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| − | I'm [[wikipedia:meta:user:waldir|User:Waldir]] on several Wikimedia projects and I started following explainxkcd.com back when it was a blog, where I commented as "Waldir". Due to my Wikimedia background, I was one of several commenters who insisted in turning the blog into a wiki. The move was eventually made, and was [http://wayback.archive.org/web/20120812014246/http://www.explainxkcd.com/2012/07/31/converting-to-a-wiki/ announced on the blog] on 31 July 2012. Two days later, I [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&page=User%3AWaldir registered my wiki account], and since then I've made {{#cscore:Waldir|changes}} edits | + | I'm [[wikipedia:meta:user:waldir|User:Waldir]] on several Wikimedia projects and I started following explainxkcd.com back when it was a blog, where I commented as "Waldir". Due to my Wikimedia background, I was one of several commenters who insisted in turning the blog into a wiki. The move was eventually made, and was [http://wayback.archive.org/web/20120812014246/http://www.explainxkcd.com/2012/07/31/converting-to-a-wiki/ announced on the blog] on 31 July 2012. Two days later, I [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&page=User%3AWaldir registered my wiki account], and since then I've made {{#cscore:Waldir|changes}} edits. |
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* Try to get a rendered feed of Special:NewPages, instead of [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&feed=rss], filter it to show only comics, and add RSS link on the sidebar. | * Try to get a rendered feed of Special:NewPages, instead of [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&feed=rss], filter it to show only comics, and add RSS link on the sidebar. | ||
| − | === | + | === Changes to page naming scheme === |
* Set up namespaces, e.g. Comic:, Topic:, xkcd:, Meta: (replacing "explain xkcd") | * Set up namespaces, e.g. Comic:, Topic:, xkcd:, Meta: (replacing "explain xkcd") | ||
*: Discussion at [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination#Page names]]. | *: Discussion at [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination#Page names]]. | ||
| − | *: Alternative: only namespacify non-comic pages, that way the main namespace is guaranteed to be only comics (and pages in main are already {{w|mw:Manual:Using custom namespaces#Content namespaces|content pages}} by default -- not that it would be hard to set others up as content namespaces too, since we'd | + | *: Alternative: only namespacify non-comic pages, that way the main namespace is guaranteed to be only comics (and pages in main are already {{w|mw:Manual:Using custom namespaces#Content namespaces|content pages}} by default -- not that it would be hard to set others up as content namespaces too, since we'd be editing the config to add new namespaces anyway) |
*; Pros | *; Pros | ||
** Special:NewPages gets filterable by namespace, so we could get only new comics (not sure this is really that useful, though: they have all been created and new ones are now put in place as soon as Randall publishes xkcd, so there's not really a need for a feed / notification system) | ** Special:NewPages gets filterable by namespace, so we could get only new comics (not sure this is really that useful, though: they have all been created and new ones are now put in place as soon as Randall publishes xkcd, so there's not really a need for a feed / notification system) | ||
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* Rename comic pages to use numbers in parenthesis after the name --> "Comic title (number)", e.g. [[Michael Phelps (1092)]] | * Rename comic pages to use numbers in parenthesis after the name --> "Comic title (number)", e.g. [[Michael Phelps (1092)]] | ||
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*; Pros | *; Pros | ||
| − | * | + | ** Using colons in page names is kind of ambiguous, since that's how namespaces are identified. |
| − | * | + | ** Having the number at front doesn't really help sorting the comic, e.g. in categories. That was kind of a hack anyway. MediaWiki supports category sort keys natively, so we should be taking advantage of them rather than relying on a specific page title format to achieve the same effect. |
| + | ** This would allow the use of the {{w|Help:Pipe trick|pipe trick}} when linking to a comic, since content in parenthesis is automatically stripped out: <nowiki>[[Michael Phelps (1092)|]]</nowiki> results in [[Michael Phelps (1092)|Michael Phelps]] | ||
*; Cons | *; Cons | ||
| − | * | + | ** We can't have auto-complete in the search box by typing just the comic number (and people coming from xkcd will likely use the number for search, not the comic title). |
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==== Image pages as the comic pages ==== | ==== Image pages as the comic pages ==== | ||
