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==Cite== | ==Cite== | ||
Have you considered installing | Have you considered installing {{Mw|Extension:Cite}}? It comes in pretty handy when one is documenting events or otherwise providing links. Thanks for all your hard work on WikiIndex, by the way. It's a quite useful project. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 02:47, 13 September 2012 (PDT) | ||
:Hi - yes, WikiIndex is very useful, and interesting - I never new just how many wikis were/are out there!!! | :Hi - yes, WikiIndex is very useful, and interesting - I never new just how many wikis were/are out there!!! | ||
:Your comment on the Cite extension should really be addressed to either [[MarkDilley]] (who is the site owner), or to [[:Category talk:Active administrators of this wiki]]; as I'm not a 'crat (just a mere sysop :p ). Personally though, I'm not sure of the importance of the Cite extension - here at WikiIndex, we basically just catalogue other wikis. As yet, we don't need to provide any verifiability here on WikiIndex, we leave the verifiability issue down to the actual wikis themselves. Can you think of any specific instances here on WikiIndex where using footnotes/references would be useful? Thanks for your interesting thoughts though, and keep up your help on here, best regards, [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 03:01, 13 September 2012 (PDT) | :Your comment on the Cite extension should really be addressed to either [[MarkDilley]] (who is the site owner), or to [[:Category talk:Active administrators of this wiki]]; as I'm not a 'crat (just a mere sysop :p ). Personally though, I'm not sure of the importance of the Cite extension - here at WikiIndex, we basically just catalogue other wikis. As yet, we don't need to provide any verifiability here on WikiIndex, we leave the verifiability issue down to the actual wikis themselves. Can you think of any specific instances here on WikiIndex where using footnotes/references would be useful? Thanks for your interesting thoughts though, and keep up your help on here, best regards, [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 03:01, 13 September 2012 (PDT) | ||
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==E-mail notification subject== | ==E-mail notification subject== | ||
Hi Hoof Hearted, <br> [ | Hi Hoof Hearted, <br> [https://WikiIndex.org/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Enotif_subject&curid=7762&diff=140157&oldid=140133 I reverted your change]. I hope you will agree with my reasons. Best regards, [[Wolf Peuker|Wolf]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 04:30, 17 September 2012 (PDT) | ||
==Archive== | ==Archive== | ||
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==Canonical interwiki prefixes== | ==Canonical interwiki prefixes== | ||
Here's | Here's {{Mw|Canonical interwiki prefixes|an essay}} I wrote concerning standardization of interwiki prefixes. Development of {{Mw|InterwikiMap|InterwikiMap}} is proceeding briskly; after it passes code review at WMF's Git repository, I'll start deploying it more widely. Meanwhile, I want to create a standardized list of interwiki prefixes for propagation across the wikisphere. I'm hoping that the proper prefix will be pretty obvious for most of those 20,000 wikis, but I haven't yet delved deeply into it because some data is currently processing. Maybe later today I'll be able to take a closer look. | ||
Right now, the InterwikiMap extension only propagates and retrieves prefixes and URLs. I think it should also handle other site information — basically, everything we can get our hands on that might be useful. I started a list at | Right now, the InterwikiMap extension only propagates and retrieves prefixes and URLs. I think it should also handle other site information — basically, everything we can get our hands on that might be useful. I started a list at {{Mw|Extension:InterwikiMap/Data}}. This extension will extend the API to both make more data available (e.g. for use by bots that could help update Wikiindex pages with new statistics, if you want to allow those on your site) and to retrieve such data from other wikis). A wiki could also create a custom filter saying that it wants to, say, only include prefixes that either are of a wikifactor 10 or better, or are on the whitelist. This could be rather powerful when all the functionality has been developed, and make some pretty useful improvements to Wikiindex possible. Please let me know if you have some ideas for functionality that should go in the extension. Thanks. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 10:15, 20 November 2012 (PST) | ||
==LGBT History Project== | ==LGBT History Project== | ||
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==Data== | ==Data== | ||
Hi Hoof, I started creating a wikitable of all of WikiIndex's data: http://meta.inclumedia.org/wiki/User:Nathan_Larson/Wikitable My intent was to then gather even more data, by polling all of those wikis' APIs for their | Hi Hoof, I started creating a wikitable of all of WikiIndex's data: http://meta.inclumedia.org/wiki/User:Nathan_Larson/Wikitable My intent was to then gather even more data, by polling all of those wikis' APIs for their {{Mw|API:Meta|site info}}, and add that to the table as well. However, as the size of the table increases, it becomes unmanageable for MediaWiki. I think the software just wasn't designed to handle tables (or pages) of that size. | ||
Therefore, what I will do is create a clone version of WikiIndex that allows large amounts of data to be accessed in the way that MediaWiki's designers intended, which was through templates and categories. So, I will significantly revise [[Template:Wiki]] to include the stuff that I need. And then you guys can look at it and see what aspects of that, if any, you want to incorporate into your site. | Therefore, what I will do is create a clone version of WikiIndex that allows large amounts of data to be accessed in the way that MediaWiki's designers intended, which was through templates and categories. So, I will significantly revise [[Template:Wiki]] to include the stuff that I need. And then you guys can look at it and see what aspects of that, if any, you want to incorporate into your site. | ||
There is quite a lot of data out there, if you want it. My suggestion would be to use collapsible sections in the wiki template, like what you see in the | There is quite a lot of data out there, if you want it. My suggestion would be to use collapsible sections in the wiki template, like what you see in the {{Mw|Template:Extension}} template that is used in pages like {{Mw|Extension:InterwikiMap}} or {{Mw|Extension:FlaggedRevs}}. Notice how you can expand a lengthy list of parameters, hooks, etc. Each of those hook (hook1, hook2, etc.) also puts the page in the appropriate category. We could do the same with languages, for those wikis that have more than one language, as well as other kinds of data. There is a lot of potential to make it easier for people to find wikis meeting various criteria that they're interested in. | ||
Using bots, it shouldn't be too hard to maintain, either. I'm going to create the prototype and put all the bot code out there along with instructions on how to use it. That way, if I get hit by a bus, you still have it. Or we could just skip it and move straight to working on interwiki prefixes. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 22:43, 24 November 2012 (PST) | Using bots, it shouldn't be too hard to maintain, either. I'm going to create the prototype and put all the bot code out there along with instructions on how to use it. That way, if I get hit by a bus, you still have it. Or we could just skip it and move straight to working on interwiki prefixes. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 22:43, 24 November 2012 (PST) | ||
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::*http://en.rationalwikiwikiwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia — Conservapedia search bar | ::*http://en.rationalwikiwikiwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia — Conservapedia search bar | ||
::*http://en.rationalwikiwikiwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki — RationalWiki search bar | ::*http://en.rationalwikiwikiwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki — RationalWiki search bar | ||
::Notice how it works. There is [http://en.rationalwikiwikiwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Wiki&action=edit this slightly modified template] which has a modified InputBox tag near the bottom. Notice one of the parameters is <code>urlparameter=search URL</code>. So, on pages like RationalWiki where the Wiki template is transcluded, you put, e.g., <code>search URL=http://rationalwiki.org/w/</code> and it knows where to go when it's searching. If you leave out the search URL, then it doesn't include the search bar. Feel free to play around with it, edit it, etc. for testing purposes. Just remember, you have to purge the page in order to get any changes to take effect. What do you think? I think it could be handy for users. It works by means of [[User:Leucosticte/InputBox.classes.php|these]] [[User:Leucosticte/InputBox.hooks.php|two]] hacked files from | ::Notice how it works. There is [http://en.rationalwikiwikiwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Wiki&action=edit this slightly modified template] which has a modified InputBox tag near the bottom. Notice one of the parameters is <code>urlparameter=search URL</code>. So, on pages like RationalWiki where the Wiki template is transcluded, you put, e.g., <code>search URL=http://rationalwiki.org/w/</code> and it knows where to go when it's searching. If you leave out the search URL, then it doesn't include the search bar. Feel free to play around with it, edit it, etc. for testing purposes. Just remember, you have to purge the page in order to get any changes to take effect. What do you think? I think it could be handy for users. It works by means of [[User:Leucosticte/InputBox.classes.php|these]] [[User:Leucosticte/InputBox.hooks.php|two]] hacked files from {{Mw|Extension:InputBox}}. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 14:39, 29 November 2012 (PST) | ||
==[[WikiMANNia]]== | ==[[WikiMANNia]]== | ||