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== Project task list ==
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== Questions / decisions for discussion ==
If you see a task you can help with, please just dive in and make a start!
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Which [[Special:Categories|categories]] are in active use and which are outdated?
  
* Add more to the [[lists of personal diaries, letters, memoirs]] that can be linked to units through their authors
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Category names tend to use underscores rather than spaces to separate words.
* Add more to the [[official unit diaries and histories]]
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: Actually, is this true anymore? Does it make a difference to performance, readability or links either way? --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 12:03, 8 March 2015 (PDT)
* Add useful resources on [[researching World War One records]] and information [[about private letters, diaries and memoirs]] to help researchers know where to start and how to interpret what they're seeing
 
  
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=== Categories change log ===
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As categories are added for individual items they occasionally need tidying up.
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I've 'Units with women's personal narratives' to the more general Women_in_WWI. --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 11:52, 8 March 2015 (PDT)
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== Things that need to be done but aren't quite neat tasks yet ==
 
* Update categories used to reference 'units' rather than 'battalions' for future flexibility (and see if there's a better way to apply categories to new pages)
 
* Update categories used to reference 'units' rather than 'battalions' for future flexibility (and see if there's a better way to apply categories to new pages)
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:: I've installed http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text to change Battalions_without_personal_narratives to Units_needing_personal_narratives --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 04:36, 17 December 2014 (PST)
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* Add a WYSIWYG editor - the one currently used on Wikipedia doesn't seem stable yet and might conflict with other extensions used. --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 04:36, 17 December 2014 (PST)
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* Track down missing images (presumably after upgrade to 1.24) eg those without thumbnails on [[Special:ListFiles]] --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 16:21, 26 January 2015 (PST)
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* Sort out various pages reporting script errors in Category:Pages_with_script_errors --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 16:21, 26 January 2015 (PST)
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* Delete [[Template:Pipe/doc]] if it's superseded and not used? --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 16:56, 26 January 2015 (PST)
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* Review performance of Infoboxes, including <strike>reducing the use of unnecessary #ifs</strike> in [[Template:Infobox military unit]], [[Template:Infobox command structure]] and [[Template:Infobox theatre of war]] to reduce processing overhead. See [[User_talk:Mia#Fixing_infobox.2FLua_errors]] for background --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 16:56, 26 January 2015 (PST)

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Questions / decisions for discussion

Which categories are in active use and which are outdated?

Category names tend to use underscores rather than spaces to separate words.

Actually, is this true anymore? Does it make a difference to performance, readability or links either way? --Mia (talk) 12:03, 8 March 2015 (PDT)

Categories change log

As categories are added for individual items they occasionally need tidying up.

I've 'Units with women's personal narratives' to the more general Women_in_WWI. --Mia (talk) 11:52, 8 March 2015 (PDT)

Things that need to be done but aren't quite neat tasks yet

  • Update categories used to reference 'units' rather than 'battalions' for future flexibility (and see if there's a better way to apply categories to new pages)
I've installed http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text to change Battalions_without_personal_narratives to Units_needing_personal_narratives --Mia (talk) 04:36, 17 December 2014 (PST)
  • Add a WYSIWYG editor - the one currently used on Wikipedia doesn't seem stable yet and might conflict with other extensions used. --Mia (talk) 04:36, 17 December 2014 (PST)
  • Track down missing images (presumably after upgrade to 1.24) eg those without thumbnails on Special:ListFiles --Mia (talk) 16:21, 26 January 2015 (PST)
  • Sort out various pages reporting script errors in Category:Pages_with_script_errors --Mia (talk) 16:21, 26 January 2015 (PST)