Glossaries on mw.org should be updated to follow the guidelines.
The following extensions need to be reviewed.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duplicate | Qgil | T125545 Phabricator Q&A session for Community Liaisons | |||
| Resolved | Qgil | T116025 Goal: Align Community Liaison and Developer Relations project management practices | |||
| Resolved | Qgil | T119387 Community Liaison and Developer Relation quarterly goals for January - March 2016 | |||
| Open | None | T121500 Unify product documentation for users to make it easier to share, translate and edit | |||
| Resolved | Johan | T128790 Translation strategy – act and refine | |||
| Resolved | Trizek-WMF | T129088 Create an easy to maintain glossary to facilitate documentation translation (help pages and technical documentation) | |||
| Resolved | Trizek-WMF | T150261 Publish best practices on MediaWiki.org concerning glossaries | |||
| Resolved | MtDu | T151766 Review existing glossaries on MediaWiki.org to follow the best practices |
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Fundraising_tech/Glossary
Fundrasising Tech Glossary edited.
Items were formatted to a bigger text size. Links and some other text were italicized (the "also known as xx") All other text were in block format as to lessen text crowding. A content table at the top of the page was added after editing, good for easy navigation to a specific term.
Username: ISBetrayal
Ps. Willing to further edit.
Thank you!
Items were formatted to a bigger text size. Links and some other text were italicized (the "also known as xx") All other text were in block format as to lessen text crowding.
Good job!
A content table at the top of the page was added after editing, good for easy navigation to a specific term.
I don't see it.
Ps. Willing to further edit.
Agreed: according to the guidelines, the "also known as" sentences are in italics, and synonyms in that line are in bold.
Re edited the page
Content table at the top returned.
Italics and bold text formatted.
Heading formatting was used on the terms to be defined while using the ":" formatting for their definition.
[Comment copied from the Google Code-in chat]
I don't agree with your last change, about using titles and part of definition lists. It is not a good practice concerning accessibility. At the moment, we don't have a perfect system, I agree with that. We need to improve that bad thing in software (T150263: Create a searchable and shared glossary). The best practices have been published to compensate the lack of that system. Please follow them, but also don't forget to add your ideas and notes to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Glossaries :)
@ISBetrayal made the changes accordingly, and the Fundraising Glossary is now formatted.
Changes made to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Flow/Glossary
Revised arrangement of terms. Can't think of any other issue.
Willing to further edit.
Changes made to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Spec/Glossary.
Reformatted the layout. Had to switch over to the new format, which caused me to have to add some translate tags for the terms. I also fixed some grammar while I was at it.
Let me know what tweaks are needed.
Thanks!
I have reviewed https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Glossary , the current state is ok (a more traditional format is followed than the one suggested in your help page). MtDu still went through all of the glossary, so you might want to mark his task as done anyway.
@Nemo_bis: Is there a particular reason why not to be consistent with the "Also known as" style? (I don't care about capitalization or not.)