User:Johan G/Things I am working on
These are things I am working on, though I might work a lot slower with some than others.
Article/main namespace
Hardware Review: CH Products controls (Combatstick, throttle and pedals) Needs images.
Introduction to Low level VFR navigation
Synthesising sounds with Audacity I am a noob on this, but have some ideas I have tested that I could develop further and disseminate.
Flight computer I just can not believe there wasn't an article on this yet. Will restart this some day.
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 
)
Merging User:Johan G/Howto:Create an aircraft with Howto:Make an aircraft.- Splitting up parts of Howto:Make an aircraft to 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.
| Namespace | Uncategorized pages 2021 | Progress | Comments | ||
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| 3 Jan | 1 Feb | 1 Mar | |||
| Category | 2 | 1 | 2 |
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Of about 820 categories (22 May 2019). Should only contain Category:Root category |
| Template | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
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Of about 1285 templates (12 March 2020) |
| Main | 107 | 110 | 112 |
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Out of 3,460 articles in total. |
| File | 472 | 472 | 475 |
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Out of 8,481 files in total. |
| Namespace | Uncategorized pages 2020 | Comments | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Mar | 1 Apr | 3 May | 1 Aug | 3 Sep | 2 Oct | 2 Nov | 1 Dec | ||
| Category | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Should only contain Category:Root category |
| Template | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Main | 159 | 131 | 121 | 127 | 108 | 101 | 104 | 107 | |
| File | 500 | 500 | 490 | 491 | 487 | 477 | 472 | 472 | |
| Namespace | Uncategorized pages 2019 | Comments | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May | 23 Jun | 12 Aug | 1 Sep | 1 Oct | 10 Nov | 8 Dec | ||
| Category | 29 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Of about 820 categories (22 May 2019). Should only contain Category:Root category |
| Template | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Of about 1280 templates (22 May 2019) |
| Main | 211 | 210 | 198 | 150 | 151 | 150 | 151 | |
| File | 603 | 603 | 595 | 549 | 535 | 519 | 501 | |
| Namespace | Uncategorized pages 2015 | Comments | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Jan | 1 Mar | 1 Apr | 27 May | 4 Jul | 1 Aug | 2 Sep | 2 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 | |
| File | 679 | 673 | 665 | 623 | 617 | 605 | 605 | 587 | |
| 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 | ||
| File | 865 | 865 | 865 | 824 | 819 | 819 | 704 | 689 | 689 | 689 | ||
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
Done Unifying the style used in the documentation of the templates (except POTD, POTW and of course undocumented templates). See also List of all templates.
{{table cell}} meta template in sandbox.
Messagebox meta template(s)
- Playing with the looks of the messageboxes. See Messagebox style sandbox.
- Documenting related templates to be used by a meta template.
{{messagebox}} meta template in sandbox.
Documenting undocumented templates
| Pages | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Progress | Comments | |
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| 22 May | 12 Mar | 1 Feb | 1 Mar | |||
| In the Template Namespace | 1280 | 1285 | 1321 | 1324 | - | Number derived from Special:AllPages |
| Trancsluding {{Informative template}} | 559 | 570 | 559 | 615 | 
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Number derived from Special:WhatLinksHere for {{informative template}}, listing only transclusions |
| In Category:Undocumented templates | 116 | 119 | 123 | 123 |
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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.