TASBot Wiki:Village pump

NEED MORE CONTENT in general (historians wanted). Fill out redlinks or add to existing articles (and category pages).

Categories are arguably a direct upgrade to articles in that pages can have multiple parent categories, and categories have a nice UI for navigating to subpages. The longer URI is why you shouldn't just use them for everything.

UH-OH ENCOUNTERED: Special:Search defaults to main (article) namespace only! (This is the "full search". I assume the quick search only looks for article titles, but it doesn't seem to be working.) --yoshi
- Pretty sure it's configurable since it searches 6 namespaces incl. the manual and extensions catalog on MediaWiki.org. --yoshi

Embrace hypertext—link to other pages (and also other sites, such as [[w:]] Wikipedia), but do also follow Wikipedia's linking guidelines: only link first mention, avoid adjacent links, don't over-link common concepts/entities (TASBot, in our case).

Use redirect shorthands wherever you feel they fit, with one exception: tagging pages with a category will not work if you use a redirect. You may still use the redirect when making a normal/inline link to the category page, such as [[:Category:SGDQ|]] ⟶ SGDQ.

On that note, when tagging pages for appearances with categories, put the year category first, then the event category if it exists (or will later i.e. a redlink).

Familiarise yourself with what templates exist. Hit up User:YoshiRulz if you want help making new ones.

TODOs for admins

There are 5 pages to delete
use dynamic content, or at least templates, for boxes on main page
- I can draft this, but the main page is edit-restricted for obvious reasons --yoshi
upload images? PortableInfobox doesn't seem to accept hotlinking images
populate TASBot_Wiki:Copyrights with a license (CC BY 2.0?)
consider adding {{#babel:}} template for user pages
fix quick search API
change full search to look in category namespace too

TODOs

~~finish moving event pages to Category namespace~~ on hold, see top
- GDQ (split and/or rename and/or merge w/ Category:Summer Games Done Quick)
- MAGFest (split and/or rename and/or merge w/ Category:Super MAGFest)
- MAGWest Go
infobox for individuals
- Done, but it doesn't render correctly when used in the main namespace (example)? This happens regardless of whether it's transcluded directly or via e.g. a User page. I think it may be the same issue as this... a thread with no replies... There's also this, which was closed as a duplicate of a seemingly unrelated issue, but maybe the suggested fix for the latter is worth a try. --yoshi
- consider adding fields for country/flag and for pronouns
  - ~~on that note, should look into magic words for pronouns. I think I saw ones that can conjugate by gender using dictionaries, so simple pronoun lookups should be possible.~~ looked into it (and ended up copying over the template) and it doesn't seem like it (the magic word) can be linked to an arbitrary table/list. the conjugation thing is a different magic word and isn't useful since we're English-only. --yoshi
    - ~~could always create dummy accounts for everyone...~~ would only need 3—User:DummyAccM/User:DummyAccF/User:DummyAccNB—in addition to a name/handle → gender lookup --yoshi
- could add email, but I'd like to have it deobfuscate on click (with JS) if it's going to be included, and with a personal site field it's kind of redundant --yoshi
- consider adding field for (programming) languages spoken
  - for natural languages, there's mw:Extension:Babel, and it may be possible to hack in programming languages as qxx or something --yoshi
infobox for appearances: date/time, location, run/presentation, link to prev/next of type, link to prev/next
consider redirecting (not sure how when #REDIRECT only allows local links) e.g. desync to TASVideos.org/Glossary#Desync
- - introduces chance for link-rot
  - + can leave notes for TASVideos editors
- - not everyone can add to that glossary
  - + yet
- counter-proposal: could instead make a Template:TASVideosG (for glossary) and use {{TASVideosG|term}} instead of [[term]]
  - + easy on a technical level
  - - no way to see valid link targets without visiting TASVideos
  - - same problems as above re: "delegating" content to TASVideos

Qs for dwango:

I take it the focus here is on history, so...
- is there any point advertising upcoming events on the main page?
  - CONFIRM (can't hurt; link to GitHub Project)
- how much technical information should be here vs on TASVideos?
  - we should put [technical info] on TASVideos. However, I have one pause here; there is a huge barrier to entry for TASVideos [wiki] at this time [...]
apart from Ambassadors, how should individuals be categorised?
- DWYW
  - pages can be in multiple categories, so I guess could just have one cat per role/specialty?
- to that end, a definition of "notability" for inclusion here would be helpful
  - anyone who was credited for any event/showcase