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Effective Wikification importScript('User:Ucucha/duplinks.js'); // [[User:Ucucha/duplinks]]
The second most noticeable aspect of Wikification is adding an infobox and sections. Infoboxes are generally easy to create and make the information much more available to the reader. If an article exists on a small town in a foreign country, it may be limited to a few sentences. An infobox should be able to display all of that information and gives the article a more official look. In regards to towns, finding the coordinates and using the map parameter of {{ Infobox settlement}} can be essential to the reader. If you have any questions on using any of the infoboxes, feel free to ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikify. The next step of Wikification is important for biographies. Two templates should be added to every biography if they don't exist. The first is {{ Persondata}}. This allows information to be read by programs and machines. Note that the name should be written in Last, First Middle format. The second is {{ L}}. This template should always be substituted. It has 3 parameters and they must all be in the template. The first parameter is for birth year. If it is unknown leave it blank or type MISSING. The second is for death year, leave it blank or type LIVING if the person is still alive. The third applies a default sort key to the article. Remember to fill this parameter in Last, First format.
Note that there are some good tools available for Wikification. In addition to the duplinks tool I labeled above, WP:CATSCAN can be a great resource in finding articles that need to be Wikified. This link will take you to the scan for all articles needing to be Wikified. Feel free to use that and set any other restrictions you like. There have also been some changes to the template. First and foremost, a reason parameter was added. Now editors are encouraged to add a reason when placing a Wikify tag on an article. While this reason is useful, be sure not to limit yourself as a result. An editor might not write that an article doesn't contain Wikilinks because they feel it is obvious. Another editor might only write that an article needs Wikilinks when the article is also lacking sections. Please Wikify the page in its entirety even if the template doesn't label all of the problems. One of the more useful aspects of the template is in identifying editors who are incorrectly placing the tag. We have a system to notify those editors that it is being placed incorrectly. Finally, I will be working on a method to hide the template, rather than removing it, from pages that are incorrectly tagged by AWB. Updates will appear on the main project talk page when I get that done so we can establish consensus for the change. Thank you all for your work in making Wikipedia look better. Ryan Vesey Review me! 04:39, 25 July 2012 (UTC) | |||
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Effective Wikification importScript('User:Ucucha/duplinks.js'); // [[User:Ucucha/duplinks]]
The second most noticeable aspect of Wikification is adding an infobox and sections. Infoboxes are generally easy to create and make the information much more available to the reader. If an article exists on a small town in a foreign country, it may be limited to a few sentences. An infobox should be able to display all of that information and gives the article a more official look. In regards to towns, finding the coordinates and using the map parameter of {{ Infobox settlement}} can be essential to the reader. If you have any questions on using any of the infoboxes, feel free to ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikify. The next step of Wikification is important for biographies. Two templates should be added to every biography if they don't exist. The first is {{ Persondata}}. This allows information to be read by programs and machines. Note that the name should be written in Last, First Middle format. The second is {{ L}}. This template should always be substituted. It has 3 parameters and they must all be in the template. The first parameter is for birth year. If it is unknown leave it blank or type MISSING. The second is for death year, leave it blank or type LIVING if the person is still alive. The third applies a default sort key to the article. Remember to fill this parameter in Last, First format.
Note that there are some good tools available for Wikification. In addition to the duplinks tool I labeled above, WP:CATSCAN can be a great resource in finding articles that need to be Wikified. This link will take you to the scan for all articles needing to be Wikified. Feel free to use that and set any other restrictions you like. There have also been some changes to the template. First and foremost, a reason parameter was added. Now editors are encouraged to add a reason when placing a Wikify tag on an article. While this reason is useful, be sure not to limit yourself as a result. An editor might not write that an article doesn't contain Wikilinks because they feel it is obvious. Another editor might only write that an article needs Wikilinks when the article is also lacking sections. Please Wikify the page in its entirety even if the template doesn't label all of the problems. One of the more useful aspects of the template is in identifying editors who are incorrectly placing the tag. We have a system to notify those editors that it is being placed incorrectly. Finally, I will be working on a method to hide the template, rather than removing it, from pages that are incorrectly tagged by AWB. Updates will appear on the main project talk page when I get that done so we can establish consensus for the change. Thank you all for your work in making Wikipedia look better. Ryan Vesey Review me! 04:39, 25 July 2012 (UTC) | |||