Trains:Station Cafe (ToDo list)

This page is a ToDo List for the whole of Train Spotting World. It is intended to be used for tasks related to the maintenance, administration and development of the Wiki as a whole.

This ToDo list is NOT intended for listing changes needed to specific article pages, user pages or Workforce pages (etc). For these, either enter a suitable comment on the related Talk Page, or apply one of the Category:Attention needed templates templates to highlight the problem.

• Enter new tasks in the appropriate subsection, or create new subsections as appropriate
• Some of the tasks will require sysop priveliges to complete, these should be marked [ADMIN].
• Completed tasks should be moved to the 'Completed Tasks' section at the end, and dated. (At some stage in the future, we'll have to work out an archiving/clean-up procedure!)
• Admins are requested to add this page to their watchlist, to be able to take action as necessary.
• Large/complex tasks should be identified in the 'Active Tasks' section while being worked on; smaller tasks may be moved directly from 'Required' to 'Completed', if there is no liklihood of conflicts.

Required Tasks

Tasks that have been identified, but not yet started.

ToDo list

• Identify current tasks/activity in list
• Add relevant Special Pages

Ongoing Tasks

• Check Trains:Bugs and problems to see if there's something you can help with.

Click on a category to see a range of different things you can do to help:

• Category:Pages requiring actions
• Category:TrainspottingWorld maintenance

Continue the re-organisation and correct categorisation of events, using the correct template if required.

This section should be expanded in due course.

Administration

• Page protection [ADMIN]
  • Rationalise the protection templates, and ensure all pages use the correct templates
    (see {{sprotected2}}, {{protected template}}, {{pp-template}} etc)
  • Check that all templates calling protection templates are actually protected!
  • Check that all protected/semi-protected pages have a suitable template!

• Eradicate the term 'TSWer' from the Wiki
  • See discussion at Trains:Station Cafe (Left Luggage)
  • Use this search to find remaining examples
  • Remember that some generic pages (such as 'Help' and 'Adoption') will be moving to the central Spotting World wiki, so use of the term 'TSW' may be inappropriate too (suggest use 'Spotting World').
  • Redundant cats must be removed by an [ADMIN]
  • NOTE -- task part completed. All occurrences removed EXCEPT those related to the adoption process. There are still 15 pages requiring attention by someone from the Adoption group. (EdJogg 19:13, 8 December 2007 (UTC))

Categories

• Create missing categories (see Special:Wantedcategories) and link into the category tree, or, edit each article linking to an "out of scope" category and delete the category from the article.
• Category tree required for:

  Following added as preparation for a general 'under construction' template

  Also see WP cat: Under-construction templates and roadworks sign

  • Template:LGPL (which uses {{GNU-Layout}} (which is uncatted, along with {{PD-Layout}} + {{CC-Layout}})) Also make consistent with {{GFDL}} (and related) which is catted but does NOT use {{GNU-Layout}}.
  • Image:Crystal package settings.png

Category required

• All the 'template' sub-pages used by the Trains:Tutorial pages (Add to Category:Tutorial templates)
• Template:UserWorkInProgress
• Template:Bookcover
• All pages under: Trains:Adopt-a-User
• All pages under: Trains:Welcoming committee - NB, some already dealt with using header template
• All the Main Page stuff to Category:Main Page components

Templates

• Check all pages calling {{/doc}}:
  1. Convert to {{template doc}} or {{documentation, template}} (new WP move...)
  2. Fetch doc page from WP
• Check for templates using {{template doc page transcluded}} and {{template doc page viewed directly}} -- should be able to replace with {{template doc page}} (but try it first!)
• Adjust wording of {{TrainspottingWorld category}}, which labels all such as 'admin', yet non-admin things like Category:TSW users belong there.
• Get rid of all the un-needed stuff on {{STSbanner}} and just add relevant stuff. Am working on it, but is a bit beyond my knowledge! High Priority

Images

• Re-download images (from Commons?) whose names have been truncated (they start with a ' or a ")
  • They may be found by searching thus for the full (small) list
  • Also images starting with "
• Bring in all the BSIcon etc images from Wikipedia, and add them to the cat.

Wiki Development

• Station Cafe implementation:

• • Create proper archive for Trains talk:Community Portal, capturing 'lost' history

• TSWafy the Trains:Vandalism page

• Rip Trains:Requests for adminship apart, page by page to make it simple. Bureaucracy is to be avoided at all costs.

• Sort out Trains:Community Portal/Opentask out. I just copied the WP page but the coding in it confuzzles me!

• Reorganise and de-wikipediafy Trains:Barnstars, and add the TSW one, the Missing Wheel, the Normal One, and the Article Writing on (the latter two should be there for reference only - will e replaced with wheel versions soon...)

Portal/Workforce Development

• Change Portal:Contents to suit our needs, aswell as Portal:Contents/Portals. The types needed are in {{Browsebar}}

Active Tasks

Tasks that may require multiple editing sessions to complete.
Please add your name (~~~) to show who is working on the task.

• Edit year pages (an example is 1981) per Left Luggage. Please add the year you will edit or take part in below and check off completed pages on User:Slambo/Years:

• 2007 (started. Progress point documented on article talk page) Tim Trent ^{Talk to me}

Completed Tasks

Indicate date completed (using (~~~~)). Section will be archived periodically.

• See Trains talk:Station Cafe (ToDo list) for discussion about creation of site-wide ToDo list
  (EdJogg 13:13, 26 November 2007 (UTC))

• Create shortcuts: Cafe, Todo, faq, FAQ, Works, etc
  (EdJogg 13:19, 28 November 2007 (UTC))

• Move current discussions at Trains:Community Portal/Trains talk:Community Portal to Trains:Station Cafe (Tim Trent ^{Talk to me} 17:16, 28 November 2007 (UTC))

• Fix {{Under construction}} - WP equiv is {{underconstruction}}. As yet does not include template documentation, which is in a new template at WP (updating template documentation will probably become another task in itself!)
  (Tim Trent ^{Talk to me} 21:43, 28 November 2007 (UTC))

• Update Trains:Community Portal to indicate that there is now a 'Village Pump' at 'Station Cafe' (and set up a redirect from 'Village Pump')
  (Tim Trent ^{Talk to me} 21:55, 28 November 2007 (UTC))

• Trains:Requests for adminship simplification. Editing team: (it requires several of us)

• Tim Trent ^{Talk to me}

Completed a while back, I was just looking at this page! BG7 20:35, 14 January 2008 (UTC)