PersonalScienceWiki:Open Issues

This is a list of open to do's for this wiki. Feel free to add issues to this list. For more general ideas, please have a look at PersonalScienceWiki:Brainstorming. For issues related to a specific page, you can add your comment directly to that page's discussion page. To keep this list uncluttered, please discuss the issues on the "Discussion" page of this page, referring to the issue's heading. Thank you for contributing to bringing this wiki to life!

Open Issues

Links / Spam

Definition of rules for when something is and isn’t appropriate / good practices ; Who maintains the wiki / removes spam regularly / enforces the rules? - Katoss (talk) 14:50, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Thoughts from wiki page making meeting: restricting creating links (e.g. account creation necessary), make links not appear in search engines to remove incentives for spam, it is important to create policies that can be cited, so that spam deletion does not seem arbitrary (what is trash, what is not trash?); People who create/edit a page are on the watchlist, so they get notifications if somebody makes changes - Katoss (talk) 16:24, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Backups

There are daily VM backups in Digital Ocean. Should there be other backups? - Katoss (talk) 14:50, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Done

Reference extension

Adding the 'cite' extension to the wiki, so it is possible to add references/footnotes - Katoss (talk) 14:50, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

The extension 'cite' was already installed (comes with MediaWiki 1.21 and up), but had to be activated manually. I tested it quickly and it seems to work. - Katoss (talk) 14:53, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

"people" page vs "user:" page

As far as I understood there was consensus on making separate pages for individuals (a page in the "People" category, and a "User:USERNAME" page). The User: page is the personal page of every user, where they can write what they like (similar to user: pages on wikipedia), and the "People" page is the "public" page about the self research practice of that person. Here are some thoughts from User:Madprime and from the self research chat on that issue. - Katoss (talk) 11:20, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

How can users reset passwords?

At the moment the wiki cannot send emails, so nothing happens when users request resetting their password. Is there another way to allow them to reset their password? If not, how can we activate email functionality? - Katoss (talk) 11:20, 18 November 2021 (UTC) (Source)

Hopefully fixed as of Nov 17 as SMTP has been set up for the server. Madprime (talk) 18:38, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

I see it now works and managed to recover my password, thnx! Esenabre (talk) 15:15, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Homepage structure

The home page needs content and structure. A suggestion by User:Esenabre is here: Template:Homepage. - Katoss (talk) 15:10, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

I tried importing box templates from mediawiki for formatting, but got error messages when logged in as admin. I suspect it could be size limits for file uploads. - Katoss (talk) 15:10, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

I would suggest to add links to the "open issues" and "brainstorming" pages to the home page, in addition to what is in User:Esenabre's template. - Katoss (talk) 15:11, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Done. Used a table instead of boxes for now. - Katoss (talk) 15:57, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Homepage: About

We need a short text introducing the wiki(@User:Madprime would you still like to give it a try?) - Katoss (talk) 15:10, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

User:Madprime wrote a first version on the PersonalScienceWiki:About page. - Katoss (talk) 15:57, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

"Why wiki"?

It might be good to have a short text reasoning why we develop this wiki, and how it is different from other existing platforms. This could be part of the "about" text on the homepage, or maybe a dedicated text, e.g. on the Help:Personal Science Wiki FAQ page. - Katoss (talk) 11:20, 18 November 2021 (UTC) (Source)

See PersonalScienceWiki:About - Katoss (talk) 15:57, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Which metadata should the pages use?

Which metadata would be good to have for tools, topics, people and projects in order to make pages easily findable and create a useful semantic structure for this wiki? (I hesitated to put this into "brainstorming" rather than "open issues". It might be good to agree on some basic/evident properties now and to let the rest develop over time) - Katoss (talk) 11:20, 18 November 2021 (UTC) (Source)

After some discussion with User:Gedankenstuecke and User:Madprime, to reduce complexity, the category pages will only have other page categories as properties, and only in one direction (that means that, e.g. a project page has "tools" as property, but the respective tool page does not have this project as a property. However, on the bottom of the tool page, project pages that link to the tool are listed. Have a look at "Template:" + [category name] + "Infobox" and "Template:" + [category name] + "Queries" to see properties and backlinks for all categories (or look at pages of this category).