Template talk:Wiki

page name redundancy and proposed solution

We have a redundancy, where the name of the WikiIndex page for each wiki, and that wikis name in the template, can be different. I propose the solution that's currently implimented at Template:Wiki Test where PAGENAME is used instead of wiki_name. I'm happy to make that change here, if there are no objections. Is there a potential downside I'm not seeing? Once we make the change to the template, we can then change the boilerplate. This will mean some unnecessary data for all wikis we have entered already, but future entries will be correct, and we can clean them out with a bot or over time, no rush as it doesn't affect anything. TedErnst | talk 13:05, 2 Mar 2006 (EST)

After talking with Ray, I went ahead and implimented this change. wiki_name no longer appears on the boilerplate and is no longer used to display the wikiname on any page using the wiki template. We can do the same for Wiki_list, or just let that template lie and pages be updated as they take the new template. TedErnst | talk 01:52, 4 Mar 2006 (EST)

hard code image to wiki_url?

This is great Ted!! Can it be done for the image?

You're talking about the image linking to the wiki url instead of to the wikiindex image page? That doesn't seem to be within the control of the template, but rather a mediawiki feature, hard-coded under the hood somewhere. John would be your man on this one, I'm afraid. TedErnst | talk 02:32, 4 Mar 2006 (EST)

Parameters

How about an ontolgy of this metadata - expressed in RDF it could be harvested from the wikis so people don't always have to update the pages at WikiIndex?

wiki_logo

URL of an image

wiki_URL

URL

wiki_recentchanges_URL

URL

wiki_wikinode_URL

URL

wiki_status

tag (Category:Wiki Status) - selected set

wiki_language

tag/ISO-code (Category:Wiki Language) - selected set

wiki_editmode

tag (Category:Wiki Edit Mode) - selected set

wiki_engine

tag (Category:Wiki Engine) - relatively open set

wiki_maintopic

tag (Category:Wiki Topic) - open

In MediaWiki it could be expored this way but also RDFa is possible. -- Nichtich 09:31, 22 August 2006 (EDT)

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...wouldn't a link to an about page and an author page be WAY more handier than a recent changes? --Smiddle 18:41, 26 August 2006 (EDT)

actually no, a link to RecentChanges shows someone immediately what is happening at the wiki. MarkDilley