[Noisebridge-discuss] wiki editing party report

Sun Sep 27 08:00:13 UTC 2009

   i'm a bit lost. how come on the top page, 
in the Info section, the link for The Space 
is redirected to Getting Here? Seems like it 
should go to a page about the space itself, 
how the space is divided, what's there to 
do.... 
   i tho't i'd found a page that has stuff 
about the space, but i can't find it again. 
   as to fixing things, simple edits are 
do-able, but there are various permissions 
levels that enable more capable features: 
how to discover the levels and corresponding 
features? 

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 17:35 -0700, Ani Niow wrote:
> Hey all. Yesterday evening a group of us took the wiki by storm,
> cleaned up a bunch of pages, de-orphaned others, consolidated related
> ones and added a few enhancements. Here's what we did and how you can
> help with the future state of the wiki.
> 
> 
> We nested together a few categories of pages that were related but not
> connected in any way, such as Membership
> (https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Membership) which has been expanded
> to include all things membership as evidenced by the table of contents
> on the right. Membership benefits have also been updated as we have
> discussed countless times about inconsistent policies on the wiki and
> in practice. 
> 
> 
> Leif added a feature that shows up on nested pages, such as Membership
> FAQ (https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Membership/FAQ) that links you
> back to the main page right below the title. In order to activate this
> feature you need to create a menu when you create/move a page. Things
> that are under Membership/*** will link back to Membership.
> 
> 
> In searching for things do do on the wiki I found this orphaned
> Infrastructure page that described several resources available to the
> people of Noisebridge, servers, shop areas, the darkroom, etc. I
> renamed it to Resources (https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Resources)
> and updated all the relevant info in pages that linked from it.
> There's a lot of stuff missing especially given we just moved, that
> we're going to need help with organising.
> 
> 
> Out of date data since the move has mostly been updated, the Getting
> Here page has been renamed simply Getting Here instead of Getting Here
> (2169). Many things that mentioned 83c have been either moved to 83c
> specific pages and labeled such or changed to 2169. We're going to
> need some help making some new stuff but more on that below. 
> 
> 
> Several other people throughout the night were adopting pages, moving
> things into categories and general organising of the wiki that needed
> to happen. Liz, Jessie, and other people whose names I don't remember
> typed away and took care of a lot of that. 
> 
> 
> Leif gave Rubin and myself wiki sysops so we can make other changes as
> needed. If you feel that we need a feature or want some wiki-fu only
> admins can do please let us know. Leif is planning on doing some
> upgrades to our wiki to bring it more up to date with security
> patches, plugins, the whole lot. Our current Mediawiki install is
> maintained by an Ubuntu LTS install on our server which is outdated
> compared to the latest version. Upgrading it will take some manual
> work which Leif has graciously offered to do in the very near future.
> This will allow us to use plugins such as a REAL CALENDAR
> ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Calendar_(Kenyu73) ) that
> we've been asking for since I don't remember when. No more Google
> calendar for us very soon. 
> 
> 
> Rubin changed the logo to reflect our latest design and is planning on
> some cosmetic upgrades. Coordinate with him if you'd like to be a part
> of that.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Things You Can Do To Help
> 
> 
> We did several hours of work last night on the wiki but there's a lot
> of stuff that needs to get taken care of. Here's a list of tasks the
> group as a whole can do.
> 
> 
> The Space
> (https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=The_Space&redirect=no)
> 
> 
> The original page has been moved to
> (https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/83C) for obvious reasons and the
> title turned into a redirect to Getting Here. This means we don't have
> a page describing our new space aside from on Moving
> (https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Moving/2169_Mission). I'm planning
> on going around and taking some photos of 2169 to help describe the
> space and if others can start adding stuff to The Space page
> describing 2169 that would be wonderful. You can start with...
> 
> 
> Resources (https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Resources)
> 
> 
> This page is orphaned because there is no page describing our new
> space yet that this would link to. I'm sure this will be remedied over
> time as we get 2169 more how we want it. Until then I'm sure there are
> resources that are not on that page and inaccurate information that
> can be fixed by people more knowledgeable about the subjects than we
> were.
> 
> 
> FIXME
> 
> 
> Doing a search for
> "fixme" (https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Special:Search&ns0=1&redirs=0&searchx=1&search=fixme&limit=500&offset=0) gives you a list of pages that we have marked as needing updates by people that are more in the know than we were. If you have better information than what's there please update it. If you're browsing the wiki and you see something that needs to get fixed but you don't know the proper information add "fixme" close to where you see the error and tell someone about it. Check the history and see who participated and ask them to update it.
> 
> 
> LULZ
> 
> 
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Zombie_Apocalypse_Preparedness
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/DIY_lobotomy
> 
> 
> Found a couple of these while we were editing away. Enjoy.
> 
> 
> It's a wiki!
> 
> 
> Remember all, it's a wiki! If you disagree with any changes that were
> made or want to expand upon other things then go for it! You all
> probably stopped reading several paragraphs ago in this long email but
> if you haven't thanks for reading and please make suggestions or
> better yet, change things the wiki itself if you feel there's anything
> to add.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -Ani
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