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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.
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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 (and counting).
 
  
 
My favorite comics:
 
My favorite comics:
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* [[1285: Third Way]] (because I've been [http://waldir.github.io/semantic-linebreaker spreading the word] about it since I first read [http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/ this blog post])
 
* [[1285: Third Way]] (because I've been [http://waldir.github.io/semantic-linebreaker spreading the word] about it since I first read [http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/ this blog post])
  
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==ToDo==
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* [[Special:ContributionScores|Contribution scores]]
 
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* [https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Explain_xkcd WikiApiary]
 
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Fun fact: Appropriately (considering the [[tagline]]), [[:Category:Romance|romance]], [[:Category:Math|math]] and [[:Category:Language|language]] are the three [[Special:MostLinkedCategories|most populated categories]] within the [[:Category:Comics by topic‏‎|Comics by topic‏‎]] category; in contrast, [[:Category:Sarcasm|sarcasm]] is way below! That makes me happy. :)
 
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==To do==
 
  
 
; sysop one-time tasks
 
; sysop one-time tasks
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* [[MediaWiki:Common.css|Style the wiki]]! Example of what can be done: [http://web.archive.org/web/20161221085658im_/http://setiquest.org:80/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://setiquest.org/wiki]
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* Style the wiki! Example of what can be done: http://setiquest.org/wiki
 
* Add Menu-to-tabs gadget
 
* Add Menu-to-tabs gadget
 
* Add 6tabs gadget
 
* Add 6tabs gadget
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* Links to add to sidebar: Browse comics (category:comics)
  
 
; non-sysop one-time tasks
 
; non-sysop one-time tasks
 
* Use a local help/FAQ page and link it from the sidebar rather than mediawiki's vanilla help which isn't very friendly.
 
* Use a local help/FAQ page and link it from the sidebar rather than mediawiki's vanilla help which isn't very friendly.
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* Create [[:Category:Nerd sniping]] from [[Special:WhatLinksHere/356: Nerd Sniping|this list]]? Perhaps as a subcat of [[:Category:My Hobby]]?
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* {{tl|comic}} should add a zero-padded DEFAULTSORT
  
 
; meta content
 
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; server-side:
 
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* update mediawiki. The [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#Explain xkcd upgraded to version 1.19.17|latest update]] was to 1.19.x (LTS), but it is only supported for {{w|mw:Version lifecycle#Version timeline|a few more months}}.
 
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** after version 1.20 the {{w|mw:Help:Magic words#Statistics|PAGESINCAT}} magic word accepts parameters
 
 
* [[mw:Extension:Comments|Extension:Comments]] -- Davidy22 says it introduces quite a bit of meta-pages, being generally messy. Maybe a different solution would be a better choice.
 
* [[mw:Extension:Comments|Extension:Comments]] -- Davidy22 says it introduces quite a bit of meta-pages, being generally messy. Maybe a different solution would be a better choice.
 
* [[mw:Extension:Configure|Extension:Configure]] -- need to test it locally first, clean up any rough edges and send them upstream.
 
* [[mw:Extension:Configure|Extension:Configure]] -- need to test it locally first, clean up any rough edges and send them upstream.
 
* 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.
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=== Proposed 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]].
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*: 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 need to edit the server config file to add new namespaces anyway)
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*: 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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*: Having the number at the start of the page name was meant to automatically sort the page in categories, but doesn't really work since the numbers aren't zero-padded. That was kind of a hack anyway. MediaWiki supports category sort keys natively, so we should be taking advantage of them (e.g. by adding SORTKEY to the {{tl|comic}} template) rather than relying on a specific page title format to achieve the same effect.
 
 
*; Pros
 
*; Pros
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*# Using colons in page names is kind of ambiguous, since that's how namespaces are identified.
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** Using colons in page names is kind of ambiguous, since that's how namespaces are identified.
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*# 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]]
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** 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.
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** 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
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*# 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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** 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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*#* Alternatively, we could use the opposite format: [[1092 (Michael Phelps)]], which would still preserve the pros, arguably even better matching the label people tend to choose when aliasing a comic link (i.e., the comic number, rather than the comic title).
 
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==== Image pages as the comic pages ====
 
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Even nicer would be to merge all comic pages with the image pages, preferably renaming the "File:" namespace to "Comic:". This can probably be done with [[wikipedia:mw:Extension:SpecialNamespaces|Extension:SpecialNamespaces]], but I need to test to make sure. Not only this would eliminate duplication of pages on the wiki, bit it would also provide extra functionality, e.g. embedding a comic on another page, and allowing category pages to display thumbnails rather than names only.
 
  
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=== recurring maintenance tasks ===
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; recurring maintenance tasks:
 
* [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]]
 
* [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]]
 
* [[Special:UncategorizedFiles]]
 
* [[Special:UncategorizedFiles]]
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* [[Special:WantedPages]]
 
* [[Special:WantedPages]]
 
* convert [{{fullurl:Special:LinkSearch|target=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/&namespace=0&limit=500}} wikipedia links] to use the {{tl|w}} template.
 
* convert [{{fullurl:Special:LinkSearch|target=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/&namespace=0&limit=500}} wikipedia links] to use the {{tl|w}} template.
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** Done as of 2014-05-29, using the regex search <code>\[(https?:)?//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/([^ ]+) ([^]]+)\]</code> and replacement <code><nowiki>{{w|$2|$3}}</nowiki></code>.
 
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** [{{fullurl:Special:Search|search=%22en.wikipedia.org/wiki%22&ns0=1}} This search] ([[Special:Search/"en.wikipedia.org/wiki"|see also]]) might work better than the list above
 
 
* [{{fullurl:Special:RecentChanges|hideanons=1&hidepatrolled=1&from=20121204025000&days=365&limit=1000}} Unpatrolled changes by registered users]
 
* [{{fullurl:Special:RecentChanges|hideanons=1&hidepatrolled=1&from=20121204025000&days=365&limit=1000}} Unpatrolled changes by registered users]
 
* [{{fullurl:Special:RecentChanges|hideliu=1&hidepatrolled=1&from=20121204025000&days=365&limit=1000}} Unpatrolled changes by anonymous users]
 
* [{{fullurl:Special:RecentChanges|hideliu=1&hidepatrolled=1&from=20121204025000&days=365&limit=1000}} Unpatrolled changes by anonymous users]

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