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The WikiChristian is currently undergoing a major re-organization and clean-up to make it more useful and well organized. Some of the key areas that are being addressed are:* Ensuring that it is easy to find information through following list keeps track hyperlinks, using categories and using the search button* Ensuring the pages are well written and easy to read but full of these organizational changesuseful information* Ensuring all the pages have a similar lay-out* Add youtube videos when relevant
===Easton's Bible Dictionary Changes===It is important to understand the basic principles of the organizational layout of WikiChristian - this can be found at [[WikiChristian:Page Layout]].
<s>[[Easton's Bible Dictionary]] is a public domain Bible Dictionary written in the nineteenth century. The index to all its entries 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'''.==Removing Dead End Pages==
This Spam content in WikiChristian is a major task as there are thousands of Easton Bible Dictionary entries. Unfortunately we do often not currently know how linked to make an automated process from any other page. Thus to perform these moves and so they need find spam, follow this link to be performed manually.</s> Done at last - [[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleen.wright5]] 01:48, 18 November 2008 (UTC)get a list of 500 dead end pages in wikichristian
<strike-through>Parts of the public domain work the Matthew Henry Commentary of the Whole Bible was uploaded a number of years ago at WikiChristian. Unfortunately the upload was quite haphazard and appears messy. Also, some of the Commentary was named '''Mathew ...''' (with one t) and other was named '''Matthew ...''' (with two ts). The simplest approach to fixing We appreciate if 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 to concentrate on deleting all the pages. The dead end pages that need deleting are considered spam can be found at [[Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (text)]] and its links.</strike-through> Done - [[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleenremoved from WikiChristian.wright5]] 09:35, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
<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.
# Pages damaged WikiChristian was hit by User [http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=1000&target=AnnCoulter AnnCoulter]# <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)# Pages damaged by User [http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=1000&target=Pope+Urban+VI Pope Urban VI here].# <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]</s> but we still have variations of the above vandalism and blanked pages--[[User:Kathleen.wright5|Kathleen.wright5]] 10:38, 8 September 2009 (PDT)# <s>I thought we were coming to spam in an end extreme way a number of this task, but there are still 50 to 100 pages on [[Special:Shortpages]] that are vandalisedyears ago.</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 Some pages where may still contain obscenities and these vandals were the last to edit the page by going to the contribs pages (as linked in the points above) and then searching within their contributions list for "(top)"should be cleaned up wherever found. [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 21:20, 28 November 2009 (PST)
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)
===Separate namespace for opinionated WikiChristian has aimed to allow discussions and opinions be voiced. There are some pages===I believe that WikiChristian would become are a much more credible source of information, if there were a cleaner separation of Information and Opinion articlesnamed '''Page Name (discussion)'''. 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 distinction, such as a different background colour? Anyone agree? [[User:MatthewClarke|Matt]] 14:41Page Name, 22 August 2009 (PDT)Essay: 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]] -> [[Christian wikis]] -> [[UserProject:Graham groveAbout|GrahamWikiChristian]] 22:28, 30 August 2009 (PDT)->
===Testing topics template===
Can the page [[Testing topics template]] 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
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==WikiChristian needs your help==WikiChristian is currently undergoing the process of trying to revive. After a major refew years of shut-organization down and neglect because of an amazing amount of vandalism and clean-up spam, we've decided to make try and get it more useful up and well organizedactive again. This has included creating In order to ensure that WikiChristian gets all of the "Bible" spam cleaned up and "Text" name-space. Please 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 out if you have time. It is important to understand the basic principles Its founder and one of its chief editors [[User:Prab |Prab]] needs the organizational layout help of WikiChristian - experienced IT professional familiar with mediawiki and large databases. If you would like to offer Prab help with this can be found at please email [[WikiChristianUser:Page LayoutPrab| Prab]]at ptumpati at gmail dot com (remove spaces) with a phone number and contact information.
[http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php?title=Special:DeadendPages&limit=500&offset=Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible===0 list of 500 dead end pages]
===Bible Commentaries and Referencing=Deletion of bot created users== The Bible has There have been uploaded verse by verse and there are now verse pages for every verse and chapter pages for every chapter. A number tens of thousands of changes have occurred regarding how Bible passages are referenced and displayedspam users created. Details about this can be found at [[WikiChristian:Bible]]. One Prab has deleted most of the long-term goals of WikiChristian is to have a well written commentary for every verse and chapterthese. In the shorter term a number of clean-ups We need to be performedcontinue deleting these. 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'''
===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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