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Moved obsolete sections from the main page, added replies to explain why each is now obsolete

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== Details to fill out in articles ==

* Interval pages like [[3/2]]
** ''<Please write what may still be desired>''

* ''<Other kinds of pages>''
[[User:Arseniiv|Arseniiv]] ([[User talk:Arseniiv|talk]]) 17:43, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

: Regarding what may be desired in interval pages, see [[Template:Infobox Interval]]. I notice that the scope of this proposition is very broad, and I believe it would be preferable to plan for each "category of pages" in its own proposition, as separate projects. This will keep discussions much easier to follow. [[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 07:51, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

== Archiving outdated discussions ==
Discussion pages tend to become confusing over time. The sections at the beginning are often long since finished. This tendency is easy to observe, but hardly anyone knows how to archive outdated articles.

We probably need some templates to support archiving. Moving old sections to subpage(s) is not as hard, but a bit of automatic decoration/guidance/navigation would help people to do this.

Automated archiving would be nice, but not essential in the first place. [[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 17:33, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

: I created [[Template:Archive]]. Archive pages can be created by creating subpages, such as [[Xenharmonic Wiki:Things to do/Archive 1]]. As this is a continuous maintenance process, I think having this template is the remainder we need to make sure we keep archiving outdated discussions in the future. [[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 07:51, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

== Infobox for EDO pages ==

In EDO pages (see for example [[23edo]], [[74edo]], [[167edo]]), core information is currently still given in prose, which makes it difficult to get this information together. Adding another infobox template would help to present and manage the formal information.

At the moment, we tend to include of these core characteristics

* step count
* step size
* patent val

Join our discussion: [[Xenharmonic Wiki talk:Things to do #Infobox for EDO pages]]

[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 12:52, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

: Done, see [[Template:Infobox ET]]. [[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 07:51, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

== Categories of interval pages ==

There are lots of interval pages in the wiki, for example [[3/2]], [[8/7]], [[25/24]], [[11/8]]... We developed an info box that brings the core features together. Still open is the question which category name would fit best for all of them. We currently observe a seemingly random mix of
* [[:Category:Interval]]
* [[:Category:Ratio]]
* [[:Category:Interval ratio]]
* [[:Category:Just interval]]

At present, it appears that we will replace most of them with [[:Category:Rational intervals]]" in the future.

Please join our discussion in [[Xenharmonic Wiki talk:Things to do #Relations of various interval categories]]! Thanks 🙂

[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 21:15, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

: Done, see [[:Category:Rational intervals]]. [[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 07:51, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

== Proposal: Shorten editing titles ==

:'''''The proposed change is currently being evaluated. Please share your experiences on the [[Xenharmonic Wiki talk:Things to do #Shorten editing titles|discussion page]].'''''

When using tabbed browsing, long identical prefixes (like ''Editing '') in titles make it hard to differentiate tabs of wiki pages currently being edited.

{| class="wikitable"
! system message
! predefined text
! suggested text
|-
| [[MediaWiki:Editing]]
| Editing $1
| <code>✎ $1</code>
|-
| [[MediaWiki:Editingcomment]]
| Editing $1 (new section)
| <code>✎ $1 (new section)</code>
|-
| [[MediaWiki:Editingsection]]
| Editing $1 (section)
| <code>✎ $1 (section)</code>
|}

The icon, which is colored by itself (✎), appears in black and white (<tt>✎</tt>) within headings of editing views and in browser tabs.

What do you think about the proposed change?

Join the discussion at [[Xenharmonic Wiki talk:Things to do #Shorten editing titles]]

[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 14:49, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

: Done. [[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 07:51, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

== Naming articles ==

To reflect our current efforts, a ''#Naming articles'' section should be added to [[Xenharmonic Wiki:Conventions]]. Please review, rework, and/or [[Xenharmonic Wiki talk:Things to do#Naming articles|discuss]] following draft:

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Wiki pages should follow the usual English capitalization rules, except for the very first character, which is automatically capitalized by the wiki software. This means that words inside the title are written in lower case, except for proper names.

Currently, there is still a mixture of styles that has historical reasons: In the beginning, titles were started in WikiCase because the Wikispaces software used at that time automatically linked such words. Later, the configuration was adjusted so that links were only created if this was specified by appropriate markup. Here, the titles started to look like titles, but to a large extent also with the usual capitalization of all meaningful words for titles (book titles). Then came the switch to MediaWiki with new features that were only slowly adapted (redirects, categories, etc.). Meanwhile, we have moved on to making full use of the wiki software's support. Thus a) pages are always linked regardless of the upper and lower case of the first character (e.g. <code><nowiki>[[Cent]] == [[cent]]</nowiki></code> → [[Cent]] == [[cent]]) and b) characters that are appended after the link markup are included in the link label (e.g. <code><nowiki>[[cent]]s == [[cent|cents]]</nowiki></code> → [[cent]]s == [[cent|cents]]). This way, links can usually be embedded in the text without much effort.
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[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 22:12, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

: Done, see [[Xenharmonic Wiki:Article guidelines]]. [[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 07:51, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

== Odd harmonics table instead of prime harmonics for edos ==
Suggestion: use [[User:Inthar/Template:Harmonics in edo]] instead of [[Template:Primes in edo]].

This can be discussed in [[Xenharmonic Wiki talk: Things to do #Odd harmonics table instead of prime harmonics for edos]]. [[User:Inthar|Inthar]] ([[User talk:Inthar|talk]]) 19:40, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

: Done, see [[Template:Harmonics in equal]]. [[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 07:51, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

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