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CommentStreams are indexed by search engines. For example, this was the second result when I searched for "gentoo wiki open discussions" on Google.
I am aware that things on this wiki take time, since it's run by volunteers and the staff have busy lives; this shouldn't be seen as an attempt to rush things. With that being said, I do think it's worth mentioning a few currently unmentioned benefits of a wiki software update:
Improvements to <syntaxhighlight>[edit]
The current version of Extension:SyntaxHighlight doesn't have a dedicated language for wikitext. The best we currently have is
trac-wiki, which seems to only highlight two things (CommentStreams breaks the highlighting, so I can't show it here):Newer versions of the extension bring:
lang="mediawiki"A working visual editor[edit]
See Project_Talk:Wiki#Roadmap:_Updating_MediaWiki_will_fix_the_visual_editor.
I know of at least one more thing, but it has slipped my mind. I will update this list as I come across things.
Open discussions on this page seem to be stored on pages with hashes for names, such as CommentStreams:6d590a057f848f6ff6ab436b812c58b5.
Their sorting at Category:Open discussions is messed up.
You should probably discourage the use of
{{Talk|open}}on this page, but allow discussions to be closed with{{Talk|closed}}.Project:Wiki#Open_discussion_discovery_improvements
I propose the following subcategories of Category:Open discussions. I've created the categories and the templates; I just need approval to add more pages to them:
!should be a vertical bar){{Talk}}{{Talk!good first discussion}}{{Talk!help wanted}}{{Talk!waiting}}{{Talk!solved}}Contributors can prioritize new discussions (Open discussions). These discussions should be fixed or moved to another category as soon as they are seen.
New editors have some easy work to do (Good first discussions).
Discussions waiting for admins (Solved discussions) or replies from their authors (Discussions on hold) are kept separate from other discussions, reducing noise.
Open discussions will be more manageable considering Open discussions is currently two and a half pages long.
The buttons to access my profile, edit a page, or view its history are hidden on mobile. I contribute whenever I have free time, but I don't want to whip out my 19" laptop to edit when I'm in the doctor's waiting room or on the toilet.
This issue is also present when using side-by-side windows at 1080p.
I know there are already three different menus at the top on mobile, but maybe you could hide all toolbars behind one button?
I believe we have had a long-standing policy of disallowing user avatars, as stated on the file upload page. I was wondering if anyone knows why this was put in place, and if there is any reason to continue with this rule? I'm about to delete yet another avatar that has recently been uploaded, and to be honest it almost seams a little mean xD.
Hi, Wiki Team.
In the context of a network isolation preparation project which will offer a rsync or torrent download for the people interested to have a compilation of essential free software components, I found that the Gentoo wiki may be a very important resource along with the already downloaded Gentoo mirror.
I thought that since scrapping your entire website may raise a few eyebrowns to ask first to iterate over the entire wiki's articles.
I want to limit the scrapper to 5 simultaneous request at a time and I am (if I am granted permission.) going to use the Mojo::UserAgent Perl CPAN library.
The content to be downloaded is the source and name of every single article not in the User: namespace of the wiki, no multimedia content will be downloaded, no images and no video.
I would want first permission to do this and then I would like to ask for guidance to avoid to cause any problem, I read the FAQs about the privacy concerns which will be avoided cleaning any personal data and avoiding the User: namespace, but if any other but exists I would want to hear about it to avoid any problems that may arise.
I will develop the scrapper by myself, I am not going to use any existent tool to do it.
Regards, PerlDownloader.
The "featured documents" link in the documentation menu at the top of pages just links to a virtual-duplicate of that menu on the main page. I think it used to link to a documentation index that we don't have anymore.
It just seems confusing to have that entry now, can we remove it?
Thanks -- Ris (talk) 20:04, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
We were discussing with Jeffery Gazso (JGaz) on IRC about providing an appropriate icon for the {{InfoBox wiki}} template. Hope I'm not misrepresenting things, but I think what came out of it is that there isn't anything really ideal currently available, but updating FontAwsome might provide some better options.
Just to indicate that I have filed a bug #893256 about this. If there is anyone who could help out with updating this, or has more info, could you please get in touch there ?
TIA -- Ris (talk) 06:56, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
Some templates do not seem to be getting listed in the categories to which they belong.
{{PortageNavbox}} and {{RootNavbox}} are for example in Category:Navboxes, but that category page has no corresponding members listed at all. {{Archived}} is similarly in Category:Maintenance templates but does not appear there. These categories do appear at the bottom of the template pages. These categories are added to "includeonly" sections of the templates doc page - in just the same way as in templates for which this works, like {{Dated}}.
Am I missing something ? Thanks in advance to anyone that may be able to help.
I'm having an issue where if I try to save a page containing certain content, the page will not save. Pressing the save button on a page containing the problematic content goes to a blank page, save for the site header and footer, with no error message. The whole content prior to pressing the save button is lost.
I've tried in "private mode" in case it could be a browser configuration issue.
Here are two separate snippets which prevent saving a page: https://dpaste.com/BLHEEMZ34 .
Thanks in advance to anyone who might have a clue as to what is happening.
I realize I'm new to this wiki and so this is sort of a bold request, but I'm going to ask anyway. I'd really like to see Labeled Section Transclusion support added to Gentoo's wiki. It's a fairly standard wiki extension that enables a lot of very useful features for a project like this one. In a nutshell:
The Labeled Section Transclusion mediawiki extension documentation is here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion
An observation on the (sensible) recommendation to write new wiki articles as User: pages first, and then move them where they belong once they're sorted. It appears that the page is already old when it now appears in its final location, so it doesn't get listed in "Recently added pages", nor on "Fresh documentation" on the Gentoo home page. At least, that's my assumption; my latest magnum opus was missed (not complaining, just pointing out that the system may not work how people might be assuming.)
(Copied from the Gentoo forums, where I first posted this.)
Hi, dark theme is important for many users because of sensitive eyes, working in a low light condition, and for battery saving. All modern browsers support this property https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme
Even without JavaScript, in pure CSS, you can override some CSS variable if user prefer it.
some translations are outdated.
Original language - even for untranslated articles - is English. Translated articles - even the English ( /en ) versions - are updated only after mark for translation. Is there no way to autosync the /en with the basic versions?
Example:
The page contains non-functioning statements for handling and installation of stage3 tarballs.
Example:
The German version won't work at all, because option 'j' makes tar to work only with bzip archives. But current stage3 tarballs are 'xz' archives.
I tried to change the statements on the german Wiki page, but I can't. Which rights do I need? Translator permission? Or does 'translator permission' work only for text, but not for code?
Has anyone noticed that, since a couple of days ago, the Special:RecentChanges does not actually show all changes? For some reason it misses some. Article revision history pages and user contribution pages seem to be complete.
On the forums we have a report button. I've noticed a massive number of sockpuppet accounts being created in the last few weeks (https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers) and some of them are starting to show activity.
Minor, but 'gentoo-wiki.com' doesn't seem to exist anymore but is shown whenever a page is edited. It is just the stock godaddy parked page. Remove it from the notice?
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! • Do not copy articles from other Wikis (including gentoo-wiki.com)!
You are welcome to share your ideas about wiki translation.
On the Gentoo Wiki main page there's a link to a random YouTube videos with the following description: "Christmas is coming a little early this year for the wiki!". Can we remove it please? There's plenty of Gentoo users who don't celebrate or don't like Christmas, for many reasons. Religious holidays are off-topic on this wiki.
So the first time I tried this it said I needed to log in first and wouldn't take my comment. It worked after editing (and canceling) the Dissussion page, not sure why.
It would be nice to have links to relavent wiki pages from the packages.gentoo.org pages. It would make it easier to navagate around.