'''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 1. Correct misspellings 1. Remove spam text from pages. If page has nothing left, leave one blank space 1. Restore pages that have been replaced by spam or nonsense 1. Add or modify category pages 1. Add category references to pages without a category 1. Modify category references when they are misspelled, or not the correct wording (alas, some of the categories are singular, some are plural, and some have had names chosen that are not so obvious) 1. Fix broken formatting and links 1. At least one Wiki Gnome would like to see URL references like http://wiki.tcl.tk/1234567890 (that is, use of the page number) or http://mini.net/whatever/the/url/is/to/these/pages turned into [[''symbolic'' references]]. That makes it easier for someone who might have some alternate need for the data from the wiki to find the reference. 1. Correct outdated information (in other words, update information) 1. Start a new ''Ask, and it shall be given'' page. Update the info on all previous versions (post your question at: ...) . 1. Move questions and answers from the Ask page onto the appropriate page, after a few weeks have gone by. '''Appropriate''' means a page where the topic would typically be sought. If it is a question about a particular Tcl command, that might be the best spot. If it is a question about a Tcl extension, perhaps that's the best spot. If it is a question about the Wiki, then find a page there. The original intent, when I created the first of these pages, was that there would never need to be more than one of them... [LV] Non-traditional tasks 1. Okay, this is something that I ([LV]) have found fun to do (yes, fun... okay, so I'm weird. Nothing new about that... move along.) Grab the wikit file itself, extract the pages, and work on determining a) which pages do not have a category reference (there are over 3000 of these!), and b) which pages have no reference to them (there are at least 380 of these during mid March, 2007 which legitimately might deserve a reference somewhere). The first category are easy enough to fix - edit the page, and give it a category. We have tons to choose from, and if the page is unique, then creating a new category is relatively simple. The second category is for the '''orphan''' pages - in many cases, it is probably a page that is blank, either by accident, or by a misplaced square brace. In some cases, however, someone's contributed data but it never was referenced by any other page (or only was referenced on [New Pages] and someone decided to be ''helpful'' and delete older references). In those cases, it is 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... 1. Locate, and update, nearly all references to http://mini.net - that site is changing function or disappearing. So any references to files, pages, or images on that file need to be updated. For images, I've been told we can replace URLs of mini.net/files/ with tclerswiki.googlepages.com . 1. Locate, and update, [pages containing invalid UTF-8 sequences] - this is one of those pages for which I'll be able to do little, if anything 1. Locate any wiki pages refering to [pages renumbered on 12 june 2007] and update the old page references to the new page references. One cause of this has to do with references to wiki pages by number rather than page title... ---- [Category Tcler's Wiki]