KeyWiki:Next steps
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The purpose of this page is to discuss next steps on the wiki, once the initial categorization is completed.
Ideas
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Palmetto
- It would be great to have a series of "Help" pages.
- We should complete the categorization of categories project.
- Should we continue going through the Wanted categories page? I'm inclined to say yes.
Reaganomics
- Categorization on KW is very inconsistent. Oftentimes, large groups of people who have something definitive in common, e.g. affiliation with a certain organization, will not all have a common category to reflect that. This should be fixed, at least in areas where the list showing all the names of the people who ought to be in the same category is available online. HNTs are useful but not necessary in remedying this.
- Every article on KW should start with a sentence, instead of, e.g., "John Smith...". This could be fixed simultaneously with some other expansive project, such as category synchronization.
- Interesting. I'm worried about that being an overly-lofty goal. I completely agree that this is a problematic aspect of the wiki. But combing through the 40,000+ content pages will be difficult. I'm worried about the difficulty in creating a systematic way to approach this. It does seem like the kind of thing that we could say, "when a page like this is encountered, fix it." It does certainly create some confusion for the reader to simply see a bolded name at the top of a page. Perhaps one thing we could do in the meantime, if we choose not to tackle this completely, is create a category like, [[Category:Intro needs revision]] and place that on any page that qualifies. --Palmetto 04:35, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- Pretty much every article needs that revision; making such a category all-inclusive would be just as hard as actually fixing them all. But it's not at all a copy and paste job; to make those revisions you would actually have to skim through the article (which is often nothing more than would go in the intro anyway) and pull out a couple noteworthy facts. So it probably would have to be its own project, and I think you're right; it's massive and low-priority. Probably best just to turn a blind eye to try to retain sanity. Reaganomics 23:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- Interesting. I'm worried about that being an overly-lofty goal. I completely agree that this is a problematic aspect of the wiki. But combing through the 40,000+ content pages will be difficult. I'm worried about the difficulty in creating a systematic way to approach this. It does seem like the kind of thing that we could say, "when a page like this is encountered, fix it." It does certainly create some confusion for the reader to simply see a bolded name at the top of a page. Perhaps one thing we could do in the meantime, if we choose not to tackle this completely, is create a category like, [[Category:Intro needs revision]] and place that on any page that qualifies. --Palmetto 04:35, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- Here's a fun one: there are 16,275 orphaned pages on KW at the time of this post. Surely almost all are only slightly-developed people articles which don't have a backlink from the page of whatever organization or event they're affiliated with. However, all of these pages are now categorized, and we can de-orphan them very expeditiously with DPLs. This will very quickly make the orphaned page list actually useful. Reaganomics 23:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- Well that didn't work. Apparently links from a DPL don't count as links. So I made the DPL, copied the list into a column in excel, added brackets and bullets in adjacent cells, concatenated them, and copied that list back into KW. Reaganomics 23:57, 23 February 2012 (UTC)