User:Zakgreant/Manual Namespace Sweep
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Key pages
[edit]These are some of the most important pages on in the Manual namespace. We want to polish them soon, as the are often used.
- Installation and Manual:Installation_guide (unify?)
- Manual:Administrators
- Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki
- Manual:Coding_standards
- Manual:Combating_spam (which needs to be linked up) and Manual:Combating_vandalism could be unified or at least borrow from each other
- Manual:Config script - needs updating
- Manual:Configuring file uploads
- Manual:Configuring MediaWiki
- Manual:Configuration settings
- Manual:Contents
- Manual:Database_access
- Manual:DefaultSettings.php (and perhaps this should be split out of Manual:LocalSettings.php)
- Download from SVN needs polishing
- Download needs tidying
- Manual:Errors_and_Symptoms needs to be compared with the various FAQs and other related pages
- Manual:FAQ is super-important and needs lots of love. A good deal of the content should be moved to dedicated pages. Also, it might be best to split the FAQ into a few smaller bites.
- Manual:How_to_debug
- Manual:Localization
- Manual:LocalSettings.php
- Manual:Maintenance_scripts - which needs love and fulfillment
- Manual:Preventing access
- Manual:Security
- Manual:System_administration
- Manual:Upgrading
To tidy
[edit]These pages are less important, but really need a tidying.
- link to Manual:Troubleshooting_math_display_errors from Manual:Errors and symptoms
- Manual:Substitution
- Manual:Sysops
- Manual:GetLagTimes.php needs tidying
- Manual:Global_Class_Variables should be cleaned up, expanded, and hooked in with Security for developers and friends
- Manual:Guide_to_setting_up_interwiki_linking needs to be part of review that includes Manual:Interwiki and friends
- Manual:Industrialization_guide/LocalSettings.php and Manual:Industrialization_guide/LocalSettings.php need to be moved (like their parent Manual:Industrialization_guide)
- overview article Manual:Image_Administration needs a good sweep
- Manual:Installation/Creating system accounts needs a good sweep - is the info duplicated?
- Manual:Installing_third-party_tools needs to be split into separate pages
- Manual:Manual_configuration needs to be wedded with the other configuration pages
- Manual:MediaWiki_architecture needs serious love
- Manual:MediaWiki_feature_list needs to be linked up
- Manual:Streamlined Windows Install Guide and other install guides should be handled differently as the information goes stale so quickly.
- Should all install guides be linked from Manual:OS_specific_help?
- Need to compare the install guides with the Special:PrefixIndex/Manual:Running MediaWiki on pages.
- What's the intent of Manual:Personalization - need to look at logs and dig into linked files.
- Manual:PostgreSQL and affiliated templates need updating and cleaning
- Manual:Before_installing needs work
- Manual:Blobs_table needs a description of what it's for
- i wish that Manual:Build_Tidy_from_source didn't need to be in our manual. I can't believe how useless http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ is...
- Manual:Edit_token needs dev review
- merge Manual:Guide_to_setting_up_interwiki_linking and Manual:Interwiki
- Manual:MySQL, Manual:Fire up mysql and friends need editing.
- Manual:Backlinks - ironically, there are no links to backlinks
Move to userspace
[edit]These pages don't really belong in the Manual namespace and should likely be moved.
Manual:Collapsible_tables- jquery.makeCollapsible.js is new in 1.17 and in-core. Not the same script described at Manual:Collapsible_tables, but once released that pge can be re-used to explain
$.fn.makeCollapsible()
and demonstrate that (something like translatewiki:User:Krinkle/CollapsingTestpageMw). Krinkle 11:43, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
- jquery.makeCollapsible.js is new in 1.17 and in-core. Not the same script described at Manual:Collapsible_tables, but once released that pge can be re-used to explain
- Manual:Custom edit buttons
- Manual:Documentation:PhpWiki_conversion
- Manual:MediaWiki-Recent_Changes-IRCBot
- Manual:PhpWiki conversion
- perhaps the Special:PrefixIndex/Manual:Short URL pages
- Manual:TikiWiki Conversion
Misc.
[edit]- we really, really need to separate pages as much as possible. Info gets fragmented across many pages then quickly gets crufty.
- Manual:Contents/To_do needs to include some kind of flagging or category system. Manually maintaining a list of content to update, etc. makes work that doesn't need to be done. Need to take a hard look at flagged revs for this.
- examine existing templates (and make new ones) to ease tedium.
- http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Personalization&action=historysubmit&diff=136204&oldid=131262 notes that over-use of templates is a bad thing. Need to investigate, as I'd rather type {{$|SomeVar}} than <code>[[Manual:$SomeVar|$SomeVar]]</code>. Shouldn't the multiple layers of caching take care of the related load?
- {{wg}} created. Example:
{{wg|EnableUploads}}
Output:$wgEnableUploads
.
- {{wg}} created. Example:
- let's put big, long URLs on a single line when possible so that we can read the darn things
- Review all categories
- need database hub
- should tackle docs section-by-section, which will make it more efficient to determine needed templates, categories, etc.
- not even going to think about Manual:Extension right now
- need standard template for function arguments, etc.
- Manual:Hooks should be tackled separately
- skipping Interface articles for now
- ensure that useful content in http://toolserver.org/~mwbot/botbrain.html is also in the manual
- start using tags from Special:Tags for edit messages?
Style and such
[edit]- DBMS
- MySQL
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- Programming Languages
- Batch File
- Javascript
- PHP
- Shell
- SQL
- Web Server
- Apache
- Links
- Syntax
- Class
- Configuration Variable
- Function
- Method
- Object
- Variable
Terminology
[edit]- GET data or GET parameters or query string?