User:Zakgreant/Manual Namespace Sweep

Key pages
These are some of the most important pages on in the Manual namespace. We want to polish them soon, as the are often used.


 * Installation and Manual:Installation_guide (unify?)
 * Manual:Administrators
 * Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki
 * Manual:Coding_standards
 * Manual:Combating_spam (which needs to be linked up) and Manual:Combating_vandalism could be unified or at least borrow from each other
 * Manual:Config script - needs updating
 * Manual:Configuring file uploads
 * Manual:Configuring MediaWiki
 * Manual:Configuration settings
 * Manual:Contents
 * Manual:Database_access
 * Manual:DefaultSettings.php (and perhaps this should be split out of Manual:LocalSettings.php)
 * Download from SVN needs polishing
 * Download needs tidying
 * Manual:Errors_and_Symptoms needs to be compared with the various FAQs and other related pages
 * Manual:FAQ is super-important and needs lots of love. It may be best to split it up into multiple sections.
 * Manual:How_to_debug
 * Manual:Localization
 * Manual:LocalSettings.php
 * Manual:Maintenance_scripts - which needs love and fulfillment
 * Manual:Preventing access
 * Manual:Security
 * Manual:System_administration
 * Manual:Upgrading

To tidy
These pages are less important, but really need a tidying.


 * Manual:GenerateSitemap.php needs a good clean
 * Manual:GetLagTimes.php needs tidying
 * Manual:Global_Class_Variables should be cleaned up, expanded, and hooked in with Security for developers and friends
 * Manual:Guide_to_setting_up_interwiki_linking needs to be part of review that includes Manual:Interwiki and friends
 * Manual:Industrialization_guide/LocalSettings.php and Manual:Industrialization_guide/LocalSettings.php need to be moved (like their parent Manual:Industrialization_guide)
 * overview article Manual:Image_Administration needs a good sweep
 * Manual:Installation/Users needs a good sweep - is the info duplicated?
 * Manual:Installing_third-party_tools needs to be split into separate pages
 * Manual:Manual_configuration needs to be wedded with the other configuration pages
 * Manual:MediaWiki_architecture needs serious love
 * Manual:MediaWiki_feature_list needs to be linked up
 * Manual:Streamlined Windows Install Guide and other install guides should be handled differently as the information goes stale so quickly.
 * Should all install guides be linked from Manual:OS_specific_help?
 * Need to compare the install guides with the Special:PrefixIndex/Manual:Running MediaWiki on pages.
 * What's the intent of Manual:Personalization - need to look at logs and dig into linked files.
 * Manual:PostgreSQL and affiliated templates need updating and cleaning
 * Manual:Before_installing needs work
 * Manual:Blobs_table needs a description of what it's for
 * i wish that Manual:Build_Tidy_from_source didn't need to be in our manual. I can't believe how useless http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ is...
 * Manual:Edit_token needs dev review
 * merge Manual:Guide_to_setting_up_interwiki_linking and Manual:Interwiki
 * Manual:MySQL, Manual:Fire up mysql and friends need editing.
 * Manual:Backlinks - ironically, there are no links to backlinks

Move to userspace
These pages don't really belong in the Manual namespace and should likely be moved.


 * Manual:Collapsible_tables
 * Manual:Custom edit buttons
 * Manual:Documentation:PhpWiki_conversion
 * Manual:MediaWiki-Recent_Changes-IRCBot
 * Manual:PhpWiki conversion
 * perhaps the Special:PrefixIndex/Manual:Short URL pages

Misc.

 * we really, really need to separate pages as much as possible. Info gets fragmented across many pages then quickly gets crufty.
 * Manual:Contents/To_do needs to include some kind of flagging or category system. Manually maintaining a list of content to update, etc. makes work that doesn't need to be done. Need to take a hard look at flagged revs for this.
 * examine existing templates (and make new ones) to ease tedium.
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Personalization&action=historysubmit&diff=136204&oldid=131262 notes that over-use of templates is a bad thing. Need to investigate, as I'd rather type  than  . Shouldn't the multiple layers of caching take care of the related load?
 * let's put big, long URLs on a single line when possible so that we can read the darn things
 * Review all categories
 * need database hub
 * should tackle docs section-by-section, which will make it more efficient to determine needed templates, categories, etc.
 * not even going to think about Manual:Extension right now
 * need standard template for function arguments, etc.
 * Manual:Hooks should be tackled separately
 * skipping Interface articles for now
 * ensure that useful content in http://toolserver.org/~mwbot/botbrain.html is also in the manual

Style and such

 * DBMS
 * MySQL
 * Oracle
 * PostgreSQL
 * SQLite


 * Programming Languages
 * Batch File
 * Javascript
 * PHP
 * Shell
 * SQL


 * Web Server
 * Apache


 * Links


 * Syntax
 * Class
 * Configuration Variable
 * Function
 * Method
 * Object
 * Variable

Terminology

 * GET data or GET parameters or query string?