Wiki Administration
Welcome to the RepRap wiki administration page. RepRap wiki editors and sysops fight a constant battle for site simplicity, consistent design/navigation and declutter. This page provides some links to help us coordinate our efforts.
Administrative Categories
- Category:Template:Notice - a list of notices that can be placed at the top of pages to inform users about page issues/recommended changes
- Category:Template - all templates used on this wiki
- Category:Pages to be merged - a list of pages needing to be merged
- Category:Pages to be merged from TWiki - a list of pages needing to be merged from TWiki
- Category:Stub pages - stub pages needing more content
- Category:Pages containing Example Artifacts - pages containing wiki-text artifacts from the example page. These should be cleaned up.
Site Notices
- MediaWiki:Sidebar - control the sidebar's content. See also MediaWiki:Sidebar/Sandbox
- MediaWiki:Sitenotice - site wide user announcements. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sitenotice
- MediaWiki:Anonnotice - site wide non-user announcements.
- MediaWiki:Notice - site wide announcements for all users/non-users.
Commonly used Special Pages
- Special:Lonelypages - a list of pages that are not linked to on this wiki. These should either be merged, deleted or linked to. Please tag them appropriately.
Wiki-on-wiki discussion about the RepRap wiki as a whole:
- RepRap project FAQ#Wiki -- a brief overview
- Help:Editing -- quick tips
- Library/Notes
- Library/6x10000s Problem
- Talk:Library Staff and Volunteers
- Community Humor
- new site design
- User talk:DavidCary#Hi -- the difficulty of finding wiki-on-wiki discussion, which inspired putting together the above list.
open questions
Certain editors have been putting general information that applies to many specific developments in the "category:" namespace. For example, "category: DriveTrains" and "category: MillingToolheads". That is nice because we get both together on the same page -- the general information, and the automagically generated list of all specific developments tagged with that category.
Other editors put general information that applies to many specific developments in the main namespace. They keep the corresponding category page nearly empty (except for the automagically generated list). For example, "Extruded Aluminum" and its corresponding category "category: aluminum". That is nice because it allows people who type stuff in the "search" box on any page to find that general information -- by default, such searches don't find stuff in the "category:" namespace.
Is there some way to combine the advantages of both approaches?
- If I understand you correctly, creating a page "Aluminium" should combine both approaches. The pages contents would be a redirect to category:Aluminium and/or (both possible) a well visible link to the category. --Traumflug 10:42, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, that solves the bigger problem -- currently pages like "category: MillingToolheads" do not normally show up directly in the list of search results, even when I type the exact name "MillingToolheads" in the search box. Your proposal to create a page in the main namespace with the same name that redirects to that category would fix that problem.
- Alas, that does not solve the smaller problem -- currently pages like "category: MillingToolheads" do not normally show up directly in the list of search results, even when I type words or exact phrases that occur on that category page, such as "flex shaft" (including the quotes). Your proposal doesn't help this smaller problem.
- One way to fix this smaller problem is to put all the text on the main page (where the search can find it), then transclude the text from main page onto the corresponding category page. For example, I put
{{:RepStrap}}in the category:RepStrap article. - Is there a better way?
- --DavidCary 12:18, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
