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These are '''things I am working on''', though I might work a lot slower with some than others.
These are '''things I am working on''', though I might work a lot slower with some than others.


== Individual pages ==
== Article/main namespace ==
* {{progressbar|80}} [[User:Johan G/Hardware Review: CH Products controls (Combatstick, throttle and pedals)|Hardware Review: CH Products controls (Combatstick, throttle and pedals)]] Needs images, copy editing and cutting down on the criticism on other manufacturers.
* {{progressbar|80}} [[User:Johan G/Hardware Review: CH Products controls (Combatstick, throttle and pedals)|Hardware Review: CH Products controls (Combatstick, throttle and pedals)]] Needs images, copy editing and cutting down on the criticism on other manufacturers.
* {{progressbar|60}} [[User:Johan G/Introduction to Low level VFR navigation|Introduction to Low level VFR navigation]]
* {{progressbar|60}} [[User:Johan G/Introduction to Low level VFR navigation|Introduction to Low level VFR navigation]]
* {{progressbar|60}} [[User:Johan G/Standard ICAO ATS messages and fields|Standard ICAO ATS messages and fields]]
* {{progressbar|60}} [[User:Johan G/Flightplan.xml|Flightplan.xml]] About the various xml flight plan formats
* {{progressbar|30}} [[User:Johan G/ICAO flight plans and flight plan messages|ICAO flight plans and flight plan messages]]
* {{progressbar|20}} [[User:Johan G/Synthesising sounds with Audacity|Synthesising sounds with Audacity]] I am a noob on this, but have some ideas I have tested that I could develop further and disseminate.
* {{progressbar|20}} [[User:Johan G/Synthesising sounds with Audacity|Synthesising sounds with Audacity]] I am a noob on this, but have some ideas I have tested that I could develop further and disseminate.
* {{progressbar|10}} [[User:Johan G/Flight computer|Flight computer]] I just can not believe there wasn't an article on this yet.  Will restart this some day.
* {{progressbar|10}} [[User:Johan G/Flight computer|Flight computer]] I just can not believe there wasn't an article on this yet.  Will restart this some day.
* {{pending}} Adding page on how to have parallel versions installed on Windows. See this post by clrCoda on the forum [http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=173877#p173877 Re: Installing more than one version of Flightgear] from Jan 2013.


== Help pages ==
=== Aircraft development articles ===
* {{progressbar|20}} [[User:Johan G/Help:Style guide|Help:Style guide]]. Early beginnings of a style guideWill probably in time, and with edits by many other authors, be useful to editors seeing {{tl|cleanup}} on one of "their" pages.  Need to be scrutinized by other as well.
I stumbled upon a stub named [[Creating an aircraft]] not too far ago, which I quickly expanded, just to find out that there already was a [[Howto:Make an aircraft]].
* {{pending}} [[User:Johan G/Help:Tutorial|Help:Tutorial]] Rewrite of Help:Tutorial (currently a redirect) to be about what a wiki is and what this wiki is about.
 
My article is now moved to [[User:Johan G/Howto:Create an aircraft]] pending to merging that with [[Howto:Make an aircraft]], which I have multiple issues with:
* Large parts are about improving an existing aircraft.  This should be split off to a separate article.
* Large parts are written like as if the authors was not aware of the more specific articles existing that covers a most of the subjects mentionedI feel that the article should only go into the very basics and provide pointer for the rest.  There is much enough ambiguity on this wiki as is.
 
I strongly believe the article structure of the wiki should have very little overlapping except what is needed for context, in essence DRY ({{wikipedia|Don't Repeat Yourself}})
 
* {{progressbar|0}} Merging [[User:Johan G/Howto:Create an aircraft]] with [[Howto:Make an aircraft]].
* {{progressbar|10}} Splitting up parts of [[Howto:Make an aircraft]] to [[User:Johan G/Howto:Improve an aircraft|Howto:Improve an aircraft]]
 
== Category namespace ==
=== Categorization of uncategorized pages ===
When used well, categories will make it easier to find related articles laterally in the category hierarchy, as well as find more general articles upwards.


== Categorisation ==
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2"  | Namespace
! rowspan="2"  | Namespace
! colspan="6" | Pages remaining  <!-- Remember to update this line when adding dates -->
! colspan="11" | Uncategorized pages 2014
! rowspan="2"  | Progress
! rowspan="2"  | Comments
! rowspan="2"  | Comments
|-
|-
! 29 Jan 2014 !! 12 Mar 2014 !! 27 Apr 2014 !! 1 May 2014 !! 4 Jun 2014 !!
! 29 Jan !! 12 Mar !! 27 Apr !! 1 May !! 4 Jun !! 8 Jul !!  1 Aug !!  1 Sep ||  1 Oct ||  1 Nov || 29 Nov
|-
|-
| [[Special:UncategorizedCategories|Category]]
| [[Special:UncategorizedCategories|Category]]
|             ||             ||           2 ||         2 ||           1 ||
|       ||       ||     2 ||     2 ||     1 ||     1 ||      1 ||      1 ||      1 ||      1 ||     1
| {{done}}
| Should only contain [[:Category:Root category]]
| Should only contain [[:Category:FlightGear wiki]]
|-
|-
| [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates|Template]]
| [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates|Template]]
|             ||           6 ||           6 ||         0 ||           0 ||
|       ||     6 ||     6 ||     0 ||     0 ||     0 ||      0 ||      0 ||      0 ||      0 ||      0
| {{done}}
|
|
|-
|-
| [[Special:UncategorizedPages|Main]]
| [[Special:UncategorizedPages|Main]]
|             ||         125 ||         128 ||       105 ||         110 ||
|       ||   125 ||   128 ||   105 ||   110 ||   113 ||    114 ||    117 ||    120 ||    122 ||    123
| {{progressbar|80}}
|
|-
| <span class="plainlinks">[http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special:UncategorizedFiles&limit=1000&offset=0 Files]</span>
|   865 ||        ||    865 ||    865 ||    824 ||    819 ||    819 ||    704 ||    689 ||  689 ||    689
|
|}
 
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2"  | Namespace
! colspan="10"  | Uncategorized pages 2015
! rowspan="2"  | Comments
|-
! 31 Jan !!  1 Mar !!  1 Apr !!  1 May !! 27 May !! 4 Jul !! 1 Aug !! 2 Sep !! 2 Oct !! 21 Oct
|-
| [[Special:UncategorizedCategories|Category]]
|      1 ||      1 ||      1 ||      ? ||      3 ||    3 ||    ? ||    6 ||    6 ||    6
| Should only contain [[:Category:Root category]]
|-
| [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates|Template]]
|      0 ||      0 ||      0 ||      ? ||      0 ||    1 ||    ? ||    1 ||    2 ||    2
|
|
|-
|-
| [[Special:UncategorizedFiles|Files]]
| [[Special:UncategorizedPages|Main]]
|         865 ||             ||         865 ||       865 ||         824 ||
|    144 ||    124 ||    127 ||      ? ||    126 ||  127 ||    ? ||  128 ||  130 ||  134
| {{progressbar|70}}
|
|
|-
| <span class="plainlinks">[http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special:UncategorizedFiles&limit=1000&offset=0 Files]</span>
|    679 ||    673 ||    665 ||      ? ||    623 ||  617 ||    ? ||  605 ||  605 ||  587
|
|}
 
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2"  | Namespace
! colspan="7"  | Uncategorized pages 2019  <!-- Remember to update colspan attribute  when adding dates -->
! rowspan="2"  | Progress
! rowspan="2"  | Comments
|-
!  3 May !! 23 Jun !! 12 Aug !!  1 Sep !!  1 Oct !! 10 Nov !!  8 Dec
|-
| [[Special:UncategorizedCategories|Category]]
|    29 ||      1 ||      1 ||      1 ||      1 ||      1 ||      1
| {{progressbar|100}}
| Of about 820 categories (22 May 2019). Should only contain [[:Category:Root category]]
|-
| [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates|Template]]
|    62 ||      0 ||      0 ||      0 ||      0 ||      0 ||      0
| {{progressbar|100}}
| Of about 1280 templates (22 May 2019)
|-
| <span class="plainlinks">[http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special:UncategorizedPages&limit=250&offset=0 Main]</span>
|    211 ||    210 ||    198 ||    150 ||    151 ||    150 ||    151
| {{progressbar|90}}
| Out of {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles in total.
|-
| <span class="plainlinks">[http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special:UncategorizedFiles&limit=1000&offset=0 File]</span>
|   603 ||   603 ||   595 ||   549 ||   535 ||   519 ||    501
| {{progressbar|90}}
| Out of {{NUMBEROFFILES}} files in total.
|}
|}


[http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special%3ACategoryTree&target=FlightGear+wiki&mode=pages&namespaces= '''Category tree''']
=== Adding structure to the categories ===
* Separating images and file from article categories, but linking together image and article categories.
* [[Help:Glossary#C|Diffusing]] screenshot categories into a structure mirroring the aircraft category structure, which in turn mirrors Wikipedia's aircraft category structure.
 
It would also be wonderful if new editors could somehow be educated to understand that categories are not tags.  Presumably they expect images to be easier to find if they add as many categories as possible (that still seem at least remotely related).
 
I would consider that better file names and file descriptions (as well as some linking) probably is more efficient.
 
=== Category tree tool shortcuts ===
* [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special:CategoryTree&target=Root_category&mode=0&hideprefix=20&showcount=1 Root category]
* [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special%3ACategoryTree&target=FlightGear%E2%80%8E&mode=categories&namespaces= Category:FlightGear]
* [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special%3ACategoryTree&target=Aircraft%E2%80%8E&mode=categories&namespaces= Category:Aircraft]
* [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special%3ACategoryTree&target=Images&mode=categories&namespaces= Category:Images]
* [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special%3ACategoryTree&target=FlightGear+screenshots&mode=categories&namespaces= Category:FlightGear screenshots]
 
=== Other useful links ===
* [[:Category:Media with locations]]
* [[Special:WantedCategories]]
 
== Template namespace ==
* {{done}} Unifying the style used in the documentation of the templates (except <span class="plainlinks">[http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=POTD%2F2012%2F08%2F10&to=POTD+protected%2F2008-11-27&namespace=10 POTD]</span>, [[:Category:Picture of the week|POTW]] and of course [[:Category:undocumented templates|undocumented]] templates).  See also <span class="plainlinks">[http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=10 List of all templates]</span>.


== Templates ==
* {{progressbar|70}} <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[User:Johan G/Table cell template|table cell]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> meta template in sandbox.
* {{progressbar|20}} Unifying the style in the documentation of the templates.  {{tl|!}} &ndash; {{tl|Eurocopter}} done.  See also [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=10 List of all templates].


=== Messagebox meta template(s) ===
=== Messagebox meta template(s) ===
* {{progressbar|90}} Playing with the looks of the messageboxes.  See [[User:Johan G/Messagebox style sandbox|Messagebox style sandbox]].
* {{progressbar|90}} Playing with the looks of the messageboxes.  See [[User:Johan G/Messagebox style sandbox|Messagebox style sandbox]].
* {{progressbar|70}} Documenting related templates to be used by a meta template.
* {{progressbar|70}} Documenting related templates to be used by a meta template.
* {{progressbar|30}} <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[User:Johan G/Messagebox|messagebox]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> meta template in sandbox
* {{progressbar|30}} <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[User:Johan G/Messagebox|messagebox]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> meta template in sandbox.


=== Documenting undocumented templates ===
=== Documenting undocumented templates ===
* {{progressbar|60}} [[:Category:Undocumented templates|Documenting templates]]
{| class="wikitable"
* {{progressbar|50}} '''?''' Categorise undocumented templates as such.
! rowspan="2"  | Pages
! colspan="1"  | 2019  <!-- Remember to update colspan attribute  when adding dates -->
! rowspan="2"  | Progress
! rowspan="2"  | Comments
|-
! 22 May
|-
! In the Template Namespace
|  1280
| -
| Number derived from [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=10 Special:AllPages]
|-
! Not trancsluding {{tl|Informative template}}
|    721
| {{progressbar|40}}
| Number derived from [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Informative_template&hideredirs=1&hidelinks=1&limit=1500 Special:WhatLinksHere] for {{tl|informative template}} only listing transclusions
|-
! In [[:Category:Undocumented templates]]
|    116
| {{progressbar|10}}
|
|}
 
== FlightGear wiki namespace ==
=== Policies ===
There is unfortunately a growing need for policies.  Like with categories I strongly believe that they should form a tree, with a general unspecific, ''very'' concise and more or less universally agreed on policy at the root.
 
As these will be used both as guidelines for users, as guidelines for users wanting help from administrators and as guidelines for administrators, there will need to be some form of consensus about them as well as a policy describing how to propose new policies, changes in existing policies and amendments to polices.
 
* {{progressbar|10}} [[User:Johan G/FlightGear wiki:Proposal for policy for proposing policies|FlightGear wiki:Proposal for policy for proposing policies]]
 
=== User essays ===
* {{progressbar|10}} [[User:Johan G/Essays/Essay:Our target audiences — how are they best served|Essay:Our target audiences — how are they best served]]


[[Category:User pages]]
[[Category:User pages]]

Revision as of 09:30, 8 December 2019

These are things I am working on, though I might work a lot slower with some than others.

Article/main namespace

Aircraft development articles

I stumbled upon a stub named Creating an aircraft not too far ago, which I quickly expanded, just to find out that there already was a Howto:Make an aircraft.

My article is now moved to User:Johan G/Howto:Create an aircraft pending to merging that with Howto:Make an aircraft, which I have multiple issues with:

  • Large parts are about improving an existing aircraft. This should be split off to a separate article.
  • Large parts are written like as if the authors was not aware of the more specific articles existing that covers a most of the subjects mentioned. I feel that the article should only go into the very basics and provide pointer for the rest. There is much enough ambiguity on this wiki as is.

I strongly believe the article structure of the wiki should have very little overlapping except what is needed for context, in essence DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself This is a link to a Wikipedia article)

Category namespace

Categorization of uncategorized pages

When used well, categories will make it easier to find related articles laterally in the category hierarchy, as well as find more general articles upwards.

Namespace Uncategorized pages 2014 Comments
29 Jan 12 Mar 27 Apr 1 May 4 Jun 8 Jul 1 Aug 1 Sep 1 Oct 1 Nov 29 Nov
Category 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Should only contain Category:Root category
Template 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Main 125 128 105 110 113 114 117 120 122 123
Files 865 865 865 824 819 819 704 689 689 689
Namespace Uncategorized pages 2015 Comments
31 Jan 1 Mar 1 Apr 1 May 27 May 4 Jul 1 Aug 2 Sep 2 Oct 21 Oct
Category 1 1 1 ? 3 3 ? 6 6 6 Should only contain Category:Root category
Template 0 0 0 ? 0 1 ? 1 2 2
Main 144 124 127 ? 126 127 ? 128 130 134
Files 679 673 665 ? 623 617 ? 605 605 587
Namespace Uncategorized pages 2019 Progress Comments
3 May 23 Jun 12 Aug 1 Sep 1 Oct 10 Nov 8 Dec
Category 29 1 1 1 1 1 1 100}% completed Of about 820 categories (22 May 2019). Should only contain Category:Root category
Template 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 100}% completed Of about 1280 templates (22 May 2019)
Main 211 210 198 150 151 150 151 90}% completed Out of 3,485 articles in total.
File 603 603 595 549 535 519 501 90}% completed Out of 8,445 files in total.

Adding structure to the categories

  • Separating images and file from article categories, but linking together image and article categories.
  • Diffusing screenshot categories into a structure mirroring the aircraft category structure, which in turn mirrors Wikipedia's aircraft category structure.

It would also be wonderful if new editors could somehow be educated to understand that categories are not tags. Presumably they expect images to be easier to find if they add as many categories as possible (that still seem at least remotely related).

I would consider that better file names and file descriptions (as well as some linking) probably is more efficient.

Category tree tool shortcuts

Other useful links

Template namespace

Messagebox meta template(s)

  • 90}% completed Playing with the looks of the messageboxes. See Messagebox style sandbox.
  • 70}% completed Documenting related templates to be used by a meta template.
  • 30}% completed {{messagebox}} meta template in sandbox.

Documenting undocumented templates

Pages 2019 Progress Comments
22 May
In the Template Namespace 1280 - Number derived from Special:AllPages
Not trancsluding {{Informative template}} 721 40}% completed Number derived from Special:WhatLinksHere for {{informative template}} only listing transclusions
In Category:Undocumented templates 116 10}% completed

FlightGear wiki namespace

Policies

There is unfortunately a growing need for policies. Like with categories I strongly believe that they should form a tree, with a general unspecific, very concise and more or less universally agreed on policy at the root.

As these will be used both as guidelines for users, as guidelines for users wanting help from administrators and as guidelines for administrators, there will need to be some form of consensus about them as well as a policy describing how to propose new policies, changes in existing policies and amendments to polices.

User essays