User:Kynikos/Tasks

Schedule

• News, Forum
• Recent Changes, (#Catch-up notes), Reports, #Discussions, #Quick reminders, #Ideas
• Watchlist, Translation Team thread, Translation Team tables
• Bot schedule
• May 1 (monthly): update ArchWiki:Maintenance Team#Statistics

Catch-up notes

• Some new pages:
  • Help:Talk
  • Pacman - An Introduction ([1])
  • Encrypted LVM
• See what happened to the most important articles since 2012/07/24 (do not delete from the list, only mark as checked):
  • ArchWiki talk:Reports
  • ArchWiki:Requests
  • Installation Guide (Talk:Installation Guide)
  • 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)
  • pacman
  • ...

Discussions

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

1. Help talk:Style#Daemon operations
   • Also Help:Style#Kernel module operations requires an update
2. Help talk:Style#Daemons and modules wording
   • Add phrasing examples for daemon and modules rules in Help:Style (including blacklisting modules)
3. 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
4. ArchWiki:Requests#Move/Merge articles to external wikis
   • Check the backlinks before deleting
5. Talk:International_Communities#Style: list versus table
6. 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
7. Help talk:Style#Request to change recommended package installation style
8. Help talk:Style/Edit summary
9. Help talk:Style/Edit summary#Proper use of "This is a minor edit"
10. ArchWiki talk:Reports#Minimum supported kernel version
11. 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
12. Help talk:Style#Category pages - tree or otherwise?
13. Help talk:Style#CSS updates
14. Help talk:Style/Article summary templates
15. Help talk:Style/Article summary templates#A crazy idea (about Summary templates, Overview templates and categories)
16. Help talk:Style/Article summary templates#See also or Related in Article Summary?
17. Help talk:Style#Lists of related links
18. Help talk:Style#Definition of related link
19. Help talk:Style/Package installation: FS#26383
20. Template_talk:App#Introducing default argument
21. Template talk:AUR?#Opinions
22. Template_talk:Grp#i686-centric
23. ArchWiki talk:Reports#System recovery category
24. Help talk:Style#Title case
    • Talk:Article Naming Guidelines#Article title capitalization
25. Help talk:Style#Style vs. Usability
    • Add a feature request and discuss about changing the color of :visited links #457 #258 #048
26. Help talk:Style#Reducing formatting bloat
27. Help talk:Editing#Where to put ?
28. Help talk:Editing#Hypertext metaphor
29. Talk:Beginners' Guide#Guide restructuring and Talk:Installation Guide#Proposed changes to Beginners' Guide and link to Post-Installation
30. Talk:Beginners'_Guide#A_single,_unified_official_install_guide
31. Talk:Beginners'_Guide#User_management
32. Help_talk:Searching#Using quotes to find what I really want: report MediaWiki bug?
33. Template talk:Sn#Deprecate?
34. Help talk:Style/Migration to new Code formatting templates#Template:Keypress
35. ArchWiki talk:Reports#New templates: color templates for table cells
36. 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
37. Talk:Common_Applications/Games#Classification_method
38. Template_talk:Games_navigation#Remove_.22Native.22_prefix
39. Talk:Netbook_Games#Merging: see also [2]
40. Category_talk:Template#About reformed templates
41. MediaWiki_talk:Sidebar#Localization
42. Template_talk:Translateme#Add_ArchWiki:Contributing_link
43. Help talk:I18n#MediaWiki translation extension
    • See also mw:MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle
44. Talk:General_Troubleshooting#Expansion needed
45. Talk:Daemons#Merge with Systemd
46. Talk:Systemd#Duplication_of_content_in_Native_configuration_section
47. Talk:Package_Maintainer#Merge request
48. Talk:Kernel_Panics#Blacklisting_modules
49. Talk:Installation_Chroot#Change title?
50. Talk:Vim#Should there be this much tutorial content?
    • Talk:Emacs#Should there be this much tutorial content?

Quick reminders

Reply	Timestamp
Talk:Learning_Resources	2011-12-05 09:08:48
Talk%3ATrusted_Users	2012-10-30 22:21:05
Talk:The_Arch_Way_v2.0	2013-02-05 04:03:11
Talk:Backup_Programs	2013-02-17 07:42:41
Talk:Full_System_Backup_with_rsync	2013-03-06 19:47:20

Ideas

1. 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)
2. Request to close FS#30045?
3. 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 [3]
4. 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
   • ...?
5. 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
6. 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:Error in more templates? Create, translate and use localized versions.
   • Move Template:Error to Template: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
     Also consider using an optional parameter to disable the exact match flag.
   • 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, Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Box_YELLOW
     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
     Template:Box YELLOW should probably just be deleted, since 1) it's not coherent with the other 3 colors (#[D8]{6}|#[FA]{6} vs #[DB]{6}|#[FD]{6}) and 2) still for coherence, we'd also need the red+blue and green+blue versions
   • 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...
7. Rename Table of Contents to Category Tree?
8. Disk Encryption should be mentioned in the Beginners' Guide
9. Split Common Applications/Games from Common Applications?
10. Merge PKGBUILD Templates with PKGBUILD? See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1127103#p1127103
11. Submit dark CSS skin?
12. Update content of Category:English with links to the most important articles and link it from Main Page
13. 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?
14. Move Daemon to Daemons?
15. Define how much time must pass before a dead link can be deleted since it was marked with linkrot
16. 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
17. See if I can improve Python Package Guidelines a bit
18. See if the short articles in Category:DeveloperWiki can be merged somewhere
19. Merge Community repo candidates somewhere?
20. 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?
21. 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