Template talk:Active Wiki Fixup Projects
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Stuff not currently on the real list for one reason or another:
| Inactive Wiki Fixup Projects Are inactive, unsystematic, or don't need help. |
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| Red Link Recovery Transform red links into blue ones. - Oct 11 Done until updated |
| Uncategorised good articles and Lists Good articles that need a category. (Updated) |
| Bad category names - Updated from Oct 29 dump. - Done until updated. |
| * Most wanted articles - Empty due to technical difficulties |
| Unstubby stubs - ~800 long articles that have stub tags and probably shouldn't. |
| Untagged stubs - Blocks of 25 articles that are very short but have no stub tag. |
| Blank pages - Updated from Dec. 13 dump. Done until updated. |
| Most visited articles - Based on page views, to be made into featured articles. (List based on June 2005 dump, way out of date, accuracy disputed) |
| Software Logo Project - Make use of the new "logo" parameter in Template:Infobox Software. |
| Double redirects - 7,800 more redirects as of Oct 9, 2005. 100% completed. |
| Wikipedia namespace categorization - Under 2000 pages need manual categorization. With some bot help, categorization of all "Wikipedia:" pages will soon be complete. |
| User:Sietse_Snel/Fix_common_mistakes - Fix common mistakes in English grammar (e.g. "the the", "and and"). (completed at the moment) |
| Incorrectly-capitalized "External links" sections. (completed at the moment) |
| Wikipedia:Maintenance#Reports - Many out of date |
| Missing Redirects - Add redirects and disambigs that appear to be missing. (project is no longer feasible until a bug request to restore GET-request functionality in MediaWiki is fixed.) |
| Repeated words - Quickly fix commonly repeated words (e.g. "and and", "that that"). ~500 entries left with many false positives. |
| Topbanana's reports - Fix many things such as broken links due to plural discrepancies, and mis-punctuation. (out of date?) |
| Orphaned talk pages - Removed talk pages without corresponding articles. Administrators only. Finished as of 10 Sep 2005. |
| Wiki Syntax Project - Fix div tags, braces, and square brackets. Was current as of 20 Jan 2006. 100% done. One "unit" of work = 7 minutes. |
| Main - Inactive - Mini |
Reviving/repeating any of these is appreciated. :)
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[edit] Template:MiniAWFP
Hi. I've made Template:MiniAWFP as a companion to this template, for users (like me) who like the convenience of having the projects on our user pages, but dislike the bulk of the full-blown template. Please feel free to update as necessary! Cheers! -- BD2412 talk 02:08, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
- Yay, just what I was looking for! -- Beland 03:50, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Layout
The Nov 8 layout changes made the template render quite badly in my browser (Galeon). I'm not sure why the show/hide thing was introduced; this template is used to advertise these projects, so we don't want to hide them. If you need a smaller version for a personal page, the mini version is great. -- Beland 05:09, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
- I can see why the show/hide was introduced - the template is massive and I don't like it seeing it all day, it's annoying.--Commander Keane 08:53, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
- I'm happy with a show/hide button, since most users can just ignore it. But it should be checked to work in the most popular browsers; it is screwed up in Firefox and apparently others. — brighterorange (talk) 16:00, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
- I agree with Commander Keane and Brighterorange - keep it, if it can be made to work in all browsers. I could see it serving purposes that the Mini-AFWP doesn't (e.g., if you want to save the space, but also want the complete project descriptions at your fingertips). BD2412 T 16:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Superimposed on and visible through another table
A person reported a problem on the Wiki Syntax page, whereby in Firefox this table of active projects appears superimposed over the table of "completed pages" (i.e. text from both tables is visible, one on top of the other). (If you're on a high res, you may need to resize the browser window down 800x600 size in order to see the problem). Does someone with better HTML knowledge than me know of a way that this can be fixed? E.g. make one table appear above the other, and make the contents of the lower table not be visible? -- All the best, Nickj (t) 03:00, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
- This has been fixed (it was a problem with the other table, not with this list). -- All the best, Nickj (t) 03:04, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Expiry of listed items?
I would like to propose a possible addition to the rules governing projects listed here. The suggestion I have is that we consider allowing items to be removed from the list, if they have been listed for more than say 3 and a half months. So with the current list, this (I think) would mean that "User categorisation" and the items below it would be removed. For the record, I have nothing against those projects, indeed I think they're great; but my concern is that if items get listed indefinitely, it will dilute the central purpose of this list (at least as I see it) - which is to be a timely and current list of short-term projects (that run, need help, and then finish). There are many projects to improve the Wikipedia that run continuously (e.g. Wikipedia:Cleanup), but we don't list those here (and nor should we, in my opinion). Of course if these projects run again with an updated batch of data, then they could be relisted at the top of the list (as can all projects). Thoughts / comments / ideas / agreement / disagreement ? -- All the best, Nickj (t) 03:04, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
- Support. --Tagishsimon (talk)
How about something more radical? I would really love a list where entries are something like this:
"Wiki Syntax Project (created 3 Dec) ~30% Fix tables. Ten minutes.
Neglected articles (ongoing) Articles with few editors. Five minutes.
Linkrot (created 9 Sept) ~20% Fix/remove dead links. Five minutes.
Most visited articles (ongoing) Make them FA. Two hours."
In other words, an indication of the project's age and progress, and some indication of the size of one "unit" of work. r3m0t talk 22:40, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Remove these?
Can we remove the following:
- Wikipedia:User_categorisation - unimportant
- ...
r3m0t talk 22:40, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Most visited articles is not active
Looking at the history for Wikipedia:Most visited articles shows that while people have updated a few of the articls status, the actual list has not been updated at all since the first revision. In that time period wikipedia's traffic has increased by a very large amount (orders of magnitude?). That and the original list is itslef a bit questionable (as someone else has pointed out on the talk page). I think we should get a new update or delist this as an active project. Dalf | Talk 08:15, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
- Delisted. JesseW, the juggling janitor 09:49, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Projectboxes
It would be nice if someone knowledgable could add this and related boxes to Wikipedia:WikiProject Projectboxes/Catalogue. Zocky | picture popups 11:14, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your suggestion regarding Wikipedia:WikiProject_Projectboxes/Catalogue! When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make whatever changes you feel are needed. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the Edit this page link at the top. You don't even need to log in! (Although there are some reasons why you might like to…) The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome.
- ...rather verbose, maybe I should fix "sofixit" ;-) -- Omniplex 06:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Layout questions
For a discussion about the edit link see the talk page. For issues like align=right (floating), colour scheme, width, and line breaks see the talk page, it's more or less the same problem for various "sidebar" templates. -- Omniplex 06:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Community Portal#Todo
Could we put a link to the To do lists in this template somewhere? They compliment each other very well. --Quiddity 09:34, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
