CZ:Wishlist

This page is meant to collect ideas on how to make CZ better, both in a fundamental or incremental way, with a focus on practical rather than theoretical improvements. We need an overview here, so please do not use more than about 50 words per field and link to other pages (on the forum, or in the CZ or user namespaces) if further information is necessary.

Please sort by priority (from 5=crucial to 1=nice to have to 0=neutral to -1=counterproductive), and if a problem was solved, move it to a similar table at the bottom of this page.

To do

Problem	Priority	Solution	Possible trial solution	Comments	Contact person	Date filed	Status
default skin is not user-friendly	5	change it	can be changed for logged-in users via preferences	Forum thread	Daniel Mietchen	08:37, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
The current "Elem Infobox" template has no way for listing properties like IUPAC name, CAS number, molecular mass, boiling point, melting point, density, specific heat, refractive. index, etc. It also has no counterpart for compounds as well as elements.	5	We need a template placing a standard table on main article edit pages that can be used to list/add/delete/revise properties for elements and for compounds. Perhaps one such template for elements and one for compounds.	Look at the table I created on the edit page of Water and how it displays on the main article page	Look at table I also created on Water/Other Properties for listing more properties, if appropriate.	Milton Beychok	21:40, 27 October 2009 (UTC)	a test version for such a template can be found at Template:PropList
Better search facilities (even the expert search does not even allow a "*" wildcard)	5	allow wildcards, and, or, etc.			Peter Schmitt	01:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
No established relationship with external organizations	5	Potential partners	Trial Partnership	Talk Page CZ:Become a Partner	Dan Nessett	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Problem description missing
The Healing Arts Workgroup currently allows advocates of fringe positions to act as editors.	4	merge it with the Health Sciences Workgroup	none, though in principle, one could just merge the respective categories of the type Category:Healing Arts Content and Category:Health Sciences Content	Forum thread	please add your name here, Daniel Mietchen	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Problem description missing
WP credit often vanishes	4	include in Metadata		This would also allow other sources to be credited properly	Peter Schmitt, Daniel Mietchen	20:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
no policy on installing extensions	4	draft one	ask Greg	Forum thread	Daniel Mietchen	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Problem description missing
Some search engines display our disclaimer rather than useful page summaries, thus keeping visitors away	4	display the definition on the cluster's main page rather than on the talk page	demo	Forum thread on demo Forum thread on problem due to demo	Daniel Mietchen	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Problem description missing
Is there a simpler implementation of the subpages mechanism?	3	Perhaps by using of namespaces?			Peter Schmitt	00:24, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Moving clusters and deleting redirects are likely to leave orphaned pages behind	3	Can the move mechanics be improved?			Peter Schmitt	00:28, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
much of our best content is hidden to occasional visitors, and CZ:Article of the Week / CZ:New Draft of the Week require more energy than we seem to have on a permanent basis	3	Display the introductory parts of approved articles on the CZ:Welcome Page by means of transclusion and random selection (as already practices for CZ:Quotes.	CZ:Article of the Week / CZ:New Draft of the Week as well as CZ:Quotes, all of which have been in operation for a while	Forum thread	Daniel Mietchen	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Problem description missing
Technical approval mechanics: Can it be simplified?	3	Can branches of the revision control be used?			Peter Schmitt	20:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC)	Is copy and paste indeed the best method?
no policy on bots and scripts	3	draft one	document all your bot and script runs; bots using non-PWB scripts must operate with categories that allow for undo	Forum thread	Daniel Mietchen	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Problem description missing
No coherent guidance on Citations, References, and Bibliographies on CZ, and content overlap with External links	3	Solutions	Trials	Talk Page / Forum thread on merging Bibliography and External Links subpages	Dan Nessett, Daniel Mietchen	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Problem description missing
Special:Upload allows too few file types	3	change it	no demo needed	Forum thread	Daniel Mietchen	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Problem description complete
No easy way to compare current approved with current draft version	2	extend diff (if possible)	workaround Only if approved version has not been changed independently!: (0) Add &diff=cur to the url of the approved revision of the draft. If that is too complicated, you can get there in the following three steps too: (1) Go to an approved article's Approval subpage, (2) Follow the link to the latest approved version, (3) The "diff" link after "Current revision" gives you the difference, and its content will update automatically when new edits to the draft have been made	Current possibility: Paste approved version into draft, use "view changes" //Has to be included into {{Approval}} by adding &diff=cur to the url of the approved revision of the draft, along with a brief statement that this is the difference.	Peter Schmitt	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Problem description missing
Further information not linked from bottom of page	2	changing {{Subpages}}	a demo demo2	Forum thread Having additional links at the bottom may also help solve the problem discussed at Talk:Economics#Article format section.	John Stephenson, Daniel Mietchen	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Problem description missing
Every subpage has a talk page	2	reduce this to one per cluster	the subpages template always leads to the cluster's talk page, but the "discussion" tab does not	see this edit summary	Daniel Mietchen	21:30, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Printable version contains unneeded material (frame,links)	2	change layout and content		"Monobook" and "Modern" print only the content of the page	Peter Schmitt	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Problem description missing
Allow more than 1 abc-field in Metadata	2			Would allow to put a page at two (or more) places in alphabet	Peter Schmitt	14:27, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Content of frame/header/footer: Can it be better organized?	2	review, evaluate, improve		includes some of the other topics	Peter Schmitt	22:48, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
No templates for numbered equations	2	write them up	A HTML workaround can be seen at Sturm-Liouville theory, discussed here	So much HTML code here on wiki is error-prone	Daniel Mietchen	15:45, 15 October 2009 (UTC)	Problem description complete
The title of subpages is displayed with an " > ", which is an unnecessary burden for copy/pasting page titles while editing	1	Change it to "/" in the MediaWiki settings	none	Forum thread	Daniel Mietchen	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Problem description complete
Problem	Priority	Solution	demo/ trial/ workaround	Comments or Forum thread	contact person	replace with five tildes	Problem description missing

Done

Problem	Priority	Solution	Possible trial solution	Comments	Contact person	Date filed	Status
Obtrusive requests to edit subpages	3	restrict to logged-in users, if possible			Peter Schmitt	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Solved
Confusing message on Lemma pages	1	change wording on Lemma pages only		Forum thread	Daniel Mietchen	11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before	Solved