Wiki Action Group

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The Wiki Action Group is an informal group of Jumba community members formed on 15th May 2007[1]. The group is primarily responsible for maintaining decorum and quality of the wiki. There are 5 community members of the group (twz, Derek, Leginag, Daniel, and Pete). There are also a few Jumba staff members that frequent the Wiki.

For instruction and discussion about the maintenance of the Jumba Wiki, please contribute to the wiki policy.

Contents

Working categories and templates

Please check the WAG category for project templates and categories for article maintenance, or one of the following specific categories. When using these templates, please start a discussion thread for the article where necessary.

  • Cleanup: articles that require editing for formatting, standardising or consistency.
    To add an article to this category, use {{cleanup}}
  • Delete: articles that can be discussed for deletion. Depending on the topic and content available, a vote may be required. Start a discussion thread on the discussion page with a degree at which to delete for other editors to discuss (eg. Strong Delete, Delete, Weak Keep, Strong Keep). This allows for reason to sway votes and to get a consensus.
    To add an article to this category, use {{delete|reason}}
  • Expand: articles that require more content. This list generally mirrors stub articles.
    To add an article to this category, use {{expand}}
  • Merge: articles that might be similar to another, or too insignificant for their own article.
    To add an article to this category, use {{merge|main article name}}
  • Screenshot: articles that could be improved with the addition of image(s) or screen shot(s).
    To add an article to this category, use {{screenshot}}
  • Update: articles that need to be checked for current information; some may be outdated.
    To add an article to this category, use {{update}}
  • Revamp: articles that need a complete re-write or structural change.
    To add an article to this category, use {{revamp}}
  • Todo: articles where specific new content has been identified for inclusion.
    To add an article to this category, use {{todo|*list item}}
  • Collaboration: articles that have been part of a collaborative effort, as voted on WAG:Collaboration.
    Articles are added to this category by placing the template {{Collab past}} on the article talk page.

WAG toolbox

Whether you can write or not, you're technical or not, there are plenty of places you can contribute! Here are some ideas:

  • List of all pages: just check out the list of articles that already exist and start adding to them!
  • List of popular pages: These are the pages that are viewed the most - they should be in perfect condition with valuable information and interlinking.
  • List of orphan pages: These pages can only be found by searching - link them in other articles so they can be found!
  • List of wanted pages: These pages have been linked to but don't exist. Add content to pages with the most links.
  • Short pages: This is a list of pages with little to no content - they should be categoried with the {{stub}} template for organisation and content added.
  • Stub articles: Similar to small articles, these have been labeled as small - add content to a point where it is no longer a short article, then remove the stub template.
  • List of all categories: Get familiar with categories to add to articles so they can be found and organised easier.
  • List of dead-end pages: Add some links to these pages so information can flow, people don't hit a wall and get nowhere. Try adding some categories, external links and see also links.
  • Broken redirect: Some pages are redirected to a page that doesn't exist. Create the new page or correct the redirection.
  • Double redirects: Some pages get redirected to a page that's also redirecting, the first redirect needs to be updated to redirect to the last location.
  • List of uncategorized pages: Here's a list of pages that have no category and need to be organised into relevant categories. If there isn't one, create one!
  • Random page: Just go to a random page (the link on the left) and start editing!
  • Recent changes: Check recent changes to see what others have added - revert spam, add additional information or correct what has been added, discuss disputes if appropriate.
  • List of new pages: Keep tabs on the new articles created to make sure they are appropriate, categoriesed and watched.
  • Gallery of new images: Make sure new images added to the wiki are appropriate and tagged correctly.

Article grading / importance

Articles should each individually be ranked and rated by the usefulness of content, quantity, relevance and importance. This gives a more accurate reading of what articles need improvement and how many good articles are on the wiki. See Category:Article grading.

To assess an article, use: {{Grading|importance=mid|class=start}} Use the classifications below and use all lowercase.

Importance scale

Articles are tagged with the following labels, indicating the importance of articles:

Class/Status scale

Articles are classed with the following labels:

Graduated development ideas

  • WAG award: an award given to wiki participants that have added quality articles or improved the wiki significantly. (Example at Wikipedia)
  • Weekly collaboration: Tagging an important and useful article each week for community collaboration to get the article up to speed and add useful content to it.

Future development ideas

  • Featured article: Monthly/Weekly article selected as feature article with prominent placing on main page - rewards given for the person starting the article and main article contributors. Articles voted on by community or WAG.
  • Wiki games: Develop ideas for Wiki games for people to contribute edits
    • 6 degrees of separation - how many clicks does it take to get from one nominated article to another?
    • Who has the coolest wiki user page?
  • User sorting: Categories to place users in for gender and state (eg. Category:Users in SA)

Wanted main wiki articles

There are a list of missing articles linked throughout areas of the wiki for general copyrights etc That need to be copied from other wikis or worded succinctly.

New wiki version

Now that we have a decent version of mediawiki, I expect we can make all the changes we've been talking about (if/when we have the time!). A couple of things I noticed have changed that I don't much like - the section edit link has moved and is huge! (editsection class in monobook/main.css) and .wikitable class (common.css) has lost the horizontal lines. Apart from that tis good! --Twz 14:29, 3 October 2007 (EST)

It appears to have gone awol in my opinion. When typing anything longer than 7 chars into search, the main screen will somehow get a not found wiki page (entire site layout) within the window. And that annoying white bar behind the top menu items. This image shows the search problem occurring: problem img -DedDerek 23:06, 8 October 2007 (EST)

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