User:Raidarr

I am Raidarr. It's possible you've heard of me from the wiki farm space.

I will be around every so often with thoughts, 'gnome edits' and possibly something more to add. For now I'd just like to share some of my observations and experience in the wiki space where they might be useful.

Tips and stuff

Useful things to know about:

• archive.org and archive.is - leading options to archive pages. Both have addons to make archiving easier.
• tosdr.org - a neat website to summarize the gist of terms of service.

I'm forgetting a lot of things and will hopefully have more to offer later.

Extensions for this wiki's consideration:

• WikiSE...: Improve search ranking of the wiki with literally no extra work. The filter doesn't like me saying the name so fill in the blank or ask on discord.
• DiscussionTools: A way to spruce up the talk page/discussion tabs without entering bloated or deprecated tools like StructuredDiscussions which is unfortunately on its way out. It's good to keep the non-discord audience in mind and it may be worth having some minimal community building on the wiki itself.
• Gadgets: chiefly to have tools like HotCat.
• Thanks: In case you want to be nice I guess.
• DynamicSidebar: only if it would be useful for admins or specific groups to have extra quick-access buttons that aren't necessary for 'the plebs' to view.

A native summary of how to MediaWiki might be helpful. The "Help about MediaWiki" page is vast and potentially overwhelming to the casual editor.

In time it will be good to move away from using special pages, like AllPages or Categories for organization. The wiki's just getting started of course, but good search optimization will become relevant very soon if the project is to grow.

More tips and tricks:

• Append ?action=purge to the URL if a page is not refreshing correctly.
• Append ?uselang=qqx to view interface messages, for admins+ who want to know these quickly.
• Learn to source edit sooner than later. It is more reliable than visualeditor.
• Find a stressball so you can handle garbage ai captchas that presume to judge if you are a human or not.