User:Maffblaster/Propositions

Here I have listed improvement propositions I believe will improve the over all look and feel of the Wiki. Some of these ideas may eventually get posted on the Discussions article, but for now these ideas will stay here. If a proposition is accepted and the work required for the change has been done I will cross it off this list.

More in-line templates for in-paragraph styles
I believe it would be useful to have in-line templates (like the template) for describing items of interest within paragraphs without breaking up the paragraphs. The following templates would be great:

File template
Update the File template to be in-line and include more metadata information:

Article renaming
This discussion currently is ongoing on the suggestions page. Some of these articles would be better suited to have "Guide" as the sub-article.

Articles with "Configuration" in their titles
GNOME/Configuration → GNOME/Guide - Done! A redirect has been created.

Xorg/Configuration → Xorg/Guide - Done! A redirect has been created.

Articles with "HOWTO" in their titles
Bugzilla_HOWTO → Bugzilla/Guide - Done! A redirect has been created. The main site needs text updated to "Bugzilla guide".

Conky/HOWTO → Conky/Guide - Done! A redirect has been created.

Initramfs/HOWTO → Initramfs/Guide - Done! A redirect has not been created.

Hardened/HOWTO_locate_and_fix_textrels → Hardened/Textrels Guide - Done! A redirect has been created.

LiveUSB/HOWTO → LiveUSB/Guide - Done! A redirect has been created.

USB/HOWTO → USB/Guide - Done! A redirect has been created.

Localization/HOWTO → Localization/Guide - Done! A redirect has been created.

Nagios/HOWTO → Nagios/Guide - Done! A redirect has been created.

Openbox/HOWTO → Openbox/Guide - Done! A redirect has been created.

Project:Translation/Translation_HOWTO → Project:Translation/Guide - Done! A redirect has been created.

Samba4 Migrating/HOWTO → Thinking about renaming this one during migration...

Samba_AD_Centralized_authentication/HOWTO - Removed from the wiki. Nothing linked here and the page was empty.

Centralized authentication with Samba AD /HOWTO → It seems like this article needs a rename...

Xfce/HOWTO → Xfce/Guide - Done! A redirect has been created.

Zsh/HOWTO → Zsh/Guide - Done! A redirect has been created.

Tip template
After a discussion on IRC with a3li, I will create a another message box for a  MessageBox.

I really appreciated the themes in the older GuideXML format. The notes were green instead of blue there, and I miss the old color.

Test container
Maybe some new templates could look something like this in span for:

IRC template
It would be nice to have an IRC template that would format IRC channels uniquely: