Recipes Wiki:Kitchen Table

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The new Recipes Wiki
Okay, we've moved all of the Foodie content over to Recipes Wiki, which means that now there's lots of good pages here that all need to be cleaned up and reformatted.

Here are the steps that I can think of that need to be done in order to relaunch the wiki. If you think of more steps, please add them to the list -- and cross things off once they're done! With all of us working on this, we should be able to move through this smoothly. -- Danny (talk ) 23:21, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Today's tasks

 * New main page design (Nicole / Wendy / Colby / Phillip)
 * Portal-style buttons to show off the content
 * Wendy and I were talking yesterday about using pictures to represent categories like on the Wallace & Grommit wiki. Also, I know this doesn't have anything to do with the main page, but I was thinking of maybe working with the ethnic cuisine portals leftover from Foodopedia to create category portals. Elocina 19:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Category clean-up (Everyone)
 * Figure out a category tree structure that makes sense
 * Should there be separate category trees for Recipes and Encylopedia articles? Like an article about an apple goes under the fruit category and an apple pie recipe is under fruit recipes and then apple recipes? Elocina 19:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Create redirects to the categories
 * Categorize content pages so they fit into the tree structure


 * Category:Cleanup (everyone)
 * Look at the articles in Category:Cleanup -- what to do with them?
 * Personally, I've never understood the reasons for why these articles were put in the cleanup category to begin with. The articles don't look like they are in need of copyediting. I'm wondering if most of the articles (barring those with major problems) should be moved out of the cleanup category. Thoughts? Elocina 18:42, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, I looked at the Category Tree for Breads and Cleanup is listed as a parent category. I know that the cleanup category will probably be needed (even if most of the articles listed for cleanup don't appear to need cleaning up), but it shouldn't remain as a parent category. Elocina 00:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, if the stuff doesn't need to be cleaned up, take 'em out of Cleanup. -- Danny (talk ) 18:48, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Cool, I'll sort through the articles with the cleanup tag today. Also, is there a standard cleanup template for Wikia wikis that could be added. I think if you just categorize something cleanup without an explanation, it can be pretty meaningless. Elocina 19:07, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm actually not a big fan of stub templates, cleanup templates, etc and other kinds of failure boxes. All they do is advertise the wiki's flaws, and I think they tend to discourage editing rather than encouraging it. I think you just leave the pages as they are. People can tell when something's short or incomplete, and if they've got something to add, they will. I say take all the templates and junk out. -- Danny (talk ) 20:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * What about for articles with accuracy issues? Would discussion page comments take care of that kind of thing?Elocina 20:25, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * You can use Template:Cite for that... It's better than a big ol' failure box. You put right after the sentence that you're not sure about -- it adds a little (citation needed) footnote, with a link to Recipes Wiki:FAQ. That lets people know exactly which piece of information is in question, so they can either fix it or ignore it, as appropriate. :) -- Danny  (talk ) 20:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm done cleaning out the cleanup category, however, there's some templates and things there that I left untouched, because I have no clue about in terms of whether they should be kept etc. Elocina 19:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Tor tasks

 * Tech fixes (Tor)
 * Category:Food Named After People still needs to get deleted. Everything else is done.

Croebot tasks

 * Bot tasks (Croebot)
 * Delete date-related categories (Croebot)
 * Delete user-related categories ("recipes by...")

Add an Article Button
Any ideas as to how this can be reincorporated into the front page? Thanks. Elocina 19:34, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

From Recipes Wiki, a Wikia wiki.

Missing Images
Just wondering why some of the images from the original Foodie import are still missing. See Apple Pie and Asparagus for examples. Elocina 17:41, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Changing link for How to Add Recipes...
How do I change it so that the How to Add Recipes link in the sidebar goes to http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Help:New_page instead of the overall listing of help pages? I figure it has something to do with modifying one of the Monaco.css files but can't figure out the exact way to do this. Elocina 03:04, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Entire Cookbooks Added from Project Gutenberg
I've stumbled across some pages that contain entire cookbooks from project Gutenberg, such as Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made. I think the best idea with something like this is to separate the recipes on different pages, but does anyone know of a good way of doing this. Is this something that a bot could do? Elocina 18:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)