2017 Summer Wiki Drive

[EastStroudsburg13]

This is sort of unrelated, but is it possible to center align in the wiki? For example, the equations are all aligned to the left in the Astronomy page, and it impedes readability in my opinion.

I just added a tag to the first equation of the Kepler's third law section that center aligns: https://scioly.org/wiki/index.php/Astro ... _Third_Law
Feel free to copy that tag and align any other equations where you think it would be helpful.

But dang, y'all! It's looking good! Lots of fantastic edits in the past few days. Keep it up!

Edit: and if you have any questions about editing like antoine_ego's question, please feel free to post them in here.

That center-align formatting for equations looks slick. I definitely encourage using that for other equations in the wiki.

[Magikarpmaster629]

What is the function of the "This is a minor update" box when editing? I've been checking it since most of my changes are very small, but I'm curious as to whether it actually means anything.

[bernard]

What is the function of the "This is a minor update" box when editing? I've been checking it since most of my changes are very small, but I'm curious as to whether it actually means anything.

It's helpful when looking through change logs but usually one can tell from the change in number of bytes.

[dragonfruit35]

when you haven't been able to edit the wiki for like a year

[bernard]

when you haven't been able to edit the wiki for like a year :? :cry:

There are two options. We can either remove the underscore from your username or you can make another account without the underscore just for editing the wiki. Please send me a message for assistance with either.

I plan on looking into solutions for the general issue over the summer, but my current understanding is MediaWiki does not support spaces, underscores, or other special characters.

[Unome]

when you haven't been able to edit the wiki for like a year

There are two options. We can either remove the underscore from your username or you can make another account without the underscore just for editing the wiki. Please send me a message for assistance with either.

I plan on looking into solutions for the general issue over the summer, but my current understanding is MediaWiki does not support spaces, underscores, or other special characters.

I'm pretty sure spaces work fine (e.g. John Richardsim). What special characters are broken though? I always thought it was just underscores because they parse as spaces.

[bernard]

when you haven't been able to edit the wiki for like a year :? :cry:

There are two options. We can either remove the underscore from your username or you can make another account without the underscore just for editing the wiki. Please send me a message for assistance with either.

I plan on looking into solutions for the general issue over the summer, but my current understanding is MediaWiki does not support spaces, underscores, or other special characters.

I'm pretty sure spaces work fine (e.g. John Richardsim). What special characters are broken though? I always thought it was just underscores because they parse as spaces.

You're right, spaces work. I have limited new usernames to alphanumeric and spacers to avoid new cases.

[EastStroudsburg13]

Hey guys!

We've gotten a really good response to the drive so far! However, if you're dumping notes for study events, I wanted to bring up something to caution against. It's a common practice to use information taken from other sources to help study and to form note sheets. However, we want the wiki to be the work of just students, and not text copied from a different page. So if you're not sure or you don't remember, just take a moment to check to make sure that the text you're uploading is your own work!

Thanks!

[EastStroudsburg13]

There's just a couple more days left to make edits for the June period of the drive! Here are the standings so far:

Stubs (at least 1000 bytes added):
1. Tesel (5335; Chem Lab/Physical Properties)

Incomplete (at least 1000 bytes added):
1. Kimpossiblee (11539; Anatomy/Digestive System, Severe Storms/Winter Storms)
2. Raxu (10698; Astronomy/DSOs, Game On, Reach for the Stars)
3. Antoine_ego (5598; Astronomy/DSOs)
4. Tesel (5335; Chem Lab/Physical Properties)
5. Person (4889; Invasive Species List/Aquatic Animals)
6. Whythelongface (4124; Microbe Mission/Diseases List)
7. Entomology (3013; Fossils/Fossil List)
8. Lumosityfan (2763; Astronomy/Star and Planet Formation, Dynamic Planet/Tectonics)
9. Catty6052 (2566; Wind Power)

Outdated (at least 1000 bytes added):
1. Whythelongface (6745; Remote Sensing)
2. Dragonfruit35 (3705; Mission Possible B, Robot Arm)
3. Catty6052 (2566; Wind Power)

Dead End/Orphaned (at least 5 links added):
1. Raxu (7; Ecology/Deciduous Forests, Ezra Tech)

Cleanup (at least 20 lines cleaned up):
1. Panda Weasley (60; Experimental Design)
2. Catty6052 (33; Wind Power)
3. Dragonfruit35 (29; Mission Possible B, Wheeled Vehicle)
4. Dxu46 (28; Experimental Design)
5. Markuswso17 (25; Mission Possible C)
6. Fridaychimp (21; Anatomy/Respiratory System, Wheeled Vehicle)
7. ScienceOlympian (20; Chem Lab/Gas Laws)

Needs Work (tags removed):
1. Raxu (2.5; Ecology/Deciduous Forests, Ezra Tech)
2. Tesel (2; Chem Lab/Physical Properties, Optics)
3. Antoine_ego (1; Astronomy/DSOs)
4. Catty6052 (1; Wind Power)
5. Dragonfruit35 (1; Robot Arm)
6. Kimpossiblee (1; Severe Storms/Winter Storms)
7. Lumosityfan (1; Astronomy/Star and Planet Formation)
8. Meachso (1; Reach for the Stars)
9. ScienceOlympian (1; Chem Lab/Gas Laws)
10. Whythelongface (1; Remote Sensing)
11. Raleway (0.5; Ezra Tech)

Overall (at least 10000 bytes added):
1. Person (56882)
2. Raxu (15895)
3. Antoine_ego (14428)
4. Dxu46 (12805)
5. Whythelongface (11942)
6. Kimpossiblee (11859)
7. Tesel (11367)

At the end of the month I'll give more of an update for the overall state of the wiki drive and its various components, but there's been a lot of good work so far! Remember to keep checking the Needs Work page to see how we're doing with each of the maintenance statistics, and to see what you can help out with!

[EastStroudsburg13]

Results have been tallied! There will be an official announcement post later on summarizing the month overall.