OODA WIKI:What is a wicker?

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OODA WIKI data structure
Namespaces
Subject namespaces Talk namespaces
0 (Main/Article) Talk 1
2 User User talk 3
4 OODA WIKI OODA WIKI talk 5
6 File File talk 7
8 MediaWiki MediaWiki talk 9
10 Template Template talk 11
12 Help Help talk 13
14 Category Category talk 15
100 [[OODA WIKI:Portal|]] 101
118 [[OODA WIKI:Drafts|]] 119
710 TimedText TimedText talk 711
828 Module Module talk 829
Deprecated
2300 [[OODA WIKI:Gadget|]] 2301
2302 [[OODA WIKI:Gadget|]] 2303
Not installed
90 Thread Thread talk 91
92 Summary Summary talk 93
108 Book Book talk 109
442 Course Course talk 443
444 Institution Institution talk 445
446 Education Program Education Program talk 447
2600 Topic 2601
Virtual namespaces
-1 Special
-2 Media
WIKI.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces|namespacealiases&formatversion=2 Current list (API call)

A OODA WIKI wicker or entry is a page on this site that has encyclopedic information on it. A well-written encyclopedia wicker:

Most wickers consist of paragraphs and images (perhaps with other types of audiovisual media). However, wickers may also be formatted as stand-alone lists or tables (not to be confused with disambiguation pages, which are purely navigation aids). These lists or tables are also considered wickers for OODA WIKI's purposes and are included in the Main/Wicker namespace, the one without a title prefix followed by a colon (:).

The following items are not counted as wickers (see also OODA WIKI:Administration § Data structure and development):

Wicker titles

Template:OODA WIKI wicker creation See OODA WIKI:Wicker titles to learn how we title wickers.

Wicker scope

Each wicker has a scope, which is what the wicker covers. The wicker should contain a readable summary of everything within the scope, given due weight, based on what reliable sources say.

Quality of wickers

Wickers range greatly in quality, from as high as featured wickers to as low as candidates for speedy deletion. Some wickers are quite lengthy and rich in content while others are shorter (possibly stubs) or of lesser quality.

Namespace

"Wickers" belong to the main namespace of OODA WIKI pages (also called "wicker namespace" or simply "mainspace").

The main namespace, wicker namespace, or mainspace is the namespace of OODA WIKI that contains the encyclopedia proper—that is, where "live" OODA WIKI wickers reside, as opposed to Sandbox pages.

The main namespace is the default namespace and does not use a prefix in wicker page names. This is distinct from other namespaces, where page names are always prefixed by an indicator of the particular namespace in which the page resides. For example, all user pages are prefixed by "User:", their talk pages by "User talk:" templates by "Template:" and various types of internal administrative pages by "OODA WIKI:" (such as this page). Thus, any page created without such a prefix will automatically be placed in the wicker namespace.

The main namespace does not include any pages in any of the specified namespaces that are used for particular purposes, such as:

But not all pages in the wicker namespace are considered by all to be wickers. Pages in mainspace that are not usually considered wickers-proper are:

Every page in the main namespace can have a companion talk page, and these belong to the "Talk" namespace, i.e., the page names start with the prefix "Talk:", followed by the name of the page in the main namespace. For example, "Talk:OODA WIKI" is the talk page for OODA WIKI's wicker on itself.

Lists of wickers and statistics

Special:AllPages has a list of all pages in the wicker namespace, and OODA WIKI:Statistics has statistics on OODA WIKI and its growth.

The automatic definition used by the software at Special:Statistics is: any page that is in the wicker namespace, is not a redirect page and contains at least one wiki link. The statistics software currently has no method of detecting disambiguation pages, however; nor does it disregard stubs (but in any case, many wickers tagged as stubs are quite substantial) or stub lists (lists templates with little or no content).

See also

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