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AndrewSayers — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:07 GMT

Created page with "Development of the new wiki is [https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/WikiRevamp#Get_Involved.21 moving to Salsa repositories], and pages that are still relevant need to be copied over to the [https://salsa.debian.org/wiki-team/debwiki-dev-pages debwiki-dev-pages] repository. This page lists some known groups of pages. For a full list, see <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}} all categories] and [{{fullurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}} all..."

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Development of the new wiki is [https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/WikiRevamp#Get_Involved.21 moving to Salsa repositories], and pages that are still relevant need to be copied over to the [https://salsa.debian.org/wiki-team/debwiki-dev-pages debwiki-dev-pages] repository.

This page lists some known groups of pages. For a full list, see <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}} all categories] and [{{fullurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}} all templates]</span>.

One way to copy a page would be:

# clone [https://salsa.debian.org/wiki-team/debwiki-dev-pages debwiki-dev-pages]
# choose an appropriate group (or make a new one) from the <code>*.txt</code> files in that repo
# copy the contents of the file into <code><your-group>/PageName.mw</code>
# add the page name to <code><your-group>.txt</code>
# commit your changes and submit a new MR

= Notes =

Based on MediaWiki's Template:Note.

{|
|-
| [[Template:Note]] || based on [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Note MediaWiki:Template:Note]
|-
| [[Template:Note/styles.css]] || styling for Template:Note
|}

= Headers and footers =

Various ideas for standard page headers and footers

{|
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| [[:Category:Package]] || Package pages
|-
| [[Template:Cc-by-sa-4.0]] || explicitly state a page is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
|-
| [[Template:DebianCopyright]] || copyright statement for a single user
|-
| [[Template:DebianFooter]] || standard page footer (delete?)
|-
| [[Template:DebianHeader]] || standard page header (delete?)
|-
| [[Template:Imported_from_Moin]] || early concept for a header to go on imported pages
|-
| [[Template:PageHeader]] || General information that goes at the top of every page (e.g. translations)
|-
| [[Template:PageHeader/Package]] || Information at the top of package pages, called internally by [[Template:PageHeader]]
|}

= Tagging pages =

Sometimes we would like to specify information about a page
(e.g. that it's only of historical interest, and no longer being updated).

{|
|-
| [[Template:CategoryTag]] || Header text for categories that provide some tag
|-
| [[Template:Tag]] || tag this page
|-
| [[Template:PackageRemoved]] || indicate this page is for a package that is no longer available in Debian
|-
| [[Template:Archived]] || based on a proposal that pages of strictly historical interest should be marked as "archived" instead of being deleted outright
|-
| [[:Category:PackageRemoved]] || Pages that are for packages that have been removed
|-
| [[:Category:Archived]] || Pages that are archived
|-
| [[:Category:Tag]] || Pages that have been tagged
|}

= Proposed actions =

Often someone will come by a page and suggest some action,
after an appropriate period of review. These templates
help manage that process

{|
|-
| [[Template:CategoryProposedAction]] || Header text for categories that propose some action
|-
| [[Template:ProposedAction]] || Propose an action on this page
|-
| [[Template:ProposedDeletion]] || Propose that this page be deleted
|-
| [[Template:ProposedMerge]] || Propose that this page be merged with another page
|-
| [[Template:MergedWith]] || early concept - if page A is merged into page B, replace the contents of page A with <code><nowiki>{{Template:MergedWith|B}}</nowiki></code>
|-
| [[:Category:ProposedDeletion]] || Pages that should be removed altogether
|-
| [[:Category:ProposedMerge]] || Pages that should be merged with another page
|-
| [[:Category:ProposedAction]] || Categories for pages with a proposed action
|}

= Debian macro work-a-likes =

The old wiki let you do e.g. <code><<DebianCodename(testing)>></code> to get the name of
the current testing distribution. These are one way to replicate that. See
[https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/WikiRevamp/Recommendations#DebianCodename_etc. DebianCodename etc.].

{|
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| [[Template:DebianCodename]] || Codename of a given Debian release
|-
| [[Template:DebianCodenameLink]] || Link to the page associated with the codename of a given Debian release
|-
| [[Template:DebianDate]] || Release date for the latest point version of the specified release
|-
| [[Template:DebianInfo]] || underlying template
|-
| [[Template:DebianVersion]] || The latest point version of the specified release
|}

= Translation machinery =

We hope to use [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector] and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate Extension:Translate].
If for some reason we need to create our own translation machinery,
these templates could be the basis of a usable solution. See also
[https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/WikiRevamp/Recommendations#Language_tags Language tags].

{|
|-
| [[Template:CategoryLanguageMachinery]] || called internally by [[:Category:LanguageMachinery]]
|-
| [[Template:ForEachLanguage]] || Call a template for each language supported by the wiki
|-
| [[Template:ForEachTranslation]] || Call a template for each translation of this page
|-
| [[Template:ForEachTranslation/Element]] || Called internally by [[Template:ForEachTranslation]]
|-
| [[Template:Ll]] || Name of the page in the most appropriate language for the user
|-
| [[Template:TranslationList]] || Translations of the current page
|-
| [[Template:TranslationList/Element]] || Called internally by [[Template:TranslationList]]
|-
| [[Template:PageLanguage]] || Guess the language associated with a page name (e.g. it/SomePage -> it)
|-
| [[Template:SanitiseLanguageCode]] || Convert language-code parameters ("eN", "Pt-Br" etc.) to a canonical version, convert unknown values to the empty string
|-
| [[Template:UpstreamPageName]] || Upstream version of a page (e.g. it/SomePage -> SomePage)
|-
| [[:Category:Pages with invalid locales]] || Pages that pass an invalid value to Template:SanitiseLanguageCode
|-
| [[:Category:LanguageMachinery]] || Templates that manage translated pages
|}

= Input sanitisers =

Editors might like to specify values in hard-to-parse ways, like putting
"no" instead of "0" in a boolean value. These pages support that behaviour.

{|
|-
| [[:Category:Input Sanitisers]] || Templates that sanitise input
|-
| [[:Category:Invalid Parameters]] || Categories for pages that pass invalid values
|-
| [[:Category:Pages with invalid booleans]] || Pages that pass an invalid value to Template:SanitiseBoolean
|-
| [[Template:SanitiseBoolean]] || Convert boolean-like parameters ("no", "true" etc.) to 0 or 1
|}

= Miscellaneous =

These don't fit neatly into any other group.

{|
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| [[Template:CategoryInvalidParameter]] || used by [[:Category:Pages with invalid booleans]] and [[:Category:Pages with invalid locales]]
|-
| [[:Category:RevampReviewNeeded]] || early concept for instructions about manually reviewing pages
|-
| [[Template:ChooseADevice]] || early experiment at rewriting ChooseADevice (a page on the old wiki that was itself trying to be a template)
|-
| [[Template:TOC]] || Table of Contents
|}

= Pages that can be deleted =

wiki2025.debian.org doesn't allow normal users to delete pages.
These pages are no longer needed, and can be safely deleted.

{|
|-
| [[Template:CategoryInvalidInput]] || redirects to the new name
|-
| [[Template:Checkbox]] || used by FreedomBox/Features (seems to be part of an early experiment, can be deleted in favour of Template:MoinMarkup/Smiley)
|-
| [[Template:ForEachTranslation/Translation]] || redirects to the new name
|-
| [[Template:MaybeBoolean]] || redirects to the new name
|-
| [[Template:ProposedMergeEdit]] || redirects to the new name
|-
| [[Template:MoinMarkup/Macro/End]] || was used by an older version of the converter
|-
| [[Template:MoinMarkup/Macro/Start]] || was used by an older version of the converter
|-
| [[Template:MoinProcessingInstruction]] || was used by an older version of the converter
|-
| [[Template:Smiley]] || redirects to the new name
|-
| [[:Category:Example]] || example pages that showed how proposals would work
|-
| [[:Category:Removed]] || redirects to the new name
|-
| [[:Category:FreedomBox]] || used by FreedomBox/* (seems to be part of an early experiment)
|}

User talk:RogueScholar-guest

RogueScholar-guest — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:19:04 GMT

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Holler at me here, if you need to. No guarantees are made that grievances will be corrected to anyone's satisfaction besides my own, though…remember, we're on the internet.

User:RogueScholar-guest

RogueScholar-guest — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:14:28 GMT

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I'm RogueScholar (or occasionally RScholar) all over the G*d-damned internet at this point; chances are that if you've interacted with or noticed someone by those usernames at a code forge, Linux distribution or crowdsourced public initiative like the Wikimedia projects, MusicBrainz or OpenStreetMap, it was me. Unless you thought that person was a major dick, then it most certainly was someone else. … My friends call me Peter, and my ''really'' close friends call me PoopDawg (it's a long story, though people seem to like it when they hear it).

I'm friendly enough but also quite a glutton for punishment, since I enjoy participating in large, collaborative endeavors despite intensely preferring to work alone. 🤣 If you need to get my attention, please be amply stocked with patience and persistence. I stay busy by design and often have a lag in responding to communiqués. If it's important, just repeat the request and I'll try to bump you to the front of the queue.

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RogueScholar-guest — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:53:55 GMT

Give the template some actual documentation and flesh out the functionality with parameterized control over action, link target and text

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