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)
 * The wiki has two basic content areas -- the Recipes, and the Food Encyclopedia.
 * First thing -- Copy the main page design from another wiki, and put up something simple, so that this looks okay when people come to see it over the next couple days. Then we can work on refining it.
 * More pictures
 * Portal-style buttons to show off the content
 * Fix up MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar


 * Category clean-up (Everyone)
 * Delete date-related categories (Croebot)
 * Could user-related categories (like "recipes by..." etc. be deleted as well? Thanks! Elocina 14:52, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Figure out a category tree structure that makes sense
 * Create redirects to the categories
 * Categorize content pages so they fit into the tree structure


 * Bot-created articles: Finding ones to keep (Wendy / Everyone)
 * Look at Special:Contributions/24.185.11.239 and Special:Contributions/Roblefko
 * Scan for any pages that don't have (top)
 * If that page has been edited by someone other than Roblefko or that IP address, move it to a temporary category, prefaced with "Keep". eg. Category:KeepVegetables, Category:KeepFruit, etc.


 * 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)

Tor tasks

 * Tech fixes (Tor)
 * Content pages aren't in the main namespace -- not counted in Special:Statistics, and not searchable
 * Copy images from Foodie over to here


 * Deleting bot-created articles (Danny is asking Tor)
 * Once we've moved all of the articles that have been edited from the bot-created categories, we need to delete all of the pages in those categories. That's 2,500+ pages, so Danny is asking Tor how to mass-delete them. If Tor can't help, then ask Sannse.
 * Categories to delete:
 * Category:Ben & Jerry's Flavors
 * Category:Breakfast Cereals
 * Category:Cheeses
 * Category:Food Named After People
 * Category:Fruits
 * Category:Pastas
 * Category:Snack Foods
 * Category:Sushi
 * Category:Vegetables
 * also, subcats of Snack Foods : Category: Airline Snacks, Category: Caramel Corn, Category:Caramel Snacks, Category:Cheese Puffs, Category:Chocolates, Category: Corn Chips, Category: Crackers, Category:Jelly Beans, Category:Marshmallow Snacks, Category:Nuts, Category:Onion Rings, Category: Peanut Butter Snacks, Category:Popcorn, Category:Potato Chips, Category:Pretzels, Category:Tortilla Chips

Croebot tasks

 * Bot tasks (Croebot)
 * Delete and from each page
 * Replace with
 * Delete "From Tmp., a Wikia wiki" from each page

From Recipes Wiki, a Wikia wiki.