[Web] [Development] New Qt Wiki Now Available

[Kojo Tero]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sze Howe Koh [mailto:szehowe.koh at gmail.com]
> Sent: 28. helmikuuta 2015 4:43
> To: Kojo Tero
> Cc: development at qt-project.org; web at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] New Qt Wiki Now Available
> 
> On 27 February 2015 at 21:04, Kojo Tero <tero.kojo at theqtcompany.com>
> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Sze Howe Koh [mailto:szehowe.koh at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: 27. helmikuuta 2015 14:12
> >> To: Kojo Tero
> >> Cc: Qt Project; development at qt-project.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Development] New Qt Wiki Now Available
> >>
> >> On 26 February 2015 at 23:05, Kojo Tero <tero.kojo at theqtcompany.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > We just opened the new Qt Wiki at http://wiki.qt.io
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > You can find the details in the blog post:
> >> >
> >> > http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/02/26/new-qt-wiki-now-available/
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > In short, it’s a mediawiki instance, you use Qt Account to log in
> >> > for editing,
> >> >
> >> > and the content has been migrated from the old wiki.
> >> >
> >> > And as a the content is imported, it needs cleaning up. Please help
> >> > us out in going through the content and fixing it.
> >>
> >> I notice there's an "Updated Pages" page to track cleanup progress:
> >> https://wiki.qt.io/index.php?title=Updated_pages
> >>
> >> May I suggest doing the other way round? Apply a "cleanup required"
> >> tag to every page, and have people remove the tag after cleanup. That
> >> way, people who want to help with the cleanup can quickly see where
> >> to direct their efforts.
> >>
> >> Something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cleanup , tied
> >> to a Tracking Category:
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_pages_needing_cleanup
> >
> > Keeping track on the individual page level does make sense, but I would
> like to see what pages we actually use too. Going through the import made
> me wonder whether a lot of the pages really are used at all or are the visits
> random.
> >
> > I have to familiarize myself more with the maintenance tool arsenal
> mediawiki provides. There probably are tools to add the cleanup needed-tag
> to everything in a simple manner.
> 
> I was planning to write a small bot that iterates through all pages to fix regex-
> able formatting issues. Would that interfere with your data-gathering?

No, honestly I see March as a settling down period.
I'll mail you directly, so we can see what needs to be done.
I really appreciate the help.

> I've added some simple templates to facilitate cleanup tags. Feel free to get a
> web dev to polish them:
> * https://wiki.qt.io/index.php?title=Template:Ambox
> * https://wiki.qt.io/index.php?title=Template:Cleanup
> 
> To set up the tag, simply add the following line to the pages (a different
> 'reason' can be given, if desired):
> 
>     {{Cleanup | reason=Automated import from ExpressionEngine}}
> 
> Then, those pages will appear in
> https://wiki.qt.io/index.php?title=Category:Articles_needing_cleanup.
> We should add this page to http://qt-project.org/contribute/ for potential
> contributors to find.
> 
> I've never used MediaWiki maintenance scripts before, but I know how to
> use the lower-level HTTP API to iterate through every page (excluding those
> in https://wiki.qt.io/index.php?title=Updated_pages ) to add the tag. Shall I
> do that?

That sounds good, just need to change the guidance after that. 

Tero 

> 
> Regards,
> Sze-Howe