User:GhostInTheMachine/WIP

Info

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions (talk)
• Wikipedia:Short description (talk)
• {{Short description}} (talk)
• {{Auto short description}} (talk)
• Category:Pages with short description
  • Category:Articles with short description (6,245,163)
  • Category:Categories with short description (0)
• Category:Templates that generate short descriptions (245)
  • Category:Templates that generate short descriptions for chemical elements (125)
• Category:Modules that create a short description (3)
• {{#invoke:Type in location|main|type|location}}

My TODO lists

• NT — From List of National Trust properties in England
• SD — Level 5 Vital articles — 0–9, A–F Y
• SD2 — Level 5 Vital articles — G–M Y
• SD3 — Level 5 Vital articles — N–Z Y
• SD4 — From Category:Villages and areas in the City of York (34) Y
• SD5 — From List of rivers of Yorkshire + 4 Rivers of ... Yorkshire cats
• SD6 — From List of towns in England (975) Y
• TODO — List for User:Evad37/ToDoLister

SD template itself

• What is the effect of setting a description of "none"?
  • Clarify documentation re effect of p1=none
  • qv @Redrose64
• Add details of SD |Pagetype= parameter Y
  • qv Wikipedia_talk:Short_description#Pagetype
• {{Auto short description}} Add option to use a sub cat of Category:Templates that generate short descriptions qv {{Infobox element}}

Add SD to Infobox templates

• {{Infobox Unicode block}} Plain text Y
• {{Infobox Doctor Who episode}} Simple derived text using |type= and |date= Y
• add howto at project page
• {{Infobox UK place}} should set SD using |county= and/or |type=
  • see Template_talk:Infobox_UK_place#Type
  • {{Infobox UK place}} starts with

    {{Short description|2=noreplace|
      {{#if:{{{type|}}}
        |{{delink|{{{type}}}}}
        |Human settlement
      }}
      in
      {{#if:{{{country|}}}|{{delink|{{{country}}}}}|the United Kingdom}}
    }}
    

  • Compare with {{Infobox settlement}} — instead starts with

    {{#invoke:Settlement short description|main}}
    

    which does rather a lot to build a valid description. See Module:Settlement short description (Lua)
  • Investigate using the Settlement module in the UK place infobox

Create a template for list pages — which then adds a SD

Start RfC re {{List page}} to set SD via {{List page short description}} ?

• qv {{Disambiguation page short description}}
• WT:WikiProject_Short_descriptions#"wikimedia_project_page"

Scripts for SD admin

• Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper
• User:WikiMacaroons/AutoShortDesc
• My SDlinkBuilder

Misc TODO

• add SDlink shortcut to {{Annotated link}} Y
• get bug fixed in {{#invoke:Type in location|function}}

Create

• {{Type in location}}

Infobox UK place

• {{Infobox UK place}}
• |type= has no documentation — not used much — needed to feed into SD — xref
• Ask re {{Infobox UK port}} vs {{Infobox port}} vs {{Infobox UK place}}

Tasky

• Create {{tasky}} to support the Tasky script
• Special:WhatLinksHere/User:GhostInTheMachine/t/track

Graphical characters

• Create ⇒ template — {{rarr}} or {{rarrow}} or {{rArr}} or {{rArrow}}? — like {{pi}}
• Arrow (symbol)
• Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
• Arrows (Unicode block)
• Supplemental Arrows-A — Supplemental Arrows-B — Supplemental Arrows-C
• Fret about categories Category:Typing-aid templates ⇒ Category:Character templates

Draft space

• draft space and the Gaussian dichotomy
• New page wizard v3

Notability

• Wikipedia:Notability / Talk
  • Talk: Notable or noted? — BessieMaelstrom 16 May 2020
  • Talk: North8000's description of how wp:notability actually works right now — North8000 6 June 2020
• Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
  • Clarifying common practice ref inclusion — BessieMaelstrom 22 May 2020
  • The introduction to WP:Notability is terrible — Mysterious Whisper 6 June 2020
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
  • States A topic is presumed to be notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. However, there is still a lot of debate on notability.
• Wikipedia:How Wikipedia notability works right now — Essay North8000 2 July 2020
• North8000 Workshop

Sources

• Wikipedia:New_page_patrol_source_guide#United_Kingdom

New editor experience

• MW:Article Creation Workflow/Landing System dead and archived
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability
• @Me Front doors for requesting new articles
• Wikipedia talk:Requested articles badly needs a stepped wizard of some sort
• @BessieMaelstrom Outline for a "Request an article wizard" — Talk

New editor experience of AFD

Post to Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

Article for Deletion is too aggressive

The standard AFD banner attached to the article starts something like this (faked so the bot does not get excited):   This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy. Please share your thoughts on the matter at this article's entry on the Articles for deletion page. Feel free to improve the article, but the article must not be blanked, and this notice must not be removed, ... The red bar and the headline This article is being considered for deletion... implies that the default action and the motivation for the banner is just to delete the article. While established editors may know what the AFD process is trying to do and point out the word considered, the new editor can easily see that their shiny new article has had a "Not worthy! Delete it!" message stuck on it. We should change the AFD template to be less aggressive. We could even change the "article for deletion" branding to be something like "article needing improvement" - where the implied default is that the article will be improved.

Expect push-back along lines of "Editors need to get over it", "If they don't like it, they can always leave".

Talk pages

Richer talk pages. Allowing replies to reference a specific post etc.

• T233443 Replying to specific comments
• T230654 Parser support for talk pages. Includes stuff on sig micro-formats

Pending changes would probably kill TalkHelper

Watchlist

• ref to uselang=qqx in Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_145#Watchlist_legend

To Do systems

Templates

• See Category:To-do list templates
• {{To do}} = {{todo}} — displays the "to do" subpage in a collapsible infobox-like table
  • about 8000 uses
  • see Wikipedia:To-do list
  • {{todo2}} and {{todo3}} historic versions of {{todo}}
  • {{todobox}} — Obsolete — sub-class of {{todo}} which just defaults some of the parameters
• {{Post-it small}} {{Post-it medium}} {{Post-it large}} — display the "post it" subpage over a yellow Post-it note image
  • maybe 30-40 users
• {{sticky}} — early table version of Post-it ?
  • Obsolete
• {{tasks}} — builds the standard list of tasks for a WikiProject
  • 600k+ uses

• Templates that just output icons — See /Help