Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-17897872-20150121014958

Add in source. Refresh. Copy and paste. Refresh. Add in more. Refresh. Copy more. Paste more. Refresh. Rage because nothing will work. Take a break. Delete everything. Refresh. Cry. Start again. Copy and paste. Refresh. Boom! Completed a few hours later. Yay!

Hey everyone (as stated from my recent blog post)!

I’ve been exploring Geometry Dash Wiki the last few months and recently was promoted to an admin there. The wiki only has forty-something pages but it definitely is a professional one (thanks to one of the best admins, Hackey5 that runs all of the coding there). He introduced me to a devwiki (open source) that introduces professional coding that all wikis can use. Check it out! I’ve perused a few of a few Javascript Coding pages and came across Standard Edit Summary that allows users to easily select edit summaries instead of having to type things over (they can if they want to). It took a while to implement, but a test of it is up and running! I’ve added a few things under the MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css page, also creating Template:Stdsummaries (std means something else here, not that :D) and MediaWiki:StandardEditSummary.

Anyone can locate this bar by clicking the edit button at the top of any article and seeing this under the edit summary section, as seen in the picture to the right. After editing, users have the option to click the dropdown menu and choose what edit summary they want instead of typing the same reason in repeatedly, or worse not leaving any summary whatsoever (highly discouraged although everyone including me does it). If users don’t want to use them, then they don’t have to. Leaving the “click to browse” button works perfectly fine too.

The current organization goes as follows:

(click to browse)

1. General editing

-- Updated information

-- Corrected spelling/grammar

-- Reorganized content

2. Reversion

-- Removed unnecessary content

-- Reverted spam/vandalism

-- Revised article

3. Maintenance

-- Added link(s)

-- Added category(ies)

-- Removed duplicate link(s)

-- Removed category(ies)

-- Removed expired link(s)

-- Removed expired template(s)

-- Removed empty file(s)

-- Replaced file(s)

Anyways, the first week or two will generally be a test run to see if everything works okay and have users try out the new feature.

Please let me know how you like it. If many of you do, then the standard edit summary is here to stay! If there are any suggestions to change the organization of the edit summaries, feel free to contact everyone by writing below or personally to me by posting on my message wall so someone can change it.

Thanks, and happy Candy Crushing!

-3primetime3- (talk) 01:49, January 21, 2015 (UTC) 