Xenharmonic Wiki:Things to do

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Hello there! This page is a place for various projects and minute things to do on this wiki. Please be welcome to help with any of them you like!

If you think something essential was forgotten and should be here, don’t be shy to add a new section here! If you don’t know if a project would be interesting to others, write at the talk page and let’s decide it together.

When the technical help is needed, please aid volunteers with a tool or two for being sure the details are easy to make right. For example, a template, a converter etc..

See also Conventions, Wikifuture, Migration FAQ as well as Category:Todo and its subcategories.

Details to fill out in articles

  • Interval pages like 3/2
    • <Please write what may still be desired>
  • <Other kinds of pages>

Archiving outdated discussions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 This tendency is easy to observe, but hardly anyone knows how to archive outdated articles.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.

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

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

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

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

Proposal: Shorten editing titles

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

system message predefined text suggested text
MediaWiki:Editingcomment Editing $1 (new section) ✎ $1 (new section)
MediaWiki:Editing Editing $1 ✎ $1
MediaWiki:Editingsection Editing $1 (section) ✎ $1 (section)

What do you think about the proposed change?