WikiIndex talk:Community portal/Archive 4

upgrade

John, your upgrade plan looks fantastic! peace, TedErnst | talk 14:44, 4 May 2006 (EDT)

Wow, pulling in another page is fab!

I love that code on NewPerson and NewWiki (might move to WikiIndex namespace), I was just thinking about something like that today!! Great work John!!! MarkDilley

Need now to review the front page and the existing add and edit links for conflicting instructions. You guys may also want to look at the New Person page and the NewWiki page to standardize what is pulled into each new page. I did the best I could but I was just winging it. May want to have a new template to suck into each new page. John Stanton 18:47, 10 May 2006 (EDT)

The French version needs updating also, my French is very poor :-) John Stanton 18:50, 10 May 2006 (EDT)

The Template:NewWiki boilerplate seems to be old now, it's miscategorized, we should delete it. --Peu | talk 15:51, 9 November 2006 (EST)

I think that's actually the "New Wiki" boilerplate. New wikis are added all the time. I've puzzled over the fact that we have two boilerplates that seem the same, but can't make the no-includes and include-onlys work out to combine them. TedErnst | talk 02:49, 10 November 2006 (EST)

I disagree. You have to use subst: or copy the contents of Template:Wiki Boilerplate --Peu | talk 07:54, 10 November 2006 (EST)

I don't understand what you're disagreeing with. If you can make the add wiki button function work properly without an additional copy of the boilderplate, please go ahead and do so. This is not a philosophical debate. There simply is a practical reason why we're using it now because we don't know any better. If you know a better way, please help! TedErnst | talk 10:58, 10 November 2006 (EST)

Aha now I see the "Add Wiki"-Button. I used only this two ways to add a Wikis or Wiki-Data

• Search for it, if no found, use the red Link and place URL and {{Add}}
• Search for it, if no found, use the red Link and paste a Wiki Boilerplate copy and type in data

--Peu | talk 11:17, 12 November 2006 (EST)

Wikis with same name

Is there any policy on how to handle multiple wikis with the same name? When trying to add Programming Wiki, I found Programming Wiki, which is a Wikia. This must have happened before, so how is that normally handled?

Also, is this the right place to ask such questions? Ahy1 19:09, 13 August 2006 (EDT)

Hello Arild,

We do not have a good way to communicate on this wiki. For those of us who read it daily, it works fine, but for weekly or occasional folks it is a wee bit confusing. Any suggestions would help. Second, we have been using disambiguation pages for multiple wiki with the same name. We also have tried placing two templates on the same page, but no decisions have been made. Will try to find you examples. Best, MarkDilley

I've started a page for your Wikka Wakka programming wiki here:Programming Wiki (hypexr.org) TedErnst | talk 15:05, 14 August 2006 (EDT)

It is not my wiki. I just found it and tried to add it to WikiIndex. Now I know what to do next time I run in to multiple wikis with the same name. Thanks. Ahy1 15:18, 14 August 2006 (EDT)

merge request

I fail to see any significant difference between Category:Languages and Category:Language. Could we merge those pages somehow? Preferably under the singular form, to avoid the WikiNamePluralProblem. --DavidCary 22:36, 3 September 2006 (EDT)

Please David, go ahead and make this wiki better!! Best, MarkDilley

OK, I made Category:Languages redirect to Category:Language. Then I obsessively removed all references to Category:Languages. Anything else I should do about that? While I was doing that, I noticed Category:constructed languages and Category:ConLang. Should I merge those as well? Under which name? Or perhaps Category:constructed language, since I have this anti-plural vendetta? --DavidCary 10:21, 24 September 2006 (EDT)

category name

There are several wiki that talk *about* wiki is emphatically on-topic. It's a kind of meta-discussion. The original wiki is *not* such a wiki -- people at the original wiki try to push such conversations to Meatball ( Wiki:WikiOnWiki ).

I want to tag those wiki (but not the original wiki) with an appropriate category tag.

What should I name this category? [ [category:wiki on wiki] ]? [ [category:metadiscussion] ]? [ [category:self-analysis] ]? Something else?

--DavidCary 10:21, 24 September 2006 (EDT)

broken template

The wiki template (used on most pages of the wikiindex) is broken.

Since it effects many pages, should we move the discussion here to Talk:Community Portal, or leave the discussion to where we started it at Talk:PlanetMath?

Today I see that someone (?) fixed the "RecentChanges" part of the wiki template, but now the "wiki_wikinode_URL =" part of the template is broken. For example,

• Visual -- there is a valid-looking wikinode URL passed as a parameter to the template, but it doesn't get displayed in the normal page view.
• Hooze -- has no wikinode (yet).

--DavidCary 12:20, 3 October 2006 (EDT)

User:Smiddle, Sean Fennel and I have all had our hands in this template, both breaking and trying to fix it. For the time being, I've simply reverted it to the last copy that we know was working properly. I'd guess User:Smiddle will give it another try at some point. Thanks for helping to sluth it out, David! TedErnst | talk 12:30, 3 October 2006 (EDT)

Categorising by licence

It's a surprising ommission, but from what I can tell you aren't categorising sites by licence. Any thoughts on doing that? --Kingboyk 14:02, 27 October 2006 (EDT)

This is a community generated site, so if you'd like to work on categorizing by license, please feel warmly welcomed to do so. TedErnst | talk 16:56, 27 October 2006 (EDT)

cooperative research

Is http://cooperativeresearch.org/ a wiki ?

It seems like it, but I'd ask them just to make sure. — User:Sean Fennel@ 02:35, 26 November 2006 (EST)