User:Johan G/Wiki improvement

This a Wiki improvement to do list and links to subpages etc. that I feel will add to the documentation, structure and ease of use of the wiki.

If you have comments please add them to the talk page, sign and summarise them. If you start a new section, pleas add it to the bottom.

The help namespace

To do

• Rewriting Help:Contents into a very brief introduction and tutorial
• Look through Help:Archiving a talk page and see if I can document {{archives}}
• Maybe extend Help:Copyright tags or maybe create a list like Help:List of messagebox templates
• Look through Help:Translate
• Look through Help:Upload

Done

• Templates:
  • Read in more on templates Done

And learned a lot I did! :-D —Johan G (Talk | contribs) 16:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

• Start a template editing help page Done, sort of

Rewrote and extended the existing one. —Johan G (Talk | contribs) 16:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

• Consider renaming Help:Tutorial or extending Help:Editing probably both Done

Deleted the very tiny Help:Editing, moved Help:Tutorial over there, extended it considerably and moved it to Help:Formatting. —Johan G (Talk | contribs) 21:26, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

• Have a look at Help:Categories Done

Rewritten and extended. —Johan G (Talk | contribs) 21:26, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Not done

• Templates:

• Split Help:Templates into Not done

• a general help page with also basic use of templates,
• a page with samples of all the templates and
• a page with more advanced editing help.

That page will only serve as an introduction, for the rest links to MediaWiki is provided. —Johan G (Talk | contribs) 16:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Templates

To do

• Documenting templates, later on with a documentation template

Maybe I should create a documentation template and "accessories" before starting to document templates. Need to learn a few things before that though. -- Johan G 07:06, 11 February 2012 (EST)

More to it than I thought. ;-) -- Johan G 13:59, 12 February 2012 (EST)

Gijs created {{informative template}} in favour of a more complex one in February 2012. —Johan G (Talk | contribs) 16:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

• Archive templates.

Gijs created templates for this in March 2012, though he did not document them... —Johan G (Talk | contribs) 16:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

• Create a navigation box for the help pages.
• Nasal tutorials:
  • Read through, or at least skim through the nasal pages.
  • Create a nasal tutorial page template with input Hooray.
  • Create nasal tutorial info/navbox with input from Hooray.

Work in progress

• Experiments with a template {{User:Johan G/Template:documentation}} template. Similar to, but enormously much simpler than the one on the English Wikipedia. Stalled
  • {{User:Johan G/test}} page with /doc subpage to test it against.
• Have a look at the help pages.

Done

• Categorising uncategorised templates. Done
• {{thumbs up}} , {{thumbs down}} , {{cross}} and {{tick}} templates. Done
• {{done}} and {{not done}} templates Done
• {{red light}} , {{amber light}} and {{green light}} Done
• {{Dual control ready}} Done
• {{Bombable ready}} Done

Not done

• Template:tl Template link template. I think this one will be used a lot. Since it will be used in running text I have opted for a short name. Already exists. Should have known to search for it before adding it.
• {{aerotow ready}} template for aerotows. Not needed

This is done through {{Infobox Aircraft}} instead. —Johan G (Talk | contribs) 16:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

• {{aerotowable ready}} template for aerotow compatible soaring planes. Not needed

This is done through {{Infobox Aircraft}} instead. —Johan G (Talk | contribs) 16:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Useful resources

• Mediawiki:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
• Mediawiki:Help:Magic_words
• Mediawiki:Help:Links
• CSS2 Colours
• HTML DIV and SPAN tags