User:Birgit Lachner/Wiki-Manual-Ideas

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In my opionion, we need a good organisation not only to have a lice look but also to organize and automatize some of the work.

Wikimedia-Possibilities

Use

• templates/infoboxes see english example here oder german page
• namespaces
• categories
• Bots

Guidelines

For this, the following should be done and written down in a kind of guideline (like here) for authors:

• Use for every knowledge-page (every command, mode,menu-entry,property and view-part) a specials template, so that every page has the same parts.
• Define the way how the translated pages (english is basic!) should be named.
  • Command:Function ... I'm not very professional, but may be we can use namespaces to organize the knowledge-pages
  • Command:Funktion (Deutsch)
  • Command:Fonction (Francais)
• Prepare translation-boxes as templates to link from one language to another ... may be there can be a template for every knowledge-page that can be used in every language.

Translation-Help

I used at a german school-wiki a bot for a very short-time, and so I think that one or some more bots can help a lot to automatize some of the work that needs to be done for translation. If every knowledge-page has the same structure a bot might be possible to:

• create a list of every knowledge-page in english and let space for the translators to translate the words
• ...