Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Vorlagen/Report
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This report gives a description of a project in German Wikipedia that was implemented in 2006 to clean its template namespace. It may help other Wikipedias to also improve quality of their templates and gives a general impression of how projects are effected in Wikipedia in a self-organized way.
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[Bearbeiten] Introduction
- what is Wikipedia?
- what are templates?
- what is a project in context of Wikipedia?
[Bearbeiten] Templates
- What's the problem with templates?
- little documentation
- rank growth (Wildwuchs)
- complex
- The discussion about Babel-usertemplates and how it was decided in German Wikipedia
- Template programming
[Bearbeiten] Wikiproject Templates
- Start
- Expanding
- Publication in Kurier
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[Bearbeiten] Practise
- Deleting pages in Wikipedia is a controversial topic. When cleaning the template namespace we decided on individual cases. Very old templates that were not used nor linked or documented anywhere where deleted without discussion. If the template was not that old and only used in discussions, for instance as example or suggestion, we asked the authors if they still needed it. If the usage was not good in our point of view, we tried to modify it or raised discussion whether to improve or delete it.
- some rejections of ideas, open discussion about all issues in the project
- When half of the templates were categorized we still discussed about how to name categories that only hold Templates and what general types of templates there are.
[Bearbeiten] The category tree
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[Bearbeiten] Tools
- Project page
- Special:unusedtemplates
- Special:Newpages
- uncategorizedtemplates
- Bot to categorize similar templates and to fix links to moved templates
[Bearbeiten] Evaluation
- Statistics
- examples of reduction of complexity
[Bearbeiten] Conclusion
- improvement of quality
- improvement of usability, reduction of complexity/chaos
- needs continuous attention (new templates)
- a good example how rules in Wikipedia evolve. We just said: "every template needs a category"
- just wrote some tools and were bold!
- and more wikipedians joined to help
- but it's a lot of work and you are not paid for ;-)
- further analysis if templates in other namespaces (esp. user-namespace) - this will probably raise more quarrel
