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OOK's highest priority task - here's a piece of it for you

Danger,

I'm splitting this task up for everyone on the team to work on...

The government branches sections are in error on many of the country outlines.

Since those are in article space, we need to fix those ASAP! This is our most important task right now.

Here's a list of links that goes right to that section: User:The Transhumanist/List of country outline government sections.

I'm working on U-Z.

Your task is to complete and correct these:

• Outline of Denmark#Government and politics of Denmark
• Outline of Djibouti#Government and politics of Djibouti
• Outline of Dominica#Government and politics of Dominica
• Outline of the Dominican Republic#Government and politics of the Dominican Republic

WP:LINKY is especially useful for this.

Let me know when you are done, so I can check them over.

Thank you.

Good luck.

Have fun.

The Transhumanist    22:02, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi WikiGnome!

So, you'd like to help out with the indexes, eh?

I've got an assignment for you. Pretty easy, since most of the links are already in place.

What I need you to do is use WP:LINKY on the following list:

User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox07 - they're all links to see also sections of country articles.

Assuming you have Linky installed, and you use Firefox... You select an area of the page by holding down the left button and dragging your mouse. Try not to select an area with more than 99 links in it. Then you right click. In the drop down menu, choose Linky, then "Open selected links in tabs".

Move between tabs with Ctrl-Tab. Nuke a tab with Ctrl-W.

Each tab will display a see also section of a country article. What I need you to do is check each one to make sure the Index of x-related articles (where "x" is the country's name) is included as a link in the see also section for that country.

If the old page name (List of x-related topics) is in the section, check to see if it's a redirect to the index. If it is, replace it with the index link.)

For the sections that are missing the index link altogether, add it in!

Easy as pie.

(I've been working on inserting Outline links, so you might run into me).

Thank you.

Good luck.

Have fun.

The Transhumanist    23:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: I don't remember, do you know how to use Linky?

I think Linky crashed my browser the last few times I used it; I get by without it fine. I'm finished with this task and have collected a list of the countries/territories without indices. I'll go through the list again to see if I missed anything, but when I'm done I'll edit your worklist to indicate which ones need to be done. I'm participating in WP:DRAMAOUT, so I might develop some indexes over the week. --Gimme danger (talk) 04:00, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Checking over stuff I done

I finally bit the bullet and looked over Outline of Djibouti#Government and politics of Djibouti. I was quite unsure of what to do, so I wanted to make sure I didn't mess up before tackling any others.

I also finished the index task that you asked me to do, everything except Honduras, which is still locked. I also started Index of Benin-related articles and want to see what you thought of that. (It's still very much a work in progress, I just wasn't expecting the work to take so long.) --Gimme danger (talk) 07:26, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

You got a lot done. Thank you for jumping in.

For the outline, if you can't find the missing topics on Wikipedia, use Google. I've added in the cabinet and the ministries (See Outline of Japan#Executive branch of the government of Japan for a good example). I'll let you finish the judiciary branch. (Hint: look for "Judiciary of", "Court system of", "Judicial system of", and "Legal system of").

The index task revealed an unforeseen problem, but your updating of the links was the important thing (keep up the excellent work), and provides me with a good place to start my next task.

I've touched up the Index of Benin-related articles. I added a short lead to help identify the subject of the index, and added a references section to handle the reference that's in the lead, then I moved the lists to their own section at the end, and then I configured the CompactTOC8 template using parameters (setting its look, and making sure all the sections were included).

The Transhumanist    23:14, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Nodrama Barnstar

		The Anti-Drama Barnstar
		Thank you for participating in The Great Wikipedia Dramaout 2009, avoiding drama for a full 5 days!--The LegendarySky Attacker 04:37, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Outline Update - Basking in the light of knowledge - 07/28/2009

Phase two of outline integration (de-orphanizing outlines by adding links leading to them into article see also sections) is nearly complete. The better that outlines are integrated into the encyclopedia, the more use they will be to readers.

Due to greater exposure through outline integration, and with most of the OOK team on school summer vacation, development activity on outlines has increased a lot...

New members

Be sure to welcome our newest members to the team:

• Tiamut
• Mandsford

News: Outline of Palestine survives AfD

The outline was nominated for deletion for being too general in scope. The consensus was overwhelmingly for keeping it.

The most memorable comment was posted by Mandsford: I like the poetic name, anyway. [Outline of Palestine]. "Master Plan of Pakistan" and "Rough Sketch of Bangladesh" would be good too.

Special thanks to Tiamut for greatly improving the outline, and helping to save it from AfD.

To keep track of outline AfDs and other outline-related discussions, see WP:OOKDISC.

Who's active on Wikipedia this summer?

Courtesy of Rich Farmbrough, here's a list of editors by their edit counts over the previous month (8th June to 8th July).

It would be nice to get the most prolific Wikipedians involved with WP:WPOOK. If you can, find a good reason to contact one or more of them, and invite them to work on a relevant outline - or all 500!

Who's been up to what?

• Buaidh, Highfields, and Gimme danger have been working on the government sections of the country outlines. Being that there are about 240 of these, with critical information being filled in on each, this is by far the hardest and most important chore of this WikiProject right now.
• Penubag is working on a redesign of the top OOK page.
• Tiamut has done an incredible job developing the Outline of Palestine.
• And kudos also go to Eu.stefan for his work on Outline of Buddhism.

Thank you.

Here's what else has been going on...

New outlines

Recently created outlines include:

• Outline of England - TT
• Outline of Scotland - TT
• Outline of Buddhism - Eu.stefan
• Outline of ancient Greece - TT

Recently converted to outlines

These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format and added to the OOK:

• Outline of the Vietnam War - was "List of Vietnam War-related topics" - TT
• Outline of combinatorics - was "List of combinatorics topics" - converted by Minnecologies
• Outline of category theory - was "List of category theory topics" converted by Minnecologies
• Outline of scientific method - was "List of scientific method topics" - TT
• Outline of ancient Rome - was "List of topics related to ancient Rome" - TT

Recently merged into outlines

There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following articles have been recently merged into OOK pages:

• List of finance topics into Outline of finance - TT
• List of England-related topics into Outline of England - TT

Outlines that have been tagged

Tags are requests to fix a problem or improve an article in a particular way. Unless we want the tags to sit there for an extended period of time cluttering up the outlines (we don't), it is up to us to fulfill those requests or attend to underlying misassumptions (if any).

• Outline of literature - tagged as Original research
• Outline of ancient Greece - tagged as under construction
• Outline of mathematics - tagged as in need of attention from an expert
• Outline of arithmetic - tagged as not citing any references or sources.
• Outline of immunology - tagged as an orphan
• Outline of organic chemistry - tagged as an orphan
• Outline of psychology - tagged as in need of attention from an expert on the subject
• Outline of family and consumer science - tagged as an orphan
• Outline of energy storage - tagged as an orphan
• Outline of nuclear technology - tagged as an orphan
• Outline of ergonomics - tagged as an orphan
• Outline of construction - tagged as an orphan
• Outline of machines - tagged as an orphan
• Outline of free software - tagged as an orphan
• Outline of design - tagged as containing original research or unverified claims, and needing references or sources
• Outline of automobiles - tagged as an orphan

I can't stress enough the importance of watching

With so many outlines (now over 500), and a growing number of support pages (guidelines, wikiproject pages, etc.), I can no longer keep up. I need your help watching over it all.

If you'd like to omnisciently view everything "from above", see this page:

• WP:OOKWL - watchlist for copying and pasting into your raw watchlist.

Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):

• WP:OOKRC - a version of the above watchlist for use with "Related changes".
• WP:OOKDIR - a list of key pages related to the OOK, along with their shortcuts.
• WP:OOKDISC - list of discussions pertaining to outlines.

What's next?

There are a lot of contradictions in guidelines related to outlines. I'll be turning my attention to fixing those.

The number of "Outline of" articles is rapidly catching up to portals, and will probably pass them by the end of the summer!

Keep up the excellent work.

The Transhumanist    00:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: Gimme danger

You beat me to Eu.stefan with a barnstar!

Nicely done.

The Transhumanist    01:15, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. Does OoK have a barnstar of it's very own? I have an idea for one, but know nothing whatsoever about making graphics. --Gimme danger (talk) 02:13, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

We're working on one at User talk:Penubag/Sandbox3

And speaking of awards, I stopped by to ask you this...

We're working on something special...

...to award Buaidh for all his hard work.

It's at User:Penubag/Sandbox3.

But it's not done yet. Feel free to help improve it.

I'm hoping that everyone involved with the WP:WPOOK will sign it (please sign without a timestamp).

Thank you.

The Transhumanist    22:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

AfD

Please don't add categories directly to AfD discussions, as this breaks them out and they show up in logs. Instead use the cat parameter of {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD|cat}} to categorise. Thank you. Greg Tyler ^{(t • c)} 15:49, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Oops. I'm sorry about the mistake and I hope I didn't cause too much trouble. I've added your instruction to the uncategorized AfD category so that others don't make the same mistake. --Gimme danger (talk) 20:17, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

feminism

Are you trying to question me just because I am a man and this does not conform to your perverted ideology? --Street Scholar (talk) 21:30, 31 July 2009 (UTC)