Tasks to be done by people interested in gnoming on this wiki. Please feel free to add your own tasks.
LV: Please note that these are not things that you should expect other people to take care of for you. The wiki is an interactive collaboration tool - please fix these types of things when you notice them!
Traditional role
Non-traditional tasks
useful to add a reference in an appropriate place (or even to create an appropriate place), just so that people have a chance of finding the information.
CMcC thinks that whoever's doing all the 'application' pages ought to take a deep breath and be a bit more protective of the title namespace.
Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk -Software Development/IDEs- could as easily be called Software Development/IDE Applications. The 'in Tcl and Tcl/Tk' is completely redundant - if these applications are not in Tcl or Tcl/Tk they are noise and shouldn't be here. The '-' bracketing is just pointless.
The -Index- page idea is also (in my opinion) completely discredited. Please stop using it.
I intend to repair this damage wholesale. Look to the page detritus for a summary of what I think needs to be gone, soon.
LV: That naming was not created by one of the regular gnomes. And in fact, I would drop the Software Development from the titles... -wait, I think I already did when I created the IDE page.
LV There comes a time when an original page grows so large that it takes longer to load, and discussions, etc. can overshadow the original intended content. So I could see discussing a spin off page containing relevant branch information.
JM will reformating pages will be a valid wikignoming task?
I mean, not changing content neither deleting, just reformating so it makes more sense on how the contributions are organized and to improve the sequence of information
LV Note that the job of wikignome is one generally of self-nomination. However, personally, I will consider anyone who performs, or thinks about performing, any of the above as, at the very least, honorary wikignomes... Anyways, if you read over the page, what you will probably see taking shape is a set of chores being done by someone who loves keeping the wiki running smoothly. So I would say, to JM, that sure, reformatting pages is a valid wikignoming task. Why not?
LV 2007 June 19: I am starting a list of what I consider higher priority tasks that anyone wanting to do some wikignoming to consider. I won't be able to complete all these tasks - in fact, some of them I won't be able to start...
Lars H, 2007-07-28: It is probably a good idea to occationally check the usefulness of the Wiki viewed as an "ordinary website". For example:
I'm a bit worried that we gnomes sometimes overestimate the accessibility of the wiki, because we've seen so much of its contents when they were new, on Recent Changes or (the now defunct) WikiDiff. New users don't have that experience to compensate for the occational lack of structure.
LV 2007 July 30 Good point. Also note that wikignomes can feel free to discuss things on the TclersWiki mailing list.
LV 2009 Feb 09 One problem with the ordinary website view of the site, now, is that the graphical front page has MANY links which lead to placeholder pages. I'm uncertain whether anyone has thought about taking on the project of transforming some of those pages into useful pages.
EMJ 2009 Feb 09 This prompted me to go and look at a few of them - I think they are not sure whether they are a Category page (by use of backrefs) or a static index. In the light of events a while ago, I am not sure we really want the latter. As an experiment, I have added a references link to the corresponding category to one of them.
LV The specific pages I had in mind say things like:
This is a placeholder for a page referred from the new Table of Contents and Wiki front page. It will soon be replaced by real content, aimed at helping newcomers to Tcl and Tk. Guidelines for TOC pages * keep short - less than a screen page * no discussion please
EMJ Indeed they do. Nonetheless some of them also have static lists of pages below that, all of them have a < <backrefs>> line which does have a parallel function to the category pages, some of them (e.g. Engineering) have the same name as a category, others (e.g. Medical) almost match a category name. Transforming them is a great idea, I just wanted to say why I am worried about how it will be done (and no, I haven't worked out my preferred answer yet).
LV 2009 Feb 09 Also, note that as of Jan 27, 2009, there were 10371 pages which had consequential content (that is, which had at least one character of content), 206 pages which do not reference any other wiki page (which means that's the minimum number of pages which have no category) and 330 pages which no other page referenced. That means that a user would only find that page if they happened to search for the right term.
I can provide more details if someone wants to email me.