CZ:Wishlist

This page is meant to collect ideas on how to make CZ better, both in a fundamental or incremental way, with a focus on practical rather than theoretical improvements. We need an overview here, so please do not use more than about 50 words per field and link to other pages (on the forum, or in the CZ or user namespaces) if further information is necessary.

Please sort by priority (from 5=crucial to 1=nice to have to 0=neutral to -1=counterproductive), and if a problem was solved, move it to a similar table at the bottom of this page.

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Problem

Priority

Solution

Possible trial solution

Comments

Contact person

Date filed

Status

No established relationship with external organizations

5

Potential partners

Trial Partnership

Talk Page

Dan Nessett

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description missing

The Healing Arts Workgroup currently allows advocates of fringe positions to act as editors.

4

merge it with the Health Sciences Workgroup

none, though in principle, one could just merge the respective categories of the type Category:Healing Arts Content and Category:Health Sciences Content

Forum thread

please add your name here, Daniel Mietchen

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description missing

WP credit often vanishes

4

include in Metadata

This would also allow other sources to be credited properly

Peter Schmitt, Daniel Mietchen

20:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

no policy on installing extensions

4

draft one

ask Greg

Forum thread

Daniel Mietchen

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description missing

Some search engines display our disclaimer rather than useful page summaries, thus keeping visitors away

4

display the definition on the cluster's main page rather than on the talk page

demo

Forum thread

Daniel Mietchen

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description missing

Obtrusive requests to edit subpages

3

restrict to logged-in users, if possible

Peter Schmitt

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description missing

much of our best content is hidden to occasional visitors, and CZ:Article of the Week / CZ:New Draft of the Week require more energy than we seem to have on a permanent basis

3

Display the introductory parts of approved articles on the CZ:Welcome Page by means of transclusion and random selection (as already practices for CZ:Quotes.

CZ:Article of the Week / CZ:New Draft of the Week as well as CZ:Quotes, all of which have been in operation for a while

Forum thread

Daniel Mietchen

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description missing

Technical approval mechanics: Can it be simplified?

3

Can branches of the revision control be used?

Peter Schmitt

20:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Is copy and paste indeed the best method?

no policy on bots and scripts

3

draft one

document all your bot and script runs; bots using non-PWB scripts must operate with categories that allow for undo

Forum thread

Daniel Mietchen

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description missing

No coherent guidance on Citations, References, and Bibliographies on CZ, and content overlap with External links

3

Solutions

Trials

Talk Page / Forum thread on merging Bibliography and External Links subpages

Dan Nessett, Daniel Mietchen

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description missing

Special:Upload allows too few file types

3

change it

no demo needed

Forum thread

Daniel Mietchen

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description complete

No easy way to compare current approved with current draft version

2

extend diff (if possible)

workaround Only if approved version has not been changed independently!: (0) Add &diff=cur to the url of the approved revision of the draft. If that is too complicated, you can get there in the following three steps too: (1) Go to an approved article's Approval subpage, (2) Follow the link to the latest approved version, (3) The "diff" link after "Current revision" gives you the difference, and its content will update automatically when new edits to the draft have been made

Current possibility: Paste approved version into draft, use "view changes" //Has to be included into {{Approval}} by adding &diff=cur to the url of the approved revision of the draft, along with a brief statement that this is the difference.

Peter Schmitt

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description missing

Further information not linked from bottom of page

2

changing {{Subpages}}

a demo demo2

Forum thread

John Stephenson, Daniel Mietchen

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description missing

Printable version contains unneeded material (frame,links)

2

change layout and content

Peter Schmitt

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description missing

Content of frame/header/footer: Can it be better organized?

2

review, evaluate, improve

includes some of the other topics

Peter Schmitt

22:48, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

No templates for numbered equations

2

write them up

A HTML workaround can be seen at Sturm-Liouville theory, discussed here

So much HTML code here on wiki is error-prone

Daniel Mietchen

15:45, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Problem description complete

The title of subpages is displayed with an " > ", which is an unnecessary burden for copy/pasting page titles while editing

1

Change it to "/" in the MediaWiki settings

none

Comments or Forum thread

Daniel Mietchen

11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before

Problem description complete

Problem

Priority

Solution

demo/ trial/ workaround

Comments or Forum thread

contact person

replace with five tildes

Problem description missing

Done

Problem	Priority	Solution	Possible trial solution	Comments	Contact person	Status
Confusing message on Lemma pages	1	change wording on Lemma pages only		Forum thread	Daniel Mietchen	Solved