Join the Fediverse:Proposal for new stucture

I User:Paula am thinking about restructuring the Wiki and will write down my vision here.

Ongoing changes

I've started with these steps.

Namespaces ✅

We now have these custom namespaces on the wiki:

• Portal
• Instance
• Fedizen
• Draft (New)
• Archive (New)

Changing titles of articles

Titles of articles should be the simplest form possible, so e.g. "Fediverse" instead of "What is the Fediverse?".
When I move the articles I have to do these things later:

• Use Special:ReplaceText to change all internal links.
• later add the old page again and make it a redirect to the new one.

List of titles to change:

• Account creation ✅
• Akkoma ✅
• BookWyrm ✅
• Ecko (disbanded) ✅
• Fediverse ✅
• Firefish (disbanded) ✅
• Friendica ✅
• Funkwhale ✅
• Hosting an instance ✅
• Mastodon ✅
• Moderation (Mastodon) ✅
• GoToSocial ✅
• Channels (Hubzilla & (streams)) ✅
• Hubzilla ✅
• Kbin ✅
• Lemmy ✅
• Misskey ✅
• What is Mistpark? ‼️
• Mobilizon ✅
• Osada (disbanded)
• What is PeerTube?
• What is Pixelfed?
• What is Pleroma?
• What is Redmatrix? ‼️
• What is Roadhouse?
• What is WriteFreely?
• What is Zap?
• koyu.space ✅
• nomadic identity ✅
• What people usually tell you about the Fediverse
• Getting started with your Fediverse account
• Welcome to the Fediverse Quickstart guide
• What are Fediverse projects?

Later fix messes that were created:

• Special:WantedPages
• change some {{DISPLAYTITLE:displaytitles}}.
• Special:PageTranslation
• Main Page
• What are Fediverse projects?

Main Page

The Main Page should already have a section explaining what the Fediverse is.

Fediverse

The main article of the Wiki should be the one about the Fediverse, currently found at Fediverse. It should answer the 3 main questions (+sub-questions) about the Fediverse:

• What is it?
  • What does Fediverse even mean?
  • What is the advantage?
  • Who is it for?
  • What is the Fediverse not?
  • What is not the Fediverse?
• How do I join?
  • Which server software should I use?
  • Which instance should I join?
  • Can I switch instances later?
  • What client apps should I use?
• How do I use it?
  • Why is my home timeline empty?
  • Where do I find people to follow?
  • Can I follow hashtags and groups?
  • How can people find my account?
  • How do I set up my profile?
  • What should I post first?
  • What settings should I change?
  • How can I build up my followers?
  • What cool features should I try?
  • What does this feature do?

Categories

The main categories should be the ones with user guides and answer the questions (these are not proposed category names):

• What is it?
• How do I join?
• How do I use it?
• What else might I want to know?
• How can I host?
• How can I moderate?
• What is this wiki?
• How can I help (editing, translating)?
• (Then of course there should be categories for each server software.)

These should be color coded and when you visit an article it should be obvious which category the article belongs to, so you don't e.g. end up on articles about editing this wiki or hosting a Fediverse instance, if you just want to know what the Fediverse even is.

Terminology

In the user guides we might want to switch to terms that people who are not experienced Fediverse users are used to.

• Fediverse project -> Platform? Server software? Fediverse flavor? Service? Way to experience the Fediverse?

Redirects

There should be redirects for the names of corporate social media platforms and they should lead to a Fediverse equivalent or a list of similar Fediverse services. E.g. Instagram -> Pixelfed, Twitter -> List of Microblogging Services, etc...

Sidebar

The sidebar should have these items:

• Main page
• The Fediverse
  • What is it?
  • How do I join?
  • How do I use it?
• This wiki
  • About
  • Navigation
  • Categories
  • Editing/Translating
• For Editors
  • Guides & Guidelines
  • Todos
  • Special pages
  • Help about MediaWiki
  • Recent changes