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.
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?
