WikiProject Cleanup
WikiProject Cleanup is an on-going project to help develop and maintain a clear, well written, linked and accessible wiki providing a wide variety of information to support the OpenStreetMap project. This project provides a largely invisible but vital support to the project by ensuring that all content created on the wiki by numerous individuals on many subjects in many languages integrates into a coherent whole. Well... that's the dream anyway!
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Objectives
To ensure that the OpenStreetMap wiki becomes an increasingly clear, accessible and useful resource for people wishing to contribute to the OpenStreetMap project or to use OpenStreetMap data. The wiki should:
- Provide background information about OpenStreetMap for the general public (including information on the project, its goals and progress over time)
- Help new contributors get started by providing information about using editors and tagging
- Help co-ordinate mapping in every part of the world
- Support people who wish to use OpenStreetMap data and software to some purpose (as distinct to people wishing to contribute data)
- Help new and existing developers who wish to understand what software projects exist and how to engage with them
- Provide a place for people to discuss new tagging proposals
- Ensure that the content is consistently organised and easily accessible
- maintain a dynamic and creative environment which can accommodate new types of content and will continue to evolve to meet new challenges
Cleanup project organisation
The Cleanup project is in part a project to increase conformance the Wiki guidelines which lay out some suggestions for how to present information with the OSM wiki. Questions about how to organise content on the wiki are outlined and discussed on Wiki organisation. Issues can be tagged using a range of Wiki labels requesting certain actions from the wiki team. Much of the work is done by whoever gets to it first, however from time to time there have been "Wiki Cleanup Drives" where a number of contributors work as a team to tidy up the wiki within a period of time with a particular goal in mind.
Don't underestimate how much benefit the project gets from a better wiki. A good wiki ensures that more people actually get the courage together to start contributing, it means that the contributions are more likely to be useful and reduced the amount of subsequent rework that is required.
Do be aware renaming/moving/deleting pages can cause a bit of upset, so it can be better to discuss them first on the page which is to be changed (See also Wiki Help#Some general guidelines).
Current tasks
See Wiki maintenance tasks for a list of cleanup tasks which cut across many wiki pages, and which can be undertaken by many people in parallel.
The following is a list of specific pages or areas of the wiki where we have identified the need for some cleanup.
Beginners' guide
A full list of subcategories of issues is available in Category:Cleanup. The top three priorities are to:
- Improve the Beginners' guide - see Talk:Beginners' guide#Improvements to the Beginners' guide for a description of the problem.
- Rationalise the numberous 'introductions to OSM' - see Talk:Beginners' guide#Wiki_organisation for a description of the problem.
- Using OpenStreetMap - see Talk:Using OpenStreetMap#Restructure Page - Some restructuring done, but pretty much all the linked pages need rewriting/renaming.
FAQ
- Talk:FAQ#Page too big. Too many FAQs - need to prune down the FAQ page a little
Proposed features
- Talk:Proposed features#Cleanup_Request - yes the big fish :) needs a fundamental redesign to be usefull
Public transport
- WikiProject Cleanup/Public transport - All about the public transport mess
GPS reviews
- GPS Reviews - Site is massive and not very easy to navigate. Should be split into an overview table current first part) and individual device pages.
- Starting migration in the following weeks Template:Gps_unit --!i!
18:38, 15 August 2011 (BST)
- Starting migration in the following weeks Template:Gps_unit --!i!
OpenStreetMap in the Media
- Talk:OpenStreetMap_in_the_media#Country_and_language_specific_pages - get language pages by filtering just one single page
- News - what should be added here? Proposals? New Tools? How can we get more news?
Update documentation for osm.org slippy map
Due to the removal of the Osmarender and NoName layers, the addition of other layers and the new layer switcher on osm.org, several wiki pages are now outdated. This includes at least the following pages and their translations:
But there are probably more pages that need updates.
Other stuff
- Talk:Portal:Users#'Portal'? and 'User' too vague - Bad title. This is an unfocussed summary of OSM.
- Talk:Marine Mapping#Cleanup A bunch of pages related to mapping of marine features exists without a clear structure.
- DE:Geotagging_Source_Photos merge (recently translated by User:Malenki) with DE:Photo_mapping and Geotagging_Source_Photos with Photo mapping. Would be only reasonable to have the "Howto geotag photographs" in the photomapping-article. Maybe the third language at both places could also be merged if there is somebody understanding this.
- Talk:Map Making Overview#Wiki structure - How does Map Making Overview relate with Mapping Projects
- Talk:Mapping#Wiki structure - How does Mapping page fit in with that? - Discussion Needed!
- Develop better ordering for the usecase of external devs
- Category:Tagging_guidelines Should become more visible to peoples that set up proposals
- Making Tracks with Homebrew-ware - still not sure where to put the remaining content...
- Talk:Import/Catalogue#Cleanup Request - Transforming to templates
- Tiles - very outdated and uncategorized
- Categorizing/merging all about Aerial Imagery especially even the German pages and the lists containing possible data sources
- Talk:JOSM/Plugins/WMSPlugin#Restructuring docs now that it's no longer plugin - some moving and merging needed
- Expanding Merkaartor/Documentation
- Category:Projects most WikiProjectsXYZ esp. in Africa doesn't contain the Template:place --!i! 08:02, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
- User:Markus_B/Werkstatt lists some great german pages, that need to be harmonized with the language namespaces --!i! 10:58, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Completed tasks
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Talk:Mapping/Features#Wiki Organisation - Pages describing specific tags. We have at least two different naming structures.- DONE -
Talk:Developer - Merge Developer with Develop? Need to make a coherent start page for developers- DONE -
Talk:REST - REST is a bad name for a page. Rename it to 'API' or 'Protocol'- DONE -
OpenStreetMap talk:Community Portal - Rename 'Community Portal' as 'Mapping Projects'- DONE -
Talk:Getting Involved#'Down Your Way' section - strange paragraph on another prominent marketing page.- DONE -
Talk:Why Make OpenStreetMap#Also on the FAQ page - sorting out our "marketing" message- DONE -
Template talk:MainMenu - where should the MainMenu template appear?- DONE -
Talk:JOSM#JOSM page cleanup - Need to tidy and split up the JOSM page. Maybe do nice tabbed guide like the germans have.- DONE -
I put the user from all kinds of variously typed categories each into matching ones -- User:Malenki -
There's only two acutally categories there, i've marked Category:Garmin_60CSx_Users for deletion as it is empty. Category:Garmin users is still prolifically used so i won't be marking it for deletion.. --Martin Renvoize 20:14, 24 January 2010 (UTC) -
Software --!i! 16:20, 4 November 2010 (UTC) -
Map Icons --!i! 16:20, 4 November 2010 (UTC) -
Video mapping--!i! 14:12, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
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Complete review of Category:Translation matrix for redundant and empty categories; revisions to Template:Babel implementations on user pages to apply best practice for translation matrix uniformity; addition of documentation to Template:Babel/doc for 'simple use' and best practices in language reporting. Started and completed 18 Dec 2010.--Ceyockey -
Talk:Google_Summer_of_Code#Refactoring_Research.2FStudent_pages Redesign student and research related pages?--!i! 18:45, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
replacing Template:BannerLayout styled messages with AMBox and [Template:warning]] for a cooperate design--!i! 13:35, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Talk:OSM User Groups - collecting local user groups using a template?--!i! 17:10, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
The Main Page, Map Features and Beginners' guide pages in English used the standard {{Languages}} template but some languages used custom templates with different link destinations for some languages. As a result the Bulgarian link from the English Beginners' guide pointed to a blank page when the link from the Bulgarian beginners guide did not. I have changed these pages to use {{Languages}} in alll languages that previously used custom templates to avoid similar mishaps in the future.Andrew 20:17, 7 April 2011 (BST) (UTC)-
-Talk:Elements#Same information as Data Primitives. Merge? - The Elements page largely duplicates Data PrimitivesHas been merged by PeterIto. --Tordanik 17:57, 1 April 2012 (BST)
