UDWiki:Open Discussion/Administration Archives

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The Problem

If you look through the Administration pages you will find that the formatting for the archive pages for the various pages is set up slightly differently. Some of the pages are sorted incorrectly or are inordinately long and are uncategorized.

The Proposal

I propose that we create category pages for each of the major administration pages and standardize how the pages are archived in order to make browsing them easier.

Which Pages Would This Affect?

How Would They Change?

Each of the archive pages would move to their corresponding archive category:

Then each of the category pages would receive their own navigation template, such as Template:Deletearchivenav and Template:Speedydeletearchivenav, with a description of what the category contains. Each of the individual pages that are archived would be categorized appropriately, sorted by month (save for misconduct), and follow the Move Requests format (YYYY_MM) for their page archive name (again, save for misconduct).

Here are some of the individual changes that I propose to all of the pages:

Deletions

  • Renaming of the archive pages to follow the common month format.
  • The summation and categorization of all of the pages.

Speedy Deletions

A simple renaming of the archive pages to follow the common month format and categorization.

Undeletions

Vandal Banning

  • Renaming of the archive pages to follow the common month format and categorization.
  • Possibly creating a more comprehensive vandal data page that tracks all of the cases that are opened against a user.

Protections

Move Requests

  • Renaming of the archive pages to follow the common month format and categorization.

Arbitration

  • The arbitration page archive would change to be a simple list in alphabetical order, followed by the date the case was put forth.
    Example:Midianian vs. Karek - 20:28, 21 October 2008
    This would reduce the size of the Arbitration main page and will keep the page size to a minimum as time passes. The current individual summaries for the cases could be placed at the top of the cases themselves, allowing someone to quickly glance at the case and see what it was about.
  • The creation of the Arbitration navigation template.
  • The summation (see the first bullet point) and categorization of all of the pages.

Misconduct

  • The categorization of all of the pages, by type and individual name.
  • Sorting out the individual pages to follow Hagnat's model.
  • Each of the sysops having their own sub-category that lists all of the cases that have been brought against them.
  • The creation of the Misconduct navigation template, which is sorted by sysop name (linking to their sub-category page) and not by month.