Editing Wiki

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{{headerbox}}'''This is a Wiki page''' dedicated to our [[Talk:Noisebridge| Wiki]] explaining how to edit the wiki including this wiki page.
*'''CONTENT MAINTAINERS:''' [[User:Mcint]], [[User:Lxpk]], [[User:Hungry bogart]], more needed
*'''SERVER MAINTAINERS:''' [[User:Mcint]], #rack@[[Slack]]
*'''CHANNELS:''' #wiki on [[Discord]] (and on [[Slack]])
*'''EVENTS:''' Work on Wiki before/during/after every Tuesday [[Meetings]] & [[To-do-ocracy]] Thursday. [[Wiki_Wednesday]] workshop could be rebooted!
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=How to start editing the Wiki=
# Get a wiki account! 
#* Either, request that an existing wiki user [[Special:InviteSignup|Invite you to the wiki]] by giving them your email (most can) in-person, by email, or via a chat app,
#* Or [[Special:RequestAccount|request an account]] ''([[Special:CreateAccount|Create an account]] now redirects there)'', and '''immediately notify a wiki maintainer'''/[[Special:ActiveUsers|active user]], so they can [[Special:ConfirmAccounts|confirm your account]] ''(from its place hidden among hundreds of spam requests)''.
# Create a brief user page (Click the link at the top right with your username to the left of "Talk" that goes to a User:Username page.
## Mention what activities you're interested in or working on.
## If you want to coordinate with others, provide pseudonymous contact info for yourself if you're comfortable sharing it. 
## It does not have to have personally identifying info, pseudonyms or no contact info is fine if you want to remain private.
## Most people just put the handle or name they go by around the space and usernames for [[Slack]]/[[Discord]]/[[Discuss]].
# [[Volunteer]] to help maintain some part of Noisebridge by editing wiki pages.
# Join the [[Documentation]] working group to get more involved in improving Noisebridge docs including [[Wiki]] and [[Signage]].

== How to edit the Wiki pages ==
* You can edit most any page by clicking '''Edit'''.
* You can figure out who else is recently maintaining a page by clicking '''View history''.
*[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting Formatting] page of mediawiki will tell you how to compose.
* Some pages are protected so only logged in users or admins can edit them.
* You should create an account and summarize your edits whenever possible to make collab with other editors work better.

== How to help improve the Wiki ==
Your best bet with wikis is always to reuse existing code in order to write better pages.</br>
* [https://discuss.noisebridge.info/t/post-here-wiki-out-of-date-info-dead-pages/1522/ See this discussion] on pruning and improving our wiki pages.
* Integrate orphaned pages into the menu system by putting the appropriate { { guildmenutemplate } } at the top.
** Edit the menu you added it under with a link to it, especially if it is currently relevant or in a historical menu category like [[Lore]].
** If it is historic, edit the main page in the submenu category with links to it under a Historic header at the bottom of the page instead of a menu link.
* Mark outdated pages with the { { historic } }(no spaces between curly braces) template.
* Mark parts of Noisebridge not fully constructed as { { construction } }
* Create new categories and embed their tags in a template with a visible box like those.

== How to make the menus==
# Most pages have menu header templates at the top which are nested hierarchically.
# Put a relevant menu header at the top like this: <pre>{{projects}}</pre>
# Submit and click the link to the missing template if it doesn't exist to create it.
# Start a menu with a template code to the hierarchical menu above it if any.
# Follow that on a new line with the numbered box tag corresponding to the level of hierarchy in the menu for the correct rainbow color: 
<pre>{{parentmenu}}
{{box2}} '''[[MenuTitle]]''' | [[Link1]] | [[Link2]] | [[:Template:MenuTitle|Edit]] 
{{boxend}}</pre>
# Separate menu links by | characters.
# Simplify menu link names using pipes like this: <pre> [[Actual_Link|Clean looking link title]]</pre>
*Use alphabetical link order if there isn't a specific flow that makes sense.
# Menu templates they should have an Edit link at the end linking to <pre>[[:Template:Templatename|Edit]]</pre>

= Wiki Content =
[[Wiki/Projects]]

== Important Editing Links==
*[[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
*[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]

===Templates===
MediaWiki [[mw:Help:Templates|Templates]] support [[mw:transclusion]] of content from other pages into subject page, especially with arguments, anonymous, numbered, or named.

Transclusion can also be performed with a <code>:</code> prefix to the page name inside the [[mw:Help:Template|Template]] invocation syntax <code><nowiki>{{:[template name]}} </nowiki></code>.

* The syntax <code><nowiki>{{:Discord link}}</nowiki></code> embeds "{{:Discord link}}", from [[Discord link]], which embeds the current discord link just once (so we can change it once, update the embedded text everywhere).

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
*[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=10 All templates]
*[[:Template:Boxstart|boxstart template]]
*[[:Template:Box|box template]]
*[[:Template:Box1|box1 template]]
*[[:Template:Box2|box2 template]]
*[[:Template:Box3|box3 template]]
*[[:Template:Box4|box4 template]]
*[[:Template:Box5|box5 template]]

*[[:Template:boxend|boxend template]] for closing any box.
*[[:Template:Headerbox|headerbox template]]
*[[:Template:blackbox|blackbox template]] for locations.
*[[:Template:cursorboxend|cursorboxend template]] for closing locations with blinking cursor.
</div>


====[[wp:Template:Navbox]] soon====
[[User:Mcint]] is working on installing extensions to support the familiar [[wp:Template:Navbox|NavBoxes from wikipedia]].


===Categories===
Categories automatically recognize membership of any page containing a live link to the category, and MediaWiki shows categories ''(and derived/indirect(ly-included) categories?)'' in the footer.

Using Categories:

* To include a link to Category pages, for visibility & helping users navigate, use the Category template with <code>:</code> prefix:
** <code><nowiki>[[:Category:ActiveUsers]]</nowiki></code> produces [[:Category:ActiveUsers]],
** <code><nowiki>[[:Category:5MoF]]</nowiki></code> produces [[:Category:5MoF]] (case-sensitive)

Other variants of linking syntax and template invocation, include ([[mw:transclude|transclude]]) category page content:
* <code><nowiki>[[Category:5MoF]]</nowiki></code>
* <code><nowiki>[[:Category:5MoF]]</nowiki></code> - linking to category syntax
* <code><nowiki>{{Category:5MoF}}</nowiki></code>
* <code><nowiki>{{:Category:5MoF}}</nowiki></code>

Categories page contents cannot be 
*[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=14 All categories]

== CSS Styling ==
===HTML Colors===
We use a rainbow of pastel hues for boxes:
* #FF9AA2, 
*Pastel backgrounds: #FFB7B2 #FFDAC1 #E2F0CB #B5EAD7 #C7CEEA.
*Border colors: #FFFF63 #FEB144 #9EE09E #9EC1CF #CC99C9
[[File:Rainbowcolorcodes.jpg]]

= Wiki Server =
== How the Wiki server is setup ==
*[[Special:Version]] tells you all about how the site is setup, including installed [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions extensions].


== Possible additions to this wiki ==
* [https://github.com/timwaters/omniauth-mediawiki Oauth] will allow us to integrate login from this wiki to our Discourse instance using [https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-wikimedia-auth/ wikimedia-auth plugin] and to projects.noisebridge.info [https://github.com/wikimedia/phabricator-extensions with this].
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StopForumSpam StopForumSpam] extension for helping limit new user registration spam.
* <del>Define how to delete users with no contributions.</del> Done, with mediawiki maintenance scripts.

* [[User:Mcint/WikiMaxxing]]

=Work Tracking=
==Status==
* [[wp:Template:Navbox]]: needs a bunch of extensions. Some installed, in-progress. --[[User:Mcint|Mcint]] ([[User talk:Mcint|talk]]) 20:40, 10 December 2023 (PST)
==Changelog (minor)==
A log of changes for coordination around the wiki (most-recent first). More major changes have another home.
* Enabled timezones today, in wiki software. --[[User:Mcint|Mcint]] ([[User talk:Mcint|talk]]) 20:40, 10 December 2023 (PST)