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elements of such a script based approach

Download the whole wiki and do (snapshot)

- Analysing all titles with a script,
- getting the last modification date,
- gathering all the headings on each page,
- Finding out about empty pages.
- produce reports on things to do on this
- build a glossary of terms
- build scripts to add tags
- derive a graph of the links of all pages and identify problems in this graph.

i.e. implement in Smalltalk different bots such as the ones at work on
Wikipedia.

On 4/6/18, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/6/18, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2018-04-06 11:11 GMT+02:00 H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On 4/6/18, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > 2018-04-06 11:04 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Cellier <
>>> > nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
>>> >
>>> >> By re-routing one or two rivers, it sounds effectively possible, but
>>> >> we
>>> >> need may little washing particles
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > No I don't promise it for May, I meant many
>>>
>>> Nicolas,
>>>
>>> Do you have a particular idea how  an implemenation plan/ outline of
>>> tasks to do  for 'rerouting the rivers for the water to be used for
>>> cleaning' would look like?
>>>
>>> --Hannes
>>>
>>> Hi Hannes,
>> isn't it precisely what Tim (and you) are trying to achieve thru this
>> call
>> to goodwill?
>
> Hello Nicolas
>
> Yes. But that is a step-by-step approach, doing small increments over
> the months which do not cost much time.
>
> But I thought as you were writing about re-routing rivers (implying
> that the water of rivers do the washing)  that you have ideas about a
> automatic or semi-automatic procedures to do so....
>
> --Hannes
>
>>
>>
>>> >
>>> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#Fifth_
>>> >> labour:_Augean_stables
>>> >>
>>> >> 2018-04-05 19:47 GMT+02:00 tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> > On 05-04-2018, at 10:13 AM, K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com>
>>> >>> > wrote:
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > wiki.squeak.org/squeak is an excellent resource for Squeakers.
>>> >>> However, it's interface is a bit dated and could do with some
>>> >>> improvements.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I agree that the UI is a bit blah (and your suggestions are
>>> interesting)
>>> >>> but far more worrying is the out of date state of so many pages.
>>> >>> Every
>>> >>> now
>>> >>> and then I go on a minor rampage to mark obviously obsolete pages,
>>> >>> delete
>>> >>> clearly ridiculous one, recycle those pages, update stuff where I
>>> >>> know
>>> >>> what
>>> >>> can be improved and so on. We suffer from a colossal swathe of
>>> >>> effectively
>>> >>> empty pages generated by some long-gone process/project that
>>> >>> appeared
>>> to
>>> >>> consider that dumping class name as page and (maybe) sticking class
>>> >>> comments in was a good idea. There are strings of pages forming the
>>> >>> promising beginnings of tutorials that simply fade out
>>> >>> to.........{crickets}
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Almost anyone can help to clean up the swiki. Pick some page from
>>> >>> the
>>> >>> front page, follow it down the rabbit-hole a bit, look at the pages
>>> that
>>> >>> link to a duff page, clean them up a bit, recycle bad pages, rewrite
>>> >>> poorly
>>> >>> thought out explanations, maybe replace ancient screenshots with
>>> >>> ones
>>> >>> taken
>>> >>> from a current Squeak.  (as an example, take a look at
>>> >>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3480 - lots of very out of date
>>> >>> examples
>>> >>> there). Even simple things like organising into proper lists and
>>> editing
>>> >>> text into proper paragraphs can help a lot in readability. You don't
>>> >>> need
>>> >>> to be a great expert to provide a valuable service here - but I bet
>>> that
>>> >>> spending some time in the swiki will start to make you an expert,
>>> >>> even
>>> >>> if
>>> >>> it's only by making you look up the real state of something!
>>> >>>
>>> >>> If everyone on the squeak-dev list edited a swiki page once a week
>>> >>> we'd
>>> >>> very quickly see big improvements.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> tim
>>> >>> --
>>> >>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>> >>> I'm so skeptical that I'm not sure I'm really a skeptic
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
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