User:Axius: Difference between revisions

On IP address once made some edits on WikiIslam which made us realize that we need to fix our referencing system which is used site-wide. We made changes after we saw those edits. Anyone can have an impact on this site.

How can WikiIslam be improved and what can be done to make it better? Please let us know on the Forum page.

Links: About us | WikiIslam:Core Principles | WikiIslam:Frequently Asked Questions | Forum |

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New users under review

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Links

• Tasks page: WikiIslam:Tasks
• WikiIslam:Administrators
• WikiIslam:Editor engagement
• Test wiki
• Random page
• User:Axius/IDebater
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo - for Thanks and other notifications

Drop down Menus:

• MediaWiki:Headersfooters-global-header
• MediaWiki:Common.js‎
• MediaWiki:Common.css‎
• http://libregamewiki.org/MediaWiki:Headersfooters-global-footer
  • All MW pages: https://libregamewiki.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=8

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HeadersFooters
• MediaWiki:Sitenotice‎

To do

• User:Axius/WikiIslam:Community Guidelines

• check: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Discussion_and_forum_extensions
• deletion policy: MediaWiki:Confirmdeletetext
• syntax highlight
• community guidelines
• Hire:
  • Primary task: Community building. Create new ways of attracting editors and building an active self-sustaining community with a positive constructive vibe where rational ideas reign. Without this this website cannot survive, evolve and grow. Increase high-quality editing activity. You can also explore implementing fund raising to finance editors (if that is what is needed for increasing editing activity)
  • Other tasks:
    • Also recruit volunteer editors for other languages. Coordinate with sub-domain administrations for community building.
    • Make it easy for translators to do translations
    • Web usability: Make it easier to browse the website and get the information people are looking for. This can include suggestions for changing the basic layout of the side (top, left, bottom areas) but this is not the only thing that may be needed.
  • Prior experience in website community growth, or leadership positions in other scenarios and education/experience in Web design may help

To do: 2

• Help page for Translation (move from WikiIslam:Translations#Steps_and_Guidelines)
  • WikiIslam:Help for Translations
• WikiIslam:Translations (Arabic)
• Fixes for Template:External link
• Web Cite BOT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WebCiteBOT
• Template:Cite web quotebox - fix for missing variables (e.g. publisher)
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArchiveLinks
• Visual recognitions for editors, classifications/categories (take cats from Wikipedia:Service awards):
  • Multi-lingual with language specific info
  • Highest level, Master editor: Someone who strongly influenced the site and has been here for a long time
  • New editor
  • 6 months activity should be considered in addition with complete history to reliably track quality of contributions
  • Define: criteria for inclusion
    • Length of activity
    • Quality of contributions in accordance with guidelines
    • Leadership (helping other editors)m resolving situations
    • Creativity: Thinking of new creative ways to present information and solve problems

• Sample inputs, ref
• Islamophobia: [1]
• WikiIslam:Reasons for Reverts and Deletions
• Bot for Ref arch -> cite web, ref + BR -> cite web quotebox
• Feedback link. "How are we doing?"
• Task completion for new editors
• [2] - [3], [4] (wikipedia), Philosophy of Editing, Code of Conduct, Teamwork [], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12] -- [13], [14], [15], [16]
• WikiIslam:Site Appearance and Interface
• Q/A for prospective editors
• Form system for: http://wikiislam.net/wiki/User_talk:Axius#MSTDT

• Footer:
  • Improve WikiIslam by editing this page
  • [last editor] made an edit on [date]
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:WYSIWYG_extensions
• Anti-spam: Disable new pages with links, for new users
• Test WikEd [17]
• RSS
• For About/FAQ/mission page: (talking to prospective editors) In addition to civilians, our audience is lawmakers, authors, movie producers, people in administration
• Test blog plugin/rss feed (semantic MW)
• Guide on how to use this site: Hints while debating with muslims, possible objections from them, and what to say, strategies
• IDebater: Accessible through site wide link "Test your faith in Islam"
• Investigate: Ability to see/browse Islamic texts (quran, hadith) from within the site (a popup) and insert them where needed. Could write some kind of script to get texts from external sites so we dont have to have copies

Lower Priority

• Form for: "Request for article" and "List Islam"
• Check hook- EditPage::showEditForm:initial
• Some references for later, lexicon: khamr (bottom right), nabeez (bottom left), shraab (top left), Ood (middle).

Later

• How to use this site - shortcut at bottom of each page? Next to About link (common arguments against the site and responses, and how to quote us or link to us)
• Quran translations: Copy translations for Fair use: Islam awakened, or see: Quran - 8 translations in a Word document
• A system for WI's own hadith and Quran page references for the hadith and verses we use, to keep the visitor on the site. Current templates could be updated for these hadiths and verses. These pages could be sub-sections within a page or have their own page. They would also have links to relevant articles.
• For Quotes: Investigate using different colors for different types of contents, e.g. Quran (green), hadith (blue), News sources (brown), Articles (light yellow), grey and light pink, light orange could also be used.

Random quotes stuff

• Quotes from apostates (for random apostate quote box)
  • What I liked about being a Muslim was the community. Muslims are generally very warm and hospitable. There was nothing nicer than going to Jumma, praying with and saying Salaam to everyone. - Mahavira (former_Muslim)
  • "I have left Islam because Muslim can't make a pencil of their own." - Ehsan (M, 28) from Iran left Islam at age 20
• Random verse, hadith and fatwa display box
• Related article box on top?
• Random displays/boxes for articles, testimonies, statistics, quotations or other stuff for more exposure
• Template for, Random quotes from former muslims - include this and any other quotes from testimonies.

Pages for Testing

Pages

Templates

• Template:AxiusTest1 - quote
• Template:AxiusTest2 - cite core
• Template:AxiusTest3 - cite
• Template:AxiusTest4
• Template:AxiusTest5
• Template:AxiusTest6
• Template:AxiusTest7
• Template:AxiusTest8
• Template:AxiusTest9
• Template:AxiusTest10

Bookmarks

• Proxy browsing for testing (for anon IP)
• HTML 2 WIKI. Another converter
• HTML 2 WikiTable
• Multilingual MediaWiki | Mediawiki List message
• Semi Protection Policy at WikiPedia (users after 4 days old)
• Linking a wiki image to a URL
• Changing the title of a page
• Mediawiki CSS etc
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:AlternateEdit_extensions , http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:AbortNewAccount_extensions
• http://www.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Help:Monaco
• http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Help:Examples_of_customized_Monaco_skins
• http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Alternative_row_colors_in_a_table
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgLegalTitleChars
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aaron_Schulz/How_to_make_MediaWiki_fast
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ilmari_Karonen/Performance_tuning
• https://portal.solvemedia.com/portal/help/pub/mw/ - Solve Media Captcha for MW
• Cache:
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Cache
  • http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/304435 (file cache for multi-lingual sites)
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:File_cache
• Lua:
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua_scripting
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua/Tutorial
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Citation
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation_Style_documentation/lua

Wikipedia user issues

• http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/docs/curriculum_vitae
• http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/
• MediaWiki:Sidebar/Group:sysop [18]. Needs DynamicSidebar extension
  • Admin Tools
    • Special:RecentChanges|Patrol changes
    • Special:RecentChangesCleanup|Recent changes cleanup
    • WikiIslam:Administrators|Administrators
• http://libregamewiki.org/MediaWiki:Headersfooters-global-footer - horizontal popup menu
• Wiki Editor (toolbar):
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Custom_edit_buttons

Setup

• Wiki Mail Server settings
• Enabling Email functions | how to | Also see: Patrolled edit

Extensions

• Main links: Special page extensions | MW extensions category | WM Extensions
• Easytimeline
• Sortable Table. Better Sorter:HTML Sort table
• FireStats Web Statistics for MW. Demo
• Category Tree Extension - maybe not useful (low priority)
• LiveSaver - save typed data in MW, helpful for crashes so edits arent lost
• Article Rating extension
• Possible Audio plugin, also check: [19]
• Embed Flash
• Video extension - 44 video types
• "Send to a friend" script
• ImageMap - make links in an image like in HTML
• WikEd - Enhanced editor, works only in Firefox
• Writing a special page
• Writing an extension tag
• Google search extension
• RSS feed extensions: Currently installed
• Search stats - stats
• customize RC line
• Meta tag extension (description) - for search engines
• Replace text - within pages (and gives info for each replace before doing it)
• Flagged Revisions (allows trusted editors to approve page changes by new/unknown users)
• Contact Form (e.g.)
• Newest Pages (e.g.)
• Replace Text - search and replace text in all pages
• Extension:MassEditRegex

Done tasks

Future Reference

• Installing ImageMagick - image resizing
• Extra Edit buttons. Also: [20]
• ConfirmEdit extension - Simple extension to protect more against spammers
• Wiki Extension Massmailer
• RSS extensions mediawiki
• Collapsable tables: Setting up (or at Wikipedia) | How to use them
• Meta desc tag
• Gadgets for Tooltips [21], [22]
  • Steps: 1. Install Gadgets extension. 2. Make: MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.css‎ and MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js (from wikipedia). 3. Enable in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor/Toolbar_customization

Forms

• Wikipedia: Sample template used for exmuslims
• EditFormPreloadText - possibly for ex-muslim pages
• Also see: Users can edit page by filling form fields - May be useful for ex-muslim template. After IF works, create template, and test this form.
• Semantic Forms MediaWiki extension | Installation
• Users can edit page by filling form fields - May be useful for ex-muslim template. After IF works, create template, and test this form.
• Forms
• Email Form

Spam/Anti vandalism

• ReCaptcha - spam protection
• Abusefilter (throttling)
• Interviwiki Bots - WP: Anti Vandal Bot
• MediaWiki Spam Fight Patch 1.1
• Anti-Spam - 1 IP per user account

Article tasks

1. Mistranslated Quranic verses - As an example Quran 5:38 is translated on free-minds.org as "cut from their resources", which is different from the actual meaning "cut off their hands". Explore all other possible Quranic verses listed in the Quran category, Top 10 Controversial Verses Concerning Women and Top 10 Controversial Verses in the Qur'an and compare translations to accepted translated like Yusuf, Shakir and Pickthall. These obscure translations distort the meanings of Quranic verses and are often used for apologetic purposes. Explore the sources and the people behind the free-minds website and those who wrote these translations.
2. Advice for editing Wikipedia - advice for following Wikipedia policies, how to create content and dealing with situations relating to criticism of Islam
3. IDebater (User:Axius/IDebater)- directed towards Muslims, this is a big project. See the link for more detail of what it is about. More information on the project will be posted later.

Tools

• Article formatter