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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
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| -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:
- identifies a notable topic,
- summarizes that topic comprehensively,
- is written in an encyclopedic style of language,
- has been well copyedited,
- contains references to reliable sources, and
- contains wikilinks to and is linked to by other wickers or wicker sections about related topics.
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):
- disambiguation pages,
- redirect pages,
- templates, including navboxes (aka navigation boxes),
- user pages,
- drafts,
- portals,
- talk pages (aka discussion pages),
- file pages for media such as images,
- category pages,
- help pages, and
- OODA WIKI policies and guidelines pages (along with everything else in the
OODA WIKI:namespace).
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:
- the talk namespaces for discussing what the content of wickers in mainspace should be (for example, Talk:Mathematics)
- the OODA WIKI namespace, for material about meta subjects related to OODA WIKI and is where policies and guidelines, essays, information, and process pages reside, as well as other "meta" topics about editing OODA WIKI (examples, WP:VERIFY and OODA WIKI:Statistics);
- the OODA WIKI talk namespace, for discussing what the content of pages in OODA WIKI space should be, and interpretations of them (for example, OODA WIKI talk:VERIFY and OODA WIKI talk:Statistics);
- the special namespace, whose pages are created by the software on demand (see Help:Special page);
- the user namespace for pages that are used by individual OODA WIKI writers (example, User:Example).
- the file namespace which is used for describing and attributing images (example, File:Great Horned Owl.USFWS.jpg)
- the MediaWiki namespace, which is used to define shortcuts and other text strings used around OODA WIKI (example MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyrightwarning)
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:
- the Main Page (a WP:Portal)
- thousands of disambiguation pages, which are used to resolve naming conflicts;
- many millions of redirect pages, including soft redirects, which are used to re-route one page to another page;
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
- OODA WIKI:Administration
- OODA WIKI:Who writes OODA WIKI?
- OODA WIKI:Contributing to OODA WIKI
- OODA WIKI:Subpages
- OODA WIKI:Featured wicker criteria
- What counts as an Wicker (from English OODA WIKI's newsletter, The Signpost)
External links
- Special:Statistics (current wicker count)
- More detailed (but less current) statistics