User talk:Ris/Template:Review

Point of this template?
Gentoo Wiki does not have editors or anyone to "claim" an article. For works in progress, Template:WIP already exists. For to do items, Template:InfoBox todo exists.

If this gets moved to the Template namespace, I'll have to greatly neuter it. --Grknight (talk) 18:31, 2 August 2021 (UTC)


 * I understand. To be honest, that's some relief: I'm not enjoying trying to get this working xD. Thanks for the heads up before I spent my evening wrestling MediaWiki !! I wouldn't have moved anything to the Template workspace without asking.


 * I asked on IRC, but I don't often get an answer (not complaining - I don't know how people manage to survive with all the work they seem to do), so I was just going to try it out. Help:Editing_pages : this is what I've been working from these past weeks, pending feedback. As I've mentioned, I appreciate the corrections: in the absence of whole swaths of edits getting reverted, I'm supposing what I add is probably *passable* :).


 * The motivation for this template was that I'm planning on doing edits to a set of articles and I worry that people could translate things that I plan on reworking (sometimes heavily), and I thought it would be a shame to potentially waste good work. I realize now that such a system is probably not needed. I promise I'll read more docs and figure things out, but translation seems foreboding on MediaWiki, I've been putting it off...


 * The idea was less to have people "claim" articles than to provide some indication of article quality. The text was not thought out, I just wanted to see if I could get it working technically.


 * This is what I asked on IRC:
 * " I'm planning on some far reaching edits on quite a few articles over the next few months (!= promising, but I hope to). I want to concentrate on things I see as most important to users (core, meta, portage, openrc, +documentation [more links to docs on web, Wikipedia, man pages...], etc.). I see that recently more translations are coming in and I'm wondering if I should warn people that I plan on modifying some articles (ie a box at bottom of page) ? [It] seems a shame to let people work on translations and then change the source...
 * Rather than spreading any effort over many articles as I have been doing, I could concentrate on one or two articles at a time and then flag them as "ready for translation", if what I bring up could indeed be a problem...
 * Perhaps at this time, the only page I've been working on that might be somewhere near what I'm hoping to do is this one : wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Man_page (still needs work)"


 * I have added writing a reStructuredText wiki with proper, versioned, translation to my list of projects to dream about, since I saw this: weblate.org xD.


 * Btw, I think the main thing I've seen discussed on IRC is that people miss you since the servers changed ;).


 * Thanks, all the best. Kyoreln (talk) 19:48, 2 August 2021 (UTC)