Template talk:Resources for collaboration

message: Increasingly, collaboration mechanisms are using categories in templates to automatically generate the list of the concerned articles: Wikipedia:todo list, Wikipedia:disputed statement, Wikipedia:Cleanup, ... Those lists are sorted in alphabetical orders. Other popular collaboration mechanisms show the most-recently-posted first: Wikipedia:peer review, Wikipedia:Cleanup, ...
Sorting articles by popularity would bring the major benefit of focusing the editing effort where it is most useful, i.e. where many people will actually view it.  The popularity could be measured by the number of links to that page (like Google does).
The category feature allows the entry of a sort key, e.g. sort key (see m:Help:Category#Setting_sort_keys.  This could be used for our purpose if we enter the popularity in the sort key.  To have a descending order, we could use 999998 for an article referred once, 999997 for an article referred twice...  (This sort key is not shown in the list of articles of the category).
As far as I know this is currently not possible in Wiki, because there is no "popularity" variable that we can automatically insert in a text, so we'll probably have to enter a request for new feature. Any other idea ?? Pcarbonn 06:05, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: What is popularity?  Is it a weight assigned by an outside source?  Is it the number of links to the article? ("most requested"...) Is it the number of article viewings?  Is there a popularity contest where we can vote for it within Wikipedia?  (these are all ideas for you to take or leave) --ssd 21:56, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to sort list of articles by popularity in collaborative-edition mechanisms 

message: This template desperately needs revision. Many of the links are redirects, some are repeated, and generally it's really hard to find what's really needed.  I went through the links, and realized that it should really be multiple lists.  I've included them below.  If they are liked, we can put them together into a table form and replace the Template(and/or make more).
One thing that this Template is trying to be is a list of ways for people to deal with pages that they think need something, but they can't just do it themselves.  Here is a list for that purpose.  It's sorted from best cases, most general to worst cases.
*Ways to deal with a page that needs something
**Topic specific guidelines
***Wikipedia:WikiProject
**To request work on content
***Wikipedia:To-do list - per page
***Wikipedia:Peer review - if the page is close to featured article status
***Wikipedia:Requests for expansion
***Wikipedia:Pages needing attention - if you don't know how to approach it
***Wikipedia:Cleanup - only list if none of the above lists work
**To mark as inaccurate or POV
***Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute
***Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute
**To request the page be merged with another page
***Wikipedia:Duplicate articles
**To learn how to make Disambiguation pages; for when "articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title"
***Wikipedia:Disambiguation
**To request a Dictionary definition be moved to Wiktionary
***Wikipedia:Things to be moved to Wiktionary
**To request translation for a page that's not in English
***Wikipedia:Pages_needing_translation_into_English
**To begin the process of deleting a page
***Wikipedia:Deletion_policy
**For pages which may infringe copyright
***Wikipedia:Copyright problems
Another thing the Template is trying to do is provide opportunities for people who want to do some Wikipedia maintenance.  The next list handles this.  It is sorted from most needed(least known) to least needed(best publicized).  There are probably some pages I missed from this list.  For example, the :Category:Articles_that_need_to_be_wikified is only on there because I knew of it independently.  
This should be handled by Template:Opentask, I think.  I've added the pages from this list that were missing to it.  We'll see how things go. JesseW 10:13, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Also: Wikipedia:POV Cleanup Ashibaka tock 02:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Revision and Updates

message: I made a wide version of this template, with the exact same content. It's available here: Template:Resources for collaboration-wide.
--ArmadniGeneral 8 July 2005 09:43 (UTC)
:My long battle to keep this updated may be coming to an end! I've listed my wide version for deletion on the grounds that it is useless and cumbersome. –ArmadniGeneral (talk • contribs) 22:10, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Template 

message: 
Shouldn't  be mentioned somewhere in this template?  —Wknight94 (talk) 23:16, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No. This template is not a list of templates, it is a list of useful pages. -- Ec5618 14:45, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyedit? 

message: would you like to add Wikipedia:Requests to the more section? -- Zondor 00:30, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Requests]]

message: I've changed "stubs by topic' from :Category:stub categories, which is listed alphabetically (of course) to Wikipedia:Wikiproject Stub sorting/Stub types, which is a tree by subject area. It takes a little longer to load but is far easier to search for a specific stub topic. Grutness...wha? 02:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: sl. change

message: For a discussion about the edit link see the  talk page.
For issues like align=right (floating), colour scheme, width, and line
breaks see the  talk page, it's more or
less the same problem for various "sidebar" templates.  -- Omniplex 06:28, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Layout questions 

message: Hello, I'm looking to get involved in the wiki community and wanted to know where I'm supposed to register for this project. I'll try to help, but I may not spend much time online because I'm juggling work and school. Could you let me know if you want my help? Yes it's... Captain NEMO 23:29, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You don't have to register for any of these projects, just dive in and start helping out with articles that need work. -- phoebe/(talk)  23:01, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New User Looking to Join 

message: I added a referencing section, to include sadly-missing links to the "references needed" categories -- not such a big deal when this temp was created. Should consider adding Messedrocker's list of BLPs needing references page to it as well. -- phoebe/(talk)  23:04, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Referencing

message: The link to the interwiki link checker goes to a 404 page. Rmhermen (talk) 23:33, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed it. John Vandenberg (chat) 08:41, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Broken link in template

message: I question the usefulness of this template's link to Special:ShortPages. My assumption on seeing the link is that it would take me to a list of short pages that need help expanding, but instead I find mainly a list of disambiguation pages and redirect pages, which are never going to be anything but short. I'm not quite sure if 'Short Pages' serves any other purpose, but assuming that the intent of this template is to help editors find things that need fixing, I don't think it is useful to include it here. - Derek Andrews (talk) 15:17, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Short pages