User:Xenwolf: Difference between revisions

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Hi there,
My nickname is Xenwolf (in adaption of an idea of Xenjacob).

I regularly look on the recent changes of the wiki.

I'm currently trying to improve linking and categories, especially to check for orphaned pages (pages with no ingoing links from other wiki pages). Sometimes I'm replacing "here" or "click" links by meaningful titles (typically the title of the target page) to make the link easy to repair if the linked page moves (Google helps a lot with titles). I'm trying to mark things that are to do, ask some questions, sometimes answer questions, help with wiki syntax when I'm able to do so (I also like to expand help pages for that purpose). Currently I'm quite active.

If you have any question, you may contact me on my user talk page (alias Discussion) or privately by using the Wiki mail function.

As I found out, Wikispaces tags were converted into MediaWiki categories by the transfer process. But some of the tags are not self-explanatory. Since tags are more light-weight than categories, we will probably reduce them.

Tools

Special:ActiveUsers (list of users who had some kind of activity within the last 30 days)
Special:RecentChanges • Special:Version • Special:Statistics • Orphaned pages •Special:LinkSearch • Special:SpecialPages
Extension:Regex Fun - MediaWiki
Extension:ParserFunctions - MediaWiki
Extension:SyntaxHighlight - MediaWiki
Chat --- sometimes I tried it (but very few people there)

Boilerplates

template:interwiki

{{interwiki
| de = 
| en = 
| es = 
| ja = 
}}

template:Infobox Interval

{{Infobox Interval
| Icon = 
| Ratio = {{subst:PAGENAME}}
| Monzo = 
| Cents = {{subst:cents|{{subst:PAGENAME}}|5}}
| Name = 
| Color name = 
| FJS name = 
| Sound = 
}}

subpages

Special Subpages

Some special subpage names are reserved and run (if they exist) for customizing the wiki for logged-in users, some of them are related to the actual skin being used. Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering gives you access to these pages (containing CSS, JavaScript only effective for the web interface you see).

per-user CSS is combined with site CSS
useful examples and suggestions can be found in: Wikipedia:User scripts - Wikipedia
Extension:Gadgets - MediaWiki -- alternative to user scripts

todo

rework comma tables

todo (selected):

add tools for Disambiguation (see Category:Disambiguation)
add a Template:Unsigned to this wiki in analogy to Wikipedia:Template:Unsigned
read about Extension:EmbedVideo - MediaWiki, the extension that shows a player for audio files
check out Spacing option between numbers and units, for example in 702 ¢ ^{Thin space - Wikipedia}
figuring out how this special character ↵ can be added to forced breaks in long lines without spaces
fix pages in Category:BrokenJS
replace inline navigation for Deutsch and 日本語 by interwiki
- Search for 日本語
- Search for Deutsch
Why is MediaWiki:Confirmaccount-newrequests shown on the recent-changes page in en.xen.wiki, but is not in de.xen.wiki and dev.xen.wiki?

testing

automatic cent calculation for interval pages using template:cents:

{{subst:cents|{{subst:PAGENAME}}|5}}

Links

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 == Tools ==
+* [[Special:ActiveUsers]] (list of users who had some kind of activity within the last 30 days)
 * [[Special:RecentChanges]] &bull; [[Special:Version]] &bull; [[Special:Statistics]] &bull; [[Special:LonelyPages|Orphaned pages]] &bull;[[Special:LinkSearch]] &bull; [[Special:SpecialPages]]
 * [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Regex_Fun Extension&#58;Regex Fun &#45; MediaWiki]