MAG:Templates
Templates are an important part of any good mediawiki wiki. They help tag, categorize, identify, stylize and format articles, and improve code readability and clarity, and generally make life easier for everybody.
To that end, I'd like to focus efforts here on creating and maintaining a set of templates for maemowiki.
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Tasks
- Develop guidelines for the creation, categorization, style and format of new templates.
- Ensure existing templates comply with these guidelines.
- Figure out what templates we need (this is a very fluid task that will likely never be completed).
- Create those templates.
Open/Closed table, justification, and petition templates
We need to put together templates for the open/closed-source plan outlined in the Increasing transparency page.
- We need templates for:
- Individual packages (or package sets, as, say, alarmd and alarmtool can probably both be filed under alarmd), their source-state and (if closed) justification for that state.
- Should these templates be set up as "justification tables" to be inserted into larger articles or as individual articles?
- Petition templates for requesting that a closed package be opened.
- What about a template for "Candidate to be deleted", for pages like this one?--qgil 19:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
- Individual packages (or package sets, as, say, alarmd and alarmtool can probably both be filed under alarmd), their source-state and (if closed) justification for that state.
Standard Wikipedia template set
- Equivalent to "This article has poor language/grammar, please help fixing it."--qgil 07:53, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
- Template to identify tasks? Open/Completed?--qgil 07:53, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Types of templates
There are effectively two types of templates that need to be created:
Transcluded
First, we have transcluded templates are those that help in navigation, organization, categorization, and tagging. They are designed to maintain uniform look and format across the entire wiki. These will constitute the bulk of the work. Things like,
Main article: Maemowiki Action Group
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This article is continued discussion from the maemo.org brainstorm Please see the 100 Days agenda for more. |
- Template:Community:
- Community news
- Maemo Community Council
- maemo.org team
- Community mailing lists
- Community projects we depend on
- Maemo professionals
- Maemo people
- Getting involved
Substituted
Second, we have substituted templates, which are those that provide skeletal frameworks for certain types of pages. These will include things like the Close-source justification page, and open-source petition page.
For example, an early version of such a template is Template:Plan metadata (see User:jaffa/Sandbox for example usage). One thing to note is that nice, clean CSS classes like "wikitable" do not seem to be present in maemowiki at the moment.