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== Wiki Topic template ==
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Mark, I like this idea.  It took me a while to understand it.  Now that I do, I like it.  There's a problem here that we have to fix.  Remember when we developed the Wiki Engine template?  We couldn't just use the Wiki template because it made sub-categories of All, Vibrant, etc.  The same is true here.  And we decided at that time to use a soft-redirect from the main namespace page to the category page so that we could put the categories there (all, vibrant, etc).  I think we need to do the same here.  I'm going to give it a shot, okay?  [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 12:53, 11 June 2006 (EDT)
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: Okay, I went ahead and made the new template.  I'm not sure what to do about the Wikimedia Foundation category, however.  Any thoughts? [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 13:07, 11 June 2006 (EDT)
==Wiki Topic template==
Mark, I like this idea.  It took me a while to understand it.  Now that I do, I like it.  There's a problem here that we have to fix.  Remember when we developed the [[Template:Wiki engine|Wiki engine template]]?  We couldn't just use the Wiki template because it made sub-categories of [[:Category:All|All]], [[:Category:Vibrant|Vibrant]], etc.  The same is true here.  And we decided at that time to use a soft-redirect from the main namespace page to the category page so that we could put the categories there (all, vibrant, etc).  I think we need to do the same here.  I'm going to give it a shot, okay?  [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 12:53, 11 June 2006 (EDT)
: Okay, I went ahead and made the new template.  I'm not sure what to do about the [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation category]], however.  Any thoughts? [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 13:07, 11 June 2006 (EDT)


== Want a challenge? ==
==Want a challenge?==
I think it's a little bit messy, if you want a challenge, you can do this to tidy up: I.e. on the English page write <nowiki>[[Category:Wikipedia|en]]</nowiki> and so on for all the languages. Somebody up? &ndash; [[User:Smiddle|Smiddle]] / <small>[[User talk:Smiddle|T]]&middot;[[Special:Contributions/Smiddle|C]]&middot;[[Special:Search/Smiddle|S]]&middot;[[Special:Allpages/Smiddle|A]]</small> 16:29, 21 October 2006 (EDT)
 
:Just to clarify, you would prefer to alphabetize by the ISO language code rather than the pagename? That sounds reasonable, but I worry that the casual observer won't understand how we've organized the category. After all, the language codes do not appear in the pagename. Of course, I can't read Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, or Thai, so it's not easy to tell which wiki is which in this category anyway. --[[User:MarvelZuvembie|MarvelZuvembie]] 15:18, 4 December 2008 (EST)
 
==PlaceOpedia?==
I wanted to look at WikiIndex's page about Wikipedia and noticed [[:Category:Wikipedia]] has external link to PlaceOpedia.  Should WikiIndex have a page about PlaceOpedia?  I was going to start an article, but wasn't sure what shape the article should take (PlaceOpedia doesn't seem like a wiki, so I'm guessing [[template:wiki]] should not be used on it. --[[User:EarthFurst|EarthFurst]] 16:07, 4 May 2007 (PDT)
:PlaceOpedia hasn't been updated for over four years - its' last update was August 2008.  Should we delete its external link from the template?  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • <sub>[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]</sub> • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 15:21, 6 December 2012 (PST)


I think it's a little bit messy, if you want a challenge, you can do this to tidy up: I.e. on the English page write <nowiki>[[Category:Wikipedia|en]]</nowiki> and so on for all the languages. Somebody up? &ndash; [[User:Smiddle|Smiddle]] / <small>[[User talk:Smiddle|T]]&middot;[[Special:Contributions/Smiddle|C]]&middot;[[Special:Search/Smiddle|S]]&middot;[[Special:Allpages/Smiddle|A]]</small> 16:29, 21 October 2006 (EDT)
==Promising==
Hey. At Wikipedia I was once a welcoming and promising [[user]] but first Marcus-E, then Metros and finally Alison teamed up and stole my chances of being famous. ([[Special:Contributions/76.247.222.101|76.247.222.101]] 01:20, 7 March 2008 (EST))
 
==Is Wikipedia too big?==
This question is currently posed in the description of this category? Is this something we really want to ask? I'm new here, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the point of WikiIndex was to list wikis, not to comment on them. --[[User:MarvelZuvembie|MarvelZuvembie]] 15:10, 4 December 2008 (EST)
 
: Is there a better place to compare and contrast wiki with each other, than WikiIndex?
: I agree that it seems odd to pose this question here, on a "category" page -- shouldn't most of the text on this page be on some normal "article" page (perhaps [[English Wikipedia]]), rather than on this category page? --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 22:22, 4 December 2008 (EST)
 
::Well, I suppose we could. There doesn't seem to be a "[[:Category:NPOV|neutral point of view]]" policy for WikiIndex. However, it seems to me that this would lead to more [[edit war]]s like have occurred with the article for [[Conservapedia]]. If we do want to provide subjective commentary, however, I would put it on the talk page, a "/" subpage, or in a separate section of the article. I definitely don't think it belongs here in the category definition. --[[User:MarvelZuvembie|MarvelZuvembie]] 16:16, 5 December 2008 (EST)


== PlaceOpedia? ==
==Proposed language renaming==
OK, this was sorta raised above at [[#Want a challenge?]].  I would like to propose we rename all the [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] articles, so that their article page name here on WikiIndex is changed to the english translation of their native language name.  I think we ought to follow the naming conventions which Wikipedia uses; the article page name is the english translation, and the 'infobox' shows the english translation, then the native language name, and/or, if need be, the name shown in actual script.  [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]] also follows this model, as shown in the tables listed {{WMF-Meta|List of Wikipedias#All Wikipedias ordered by number of articles|here}}.


I wanted to look at WikiIndex's page about Wikipedia and noticed Category:Wikipedia has external link to PlaceOpedia. Should WikiIndex have a page about PlaceOpedia?  I was going to start an article, but wasn't sure what shape the article should take (PlaceOpedia doesn't seem like a wiki, so I'm guessing [[template:wiki]] should not be used on it. --[[User:EarthFurst|EarthFurst]] 16:07, 4 May 2007 (PDT)
A current example ripe for a rename:
*Current article page name: [[עברית ויקיפדיה]]
*Proposed article page name: [[Hebrew Wikipedia]]
**And corrected infobox name display:  
Hebrew Wikipedia
עברית ויקיפדיה
This would then result in a much clearer, easier to understand listing in the [[:Category:Wikipedia]] - will be organised alphabetically by english language name - because I'm sure that a listing in the category of 'עברית ויקיפדיה' would probably be ignored by most, on the basis of not understanding it.


Hey. At Wikipedia I was once a welcoming and promising user but first Marcus-E, then Metros and finally Alison teamed up and stole my chances of being famous.([[User:76.247.222.101|76.247.222.101]] 01:20, 7 March 2008 (EST))
For the [[Template:Wikipedia]], we should continue to organise it by the relevant ISO abbreviation, but display both english and native language for the wikilink - "Hebrew Wikipedia/עברית ויקיפדיה". [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 03:38, 3 October 2012 (PDT)