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Wiki: enhancing pending changes management
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:55 am
by JML
On the Wiki there's a few
Templates to suggest articles changes and make those proposals stand out in the targeted articles. But there's no way I know to get a list of those proposals, and thus be able to review them.
What I suggest, if you agree, is I add a category to those templates, create the category pages and link the latter to the
Editor:To Do's page.
The templates list is:
Re: Wiki: enhancing pending changes management
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 6:14 am
by JML
Done, there:
Editor:To Do
Re: Wiki: enhancing pending changes management
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 2:04 pm
by Azhrei
Actually, it looks like you can visit the Template page itself (such as Template:Deprecated) and then click the "What links here" on the left-hand side of the window. That does a search and brings up a list of all pages that link to the template. When I tested it the search results included the word "inclusion" which I'm guessing means it wasn't "linked to" per se, but included (as templates are).
Re: Wiki: enhancing pending changes management
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:57 am
by JML
You're right Azhrei. I overlooked the "What links here" on the templates page, also I knew of it a few months ago.
Here, I think the point is that the existence of a way of doing something is not enough if that's the only way and it's awkward. This must have been the reason why I forgot about it.
Let me explain:
- To get one list this way you must:
- Know you can get it from the template's page,
- Go to this page,
- Ask for the list.
- Now if you want an overview of all kinds of changes that have been asked for, you must:
- Go to the Special Pages,
- Ask for Categories,
- In the categories list, ask for the Templates category,
- Sort out from this list the relevant templates,
- Go on each template to get the list of articles using it.
- However, the list you get this way is just a plain, single column, unsorted list! I wouldn't call it user-friendly
Now, looking for wiki edition instructions and rules, I found this
Editor:To Do page. It was nearly empty and unused for years but I thought having a sole entry point to ask for articles changes was still a good idea.
No one was using it because:
- You must be aware the page exists,
- Once you've done the job, using a template to suggest a change, you're not inclined to do it a second time by reporting it on the To Do page.
Adding the relevant templates to categories:
- Summarising is automatic,
- You've got it all in one place,
- Category presentation is user-friendlier,
- You can easily add or delete templates from the summary,
- This shouldn't break anything in the wiki.
Is there something I got wrong?