Suggestions For The Rebel Wisdom Wiki

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This page contains suggestions/ideas about how to organise the Rebel Wisdom Wiki at https://rebelwisdom.miraheze.org or things we could do to improve it.

Add a heading, your username, the date and the text for any ideas or suggestions you have to the bottom of the Pending Suggestions section.

Setting Wiki Domain To wiki.rebelwisdom.co.uk
Suggested By: Shalsey

Date: 10th September 2020

Executed by:

Not sure if this should wait until the Wiki is less experimental / more established, but the wiki could be set up to run on https://wiki.rebelwisdom.co.uk instead of its current https://rebelwisdom.miraheze.org address.

The instructions are at https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Custom_domains Not sure if it's technically difficult or costs any money?

Adding Some Standard Visual Templates
Suggested By: Voller

Date: 12th September 2020

Executed by:

Both MediaWiki and Wikipedia have some nice visual templates (e.g. for tables, notes, info boxes, etc.) that might be nice to add to the Rebel Wisdom Wiki as well. That way we have some more visuals to play with and can make things look more appealing and clear. According to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates it should be possible to import these templates relatively easily.

Update Wiki Logo To Match New Rebel Wisdom Logo
Suggested By: Shalsey

Date: 7th November 2020

Executed by:

Rebel Wisdom have updated their logo to get rid of the eye and changed it to be yellow and without the eye:- To update the logo that is on every page on the Wiki requires following the instructions at https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/ManageWiki#How_do_I_change_my_logo.2Ffavicon.3F

This involves makes changes on the Special:ManageWiki page which requires a bureaucrat user or a user with the managewiki permission. I'm an Administrator and I can't edit this page and so I think maybe mistic192 will have to do this or grant the managewiki permission to me to do it (please).

Mediawiki Main Page
Suggested By: Imamy

Date: 16th May 2023

Executed by:

Mediawiki upgrade allows wikis to change the main page.

We can change landing page from Main Page to something more appropriate page name.

We could set up the wiki so that landing page for rebelwisdom.miraheze.org could be set to something other than https://rebelwisdom.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Adding Ability To Visually Edit Page (by adding VisualEditor extension)
Suggested By: shalsey

Date: 6th September 2020

Executed by: mistic192 (confirmed to work now )

Currently when you edit a page on the Rebel Wisdom Wiki at https://rebelwisdom.miraheze.org you have to edit it using the MediaWiki markup language which may be a bit intimidating for some non-technical users.

There is an extension to the MediaWiki software that runs the Rebel Wisdom Wiki site called VisualEditor, which gives a WYSIWG (What You See Is What You Get) editor which is much nicer. This is the one WikiPedia uses by default.

This can be enabled by any Admin user of the Wiki by reading:-

https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/FAQ#Do_I_need_to_learn_MediaWiki.3F

and then going to:-

https://rebelwisdom.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:ManageWiki/extensions

and ticking VisualEditor extension. Please add a comment to this page once you've done it, and then this suggestion can be deleted after a bit (as it will be redundant!)

Fixing The Inaccurate "Read Only" Edit Notice On The Main Page
Suggested By: Shalsey

Date: 11th September 2020

Executed by: Shalsey

If you click Edit on the Main Page you get a notice saying "Warning: This page has been protected so that only users with administrator privileges can edit it.":- ...but you can carry on editing and save your changes. The page is actually protected because on Special:ProtectedPages it is listed as a page on which modifications are "Allow only logged in users". So looks like it's just the text of the Notice that needs changing to say that only logged in users can edit it - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Edit_notice  Not a big problem, but could be nice to fix... (or could be that intention was to lock down the page to Admins only, but protection level is wrong?)

UPDATE: The warning is there because the page is protected from deletion or moving ( from User:Mistic192 ), as I understand it, if we change this message, it will be updated all over the website as we currently only have one namespace for the pages. Please note that this is the first wiki I've ever set up, so I'm really new at this, should I make both of you ( Shalsey and Voller ) admins as well? REPLY: Mistic192 - Thanks for making me Admin. I'm learning myself, but will look into this at some point now I have the ability to change it - from Shalsey (talk) 18:33, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

UPDATE: Mistic192 It took a while to work out and quite a few tests (and deleted notice pages!) to get it functioning, but I've fixed it now by editing the MediaWiki:Protectedpagewarning page so that it no longer inaccurately says that Edits are blocked (it looks like that protected page warning appears for any protected page, no matter what the type of protection). I also added a custom edit notice just for the Main Page at MediaWiki:Editnotice-0-Main Page which explains the protection on that page. This applies in namespace number 0 which is apparently the default namespace - see Help:Namespaces#(Main) and Extension_default_namespaces. The result is that the Notice on the front page now makes more sense and looks like this:-