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?

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

Date: 11th September 2020

Executed by:

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?

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.

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!)