User:Ris/drafts/wiki evolution

Note
Even though this page is in the user namespace, corrections and additions are much appreciated! This is simply wiki policy, this page can be moved to the main wiki as soon as it achieves critical mass ^more.

Note
This list is still very draft: so far just a handful of random items have been listed, there are many more things that can be added.

See also
See the main news page for the big changes that happen on the wiki.

Small changes that nevertheless make constitutional differences to how the wiki is used regularly occur. Things like new templates, changes to guidelines, or large reworks of articles are often of interest, and this page aims to be a handy place to learn of and keep track of such changes.

Most of these entries will not be "big news", but they will often be useful to know about. To follow the most important changes to the documentation wiki, see the wiki news. Entries are in roughly chronological order.

2024

• (pending - obsolete net-tools removed from docs)
• {{Proposal}} template for suggesting changes to protected pages in their talk pages
• All pages in the Help namespace now conform to the guidelines
• New archived discussion templates ({{Archived discussions at}}, {{Archived discussions from}})
• All laptop pages categorized by brand and architecture
• All laptop categories retitled according to capitalization guidelines
• Links on all 34 hardware subcategories to the relevant Article blueprints
• Article blueprints and its subpages' capitalization has been fixed
• 5 new discussion categories and templates
• Refactoring of existing discussion templates in order to facilitate adding new templates
• section parameter for {{Proposal}}
• Additions to {{Talk page}}:
  • A link to automatically create a new section at the end of the page with {{Talk}} and its date parameter filled in
  • A table of links that jump to the oldest discussions of different categories
  • An example of how comments should look
• {{Blockquote}} for creating block quotes that aren't huge
• {{KEntry}} for KernelBox CONFIG_ tooltips
• {{UsernameRenameRequest}} to add username rename requests to a category
• {{Verification}}
• Overhauled {{Delete}} and {{Ednote}}
• {{D}} for indenting templates spanning multiple lines in talk pages, such as {{Proposal}}

2023

• 12-05 - After being deprecated for a very long time, the #gentoo-doc IRC channel is finally shuttered
• The "Gentoo Projects" link that was in the "Gentoo" menu has moved: it can now be found in the "Documentation" menu
• There are now instructions on how to retire projects on the wiki
• New changelog for the Gentoo Handbooks
• Proctors reintegrated into ComRel
• The {{Archived}} template now accepts a "reason" parameter, to provide a handy way of explaining why an article is no longer useful
• Updates to project wiki form
• New IRC bot for the wiki's recent changes!
• The {{Link}} template becomes the proper way to add links to articles
• Wiki emails to Gmail accounts issue has been fixed!

2022

• More updates to developer and project wiki forms