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Not sure if this is your cup of tea but I need a skilled hand to fix this page. It almost made FAL but was held back because of bad grammar, inconsistency, etc. Needs a good copyedit to whip it into shape! I'd do it but most of the problems on the page are caused by me. Me no good at english -- Esemono ( talk) 06:38, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
The big push continues.
And it seems to be working!
The good news is that there's growing support for outlines, and there are more editors than ever editing them!
The bad news is that the complainers are disproportionately represented on the project's various talk pages. While many editors work diligently on the front end, a handful of complainers are trying to tear down the project behind the scenes. Fortunately, barely enough supporters have been watching those pages that no consensus for moving or merging the outlines has succeeded. So far...
Most of the opposition seems to be unaware of the complete range of what outlines are used for. They just don't get it.
This is why it is important to complete the outline article draft. An article with a comprehensive treatment of outlines would be the perfect place to refer anybody unfamiliar with outlines to.
Opposers also don't seem to understand how outlines differ from some other page type that they prefer. Some think articles are good enough as an overview, others think portals are more in-depth, still others think categories or navigation boxes are the most efficient and useful way to organize and present topical information. Some have simply never seen an "Outline of" page before and think they are a new type of page (they've been around under other names since 2001).
If you run across anyone who doesn't understand the role of outlines on Wikipedia, Wikipedia:Why do we have outlines in addition to...? might help reduce their misconceptions or uncertainties about outlines.
To add the outlines and related support pages to your watchlist (takes less than 30 seconds), cut and paste them from Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Watchlist into your raw watchlist. For a way to improve the display of your watchlist - by namespace (very useful) - see Watchlist sorter, or use the "super fast upgrade" at WP:OTS.
Or go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Watchlist using Related changes (currently without the talk pages) and click on "Related changes" in the toolbox menu on the sidebar on the left side of your screen.
The big push started with about a thousand banners and notices being placed on article talk pages all over Wikipedia.
But it didn't stop there...
The following Wikipedians have joined the OOK team.
Be sure to stop by their talk pages and introduce yourselves.
I asked a bunch of mentors at WP:ADOPT for advice. Several of them answered on my talk page. Most of those who replied were happy to help, and posted some very good ideas. A couple even joined the project.
Here are their ideas, and what is being done about them. A few of the tasks still need volunteers:
To the tops of about 30 subject articles, I placed a test batch of hatnotes leading to the corresponding outlines. The hatnotes look like this:
The rationale for the hatnotes is that each outline is a topical guide for its subject, and since tables of contents go at the front of a book, a link to each outline should be placed at the front of its subject.
Unfortunately, not all editors agree. Some of the hatnotes have already disappeared. :(
Note that the "Lists of topics" are of two types, including outlines and indexes, so discussions to remove, move, or merge those are usually relevant to the OOK. Also, outlines are a type of list, so discussions that affect lists in general also pertain to outlines. We've got to be on our toes!
I've excluded links to live discussions, out of respect for WP:CANVASS.
Here's a directory of outline support pages:
The Transhumanist 03:32, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Thank you to those who suggested WPOOK have an animated advert banner. Penubag got working on it right away. Here's what he's come up with so far:
Penubag needs feedback.
I've posted a few changes for him to make to it.
Please post additional comments and suggestions for him at User talk:Penubag#Chocolate banner.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 02:12, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
I posted a proposal to add outlines to next year's WikiCup, and nobody there seems to understand outlines.
Help.
The Transhumanist 04:11, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
As you know, Penubag is working on a banner to advertise the Outline WikiProject. And he's almost done.
The banner prominently presents the "Outline of chocolate", which of course will become the most widely advertised outline as soon as the banner goes live. The first thing many editors will do after seeing the banner is look for that outline.
The problem is, we don't have one.
So that's our first outline collaboration!
I started a draft this morning.
It needs to be finished and moved to the article namespace before we can start using Penubag's banner ad!
Come join in on the fun. It's chocolate!
The Transhumanist 21:53, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Have you found any really good outlines that could be converted to OOK format easily?
If not, keep your eyes open for them. I came across some, but I can't remember their names.
The Transhumanist 02:22, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi GD. You offered to adopt me back in 2007. Are you still interested in helping? Ploughstar ( talk) 11:35, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Is it perfect? Can it be improved?
Penubag loves feedback. Please let him know if it can be further improved.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 22:59, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Good Humor | |
For referring to a featured list criterion as the 'hip lingo' and thereby nearly making me fall out of my seat, I award you this barnstar of good humor. Geraldk ( talk) 10:33, 16 June 2009 (UTC) |
Several members of the WikiProject have been hard at work.
Buaidh has been building and refining the outlines on the U.S. States, the states' historical outlines, and the Historical outline of the United States. Lately, his edits have dominated the project's watchlist readout. (I think he's overdue for a barnstar or two. hint hint)
Penubag has been working on medals for all the main branches of the OOK, and has completed the OOK WikiProject's animated advert banner (see below).
Highfields has been filling in the currencies for each country on their respective outlines.
NuclearWarfare and Thehelpfulone have been busy with WP:AWB, posting banners and notices, and helping our sister project, the Index WikiProject, get established. Indexes work hand-in-hand with the outlines and are prominently linked to from the top of most of them. And the outlines, which serve as tables of contents, are only as good as the pages they link to.
Since we started integrating (linking) the OOK and its support pages into the encyclopedia and into the Wikipedia community, activity on outlines has been increasing. Though there's still much left to do.
But I digress. There are a couple more...
Stefan is building the Outline of sharks.
MacMed has joined our advanced wiki-tools team, and is currently adding links to outlines in the corresponding subject articles' see also sections.
Be sure to stop by their talk pages and say "hi".
Penubag has finished this WikiProject's animated advert banner, and it is now being displayed on the Wikipedia ads template which in turn is displayed on about 2000 user pages. Each time someone access one of those pages, there is a 1 in 184 chance of them viewing this:
![]() | |
Wikipedia ads | file info – #184 |
If you'd like to display the banner on your userpage locked-on to the ad as above, use the following code:
{{Wikipedia ads|ad=184}}
(By the way, it's been awhile since we've barnstarred Penubag).
If you haven't already, please add the entire project's watchlist to your watchlist. Here's how:
I forgot to mention this step above. :)
I can't make heads or tails of 'em, but these links were on Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge:
I discovered an AfD discussion on possibly the first article named "Outline of", which was called Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics, and which was created 4 years ago. Of course they deleted it. But now it has many friends, and so it has risen from the dead. :)
See the DRV discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 June 7#Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics.
Recruiters needed. Drop me a note if you are interested.
I'm impressed with the level of enthusiasm and work going into the outlines. I'm proud to be working with each of you.
The Transhumanist 21:50, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
I saw from here that it's been exactly three years since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, rʨanaɢ talk/ contribs 23:09, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
This outline is approaching completion.
I added a bunch more links, finding them with the following Google site-specific searches of Wikipedia:
(You can use the wikicode for the links above as the basis for new searches - just replace "Gibraltar" with any other country or region name).
The redlinks need to be bluelinked where possible. The most useful way is to create redirects leading to the material (which is usually included in a section of an article - see Wikipedia:Redirect#Redirects to page sections. That way, when the redirect pages are replaced by the actual articles, the links will already point to the right places.
Please take a crack at it, and bluelink a few.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 00:42, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
That was fun. :)
The Transhumanist 23:32, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Work is proceeding apace...
The current consensus is that we can't place a hatnote leading to an outline at the top of a subject articles unless the outline being presented is of at least the same quality-level as the article.
Improve outline quality by completing them.
Place hatnotes for the outlines of high enough quality.
Guidelines pertaining to outlines need to be updated. Outlines emerged as a class of pages only a few months ago, and most of the relevant guidelines don't cover them specifically. For example, Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists is incredibly out of date.
Invite wikignomes, wikielves, and wikifairies (all 2500+ of them) to help on the outlines .
Identify 600 more subjects with coverage extensive enough to justify outlines, create rudimentary drafts for them, and post notices to the corresponding WikiProjects and subject talk pages to help build them.
Convert outlines titled "List of" to outline articles, and add them to the OOK. There are a few hundred of these. Conversion instructions are needed.
Add a description of outlines to About Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Basic navigation, and add tips about outlines to the WP:TOTD and Tips library.
The Transhumanist 20:27, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to
attack other editors. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the
welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Yes, calling an editor as "excellent editor" while defaming another one as "bad editing" of caurse is your subjective calling, and should be avoided in Wikipedia.
Xingdong (
talk)
12:43, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
An editor dropped about 100 links into book articles all over WP and scrubbing them has been quite a task. I must have dropped the ball on that one. Apologies! TastyPoutine talk (if you dare) 07:26, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
So you dinged me changing a page called Taylorville, Il. Well under notable people, it talks about Brandon Eckoff. I tried to delete it because its unimportant BS and it was reverted back and so i wrote stupid stuff. any chance you could go back and just delete hin from the page. again it bs. --— Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.132.138.78 ( talk) 00:55, June 28, 2009
Minnecologies has done an incredible amount of work on Outline of forestry and posted a note to me on my talk page requesting feedback.
I've posted my observations at Talk:Outline of forestry#Finished outline review.
Please take a look at the outline and let Minnecologies know what you think of it on the outline's talk page.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 19:37, 29 June 2009 (UTC) Delivered by JCbot ( talk) at 20:15, 29 June 2009 (UTC).
I'm sorry that I haven't been available to assign tasks lately. For the past 3 days (not including today) I've been almost totally consumed in discussions concerning the location and very existence of outlines. Today I finally broke free and got back to work on outlines. Felt good.
A great deal has been happening with outlines and behind the scenes. I just don't have time to tell you all about it this time around. Here's the best I can do...
If you'd like a bird's eye view of everything that's happening with respect to outlines, see this page:
Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):
These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format:
There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following one have been recently merged:
The Transhumanist 01:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for signing up for the Great Wikipedia Dramaout. Wikipedia stands to benefit from the improvements in the article space as a result of this campaign. This is a double reminder. First, the campaign begins on July 18, 2009 at 00:00 (UTC). Second, please remember to log any articles you have worked on during the campaign at Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout/Log. Thanks again for your participation! -- Jayron32. talk. say no to drama 21:14, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
So, you'd like to help out with the indexes, eh?
I've got an assignment for you. Pretty easy, since most of the links are already in place.
What I need you to do is use WP:LINKY on the following list:
User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox07 - they're all links to see also sections of country articles.
Assuming you have Linky installed, and you use Firefox... You select an area of the page by holding down the left button and dragging your mouse. Try not to select an area with more than 99 links in it. Then you right click. In the drop down menu, choose Linky, then "Open selected links in tabs".
Move between tabs with Ctrl-Tab. Nuke a tab with Ctrl-W.
Each tab will display a see also section of a country article. What I need you to do is check each one to make sure the Index of x-related articles (where "x" is the country's name) is included as a link in the see also section for that country.
If the old page name ( List of x-related topics) is in the section, check to see if it's a redirect to the index. If it is, replace it with the index link.)
For the sections that are missing the index link altogether, add it in!
Easy as pie.
(I've been working on inserting Outline links, so you might run into me).
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 23:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
P.S.: I don't remember, do you know how to use Linky?
While I'll admit the second edit was unsourced (plus I'm not familiar with the conventions regarding these type of boxes), the first one, see here, had a source if you look closely. -- 190.222.32.29 ( talk) 23:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you again for your support of the Great Wikipedia Dramaout. Preliminary states indicate that 129 new articles were created, 203 other articles were improved, and 183 images were uploaded. Additionally, 41 articles were nominated for DYK, of which at least 2 have already been promoted. There are currently also 8 articles up for GA status and 3 up for FA/FL status. Though the campaign is technically over, please continue to update the log page at WP:NODRAMA/L with any articles which you worked during the campaign, and also to note any that receive commendation, such as DYK, GA or FA status. You may find the following links helpful in nominating your work:
Again, thank you for making this event a success! -- Jayron32. talk. say no to drama 02:09, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Phase two of outline integration (de-orphanizing outlines by adding links leading to them into article see also sections) is nearly complete. The better that outlines are integrated into the encyclopedia, the more use they will be to readers.
Due to greater exposure through outline integration, and with most of the OOK team on school summer vacation, development activity on outlines has increased a lot...
Thank you.
Here's what else has been going on...
There are a lot of contradictions in guidelines related to outlines. I'll be turning my attention to fixing those.
The number of "Outline of" articles is rapidly catching up to portals, and will probably pass them by the end of the summer!
Keep up the excellent work.
The Transhumanist 00:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
You beat me to Eu.stefan with a barnstar!
Nicely done.
The Transhumanist 01:15, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
...to award Buaidh for all his hard work.
It's at User:Penubag/Sandbox3.
But it's not done yet. Feel free to help improve it.
I'm hoping that everyone involved with the WP:WPOOK will sign it (please sign without a timestamp).
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 22:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Please don't add categories directly to AfD discussions, as this breaks them out and they show up in logs. Instead use the cat parameter of {{
REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD|cat}}
to categorise. Thank you.
Greg Tyler (
t •
c)
15:49, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
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Are you trying to question me just because I am a man and this does not conform to your perverted ideology? -- Street Scholar ( talk) 21:30, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Danger,
I'm splitting this task up for everyone on the team to work on...
The government branches sections are in error on many of the country outlines.
Since those are in article space, we need to fix those ASAP! This is our most important task right now.
Here's a list of links that goes right to that section: User:The Transhumanist/List of country outline government sections.
I'm working on U-Z.
Your task is to complete and correct these:
WP:LINKY is especially useful for this.
Let me know when you are done, so I can check them over.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 22:02, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
I finally bit the bullet and looked over Outline of Djibouti#Government and politics of Djibouti. I was quite unsure of what to do, so I wanted to make sure I didn't mess up before tackling any others.
I also finished the index task that you asked me to do, everything except Honduras, which is still locked. I also started Index of Benin-related articles and want to see what you thought of that. (It's still very much a work in progress, I just wasn't expecting the work to take so long.) -- Gimme danger ( talk) 07:26, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by – Juliancolton | Talk at 21:40, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
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Not sure if this is your cup of tea but I need a skilled hand to fix this page. It almost made FAL but was held back because of bad grammar, inconsistency, etc. Needs a good copyedit to whip it into shape! I'd do it but most of the problems on the page are caused by me. Me no good at english -- Esemono ( talk) 06:38, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
The big push continues.
And it seems to be working!
The good news is that there's growing support for outlines, and there are more editors than ever editing them!
The bad news is that the complainers are disproportionately represented on the project's various talk pages. While many editors work diligently on the front end, a handful of complainers are trying to tear down the project behind the scenes. Fortunately, barely enough supporters have been watching those pages that no consensus for moving or merging the outlines has succeeded. So far...
Most of the opposition seems to be unaware of the complete range of what outlines are used for. They just don't get it.
This is why it is important to complete the outline article draft. An article with a comprehensive treatment of outlines would be the perfect place to refer anybody unfamiliar with outlines to.
Opposers also don't seem to understand how outlines differ from some other page type that they prefer. Some think articles are good enough as an overview, others think portals are more in-depth, still others think categories or navigation boxes are the most efficient and useful way to organize and present topical information. Some have simply never seen an "Outline of" page before and think they are a new type of page (they've been around under other names since 2001).
If you run across anyone who doesn't understand the role of outlines on Wikipedia, Wikipedia:Why do we have outlines in addition to...? might help reduce their misconceptions or uncertainties about outlines.
To add the outlines and related support pages to your watchlist (takes less than 30 seconds), cut and paste them from Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Watchlist into your raw watchlist. For a way to improve the display of your watchlist - by namespace (very useful) - see Watchlist sorter, or use the "super fast upgrade" at WP:OTS.
Or go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Watchlist using Related changes (currently without the talk pages) and click on "Related changes" in the toolbox menu on the sidebar on the left side of your screen.
The big push started with about a thousand banners and notices being placed on article talk pages all over Wikipedia.
But it didn't stop there...
The following Wikipedians have joined the OOK team.
Be sure to stop by their talk pages and introduce yourselves.
I asked a bunch of mentors at WP:ADOPT for advice. Several of them answered on my talk page. Most of those who replied were happy to help, and posted some very good ideas. A couple even joined the project.
Here are their ideas, and what is being done about them. A few of the tasks still need volunteers:
To the tops of about 30 subject articles, I placed a test batch of hatnotes leading to the corresponding outlines. The hatnotes look like this:
The rationale for the hatnotes is that each outline is a topical guide for its subject, and since tables of contents go at the front of a book, a link to each outline should be placed at the front of its subject.
Unfortunately, not all editors agree. Some of the hatnotes have already disappeared. :(
Note that the "Lists of topics" are of two types, including outlines and indexes, so discussions to remove, move, or merge those are usually relevant to the OOK. Also, outlines are a type of list, so discussions that affect lists in general also pertain to outlines. We've got to be on our toes!
I've excluded links to live discussions, out of respect for WP:CANVASS.
Here's a directory of outline support pages:
The Transhumanist 03:32, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Thank you to those who suggested WPOOK have an animated advert banner. Penubag got working on it right away. Here's what he's come up with so far:
Penubag needs feedback.
I've posted a few changes for him to make to it.
Please post additional comments and suggestions for him at User talk:Penubag#Chocolate banner.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 02:12, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
I posted a proposal to add outlines to next year's WikiCup, and nobody there seems to understand outlines.
Help.
The Transhumanist 04:11, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
As you know, Penubag is working on a banner to advertise the Outline WikiProject. And he's almost done.
The banner prominently presents the "Outline of chocolate", which of course will become the most widely advertised outline as soon as the banner goes live. The first thing many editors will do after seeing the banner is look for that outline.
The problem is, we don't have one.
So that's our first outline collaboration!
I started a draft this morning.
It needs to be finished and moved to the article namespace before we can start using Penubag's banner ad!
Come join in on the fun. It's chocolate!
The Transhumanist 21:53, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Have you found any really good outlines that could be converted to OOK format easily?
If not, keep your eyes open for them. I came across some, but I can't remember their names.
The Transhumanist 02:22, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi GD. You offered to adopt me back in 2007. Are you still interested in helping? Ploughstar ( talk) 11:35, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Is it perfect? Can it be improved?
Penubag loves feedback. Please let him know if it can be further improved.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 22:59, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Good Humor | |
For referring to a featured list criterion as the 'hip lingo' and thereby nearly making me fall out of my seat, I award you this barnstar of good humor. Geraldk ( talk) 10:33, 16 June 2009 (UTC) |
Several members of the WikiProject have been hard at work.
Buaidh has been building and refining the outlines on the U.S. States, the states' historical outlines, and the Historical outline of the United States. Lately, his edits have dominated the project's watchlist readout. (I think he's overdue for a barnstar or two. hint hint)
Penubag has been working on medals for all the main branches of the OOK, and has completed the OOK WikiProject's animated advert banner (see below).
Highfields has been filling in the currencies for each country on their respective outlines.
NuclearWarfare and Thehelpfulone have been busy with WP:AWB, posting banners and notices, and helping our sister project, the Index WikiProject, get established. Indexes work hand-in-hand with the outlines and are prominently linked to from the top of most of them. And the outlines, which serve as tables of contents, are only as good as the pages they link to.
Since we started integrating (linking) the OOK and its support pages into the encyclopedia and into the Wikipedia community, activity on outlines has been increasing. Though there's still much left to do.
But I digress. There are a couple more...
Stefan is building the Outline of sharks.
MacMed has joined our advanced wiki-tools team, and is currently adding links to outlines in the corresponding subject articles' see also sections.
Be sure to stop by their talk pages and say "hi".
Penubag has finished this WikiProject's animated advert banner, and it is now being displayed on the Wikipedia ads template which in turn is displayed on about 2000 user pages. Each time someone access one of those pages, there is a 1 in 184 chance of them viewing this:
![]() | |
Wikipedia ads | file info – #184 |
If you'd like to display the banner on your userpage locked-on to the ad as above, use the following code:
{{Wikipedia ads|ad=184}}
(By the way, it's been awhile since we've barnstarred Penubag).
If you haven't already, please add the entire project's watchlist to your watchlist. Here's how:
I forgot to mention this step above. :)
I can't make heads or tails of 'em, but these links were on Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge:
I discovered an AfD discussion on possibly the first article named "Outline of", which was called Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics, and which was created 4 years ago. Of course they deleted it. But now it has many friends, and so it has risen from the dead. :)
See the DRV discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 June 7#Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics.
Recruiters needed. Drop me a note if you are interested.
I'm impressed with the level of enthusiasm and work going into the outlines. I'm proud to be working with each of you.
The Transhumanist 21:50, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
I saw from here that it's been exactly three years since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, rʨanaɢ talk/ contribs 23:09, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
This outline is approaching completion.
I added a bunch more links, finding them with the following Google site-specific searches of Wikipedia:
(You can use the wikicode for the links above as the basis for new searches - just replace "Gibraltar" with any other country or region name).
The redlinks need to be bluelinked where possible. The most useful way is to create redirects leading to the material (which is usually included in a section of an article - see Wikipedia:Redirect#Redirects to page sections. That way, when the redirect pages are replaced by the actual articles, the links will already point to the right places.
Please take a crack at it, and bluelink a few.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 00:42, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
That was fun. :)
The Transhumanist 23:32, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Work is proceeding apace...
The current consensus is that we can't place a hatnote leading to an outline at the top of a subject articles unless the outline being presented is of at least the same quality-level as the article.
Improve outline quality by completing them.
Place hatnotes for the outlines of high enough quality.
Guidelines pertaining to outlines need to be updated. Outlines emerged as a class of pages only a few months ago, and most of the relevant guidelines don't cover them specifically. For example, Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists is incredibly out of date.
Invite wikignomes, wikielves, and wikifairies (all 2500+ of them) to help on the outlines .
Identify 600 more subjects with coverage extensive enough to justify outlines, create rudimentary drafts for them, and post notices to the corresponding WikiProjects and subject talk pages to help build them.
Convert outlines titled "List of" to outline articles, and add them to the OOK. There are a few hundred of these. Conversion instructions are needed.
Add a description of outlines to About Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Basic navigation, and add tips about outlines to the WP:TOTD and Tips library.
The Transhumanist 20:27, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to
attack other editors. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the
welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Yes, calling an editor as "excellent editor" while defaming another one as "bad editing" of caurse is your subjective calling, and should be avoided in Wikipedia.
Xingdong (
talk)
12:43, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
An editor dropped about 100 links into book articles all over WP and scrubbing them has been quite a task. I must have dropped the ball on that one. Apologies! TastyPoutine talk (if you dare) 07:26, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
So you dinged me changing a page called Taylorville, Il. Well under notable people, it talks about Brandon Eckoff. I tried to delete it because its unimportant BS and it was reverted back and so i wrote stupid stuff. any chance you could go back and just delete hin from the page. again it bs. --— Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.132.138.78 ( talk) 00:55, June 28, 2009
Minnecologies has done an incredible amount of work on Outline of forestry and posted a note to me on my talk page requesting feedback.
I've posted my observations at Talk:Outline of forestry#Finished outline review.
Please take a look at the outline and let Minnecologies know what you think of it on the outline's talk page.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 19:37, 29 June 2009 (UTC) Delivered by JCbot ( talk) at 20:15, 29 June 2009 (UTC).
I'm sorry that I haven't been available to assign tasks lately. For the past 3 days (not including today) I've been almost totally consumed in discussions concerning the location and very existence of outlines. Today I finally broke free and got back to work on outlines. Felt good.
A great deal has been happening with outlines and behind the scenes. I just don't have time to tell you all about it this time around. Here's the best I can do...
If you'd like a bird's eye view of everything that's happening with respect to outlines, see this page:
Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):
These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format:
There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following one have been recently merged:
The Transhumanist 01:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
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So, you'd like to help out with the indexes, eh?
I've got an assignment for you. Pretty easy, since most of the links are already in place.
What I need you to do is use WP:LINKY on the following list:
User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox07 - they're all links to see also sections of country articles.
Assuming you have Linky installed, and you use Firefox... You select an area of the page by holding down the left button and dragging your mouse. Try not to select an area with more than 99 links in it. Then you right click. In the drop down menu, choose Linky, then "Open selected links in tabs".
Move between tabs with Ctrl-Tab. Nuke a tab with Ctrl-W.
Each tab will display a see also section of a country article. What I need you to do is check each one to make sure the Index of x-related articles (where "x" is the country's name) is included as a link in the see also section for that country.
If the old page name ( List of x-related topics) is in the section, check to see if it's a redirect to the index. If it is, replace it with the index link.)
For the sections that are missing the index link altogether, add it in!
Easy as pie.
(I've been working on inserting Outline links, so you might run into me).
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 23:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
P.S.: I don't remember, do you know how to use Linky?
While I'll admit the second edit was unsourced (plus I'm not familiar with the conventions regarding these type of boxes), the first one, see here, had a source if you look closely. -- 190.222.32.29 ( talk) 23:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
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Again, thank you for making this event a success! -- Jayron32. talk. say no to drama 02:09, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Phase two of outline integration (de-orphanizing outlines by adding links leading to them into article see also sections) is nearly complete. The better that outlines are integrated into the encyclopedia, the more use they will be to readers.
Due to greater exposure through outline integration, and with most of the OOK team on school summer vacation, development activity on outlines has increased a lot...
Thank you.
Here's what else has been going on...
There are a lot of contradictions in guidelines related to outlines. I'll be turning my attention to fixing those.
The number of "Outline of" articles is rapidly catching up to portals, and will probably pass them by the end of the summer!
Keep up the excellent work.
The Transhumanist 00:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
You beat me to Eu.stefan with a barnstar!
Nicely done.
The Transhumanist 01:15, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
...to award Buaidh for all his hard work.
It's at User:Penubag/Sandbox3.
But it's not done yet. Feel free to help improve it.
I'm hoping that everyone involved with the WP:WPOOK will sign it (please sign without a timestamp).
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 22:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
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15:49, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
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Are you trying to question me just because I am a man and this does not conform to your perverted ideology? -- Street Scholar ( talk) 21:30, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Danger,
I'm splitting this task up for everyone on the team to work on...
The government branches sections are in error on many of the country outlines.
Since those are in article space, we need to fix those ASAP! This is our most important task right now.
Here's a list of links that goes right to that section: User:The Transhumanist/List of country outline government sections.
I'm working on U-Z.
Your task is to complete and correct these:
WP:LINKY is especially useful for this.
Let me know when you are done, so I can check them over.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 22:02, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
I finally bit the bullet and looked over Outline of Djibouti#Government and politics of Djibouti. I was quite unsure of what to do, so I wanted to make sure I didn't mess up before tackling any others.
I also finished the index task that you asked me to do, everything except Honduras, which is still locked. I also started Index of Benin-related articles and want to see what you thought of that. (It's still very much a work in progress, I just wasn't expecting the work to take so long.) -- Gimme danger ( talk) 07:26, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
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