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Kayaking

Wikipedia:WikiProject Canoeing and Kayaking
CE
- Kayak – Light boat that is paddled
- Sea kayak – Light boat that is paddled
- Whitewater kayaking – Type of water sport
- Kayaking – Use of a kayak on water
- Outline of canoeing and kayaking – Overview of and topical guide to canoeing and kayaking
- Kayak roll – Method for righting a capsized kayak
- Whitewater – Turbulent and aerated water
- Canoe England – Previous national governing body for paddlesports in England
- Hip-flick
- Tuilik – Watertight jacket used when paddling a kayak
- Waipapa (canoe)
- Canadian (canoe) vs Canoe – Light boat that is paddled
- River Thames#Kayaking and canoeing vs Kayaking and canoeing on the River Thames (AFD?)
create ((Infobox kayaking club)) or ((Infobox canoeing and kayaking club))
- xref ((Infobox rowing club)) ((Infobox curling club)) ((Infobox surf club))
- add to Category:Canoe clubs in the United Kingdom (6)
- add clubs
Templates
- ((Canoeing and kayaking))
cats
- Category:Canoes (51)
- Category:Canoeing (24)
- Category:Human-powered watercraft (29)
- Category:Canoeing in the United Kingdom (15)
- Category:Canoeing and kayaking venues (11)
- Category:Olympic canoeing venues (35)
Paddling
Canoeing and kayaking

Computing

Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing
Category vs List vs Glossary
Kill Glossary of computer software terms
kill Glossary of Internet-related terms
Computing

Short description

Info

Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions (talk)
Wikipedia:Short description (talk)
((Short description)) (talk)
((Auto short description)) (talk)
Category:Pages with short description
- Category:Articles with short description (5,507,959)
- Category:Categories with short description (0)
Category:Templates that generate short descriptions (221)
- Category:Templates that generate short descriptions for chemical elements (125)
Category:Modules that create a short description (3)
((#invoke:Type in location|main|type|location))

My TODO lists

SD — Level 5 Vital articles — 0–9, A–F
SD2 — Level 5 Vital articles — G–M
SD3 — Level 5 Vital articles — N–Z
SD4 — From Category:Villages and areas in the City of York (33) Y
SD5 — From List of rivers of Yorkshire + 4 Rivers of ... Yorkshire cats
SD6 — From List of towns in England (975)
NT — From List of National Trust properties in England

SD template itself

What is the effect of setting a description of "none"?
- Clarify documentation re effect of p1=none
- qv @Redrose64
Add details of SD |Pagetype= parameter Y
- qv Wikipedia_talk:Short_description#Pagetype
((Auto short description)) Add option to use a sub cat of Category:Templates that generate short descriptions qv ((Infobox element))

Add SD to Infobox templates

((Infobox Unicode block)) Plain text Y
((Infobox Doctor Who episode)) Simple derived text using |type= and |date= Y
add howto at project page
((Infobox UK place)) should set SD using |county= and/or |type=
- see Template_talk:Infobox_UK_place#Type
- ((Infobox UK place)) starts with
```
((Short description|2=noreplace|
  ((#if:(({type|))}
    |((delink|(({type))}))
    |Human settlement
  ))
  in
  ((#if:(({country|))}|((delink|(({country))}))|the United Kingdom))
))
```
- Compare with ((Infobox settlement)) — instead starts with
```
((#invoke:Settlement short description|main))
```
  which does rather a lot to build a valid description. See Module:Settlement short description (Lua)
- Investigate using the Settlement module in the UK place infobox

Create a template for list pages — which then adds a SD

Start RfC re ((List page)) to set SD via ((List page short description)) ?

Scripts for SD admin

Misc TODO

add SDlink shortcut to ((Annotated link)) Y
get bug fixed in ((#invoke:Type in location|function))

Yorkshire

York

Photos Medieval parish churches – None
Convert to SD list List of York sites of interest – None
Migrate cats List of people from York
York

London

Watch
- Category:River Thames
- King Edward Memorial Park – Public open space in London, England
- Thames Tideway Scheme
- The Highway + Charles Jamrach – British zookeeper
- London Borough of Tower Hamlets – Borough in London, England
London

Templates

Create

((Type in location))

Infobox UK place

((Infobox UK place))
|type= has no documentation — not used much — needed to feed into SD — xref
Ask re ((Infobox UK port)) vs ((Infobox port)) vs ((Infobox UK place))

Tasky

Create ((tasky)) to support the Tasky script
Special:WhatLinksHere/User:GhostInTheMachine/t/track

Graphical characters

Create ⇒ template — ((rarr)) or ((rarrow)) or ((rArr)) or ((rArrow))? — like ((pi))
Arrow (symbol)
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
Arrows (Unicode block)
Supplemental Arrows-A — Supplemental Arrows-B — Supplemental Arrows-C
Fret about categories Category:Typing-aid templates ⇒ Category:Character templates

Issues

Draft space

draft space and the Gaussian dichotomy
New page wizard v3

Article for Deletion is too aggressive

The standard AFD banner attached to the article starts something like this (faked so the bot does not get excited):

This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy.

Please share your thoughts on the matter at this article's entry on the Articles for deletion page.

Feel free to improve the article, but the article must not be blanked, and this notice must not be removed, ...

The red bar and the headline This article is being considered for deletion... implies that the default action and the motivation for the banner is just to delete the article.

While established editors may know what the AFD process is trying to do and point out the word considered, the new editor can easily see that their shiny new article has had a "Not worthy! Delete it!" message stuck on it.

We should change the AFD template to be less aggressive.

We could even change the "article for deletion" branding to be something like "article needing improvement" - where the implied default is that the article will be improved.

Expect push-back along lines of "Editors need to get over it", "If they don't like it, they can always leave".

Talk pages

Richer talk pages. Allowing replies to reference a specific post etc.

T233443 Replying to specific comments
T230654 Parser support for talk pages. Includes stuff on sig micro-formats

Pending changes would probably kill TalkHelper

Watchlist

ref to uselang=qqx in Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_145#Watchlist_legend

To Do systems

Templates

See Category:To-do list templates
((To do)) = ((todo)) — displays the "to do" subpage in a collapsible infobox-like table
- about 8000 uses
- see Wikipedia:To-do list
- ((todo2)) and ((todo3)) historic versions of ((todo))
- ((todobox)) — Obsolete — sub-class of ((todo)) which just defaults some of the parameters
((Post-it small)) ((Post-it medium)) ((Post-it large)) — display the "post it" subpage over a yellow Post-it note image
- maybe 30-40 users
((sticky)) — early table version of Post-it ?
- Obsolete
((tasks)) — builds the standard list of tasks for a WikiProject
- 600k+ uses

Templates that just output icons — See /Help

Commons

Upload more photos
- Tag
- Add cats
2020-05-11+12
Gadget to import photos from geograph.org.uk

Phabricator

Foundation

Meetups

via WP — Category:Wikipedia meetups in the United Kingdom
via Meta — M:Category:Wikimedia meetups in the UK
Meetups due soon
Wikipedia meetups in the United Kingdom

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