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Re: wiki housekeeping

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Kunda1 wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 12:34 pm What the heck am i supposed to change
See:
https://www.forum.freecadweb.org/viewto ... 80#p427722

In the case of the Raytracing_Workbench the files already exist of course.

Note there are other sidebar links that point to redirects.
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Re: wiki housekeeping

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https://wiki.freecadweb.org/MediaWiki:S ... tracing-wb has the word 'Raytracing' in it. I don't get it

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Duh, i was supposed to change https://wiki.freecadweb.org/MediaWiki:S ... -wb-target
OK..sidebar raytracing link fixed
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Re: wiki housekeeping

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cool

btw, now made this Category:HouseKeeping and a bit nicer name on the status page for renaming, can be worth keeping around if someone somehow manages to sneak in module in the links from time to time in the future.

edit: the old page (now redirect) should be deleted.
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Re: wiki housekeeping

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... We support (too) many languages. For every language there are (or should be) two separate files...

F.e.

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/MediaWiki:S ... -target/fr
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/MediaWiki:S ... cing-wb/fr

The 23 supported languages are:

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de
tr
es
fr
hr
it
hu
pl
pt
pt-br
ro
sv
cs
bg
ru
uk
zh
zh-cn
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Re: wiki housekeeping

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:D my intention was to get "Sandbox:Rename m2wb tracking" deleted, noticed that it is still there :) no worries, it can be deleted another time around.

I purposefully put it out of main namespace, and the only other reasonable choice was talk, noticed that the page was moved to main namespace - not my preference - but I can live with that..., the most important is the category.

my reasoning for not putting it in main namespace is for possible future scraping activities, since we do not have access to the source database - I see no other avenue than to scrape the wiki to get hold of the source text for pages, and then it helps to only have actual documentation pages in main, and that things not being actual sw docs is easy to discard based on "location rules".

on the sidebar, notice that early on this was a regular listing, and then sometime in 2015 it was reorganized to look like today, with the purpose that the sidebar would now behave localized, i.e. show the language one is looking at for "main view", that does not seem to work as it is today.

maybe there is a wiki-wiz out there that knows how to get that working, or if the whole wiki should be reorganized to lessen the burden of maintaining languages. took a brief look at the "classic" wikipedia, which handles languages in links like "wiki.fr.freecadweb.org/Atelier Part" for a link that in english would be "wiki.en.freecadweb.org/Part Workbench", in other words the base language link name does not seem to be visible anywhere, even when looking into source pages - in that sense it is much easier to understand what is what in terms of language on the freecad wiki - so for ease of editing I prefer the fc wiki.
as example, for the renaming activity, there really ought to be easy ways to automate that - but with the wild grown wiki that is there it feels a bit dangerous to go for automated workflows - so it would be great if for example links are only one style, making it easier to trust that automated link-hunting with find_replace actually works. aligning that on current wiki is a very large undertaking.
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Re: wiki housekeeping

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heda wrote: Sun Aug 29, 2021 8:30 am the only other reasonable choice was talk
Talk pages, which we hardly use, are intended for discussions about a page. Every wiki page can have its own Talk page.

heda wrote: Sun Aug 29, 2021 8:30 am does not seem to work as it is today.
You have to change the wiki language (top right corner). Then it does work.
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Re: wiki housekeeping

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aha, never used that before..., kicking the tyres on that once again reveals that the language linking in general can be improved

would be nice in that drop down was limited to the languages that is actually available.
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Re: wiki housekeeping

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Roy_043 wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:42 pm ... We support (too) many languages. For every language there are (or should be) two separate files...
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Please do not forget to also fix the sidebar links for the other languages. Thanks.
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Re: wiki housekeeping

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how are pieces like https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Translation ... ches/64/en which now has links that show up in "wanted pages".

should they be modified or simply deleted?

btw: there is some dirt left from the renaming activity in https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Special:BrokenRedirects and https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Special:DoubleRedirects that probably can be cleaned up by an admin.
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Re: wiki housekeeping

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Thanks for reporting. I have deleted the pages.
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