Wiki Maintenance

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
  • create equipment labels and wiki pages
  • add authorization details
  • navigation principles
  • basic syntax
• 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}}

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.

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

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

• Special:SpecialPages
• User:Wikibot and Wikibot manual
• candidates for deletion
• orphans: Special:LonelyPages - read this wiki article about how to de-orphan. Do not de-orphan just for its own sake.
• Oldest pages: Special:AncientPages
• Special:BrokenRedirects
• The Wiki
• Category:Broken Equipment
• Category:Candidates_for_deletion see category page for syntax - adds marked for deletion
• Category:Outdated_pages
• Category:NeedsUpdate - see category page for syntax - adds needs update banner
• Spaceops
• Documentation for Semantic Mediawiki Extension
• Wiki Editing
• YouTube Tutorial Videos

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}}