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==Deletion of bot created users==In an attempt It is important to reduce understand the database size of wikichristian, which is 23 gb as basic principles of February 22nd, 2014, and to reduce the chances organizational layout of future spam by the bot created users, any user above and beyond 10,000 user was deemed bot created and deleted. The user table size prior to WikiChristian - this deletion was 1 gb and after this deletion, it went down to 12 MB, a significant reduction. The things pending are upgrading the mediawiki for which we are looking for some help from people familiar with upgrading large databases of the size 20 gb. If you can help, please contact be found at [[userWikiChristian:Prab|PrabPage Layout]] by email at ptumpati at gmail dot com.
The following Spam content in WikiChristian is often not linked to from any other page. Thus to find spam, follow this link to get a list keeps track of these organizational changes500 dead end pages in wikichristian
<s>[[Easton's Bible Dictionary]] is a public domain Bible Dictionary written in the nineteenth century. The index to all its entries We appreciate if these dead end pages that are considered spam can be found at [[Easton's Bible Dictionary Index]]. Previously the entries were named as follows: '''Name of entry (EBD)'''. However all entries should be renamed / moved as follows: '''Text:EBD:Name of Entry'''removed from WikiChristian.
This is a major task as there are thousands of Easton Bible Dictionary entries. Unfortunately we do not currently know how to make an automated process to perform these moves and so they need to be performed manually.</s> Done at last - [[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleen.wright5]] 01:48, 18 November 2008 (UTC) ===Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible=Deletion of bot created users== <strike-through>Parts There have been tens of the public domain work the Matthew Henry Commentary thousands of the Whole Bible was uploaded a number of years ago at WikiChristianspam users created. Unfortunately the upload was quite haphazard and appears messy. Also, some Prab has deleted most of the Commentary was named '''Mathew ...''' (with one t) and other was named '''Matthew ...''' (with two ts). The simplest approach to fixing these problems is to delete all the text pages related to the Matthew Henry Commentary. These can be reuploaded at a later date, but for the moment it is important We need to concentrate on continue deleting all the pages. The pages that need deleting can be found at [[Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (text)]] and its links.</strike-through> Done - [[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleen.wright5]] 09:35, 10 October 2008 (UTC) ===Bible Commentaries and Referencing=== The Bible has been uploaded verse by verse and there are now verse pages for every verse and chapter pages for every chapterthese. A number of changes have occurred regarding how Bible passages are referenced and displayed. Details about this can be found at [[WikiChristian:Bible]]. One of the long-term goals of WikiChristian is to have a well written commentary for every verse and chapter. In the shorter term a number of clean-ups need to be performed. These include*<s>All pages named '''Name of page (WEB)''' should be deleted</s> Were deleted earlier*<s>All pages named '''Name of page (Greek)''' should be deleted</s> Were deleted earlier* All books of the Bible should be have an Information Article about them which follows the same standard that can be seen at [[Genesis]] or [[Gospel of Matthew]]. * All pages that have the following text '''web_verse|name of book|chapter|verse''' or '''greek_verse|name of book|chapter|verse''' should be updated to the new referencing system of '''Bible verse|name of book|chapter|verse|lang=WEB''' or '''Bible verse|name of book|chapter|verse|lang=Greek'''
<s>There are a number of older pages that follow an older, uglier formatting used in WikiChristian not in line with the standard Information Articles described in [[WikiChristian:Page Layout]]. These pages often have a short ''Synopsis'' at the beginning of them. A list of these pages can be found by searching for [http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php/Special:Search?search=Synopsis&go=Go synopsis]. Please help update Many of these to are in the new WikiChristian standardGreek namespace section.</s>* I'll tackle this The vast majority of these pages have been cleaned up by [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 16:08, 25 August 2009 (PDT)* I've done all the pages mentioning "synopsis" -- at least until more appear as but a result of reverting vandalism. There are, of course, few hundred still a lot of pages not using the standard template that ''don't'' use the old Synopsis template either. [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 17:12, 5 September 2009 (PDT)* I think we can call this finished nowremain. [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 19:35, 17 November 2009 (PST)
===KJV Concordance===
<s>A small number of pages have been produced as part of an earlier project on KJV Concordance. The person who started this project was the sole contributor and the project has not been touched for a number of years. All "KJV Concordance" pages should be deleted. At some future stage a project like this may be commenced again possibly using the "Text" name-space.</s>Done [[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleen.wright5]] 06:03, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
The following pages need to be restored since the May 21 to May 22 2009 vandal attack.
All pages have now been reverted. --[[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleen.wright5]] 05:37, 12 December 2009 (PST)
# <s>Pages damaged by User [http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=1000&target=AnnCoulter AnnCoulter]</s> These have all been reverted --[[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleen.wright5]] 11:07, 11 December 2009 (PST)
# <s>Pages damaged by User [http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=1000&target=Bob+Larson Bob Larson]</s> -- I think these are all reverted now. [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 07:14, 29 November 2009 (PST)
# <s>Pages damaged by User [http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=H H]</s> All pages deleted at last. --[[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleen.wright5]] 13:01, 15 July 2009 (PDT)
# <s>Pages damaged by User [http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=1000&target=Pope+Urban+VI Pope Urban VI here]</s> -- I think these are all reverted now. [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 21:52, 11 December 2009 (PST)
# <s>Pages damaged by User [http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=1000&target=RichardDawkins RichardDawkins]</s> All pages have been reverted--[[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleen.wright5]] 10:38, 9 September 2009 (PDT)
# <s>Pages damaged with the phrase [http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1&ns102=1&ns103=1&ns104=1&ns105=1&ns106=1&ns107=1&ns108=1&ns109=1&ns110=1&ns111=1&ns112=1&ns113=1&redirs=0&searchx=1&search=WITH+LOVE+FROM+EBAUMS&limit=500&offset=0 WITH LOVE FROM EBAUMS] but we still have variations of the above and blanked pages--[[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleen.wright5]] 10:38, 8 September 2009 (PDT)</s>
# <s>I thought we were coming to an end of this task, but there are still 50 to 100 pages on [[Special:Shortpages]] that are vandalised.</s> I'll try to fix them over the next week. [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 21:43, 16 November 2009 (PST)
#* Hopefully they are all corrected now [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 20:27, 17 November 2009 (PST)
'''Tip''': I only just discovered that you can find pages where these vandals were the last to edit the page WikiChristian was hit by going to the contribs pages (as linked vandalism and spam in the points above) and then searching within their contributions list for "(top)"an extreme way a number of years ago. [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 21:20, 28 November 2009 (PST) * All vandalized Some pages on Shortpages have now been reverted --[[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleen.wright5]] 10:58, 11 December 2009 (PST)* I've removed the vandalism notice from the front page. I'm sure there's no more vandalism lurking anywhere --[[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleenmay still contain obscenities and these should be cleaned up wherever found.wright5]] 10:40, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Each page automatically gets a "discussion" tab that goes to "Talk:<topic>". But if you use the standard template, you also get a link in the InfoBox to "<topic>_(discussion)". Can we remove that ambiguity? The pages have two distinct purposes -- discussion about the appropriate editing of the <topic> page, and opinions about the <topic> itself -- so I think we should retain both. But they should be called different things, not both "discussion". Could we set up a separate namespace for the second purpose rather than use the "_(discussion) suffix? Is it possible to add a new tab to *all* pages, so that each page had a link in the header to "Talk:<topic>" as well as a link to "Discussion:<topic>"? [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 14:41, 22 August 2009 (PDT)
: That's a really good idea. Maybe WikiChristian has aimed to make it especially clear we cold have a "Talk:<topic>" for the discussion about appropriate editing, allow discussions and "Opinions about:<topic>" for the short personal opinion page so opinions be voiced. There are some pages that it is especially clear? But whatever we decided to call it, do you know how we could go about it? I donare a named '''t know how to set up a name-space. I think either Robert Murphy or Prab would know how to do it. Cheers, --[[User:Graham grove|Graham]] 06:26, 20 April 2010 Page Name (UTCdiscussion) (P.S. Sorry I've taken so long to see this and respond - I've been so busy in the last year or so that I haven't spent much time at all working on the website.) ===Separate namespace for opinionated pages===I believe that WikiChristian would become a much more credible source of information, if there were a cleaner separation of Information and Opinion articles. That separation has two parts:* Structural: The use of the author's initials in a suffix for opinion These pages is artificial and too easily misused. We could use Categories more extensively, with a Category for Opinions, but I think a better solution would should be moved to establish an Opinions namespace. Authors could still name the pages with their initials as a suffix if they wantedappropriate names, but it would no longer be necessary.* Visualeither Sermon: Within that namespace, can we automate some clear visual distinctionPage Name, such as a different background colour? Anyone agree? [[UserEssay:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 14:41, 22 August 2009 (PDT): That sounds very reasonable to me. So would you see an opinion article having a name like this: "Page Name or Opinion:Page Name of Article"? --[[User:Graham grove|Graham]] 15:58, 22 August 2009 (PDT)
: Absolutely. That'd be great.{{returnto}} [[Christianity]] -> [[Christian literature, art, music and media]] -> [[Christianity and the Internet]] -> [[User:Graham grove|GrahamChristian wikis]] 22:28, 30 August 2009 (PDT) ===Testing topics template===Can the page -> [[Testing topics templateProject:About|WikiChristian]] be deleted now?->
{{returnto}} [[Christianity]] -> [[Christian literature, art, music and media]] -> [[Christianity and the Internet]] -> [[Christian wikis]] -> [[Project:About|WikiChristian]] ->
Cleaned up and modified slightly
==WikiChristian needs your help==
WikiChristian is the process of upgrading the software version trying to revive. After a later versionfew years of shut-down and neglect because of an amazing amount of vandalism and spam, make the wiki more spam proof so we can allow edits by registered users, delete users created by bots, 've decided to try and get it up and do other maintenance related work on the serveractive again. In order to safely do thisensure that WikiChristian gets all of the spam cleaned up and kept away forever and to ensure that its mediawikia software remains fully uptodate, it would be wonderful to have some people with IT skills to help. Its founder and one of its chief editors [[User:Prab |Prab]] needs the help of experienced IT professional familiar with a mediawiki and large database upgrade. Currently, the database size of WikiChristian is about 8 GBdatabases. If you are familiar would like to offer Prab help with large database upgrades, this please email [[User:Prab| Prab]] at ptumpati at gmail dot com (remove spaces) with a phone number and contact information.
WikiChristian is currently undergoing a major re-organization and clean-up to make it more useful and well organized. We Some of the key areas that are in the process of adding youtube videos, when relevant and appropriate videos being addressed are available, to the wiki to make the content more useful to our users. It :* Ensuring that it is important easy to understand find information through following hyperlinks, using categories and using the basic principles of search button* Ensuring the organizational layout of WikiChristian - this can be found at [[WikiChristian:Page Layout]] pages are well written and see sample video code from any easy to read but full of useful information* Ensuring all the pages that has an have a video embedded such as [[The Bible]]similar lay-out* Add youtube videos when relevant
==Section edit errorRemoving Dead End Pages==If you notice an error that a section cannot be found to edit a section of a page, one way to solve this issue is to delete and recreate the page. We are working on a backend solution to the problem and if any users are familiar with this error, please feel free to contact [[user:Prab|Prab]] at ptumpati at gmail dot com. This could have been a result of restoring the database in November 2013 in order to mass delete spam content.
[http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php?title=Special:DeadendPages&limit=500&offset=Easton's Bible Dictionary Changes===0 list of 500 dead end pages]
===Greek Words===
A [[Koine Greek]] dictionary can be found at [[Greek:Dictionary]]. Many of the entries do not meet the standard page layout for Information Articles described in [[WikiChristian:Page Layout]]. An example of a page that does meet this standard is [[Koine Greek:ΑγαπετοςΔοκιμαζω]]. Please help in updating the layout of all pages that do not meet WikiChristian's standard. This can be performed even if you do not read Greek.
Additionally, if you do know Greek you could perhaps help by adding content, in particular by adding tables of inflections. See [[Koine Greek:ΑγαπηΑγαθος]] for an article that does have a table of its infections. Additionally, it would be helpful to create redirects for all those inflections, for example [[Koine Greek:Αγαπης]] redirects should redirect to [[Koine Greek:Αγαπη]].
===Updating Old Information Pages===
===Miscellaneous Texts===
There are a number of ancient and modern public domain texts that have been uploaded onto WikiChristian. If you come across a text that is not in the '''Text''' name-space then please move it to the following page '''Text:Name of Text'''. A number of texts need to be wikified or split up because they are too large. Lists of these texts can be found at [http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php/Category:Split Category:Split] and [http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php/Category:Cleanup Category:Cleanup] and information about exactly what needs to be done can be found at the relevant text's talk page.
===Restoring Pages Attacked by Vandals===
===Ambiguity about "Discussion" pages===
===Apologetics section===
There are several systematic inconsistencies in the Apologetics section.
* The standard template is not used.
* References to Bible verse link to the exteranl site BibleGateway. It would be far better for them to link to WikiChristian's own Bible vere verse pages.
* Many of the pages names use a fullstop between chapter and verse, e.g. [[Apologetics: Deuteronomy 23.3]]. Can that be changed to a semicolon for consistency with or main Bible verse pages?
===Books of the Bible===
Several Books do not have pages AFAIK: Book of Ezekiel, Book of Obadiah, Book of Joel are all missing.
Should also add an EBD link on each individual book of the Bible page. [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 10:13, 30 August 2009 (PDT)
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