NovaRoma:Key Path

Revision as of 17:23, 21 December 2008

• Main Page
• Top Portals: Res publica Novae Romae - Cultus deorum Romanorum - Civic life (Nova Roma) - Via Romana
• Critical topics: 7 articles x 9 languages: Roman name plus the citizenship box on the Main Pages: Becoming a citizen

To-do items are highlighted.

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 table. Indicate the languages you can use.
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 and put the logo on your user:talk page:

{{Template:Key Path Task Force}}

Member list

Seeking participation of editors for Esperanto, German, Portugues and Russian.

• X = Editing content in that language
• R = Can (R)ead basic communication with others in that language.

Task Force Steps

Infrastructure

I will handle most of this, but I will need 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 these languages: DE RO.

This template is now in use on all Main Pages in the four key sections.

Basic categories for each language (DONE)

The basic categories are being revised to reflect the different lanugages that we use. The top categories are listed here: NovaRoma:Category tree

Roman Name cluster

This cluster of articles is a Key Path for new citizens. It is also one of our most popular topics, so it is a chance for us to show newcomers that we know what we are talking about.

Step 1 Main Page Link

"Template:Becoming a citizen" box THIS IS A GLOBAL TEMPLATE. (Similar to the Current Events List.) We need to translate the items in the GlobalText format.

"Template:AugustDelay" message THIS IS A GLOBAL TEMPLATE. (Similar to the Current Events List.) We need to translate the items in the GlobalText format.

Step 2 Navigation Box

"Template:Roman name articles" box This is a GLOBAL TEMPLATE that puts a "navigation box" on each of the Roman names articles. Please check that the article names are properly translated. praenomen, nomen, cognomen, agnomen are not translated. Please contact me if this makes a big problem in your language. In general it would be good to leave them untranslated in Latin.

Step 3 Name Templates

Three templates provide information about names. They are ready to accept your translations.

Template:TableOfPraenomina Needs HEADINGS ONLY.

Template:TableOfNomina

Template:TableOfCognomina Needs HEADINGS and MANY OTHER THINGS. It is OK to do a little at a time.

LA 

Needs headings only

ES 

Needs a few items only, almost done.

Step 4 Core Articles

Praenomen

Nomen

Cognomen

Agnomen

Step 5 Dependant Articles

Roman name

Choosing a Roman name

Using Roman names

Main Page

Category

Each Main Page has been moved into the main category for its language under Category: Master Index.

Language Bar and Page Name

The 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.

The Main Page in each namespace can be moved to another name, but keep "Main Page" in the LanguageBar template. This will maintain the interpage links.

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. Template:Calendar which links to the current Fasti and jumps to the current month.
   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. Items needing translation are noted on the discussion page, to save space here.
3. A random daily photo selected from NovaRoma:DailyPhotoData (Gallery: Category:Main page). The photo with localized caption is provided by a set of templates that are generated automatically. Edit NovaRoma:DailyPhotoData to change or translate captions. (Template:DailyPhoto - Template:LA:DailyPhoto - Template:DE:DailyPhoto - Template:ES:DailyPhoto - Template:FR:DailyPhoto - Template:HU:DailyPhoto - Template:IT:DailyPhoto - Template:PT:DailyPhoto)
4. "Becoming a citizen" box THIS IS BECOMING A GLOBAL TEMPLATE. (Similar to the Current Events List.) Because of that we need to simplify the structure and then translate the items in the GlobalText format.
5. "The Nova Roma Web Site" box Please reformat this box into sentence format. Notice that it is only about the website and should not have instructions about citizenship.

Links

Declaration (Nova Roma) is done! Thank you!

FAQ is needed in DE and HU.

Republic - Portal and Main Page summary

Category

Each Republic Page is in the "Nova Roma" category corresponding to each language namespace.

Language Bar and Page Name

The canonical link between all Republic pages is via Template:LanguageBar using the name "Res publica Novae Romae". When a national language Republic Page has a different title, a "redirect" in the namespace connects the name "Res publica Novae Romae" to the national language title, but it is strongly urged that the name of this page not be changed.

If the Republic Page in any namespace is moved to another name, keep "Res publica Novae Romae" in the LanguageBar template. This will maintain the interpage links.

Elements

Each Republic page consists of several elements:

Cultus

Category

Each Cultus Page is in the "Nova Roma" category corresponding to each language namespace.

Language Bar and Page Name

The canonical link between all Cultus pages is via Template:LanguageBar using the name "Cultus deorum Romanorum". When a national language Cultus page has a different title, a "redirect" in the namespace connects the name "Cultus deorum Romanorum" to the national language title, but it is strongly urged that the name of this page not be changed.

If the Cultus page in any namespace is moved to another name, keep "Cultus deorum Romanorum" in the LanguageBar template. This will maintain the interpage links.

Civic life

Category

Each Civic life Page is in the "Nova Roma" category corresponding to each language namespace.

Language Bar and Page Name

The canonical link between all Civic life pages is via Template:LanguageBar using the name "Civic life (Nova Roma)". When a national language page has a different title, a "redirect" in the namespace connects the name "Civic life (Nova Roma)" to the national language title.

If the Civic life page in any namespace is moved to another name, keep "Civic life (Nova Roma)" in the LanguageBar template. This will maintain the interpage links.

Via Romana

Category

Each Via Romana Page is in the "Nova Roma" category corresponding to each language namespace.

Language Bar and Page Name

The canonical link between all Via Romana pages is via Template:LanguageBar using the name "Via Romana (Nova Roma)". When a national language page has a different title, a "redirect" in the namespace connects the name "Via Romana (Nova Roma)" to the national language title, but it is strongly urged that the name of this page not be changed.

If the Via Romana page in any namespace is moved to another name, keep "Via Romana (Nova Roma)" in the LanguageBar template. This will maintain the interpage links.