Wiki administrator how-to

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Contents 1 How to create your own language wiki 1.1 A guide for new administrators 1.2 Structuring styles and the infobox 2 infobox

[edit] How to create your own language wiki

THIS PAGE IN A WORK IN PROGRESS. IT WILL BE DEVELOPED WHILE THE FIRST TRANSLATIONS ARE CREATED.

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[edit] A guide for new administrators

• Post on the pd-list to announce your interest in being the SysOp of a new language site
• Sign up and create an account, post to the pd-list to request SysOp access
• Create the main page by translating the english version.

[edit] Structuring styles and the infobox

Important: all file names and variables are case sensitive! Copy-paste all file names from this page.

• Translate the following terms by writing your language between the quotation marks in propper casing/spacing - for example, $stub = "Esboço";.
  Important: check for propper Wiki-names in the Wikipedia in your language. Send the text to the pd-list. After is has been checked and eventually discussed, the template will be imported.

# wikipedia terms
$stub = "";
$template = "";
$category = "";
$infobox = "";
 
# pdpedia terms
$objectclass = "";
 
# page headers
$inlets = "";
$outlets = "";
$arguments = "";
$messages = "";
 
# infobox
$name = "";
$description = "";
$abbreviation = "";
$example image = "";
$caption = "";
$library = "";
$author = "";
$developer = "";
$releaseVersion = "";
$releaseDate = "";
$status = "";
$dependencies = "";
$license = "";
$website = "";
$programmingLanguage = "";
$platform = "";
$operatingSystem = "";
$language = "";
$dataType = "";
$distribution = "";

# proposed additions
$helppatch name = "";
$cpu use index = "";

• Create a page named MediaWiki:Common.css and copy the content from http://wiki.puredata.info/en/MediaWiki:Common.css into it.
• Create a page named Template:Infobox_Objectclass and copy the content from http://wiki.puredata.info/en/Template:Infobox_Objectclass into it.
• Translate the fields from Template:Infobox_Objectclass into your language. The fieldnames are also important for the objectclass pages, there is a possibilty to script the page creation.

[edit] infobox

here is a list of all english fields for the wikibox

{{Infobox Objectclass
| name                   =
| description            =
| library                =
| example image          =
| caption                =
| author                 =
| developer              =
| released               =
| release version        =
| release date           =
| programming language   =
| platform               =
| operating system       =
| language               =
| status                 =
| data type              =
| license                =
| website                =
}}