NovaRoma:Key Path

Revision as of 02:16, 4 February 2008

• Main Page
  • Res publica Novae Romae
  • Cultus deorum Romanorum
  • Civic life (Nova Roma)
  • Via Romana

The purpose of this task force is to improve the accuracy and usability of the key paths in all languages. The key paths should be an accurate representation of Nova Roma positions. They should also provide a usable interface to the website contents for new users.

Task Force Members

Key Path Task Force Member

A project to improve the core navigation documents.

Joining the Task Force

1. Add your name to the list, describe how you will help the task force.
2. Click on the "watch" tab so that you will be notified of changes to this page.
3. Copy the following onto your USER:TALK page. This will add you to Category:Key Path Task Force and put the logo on your user:talk page:

{{Template:Key Path Task Force}}

Member list

M. Lucretius Agricola (Bio) (Talk)

Editing of English content, MediaWiki technical support, templates.

T. Iulius Sabinus (Bio) (Talk)

Editing of Romanian content, correcting, watching.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus (Bio) (Talk)

Editing of Hungarian, Latin and English content.

name (Bio) (Talk)

plans.

Task Force Steps

Infrastructure

I will handle most of this, needing help with translation of template boilerplate language. Agricola

Template:Include summary

This template will pull in an article and provide a globalized link to the article. The target article should have a set of "onlyinclude" tags around the summary head matter to prevent the entire article from being imported. Example of this template in use:

This template needs to have the "More..." tag put into all languages.

This template is now in use on all Main Pages in the "Res Publica" section only.

Basic categories for each language (DONE)

"Nova Roma" and "Roma Antiqua" categories now exist for each national language. "ES:Nova Roma" is the category for all Spanish articles related to Nova Roma, for example. This provides a second navigation path through the category tree, starting with Category:Master Index.

Main Page

Category

Each Main Page is in Category: Master Index.

Language Bar

The canonical link between all Main Pages is via Template:LanguageBar using the name "Main Page". When a national language Main Page has a different title, a "redirect" in the namespace connects the name "Main Page" to the national language title.

Elements

The Main Page consists of a number of elements:

1. Material included from the heads of the national language versions of these articles:
   1. Res publica Novae Romae
      1. In each namespace, the CURRENTYEAR function, plus a redirect to the same namespace article with the Roman numeral AUC date, provides an automatically updated link to the magistrates page. The redirects can be made any time in advance of the change of year.
   2. Cultus deorum Romanorum
   3. Civic life (Nova Roma)
   4. Via Romana
2. Template:Current Events Shortlist which uses special functions to provide the correct language on each page.
3. A random daily photo selected from NovaRoma:DailyPhotoData. The photo with localized caption is provided by a set of templates:
   1. Template:DailyPhoto
   2. Template:LA:DailyPhoto
   3. Template:DE:DailyPhoto
   4. Template:ES:DailyPhoto
   5. Template:FR:DailyPhoto
   6. Template:HU:DailyPhoto
   7. Template:IT:DailyPhoto
   8. Template:PT:DailyPhoto