki_talk:Sidebar#Localization
43. Template_talk:Translateme#Add_ArchWiki:Contributing_link
44. Help talk:I18n#MediaWiki translation extension
    • See also mw:MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle
45. Talk:General_Troubleshooting#Expansion needed
46. Talk:Daemons#Merge with Systemd
47. Talk:Systemd#Duplication_of_content_in_Native_configuration_section
48. Talk:Package_Maintainer#Merge request
49. Talk:Kernel_Panics#Blacklisting_modules
50. Talk:Installation_Chroot#Change title?
51. Talk:Vim#Should there be this much tutorial content?
    • Talk:Emacs#Should there be this much tutorial content?
52. Talk:AUR Helpers#Secure column in comparaison table

Quick reminders

Reply	Timestamp
Talk:Learning_Resources	2011-12-05 09:08:48
Talk%3ATrusted_Users	2012-10-30 22:21:05
Talk%3APCManFM	2013-06-11 15:23:38
Talk%3AInstalling_Arch_Linux_on_ZFS	2013-07-17 08:43:25
Talk:Arch_Packaging_Standards	2013-07-17 19:22:11
Talk%3AEnhancing_Arch_Linux_Stability	2013-07-17 02:01:24
Talk%3ACD_Burning	2013-07-18 21:43:52
Talk%3AList_of_Applications%2FGames	2013-07-18 21:38:07
Talk:USB_Installation_Media	2013-08-08 10:18:11
Talk%3AOptical_Disc_Drive	2013-08-31 09:36:42
Talk%3APlain_dm-crypt_without_LUKS	2013-08-22 10:52:05
Talk%3ADisk_Encryption	2013-09-04 05:47:53

Ideas

If you want to start discussing some of these before I get there, go for it!

1. Delete [10] and User talk:Kynikos/Dm-crypt with LUKS when the restructuring is done
2. Ask Pierre to publish LocalSettings.php and include/require there the database connection data from another file, or vice versa publish a LocalSettings2.php that will be required in LocalSettings.php, where only the db connection data are stored (this can help hide the real location of the file with the connection data)
   • FS#35545
3. Request to close FS#30045?
4. Revise and possibly expand ArchWiki:Contributing
   • After that the "ArchWiki Tutorial" link in Main Page could be pointed to ArchWiki:Contributing (and swapped with "Forum Etiquette"?).
   • Add some references to Special:SpecialPages tools
   • Also reconsider [11]
5. Write checklists for the most common operations
   • Deleting a page:
     • When marking a page for deletion, the content shouldn't be removed (including redirect code)
     • A similar checklist is needed when breaking redirects (e.g. when marking them for deletion)
     • Check interlanguage backlinks at least on the same wiki (Help:i18n#Finding articles with specific interlanguage links)
   • Moving a page
   • Creating a page
   • Moving a section within an article or to another article
   • Deleting content
   • Adding a translation
   • ...?
     • Help talk:Style#Talk pages of redirects
6. Internationalization:
   • Add Serbian and Vietnamese interwiki links?
   • ArchWiki Translation Team (Language) pages could be associated with localized Category:Request:Translation (Language) categories
   • Templates should be coded so that they are language-neutral, with all their messages coded as {{{msg1|default English message}}}: non-English articles should use meta-templates that simply call the basic template localizing its messages: {{Template|msg1=localized message}}
     • An alternative could make use of parser functions (should be installed, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions) in order to recognize the page namespace and sub-namespace and print the correct messages
7. Templates:
   • The documentation of article status templates requires improvement
   • Use Template:Deletion also for sections? (modify the heading)
   • Merge Template:Expansion and Template:Stub?
   • Template:Split? (as opposed to Template:Merge)
   • Move Template:Moveto to Template:Move and Translateme to Translate?
   • Move Template:Out of date to Template:Outdated?
   • Is Template:Bad translation necessary? (Accuracy, Poor writing, Translateme, Out of date, Stub and Expansion could replace it more accurately)
   • Template:Poor formatting? Or Template:Poor style to include also Template:Poor writing?
   • Use Template:META Error in more templates? Create, translate and use localized versions.
   • Move Template:META Error to Template:META Undefined Parameter?
   • Template:Pkg and Template:AUR: add a 2nd optional argument for specifying package version (thus keeping link style)? e.g. pacman<=3.5 Maybe just allow to specify an alternative anchor, like it works for normal links: this would even allow bots to replace all direct links with those templates, also when they don't use the package name as the anchor text.
     Consider creating Template:Pkg search and Template:AUR search for linking to generic searches instead of package pages
   • Template with category to keep track of external bug reports?
   • Check Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Box_BLUE - Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Note, Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Box_RED - Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Warning, Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Box_GREEN - Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Tip
     Instead of using queries to get the differences, we could just delete the meta-templates "Box COLOR", making Note, Warning and Tip use Box directly, thus also preventing the Box COLOR templates to be used inappropriately
   • Do we need Template:FAQ or can we just always use normal sections like in FAQ?
     • Same thing for Template:News
   • Deprecate Template:Note and Template:Tip? Normal text formatting like bold and italic could be used to replace them
     • Template:Announcement (find better name?) to be used for _temporary_ announcements instead of Note?
   • Deprecate Template:Wikipedia and Template:Gentoo? (used sparingly) Remember their translations!
   • Template for linking forum threads in the vein of Pkg, AUR, Grp, Bug...
   • Rename all meta templates (only used by other templates) with a "META_" prefix?
     • Template:Box is for example used directly in some articles: at the moment Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Box isn't be helpful to find them all, but if the template is moved to the new name, the templates using it are updated to use the new name, and the old name is left as a redirect, Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Box is indeed going to show only the wanted results
   • Rename code formatting templates to "mi", "mb", "mh"? This would emphasize the fact that they are to be used in general when monospace ("m") is required, possibly not only strictly for code. This would also put them in analogy with <b> and <i> (but would reduce the analogy with <code>)
8. Maybe change the policy of deleting closed discussion to Wikipedia's archiving solution
9. Regulate blank lines below section headings in Help:Style#Blank lines?
10. Rename Table of Contents to Category Tree?
11. Disk Encryption should be mentioned in the Beginners' Guide
12. Mention p2p file sharing clients in Backup Programs?
13. Split Common Applications/Games from Common Applications?
14. Merge PKGBUILD Templates with PKGBUILD? See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1127103#p1127103
15. Forum-like presentation of the discussions in the wiki:
    • Use tables to show discussions like threads
    • Can show the number of threads/posts, last post date, users participating... through api queries
    • Initialize with a query to all talk pages, then maintain daily with the bot, querying the recent changes
    • Main page would list all the wiki talk namespaces
    • For each namespace (use subpages) list all the talks in chronological order with some details
    • For each talk (can't use subpages) display the number of discussions (parse section headings, also display the titles?)
16. Submit dark CSS skin?
17. Update content of Category:English with links to the most important articles and link it from Main Page
18. Do we really need localized Sandboxes? Sandbox (Português) Caixa de Areia (note it's categorized also under Category:Português)
    • Clean up the various subpages of Sandbox?
19. Move Daemon to Daemons?
20. Define how much time must pass before a dead link can be deleted since it was marked with linkrot
21. Remember there are also MediaWiki:Sidebar, MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js, MediaWiki:Sitenotice, MediaWiki:Anonnotice, MediaWiki:Editnotice, MediaWiki:Talkpagetext, MediaWiki:Editinginterface, MediaWiki:Newarticletext, see mw:Manual:Interface/Sitenotice, mw:Help:Edit notice
22. See if I can improve Python Package Guidelines a bit
23. See if the short articles in Category:DeveloperWiki can be merged somewhere
24. Merge Community repo candidates somewhere?
25. Decide what to do with Community cleanup (merge with DeveloperWiki:Community_Repo_Cleanup?), Christmas Cleanup (merge with DeveloperWiki:Community_Repo_Cleanup?), Multilib Cleanup (merge with DeveloperWiki:Community_Repo_Cleanup?), Rebuilds:Libnl3, Berlios Packages, ArchHosting
    See Talk:Christmas Cleanup
    Make a proper DeveloperWiki namespace?
26. Create an ArchWiki:Statistics page?
    • move there ArchWiki:Maintenance Team#Statistics?
    • top contributors? (all time, last 30 days, all time edits/day (considers registration date)) query1, query2 -- do not include special users (admins, maintainers, bots) or put them in a separate list
      • forum thread
      • Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits
      • think well about the possible negative effects (but also about the positive ones)
    • the page could be easily kept up to date with Wiki Monkey