Hak5Wiki Action Group
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This group is intended to act as a focusing point for, in the immediate term, the creation of a healthy wiki and a discussion platform between the Hak.5 Cast and the Community and, in the long term, as a centralized organization point for all hak5wiki-related improvement efforts.
Right now, the primary goal of this group is to assist with cleaning up the fallout of the quite hectic Wiki editing habits by putting together a strong framework (templates, categorization, etc) for moving forward with a well organized and useful hak5wiki, and bringing all of the wikipages up to the higher quality standards.
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[edit] Tasks
This is a summary of the group's current tasks. This list will be refined and expanded over the next few weeks as we determine the correct scope and focus, and pound out the details of this work.
- Get the word out.
- Bring in people to help with the group's projects and begin defining task forces with certain realms of responsibility.
[edit] Quality Raising
- Categorise the articles.
- Get the old articles up to speed for the wiki, style, format and syntax.
- The articles will hopefully be tagged as former articles during the migration (which will provide us with an auto-generated list similar to the way Wikipedia tags articles as belonging to a particular WikiProject), users should refer to this list for articles that need to be brought up to speed with mediawiki standards.
- Users should then remove the tag after bringing tagged articles up to speed.
- Update article content to be relevant for the latest Hak.5 episodes and releases.
[edit] Principles guiding the migration
- Page names should be short and to the point. The page name is a label, not a sentence. No more "Ultimate Media Server running on Windows". "Ultimate media server" (or similar) will do.
- Page names should also be capitalized like a sentence instead of a title ("Ultimate media server", not "Ultimate Media Server") and should contain spaces ("Ultimate media server", not "Ultimatemediaserver").
- The front page must remain clean. Each section will have 4 to 5 front-page links, with a category link (hidden behind "More topics") to all of the other pages in the category. We can use subcategories too, for sections that get cumbersome (personal opinion of cumbersome: more than 20 articles).
- Pages should be split or consolidated so that they are roughly 1 to 2 browser page-lengths long. There's nothing worse than a 3-sentence wiki-page, or a 20-page document.
- I think we should link to the content outside the wiki which someone browsing to the wiki is likely to want to find.
[edit] Templates
| Main article: HAG:Templates |
- Put together a set of templates to assist in the categorization, tagging and expansion of articles, and help maintain a uniform style and format across the wiki.
- Set up a template reference page.
- Categorize all templates.
[edit] Categorization
| Main article: HAG:Categorization |
- Begin defining clear categories for the organization of articles.
- Place articles into the correct categories.
- Put together an categorical index.
[edit] Front page
- Put together a framework for the front page that is pretty, easy to use, and easy to modify.
- Set down a plan for front page maintenance and updating. As it's the most visible part of the website, changes to the front page shouldn't be taken lightly.
[edit] Members
New members should simply add their name to the bottom of the list and jump right into the project.
- crashanddie 18:36, 13 September 2008 (CDT)
- Esqulax 01:35, 14 September 2008 (GMT)
- Snubs 20:05, 13 September 2008 (CDT)
- Openflame06 11:55, 16 September 2008 (AEST)
- DarkBlueBox 00:23, 8 October 2008 (GMT)