Hello all,
As discussed in an earlier email chain, I have started to perform some
clean up of the wiki. To do this, I am building a set of pages in my
wiki "Userspace", to avoid causing overlap with the current versions. I
am documenting my changes/work here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Diacritic/Au_Clean/Log, but in
the interest of transparency I'd like to share a bit of my progress at
this (very) early stage.
Progress
- Australia Landing Page
I have created a new landing page for the Australia project using a
modified version of the Template:Place template which was on the page
previously. This new template has a neater map and removes the large,
uncustomisable blue block that is at the top of the page.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Diacritic/Au_Clean
- Templates
I have also created quite a few templates that will aid with navigation
and consistency across the different Australia pages, and its
subprojects. I initially went a little overboard with these templates,
but have trimmed them back a bit in preparation for more content to be
written in the pages.
- State Projects
Pages have been created for each state project, but have not yet been
filled with content. I am hoping that the new navigation templates will
make it easier for Australia-wide content to be placed on the Au pages,
leaving the state/city pages to be more focussed on local content.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Diacritic/Au_Clean/Western_Australia
For cities which did not have content on the wiki, I have created a
template that will direct mappers to their respective state projects.
- New Community Page
There are a lot of different events pages, meetups and other social
pages that are seriously out of date. Given the Front Page of the wiki
has migrated to the OSM Calendar, I have tried to centralise all
community channels/events to
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Diacritic/Au_Clean/Community.
Old events will be archived and accessible on that page as well.
- New Resources Page
The existing Aerial Imagery and Data Sources pages have been merged into
a single
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Diacritic/Au_Clean/Resources
page. @AHarvey, and others who maintain these pages, would appreciate
your thoughts as to whether this layout works for you.
Next Steps
- Flavour Text/Content
Each of the pages, generally, need more words. I've put placeholder text
in spots where some more expository language can go. This will fill out
as the work progresses
- History Section.
One of the things that struck me about these old wiki pages is simply
how much history there is in the Australia mapping project. Many editors
have come and gone but their influence remains.
If there is an "old-timer" or particularly nostalgic editor that would
be interested in writing a short history of OSM Au for the "Memory Lane"
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Diacritic/Au_Clean/Community,
please get in touch.
- Active City Projects
There are quite a few cities that have active Wiki projects, and some of
the editors I haven't seen on this mailing list. Before attempting to
create a new version of those pages, I'd like to engage with the
dedicated mappers directly to ensure the best info is moved across.
- Tagging Guidelines Page
This is probably the page that will require the most thought. I have not
attempted to migrate it into a new form until the templates, layouts and
general standard of the wiki pages has been clarified.
Thanks!
Please let me know your thoughts on these pages (preferably on the talk
pages on the wiki, as it's easier to keep track there!), so that I can
ensure everyone is happy with the results. :)
I'll be in touch once I've made more meaningful progress as well.
Dian
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