Appropedia:Village pump/Archive7

PV Magazine should be unblocked[edit | edit source]

PV Magazine dot com is currently blocked by spam filters this should not be for Appropedia and for Wikipedia. Joshua Pearce (talk) 13:57, 27 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Joshua, PV Magazine dot com is not a working website. Are you referring to https://pv-magazine-usa.com/ maybe? Thanks, --Lonny (talk) 23:01, 30 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes sorry www.pv-magazine dot com --Joshua Pearce (talk) 00:50, 31 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Still blocked! Joshua Pearce (talk) 18:46, 9 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@J.M.Pearce Should be fixed now. Please confirm when you have the chance, thanks! Sophivorus (talk) 23:28, 4 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

confirmed! Thank you -- Joshua Pearce (talk) 11:59, 5 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Could ThriveGlobal be removed from the spam list?[edit | edit source]

Thanks - Joshua Pearce (talk) 16:33, 16 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@J.M.Pearce, Sophivorus We'll look into it. Is the domain thriveglobal.com? Emilio (talk) 17:28, 16 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes. Thank you! Joshua Pearce (talk) 17:35, 16 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Done! Sophivorus (talk) 21:09, 16 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Profile icon idea[edit | edit source]

Just wondering about an idea?... What if when you hovered over a link to a user page, rather like when you hover cursor over an internal article link you get a popup preview incl image, over a userpage link you got a smallish popup preview of the image from the user info box? Would this be a good idea to make the site seem a bit more friendly, personable, welcoming, sociable, etc? Or is it a daft idea? It's late at night here! Just wondering. And is it do-able? Philralph (talk) 22:49, 30 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It's a great idea, but unfortunately there's a software limitation to it, see mw:Extension:Popups#Why don't I see Popups outside of content namespaces? There's a workaround mentioned there, but it's kind of hacky and would have some undesirable side effects like counting user pages as content pages in the site statistics, among others. :-( Sophivorus (talk) 23:01, 30 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Requesting this to the mw:Extension:Popups maintainers isn't a bad idea. The specific case for users seems like a really valid use for this! Let's cross fingers and hope they implement it. :)) Emilio (talk) 23:06, 30 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Emilio Philralph Good news! While looking if it had already been requested, I found a ticket about it and there someone mentioned a workaround that, per being at the JavaScript level, should have much less side effects, if any. So I just enabled popups on the user namespace, check it out by doing a hard refresh (ctrl + alt + R) and scrolling over our names here! Sophivorus (talk) 23:55, 30 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wonderful! Even better than I imagined! My image not displaying though? :-( I can maybe just swap another picture into the info box if that's the easiest thing to do? Philralph (talk) 10:30, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph Your image displays fine to me. Did you do a hard refresh? Sophivorus (talk) 11:14, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

'back to top button' for end of articles?[edit | edit source]

Is there a way to do a back to the top of the page 'button' towards the end of articles? Or could we make one? eg see Citizens Action Network handbook#Featured video. No worries if not, happy to just use this for now, but just thought I'd ask, Cheers Philralph (talk) 09:25, 4 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes: just make a template that has any text you'd like with a link that leads to "[[#top|text]]". Koavf (talk) 11:14, 4 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph Hi! I just created Template:Back to top. You can use it wherever you want a back to top button, like I just did at Citizens Action Network handbook#Featured video. Will this do? Cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 12:37, 4 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Sophivorus Terrific! Thanks! Philralph (talk) 15:10, 4 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Display skipping to other parts of the page[edit | edit source]

Since yesterday when I go to a page it goes to some other part of the page rather than the top. Don't know if this anything to do with the above? Just now I tried clicking on back to the top at Citizens Action Network handbook#Featured video it goes to the top of that section? But the skipping seems to happen on other pages as well (?) Philralph (talk) 09:50, 6 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph You're right, it was my wrongdoing, sorry, I just fixed it. Please do a hard refresh (shift + ctrl + R) and it should behave normally now. Thanks for the report! Sophivorus (talk) 09:54, 6 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Sophivorus, cheers! Philralph (talk) 10:00, 6 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Selected gallery broken on front page[edit | edit source]

Joshua Pearce (talk) 14:57, 24 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm trying to find out which one by going to the list and checking the links, but they all look reachable. I'll try to find out more. --Emilio (talk) 15:37, 24 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

2020 Appropedia website redesign[edit | edit source]

We're in the process of a website redesign! Let us know your thoughts! Early days, still plenty to come, see Appropedia:User experience/New skin

Hi! really enjoying using the wiki with it's new design. Thanks to those making this happen. Excited to be progressing many developments to Community action pages. Do please keep us up to date with any further design changes, eg colours, any more radical changes to layout, etc. Philralph (talk) 11:03, 11 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Maps[edit | edit source]

@Emilio, Lonny, J.M.Pearce, Philralph, Irene92 Hi all! I think you'll all be most happy to see this: Map (I know I was!) The map displays all pages that have their location set via the "location" parameter of the infoboxes. This includes projects, organizations, users, etc. I'll soon create a nice template to generate sub-maps for specific regions or types of pages, for example a map of just organizations, or just users, or just users in California, etc. Until then, I hope you'll enjoy seeing this early version and sharing your thoughts on how to best use this new potential! Sophivorus (talk) 15:16, 17 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

GOODNESS GRACIOUS! This is so awesome!!! Emilio (talk) 15:32, 17 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Amazing! Brilliant! Philralph (talk) 15:58, 17 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

SERIOUSLY SOOOOO GOOD!! Now we need to set locations for more of our thousand+ projects! Emilio, do we have interns on this or some other plan? --Lonny (talk) 01:14, 20 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

For now, we only have User:Irene92 who has been relentlessly adding content and will continue for the upcoming months. She's editing a bunch of projects now but we'll find the time later on to do this, hopefully. Emilio (talk) 01:30, 20 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yay for User:Irene92! Maybe we can get some students to help Irene in late January. Lonny (talk) 23:19, 20 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Replying to my own question, I think one potential for the map (for this specific, world-wide map, I mean) is to convey in a simple and clear way the global reach of Appropedia. Sophivorus (talk) 14:13, 20 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I agree. It is inspiring how many projects, partners, and appropedians we have from all around the world. Visualizing it will be wonderful. Lonny (talk) 23:18, 20 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi all, I hope you had a nice xmass! Here's my present for you: Template:Map ! Check out the examples in the documentation to see what it can do, and let me know of any further requests, cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 11:21, 28 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I looooooooooooooooooooooooooove this! By the way, I tested it out at El Salvador and it works well. I believe that for now it works if you do country only (I tried mapping through city, country and it doesn't show up yet --check Amún Shéa). I think this brings us to a new level of interaction! Emilio (talk) 22:11, 28 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Emilio Good catch! Your report led me to find a deeper issue with the whole map and location system which I was able to fix. The map now displays more pages and more precisely located. However, I haven't been able to fix the particular issue with Amún Shéa and the map you made. It's not because the region isn't recognized, because Amún Shéa displays properly on the world-wide map as well as when I create a world-wide map about organizations only. But when creating a map of organizations in El Salvador, or a general map of El Salvador, Amún Shéa doesn't display, weird! I'll figure it out eventually, but let me know if you notice any other issue that may give me a clue. Cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 13:27, 29 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @Emilio, great that you've included the map in El Salvador! And thanks for the thanks! I must learn how to do that as soon as I can! Not to mention trying out a map on some other page, when I can find the time! Philralph (talk) 22:56, 30 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

We have to add maps for every single country soon enough. We need to organize an edit-a-thon for Community action for sustainability soon! Emilio (talk) 23:01, 30 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This is brilliant. The Template:Map is fabulous. Thanks for creating/sharing it! Kathy Nativi (talk) 23:09, 28 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wondering about a current project as a possible opportunity re maps. Don't know whether there'll be any interest in this from the others involved, a group convened by The Alternative UK, but am asking via our Loomio group, extract copied to Talk:Examples of Citizen Action Networks, Philralph (talk) 17:29, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Maps broken?[edit | edit source]

@Emilio, Sophivorus Is Map broken for other people? It is just a wall of text for me at the moment. --Lonny (talk) 07:15, 27 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Lonny Fixed! It was going through some issues so I disabled it temporarily. Hopefully it should work ok now. Sophivorus (talk) 12:14, 27 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Sophivorus Great. Thanks! --Lonny (talk) 19:41, 1 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikipedia excerpt templates?[edit | edit source]

Hi all and @Sophivorus, I've been experimenting with Template:Wikipedia excerpt and this feels to me like a really useful thing to help us develop location and CAS pages.

It then leads me to wondering if a couple of similar but slightly different templates might be possible?

The first would help develop a section (subtitle) of an Appropedia page by including the intro text from a wikipedia article eg Newham#Education for sustainability could have a further subtitle 'Bow Creek Ecology Park'?

The second would help improve a section (subtitle) of an Appropedia page by including the section (subtitle) text from a wikipedia article? Thanks Philralph (talk) 12:04, 12 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph Hi, I'm glad you're finding the template useful! Your first request seems quite straightforward. Is this what you mean? Or do you mean creating a template that automatically inserts a subtitle before the Wikipedia excerpt? If so, then I think it's actually better to manually insert the subtitle, because subtitles inserted via templates have trouble with the [edit] button and are confusing when editing via the visual editor. As to your second request, it's a bit more complicated but doable, I'll add it to my task list! Sophivorus (talk) 12:28, 12 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, Newham#Education for sustainability just perfect! Thanks. Philralph (talk) 14:07, 12 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph Hi, good news! Today I was able to implement your second request: it's now possible to excerpt specific sections of Wikipedia articles using the syntax documented at Template:Wikipedia excerpt#Sections. Hope this helps! Sophivorus (talk) 23:10, 15 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Magic! @Sophivorus. This is going to be so, so useful! Massive thanks. Philralph (talk) 11:32, 16 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph Hi again! I added a couple more features to Template:Wikipedia excerpt: a "paragraphs" parameter to specify how many paragraphs you want, and a "sentences" parameter to specify how many sentences you want. The first may be useful for excerpting more concise introductions, while the second may be useful for excerpting definitions. See the template documentation for some examples. Hope it helps! Sophivorus (talk) 14:33, 27 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks @Sophivorus, great to have this extra flexibility. Philralph (talk) 12:35, 28 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Proposal for a climate action infobox[edit | edit source]

Hi @Sophivorus & @Emilio, getting some thoughts about this. What do you think of the ideas below? Too ambitious? Too much duplicating what others are already doing? Likely to be copyright problems? Etc?

This would be primarily for location or area pages, or climate action sections of a page.

Initially some fairly simple data to be included, eg

target date - year
Carbon reduction target - nature of target eg zero carbon, carbon neutral, etc.
Organisation - name and website or reference link
Climate emergency declaration - date of declaration (as exact as available), eg UK dates listed on Declare a climate emergency. There's also cedamia.org, which has a copyright symbol on its homepage, but dates of declaration likely to be ok to use?
Climate assembly - website or reference link ...List of climate assemblies
Action plan - website or reference link
Action plan dates - start and end date
Action plan published - date
Climate emergency centre - website or reference link eg UK listing of areas on handbook Climate emergency centre

future development: emissions monitoring data, including time series, as suitable data sources identified, combining with population data and geo-location data?

to answer my own questions: I'd only initially be testing this out for a few, mostly UK pages, so maybe not too ambitious. Use of the infobox on local pages, so in a context of local info which probably no-one else doing, so in that sense at least not really duplication. Climate emergency declarations by their nature a matter of public record, so no reason to expect any copyright problems. No problem at all if this seems an unsuitable time to develop something like this. (forgot to sign earlier post!) Philralph (talk) 15:29, 5 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph Hi! Sorry for not replying earlier, I've been giving some thought to this and did some tests to try to imagine how it may work. However, I don't think I fully grasp what you're thinking of yet, and also there may be things about infoboxes you're not considering yet. I generally dislike writing long answers (I prefer to DO rather than talk) but this one may have to be.

First, I just created Template:Infobox area with most of the parameters you suggested. I think that "action plan published" is too much detail, and "action plan dates" is actually two parameters (start and end), so I skipped those for now, but feel free to add them yourself if you want to or to experiment with the infobox as much as you want. I only added the infobox to Greenwich to test it out and demonstrate it, so no real harm would be done if you play with it! Notice also how Greenwich already appears on the map.

Second, for technical and conventional reasons, which I may explain if requested, it's important that pages with infoboxes have only ONE infobox and on the very top of the page. So infoboxes for specific sections, such as an infobox for "climate action sections", would be problematic (we may however create other templates for such sections). Also, there should be a strict correspondence between the infobox type, and the page type. So for example, organization pages use the organization infobox, device pages use the device infobox, etc. Therefore, the area infobox I created should only go in area pages (and at the very top of them). We could rename the infobox to "location" or "region" if you want, but the point is that other types of entities, such as countries for example, will need their own infobox. Some of your suggested parameters (like "climate emergency centre") didn't seem to apply very well on the country level (am I right?), so that's why I created an area infobox. Creating a country infobox would be a natural next step. What other geographical entities are we dealing with? Cities?

Let me know if this makes sense to you and what are your thoughts about it. Once we agree on these things, I'll be happy to help you create the rest of the infoboxes as well as some user-friendly forms to fill them, cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 14:22, 9 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Sophivorus Hi! Thanks for this! Yes, all makes sense to me and I think I'm getting all you say in Second paragraph. At the moment it would seem that areas, cities and countries would be the 3 geographical entities to be dealt with. Not sure at the moment if there'd be much difference between areas and cities at least as far as the climate data is concerned, but I guess you're saying that for other reasons other types of entities should have their own infobox? Yes, you're right about climate emergency centres, for now at least.

I'll get round to some experimenting/playing/testing, then check back with you. Thanks again, cheers! Philralph (talk) 15:59, 9 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @Sophivorus, I've tried out the Template:Infobox area on Greenwich, Surrey and Camden, which I think between them use all of the climate action parameters. I may do a few more, but also it'd be good now, or whenever might be possible, to try a few cities and perhaps also countries. I'd need you to set up the templates for me. Thanks. Philralph (talk) 18:14, 22 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph Hi! I just created the Template:Infobox city. It's basically a copy-paste of the area infobox, changing the word "area" for "city". However, I do expect them to differentiate eventually, but let me know if you think they can be somehow merged. Tomorrow I'll create Template:Infobox country, promise! Kind regards, Sophivorus (talk) 17:06, 24 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph Hi again! I've created the basic Template:Infobox country. It's very similar to the others but without a couple parameters and with an extra parameter called "capital". Again, I expect it to evolve over time. Tomorrow I'll create user-friendly forms to help you easily add and edit the infoboxes! Sophivorus (talk) 16:17, 25 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph Hi yet again! Today I created the Form:Country, Form:Area and Form:City, check them out! You can use them to easily add/edit the infoboxes of countries, areas and cities, respectively. Once a page has its infobox, a convenient "Edit with form" button will appear next to "Edit". Hope it helps! Sophivorus (talk) 13:30, 26 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @Sophivorus, fantastic! I'm sure that'll be a great help. Many thanks! Philralph (talk) 14:39, 26 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph Hi again! As you may have noticed, we're transitioning from "infoboxes" to "databoxes" (compare for example Solar Charged Lawnmower with FiltAirs DIY air filter). For this reason, I just replaced the three infoboxes I created for you before for the new Template:Climate action data. See for example Surrey, Camden, Frome, Greenwich, Manchester, Nottingham and Wales. Also notice the use of Template:Location data to set the location of the pages on the Map. I trust you'll like the new system, which seems to me closer to your original request and has many other advantages. In any case, when we set up our talk with User:Emilio, we can discuss this and other issues in more detail. Cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 14:08, 11 May 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Advice / guidance please, re ethical consumerism links[edit | edit source]

An edit has been made to the Ethical consumerism page, which includes both helpful editing and a link added to external links. I can thank the contributor for the helpful edits but I'm aware of the need to be sensitive about anything that might be construed as advertising.

As I remember it may have been suggested for something similar in the past, that a link such as this could be included on the user's page (rather than the article).

I'm also wondering if this could be relevant to, or lead to an opportunity re Appropedia talk:Supporters. Kathy is this something you might have thoughts on? Thanks. Philralph (talk) 11:33, 8 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Phil, I understand and support the idea of having a page with a list of entities like the one in your article. We are not looking to be a marketing or advertising page, but rather a knowledge-sharing website :) Kathy Nativi (talk) 20:07, 9 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Update, second link reverted today. Message left on User talk:Folk & copied to Talk:Localism. Notice a number of edits over the last week, some of which may be seen as helpful, whereas others might be viewed as inappropriate (have reverted 2 of these, but the rest might need looking at), Philralph (talk) 16:04, 11 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

update: aggressive spamming today by this user, now blocked for 2 weeks. Have reverted CAS pages, but some other pages likely to need attention. Philralph (talk) 09:50, 12 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks! --Lonny (talk) 23:57, 18 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph, Lonny I hadn't replied to this, but all changes were reverted. :) Emilio (talk) 01:13, 19 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Agrivoltaics and categorization questions[edit | edit source]

@Emilio, Sophivorus, Philralph Please see new user TomStanton's question at Talk:Agrivoltaics (and his other contributions). --Lonny (talk) 07:10, 27 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi all, done a short reply to start off at Talk:Agrivoltaics, Philralph (talk) 09:39, 1 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you! Hopefully Sophivorus or Emilio can also help answer. --Lonny (talk) 19:42, 1 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

"english" was not recognized as a supported language code[edit | edit source]

On user pages, e.g. User:Tzapilin and User:Rebasbury I am seeing a floating error code (little yellow/orange !) that yields errors like: "english" was not recognized as a supported language code. Also clicking the search property yields ¡No results! Is that being worked on? Thanks, --Lonny (talk) 19:50, 1 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Lonny Hi! Yes, I'm going through some restructuring of the semantic properties related to languages. Should be fixed by tomorrow. Sophivorus (talk) 22:32, 1 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks! And nice work. --Lonny (talk) 21:54, 5 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Feedback, questions and concern about dead links script editing[edit | edit source]

Hi @Sophivorus, I'm guessing you are the person to ask about this.

Whilst I can see the value of replacing dead links with links to an archived version of a web page, I've been noticing a concerning number of what might be called 'false positives'. By this I mean replacing a link which works fine for me (checked after a replacement) with an archive version which might not work and so be in effect a newly created dead link. I've even seen a recently added (about a month ago) link replaced. I've also see an archived link itself replaced with second archived link in the address (?) which looks like 'overkill' (?)

I've been noticing these false positives for some time, but a couple of recent examples: from Ireland, Biology.ie & Green Sod Ireland & from just one section of Bristol, Bristol#Food activism: Bristol Food Network & Windmill Hill City Farm

Perhaps one of my main concerns is the spread of these (newly created) dead links if dead links script is used too often. I would have thought it shouldn't be necessary to check the same article for dead links more than say once a year, or perhaps even every two years? Of course, the above examples aren't enough of a sample to really see how widespread this problem might be, but I'm a little bit daunted by the thought of having to keep rechecking hundreds of CASwiki pages manually far too often! Philralph (talk) 11:09, 15 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph Hi! Thanks for rising this totally reasonable concern. I've also noticed a few false positives (live links being archived) but through the power of wishful thinking, I hoped they weren't too common. Luckily however, it wouldn't be too difficult at all to enhance the dead links script to recheck archived links and replace them for plain links when responsive! I'm adding this to my task list, so please don't bother with many more manual fixes yet! As to the cause of the false positives, the script waits for a response for a few seconds and if it doesn't get it, it assumes a dead link. Maybe it should wait for longer. There may also be other causes for false positives that I haven't thought of yet. Also, regarding the frequency of the script running, I agree that having it run once a year sounds about right, however we had a problem with an early version of the script that prevented it from finishing, so we had to run it several times in order for it to finish. Anyway, in short, I'll improve the script soon so that it fixes its own misdeeds and once that's done, it shouldn't be necessary to run it again this year. Kind regards, and thanks again for the report! Sophivorus (talk) 12:03, 15 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @Sophivorus, thanks for your reply! I'm happily reassured! Cheers! Philralph (talk) 14:12, 15 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Done! Sophivorus (talk) 13:11, 24 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

New skin[edit | edit source]

Hi all! As you've probably noticed, we just changed the default skin from Vector (the Wikipedia skin) to Poncho, a skin we've been developing, testing and fine-tuning for several months. Poncho features a clean, responsive and modern design, coherent with the default mobile skin (Minerva). It's designed to put content center-stage and to integrate well with portal pages such as GSTC, Solar or FR. We really hope you like it, but please don't hesitate to share any feedback, concerns or issues you may have! Sophivorus (talk) 18:56, 16 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @Sophivorus, love the great new super clean design! Philralph (talk) 08:57, 17 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

All youtube video links are broken - current code sending them now to Vimeo[edit | edit source]

Can you fix it? - Thanks Joshua Pearce (talk) 16:00, 7 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@J.M.Pearce Fixed! Sophivorus (talk) 23:07, 23 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Page name not displaying[edit | edit source]

India community action (recently moved India page), page name not displaying? Philralph (talk) 15:49, 15 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

now sorted, (header had been included under See also) Philralph (talk) 15:28, 19 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Modificación incorrecta en el browse map[edit | edit source]

Buen día comunidad. soy nueva en este proceso, alguien me hablo de su pagina pero no supe como usarla. Accidentalmente hice un cambio en el Browse map, cambiando la información introductoria de ese item. por favor alguien podría explicarme como puedo ingresar la información de mi emprendimiento a esta página.

@Re-Usa Ordiri Textil Resuelto, véase Re-Usa Ordiri Textil, ¡gracias! Sophivorus (talk) 13:01, 24 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Proposal to ban Dropbox and Drive links[edit | edit source]

While running the dead links script, I noticed a great amount of dead Dropbox and Google Drive links, probably with documentation files that have been shared on Appropedia but lost. Although it's not a great solution, banning these links might be a way to encourage people to share files through more sustainable platforms or to upload to Appropedia. What are your thoughts? —Emilio (talk) 00:58, 20 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Emilio I could add dropbox.com and drive.google.com to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. A friendly warning would probably be better but I don't think this is possible with the current software. A new extension would be needed. Sophivorus (talk) 13:16, 24 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I think it's worth a try. Emilio (talk) 14:36, 24 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Done! Sophivorus (talk) 12:07, 30 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Local community action, links, previews and maps[edit | edit source]

@Sophivorus, Emilio Hi, I recently came across the Near You sidebar test on United States. It looks very promising, but I'm thinking...

It needs more space
Does it need to be near the top of the page?

Re the space, something like the map on El Salvador, eg near full screen width would be better, at least in some cases, depending on the shape of the area?

Re the position on the page, similar listings I've put lower down on some pages: so the logic is stuff about the area of the title, then just before the 'see also' section (of which is a type, though very important type) local communities / (near you), within the larger area, eg South East England#Local communities in South East England (I do quite like the way the gallery is currently displaying), India (States, cities, projects?), etc.

So I'm wondering if a map, including page previews from hovering over the links, would be the best option generally (as standard)? (But still use the location data near top of page?) (I'm still a bit hazy as to why some previews include an image and others don't?)

I can see the usefulness of similar maps for topic and resource pages; not got very far with this yet, but eg recently set up a Ecosystem restoration page, and from search I see that there are probably some projects already on Appropedia that it would be good to link to under a heading like Local Ecosystem Restoration Community Action Projects (examples). What do you think? Happy to chat again about this kind of stuff some time fairly soon if that might seem like a good idea? Philralph (talk) 15:27, 27 June 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

update, no rush but just wanted to add that United States, failed to load for me today. Background task taking too long? Also last time I looked I'm not sure links to State pages were included anywhere. This can be done via a listing / gallery if it's too problematic to do via a map? Thanks, and just to emphasise, really, no rush! Philralph (talk) 16:43, 14 July 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph Hi! Sophivorus and I have been discussing this, and we promise to get back to you soon! We can definitely find a time to chat this month, does this work for you? —Emilio (talk) 18:39, 1 August 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Emilio, Sophivorus Hi, anytime from the 16th would be good for me, Cheers Philralph (talk) 16:47, 2 August 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Title convention for projects[edit | edit source]

Recently User:PedroK and me started an experiment by renaming all compost bin projects to the following format:

How to make a <ADJECTIVE> compost bin (<AUTHOR>)

For example:

Our reasoning was that most users wanting to make a compost bin will google "how to make a compost bin" (see https://trends.google.com/) so having the projects named otherwise is wasting impact potential. However, we cannot just call all compost bin projects "how to make a compost bin", the software requires they be called differently. Adding the author between parenthesis works well and also helps us quickly identify the projects internally, but why not also add an adjective or two to appeal to users seeking for specific compost bin varieties? And so we arrived to the current convention.

We also did the same with the solar cooker projects. They are now all under observation until December 31 to see if there's actually any traffic increase. If there is, then we would like to rename all other projects in a similar fashion. In the meantime, please feel free to share your thoughts, objections, support, suggestions, etc. Cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 12:46, 24 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

We recently realized that Google actually hides pages with similar titles from the same domain, so this naming strategy is actually not useful or even deleterious. Sophivorus (talk) 16:21, 21 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Help requested with possible vandalism[edit | edit source]

Hi all, I'd appreciate some help with what looks like vandalism to many CASwiki pages by User:Sm-neutron, and mirroring previous patterns by user(s) subsequently blocked. Most edits look potentially helpful but eventually become strange looking eg more than one end menu / nav links at the end of a page, moving internal links down below external links and possibly excessive use of new and / or conflicting categories, thanks. In view of previous instances similar to this I've blocked the user for one week. 15:41, 18 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Philralph I agree with your one-week block and just left a message at the talk page of the user. Cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 16:13, 18 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi everyone. just wanted to say thanks for all your amazing efforts and work in building this great resource here at Appropedia. sorry for the miscommunication that occurred, as per the message above. I was in touch with the social media team for Appropedia via Facebook Messenger; however, I realize now that it would have been much more helpful if I had been in contact here via the Village Pump, and provided a brief note just to open discussion with the community, and to have a positive dialogue re posssible ideas and actions. No problem at all; I will be glad to communicate and to work together. I look forward to working together here on all kinds of positive items. I really appreciate everyone's help. thanks!!!--Sm-neutron (talk) 23:48, 20 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]