Speedsolving.com Wiki:General discussion

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This page will be used to organize efforts to improve the Speedsolving.com Wiki. A centralized discussion page for major changes belong here. Since there aren't many active editors, concentrating the discussion here will probably be better than on individual Talk pages. If we ever run into the happy problem of having too large a discussion page, separate pages can be created for individual projects. Please sign your comments (four tildes (~) without space).

Categorization

Kenneth set up a nice Category:Resources (retitled from Cubing Resources) a while back, but I'm trying to set up parallel categorization systems that are closer to Wikipedia's; see e.g. Category:Contents, Category:Cubers, further classifications therein, and going up to Category:Main topic classifications. Macky 23:30, 18 May 2012 (EDT)

Wikipedia's organization system

This is the parallel organization structure I'm trying to set up. For more info see this and links therein. Macky (talk) 02:15, 24 May 2012 (EDT)

One reason for adopting Wikipedia's organization system:

• Visitors are likely to be best used to it.
• Logical and accurate. This leads to better organization in the long run and will also help us see which articles are still needed.

e.g. Currently Category:Algorithms contains articles for substeps that contain algorithms. On Wikipedia, such a category would contain instead articles on the algorithms themselves (e.g. Sune). This category should be created, and the current category should be renamed to Category:Pages containing algorithms, itself put eventually in Category:Articles. It's undeniable that such a category is very useful, but the proper way to give it prominent place would be to put it in Category:Resources and feature it on the top page or some other portal pages.Macky (talk) 02:44, 24 May 2012 (EDT)

Tools

• Project:AutoWikiBrowser
• Pat is working on HotCat

People/Cubers

Please keep an eye on the What are you famous for? thread and add articles as appropriate. Macky 23:33, 18 May 2012 (EDT)

Terminology

Category:Terminology. Everything is terminology. Nothing should be put directly into this category. We should make subcategories. Macky 14:55, 19 May 2012 (EDT)

Proposed categories

• "Category:WCA events" (not the same as puzzles). Maybe there should be a parent-category to include non-WCA events as well, but Category:Events already exists (currently only contains competitions, but there are other uses). Category:Solving Variants should be renamed, maybe to reflect this. Macky (talk) 02:21, 24 May 2012 (EDT)