Hello world, from Buenos Aires, Argentina! My name is Felipe, I'm a philosopher by training and a freelance web developer by trade, specialized in MediaWiki, the software of Wikipedia. I currently work for the Appropedia Foundation to improve Appropedia. If I made a mistake somewhere, please be cool, let me know and I'll fix it asap, thanks!!!
Content[edit | edit source]
Most of my work in Appropedia is with software (templates, scripts, extensions, backend, frontend, etc). However, occasionally I do content as a volunteer. Here's a bit of that:
- Are smartphones environmentally friendly?
- Veganismo en Argentina 2022
- Ala delta estilo Rogallo
- Cómo hacer chucrut casero
- Cómo hacer ecoladrillos caseros
- Cómo hacer un horno solar de cartón
- Cómo hacer un deshidratador solar con una caja
- Felipe's Raised Planter Box
Planned:
- Cómo hacer ventanas doble vidrio caseras
- Cómo hacer una cámara oscura portátil
- Cómo hacer un destilador solar
- Cómo hacer una compostera comunitaria (draft)
- Cómo hacer un globo solar (draft)
- Recetas
Tasks[edit | edit source]
- [Extension:Analytics] Mostrar el total de visitas, editores y ediciones, para no tener que sumar a mano
- Switch to Vector 2022?
- Bug with thumbs on Appropedia namespace caused by DiscussionTools
- Bug when saving after visual edit
- Drop support for custom logos?
- Refine logo on mobile
- [Extension:Appropedia] Add filter by year to Special:Search
- Improve Extension:PageLanguage so that it sets page_lang when $wgPageLanguageUseDB is set (see Extension:GoogleTranslate)
- Fix Template:Pageviews
- Finish Category:Books
- [Kathy] Implement schema markup, see https://schema.org and her email
- [Templates] Template to create pages for organizations by country
- [Templates] Template to create pages for appropriate technologies by country (example)
- [Templates] Template:Page data Add Property:Categories
- [Templates] Template:Page data Add "Page" prefix to page properties?
- [Templates] Template:Project data Merge "made" and "replicated" with "status"
- [Templates] Deprecate Template:Grid?
- [Templates] Add QRs to certificates
- [Templates] Add QRs to books
- [Templates] Template to cite automatically?
- [Extension:ReadAloud] Terminar interfaz como Spotify
- [ReplaceText] Mover páginas de Philralph a subpáginas
- PWA https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/
- https://search.google.com/test/rich-results and https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/intro-structured-data
- Averiguar API de backlinks que no sea ahrefs
- Esconder headers de print https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8228088
- [StandardWikitext] Special:Diff/1032256
- [StandardWikitext] Air travel in academia
- [StandardWikitext] Agregar módulo para galerías, enlaces externos, <pre> y tags en general
- [Search] [Max] [SMD] Search should show results for "wood" when searching "balsa wood"
- [Search] [Max] Filtrar home page
- [Search] [Max] Aprovechar mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Geo Search?
- [Search] [Max] Activar deepcat?
- Local and static maps with https://github.com/DantSu/php-osm-static-api
- Add _CDAT _MDAT y _LEDT?
- Crear extensión para rotar imágenes
- https://www.webpagetest.org/result/230613_BiDcTM_4SZ/3/carboncontrol/
- mw:Codex#Using Codex design tokens in MediaWiki and extensions
- [Scripts] Script para borrar talks vacías
- [Scripts] Script para borrar redirects sin uso
- [Scripts] Mejorar fixDeadLinks.php para que deje una plantilla {{Broken?}} o similar cuando tenga dudas
- [Scripts] Script para vaciar Special:ListDuplicatedFiles
- [Scripts] Script para borrar archivos viejos sin uso?
- [Bug] http://appropedia.org/Template:/wrap/doc .htaccess?
- [Bug] Locaciones múltiples https://www.appropedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page/ALL-SAFE/semantic
- Blur class for gore images
- Solución para organizaciones que se quieran llevar su contenido, incluyendo archivos
- Usar mw:Manual:Hooks/ImageBeforeProduceHTML para image metadata?
- Instalar mw:Extension:3D https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/issues/1469
- Actualizar a MediaWiki 1.43 LTS
- Actualizar a PHP 8.2 o 8.3
- Desinstalar Extension:Renameuser que fue integrada al core
- Actualizar Extension:Appropedia para usar el hook MessageCacheFetchOverrides
- Disable Poncho in favor of Vector 2022
- Use {{EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE}} to eliminate Preload namespace https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184633
- Yearly stats
Performance[edit | edit source]
- Main page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Performance_tuning
- Caches: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Object_cache
- Semantic MediaWiki: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Performance
- Profiling: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Profiling
- Testing https://www.webpagetest.org https://developers.google.com/speed https://tools.pingdom.com/
- Apache testing: ab -n 10 https://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia
Quality assurance test[edit | edit source]
- Visit the main page anonymously
- Visit a random page anonymously
- Edit a random page anonymously
- Visit the main page while logged-in
- Visit a random page while logged-in
- Edit a random page while logged-in
- Visit Special:RecentChanges
- Do the same from mobile
Subpages[edit | edit source]
Time tracking[edit | edit source]
| Task | Hours |
|---|---|
| Publication templates, demos, app, etc | 10 |
| Content, templates and maintenance | 6 |
| Talks, chats, etc | 5 |
Documentation tips[edit | edit source]
- Important stuff first! - Readers may stop reading anytime, so increase the chances they take away the important bits by putting them at the start of each page, section or paragraph.
- Write an intro - And include a main image whenever possible. This will be the first and often only thing users will read. It's also likely to be the snippet shown in search engines.
- Keep it simple - Avoid styling and focus on content. Plain text in standard format is usually the most effective and compatible across devices.
- Let it grow organically - Start by writing some text. When it grows too big, break it into sections. When they grow too big, break them into subsections. When they grow too big, break them into separate pages (avoid sub-subsections) and leave an excerpt or link behind.
- Avoid walls of text - Except in "terminal nodes". Use short paragraphs and "structural" elements like lists, tables, section, subsections, images, etc. Doing so makes the page easier to scan in search of what we're interested in.
- Use item summaries - Like it's done in this list.
- Avoid excessive nesting - Be it of subsections, lists or any other element, excessive nesting usually signals the need to rethink or restructure the content.
- Make every word count - It's often possible to shorten a sentence by carefully selecting or shifting words. Repeat for several sentences and you can shorten a paragraph by a line or two. Do that for several paragraphs and you can shorten a page considerably. Excellence is in the details!
- Paragraphs are semantic units - Each paragraph should be more or less independent.
Site sustainability tips[edit | edit source]
- Actively fight complexity and work towards simplicity
- Less templates, more content!
- Avoid custom namespaces (given the extremely diverse nature of pages in the main namespace of Appropedia, there should be no need for custom namespaces)
- Merge related pages to have fewer, better ones
- Prefer well-supported extensions, especially Wikimedia-supported ones
- Keep MediaWiki updated only to the latest LTS version and never modify the source code
- Convention over configuration
- Use modern web standards and structured data for rich results