Library Work

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Sensei's library has been in existence for many years now. The library has grown to a large number of pages. Besides adding new content to the library, or participating in discussions, there is a lot of work you can do in the maintenance of the library. The work includes:

  • Check out one of the following pages for more specific work you can do:
  • Check pages to be master edited and learn more about Wiki Master Edit.
  • Look at the bottom 250 backward in pages by distance. These are pages containing very few links and hence susceptible of wikification.
  • Look at the bottom 250 forward in pages by distance. These are pages being linked from very few pages. They can probably be linked from more pages or be merged into similar pages which are referenced more often.
  • Worse even are the Wiki orphans, pages not referenced by any page. These are a subset of the unreachable pages as listed on distance from frontpage.
  • Define Undefined pages. Many links to not existing pages exist in the library. Either these links must be cleaned, or the pages can be created. In the long list of undefined pages you may want to check entries with multiple linking pages first. A big help may be to first categorize the undefined pages [2].
  • Add links to relevant pages. The simplest form is the "see also" section at the bottom of the page.
  • Do a search on some keyword in a page's content and add the keyword to the page's keywords.
  • Have a look at a random Big question mark and distill useful content to other or separate pages, leaving the original BQM in its state. (This is an improved way of what was the BQM task force).
  • Table-fy table-like data, which is still presented in monospace font.
  • Besides the above, many pages in the library have a temporary nature and are often more of personal interest than of real interest to the community. The maintenance of such pages is left to the courtesy of their creators.
  • Improve navigation on SL by making new and contributing to existing index pages / paths.
  • Use the brand new position search function to find related problems, or even duplicates, turning them into aliases or references to each other.
  • Churn some random pages: check a random page (see left bar) and inspect its content. Wikify it. In particular add links to related material on Sensei's Library to improve navigation.
  • Sort problems by difficulty. (Start with the Beginner Exercises.)

Adding keywords

To help us add keywords, take the following steps:

  • Go to the Advanced Find Page
  • In the section "Does NOT have any of the following PageHeaders":
    • Select HomePage, Alias and SubPage in the "PageType" column (use CTRL-click to select multiple)
    • Select all items in tke Keywords column (click the first, then SHIFT-click the last item)
  • Search
  • In the resulting list select pages, add appropriate keywords to them, then go back to the search result and repeat.
  • If you do not know what keywords a page should have, you can add a {{help | keywords}} template to them.
  • If the available keywords do not contain anything that fits:
    • See if any of the keywords at Keyword Template do fit
    • If so, use the {{keyword|value}} template (where value is the keyword you chose)
    • If not, you can think of a new one, use it as {{keyword|your_new_keyword}}, and add it to the list at Keyword Template

[2] Dieter: It has become very tedious to categorize the undefined pages.



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