Sorry if my answer is a bit long, but wiki contributions is close to my heart.
mickybadia wrote in Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:58 pm:I have been browsing around the wiki pages on ATC and personally think it is quite messy. Obviously there will be many historical reasons for that...
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Unfortunately many areas of the wiki are. I suspect some of the historical problems have been that (and often still is) that far too often wiki articles have been added:
- Without too much consideration about an article name one could expect someone to look for, in essence making them harder to find.
- Without categorizing them, also making them harder to find.
- Without adding links to them from related articles, partially because they were not that easy to find.
- Without looking at similar articles, leading to overlaps and repetition, partially because of the above reasons.
- Without trying to fit them together with other articles, to save time while editing.
The lack of structure as well as articles with overlapping contexts have long been a pet peeve of mine, but I usually find that I do not understand a subject well enough to fix that. After some initial attempts on some subjects I realized that I would have to read several articles over and over as one article could give me questing best answered by a second article article that required reading a third article to be understandable that in turn would require reading the first one. Yet another way structure is lacking...
I have instead fucused on trying to help other editors by trying to add more structure by categorization, improving template documentation and adding more complete help pages. In addition a humongous amount of time have been spent on categorizing the ~4000 images of which only a few hundred were categorized when I registered. (In contrast to fixing the other problems, that one leaves me with gratuitous instant gratification.
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In essence, the wiki could be of much more help if more thought would be put into what people do there. To some extent wiki editors should be guided towards better contributions (though in a non-pushy way), but sometimes people just want things to be done quickly.
So many frustrations...
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Since you are read in a bit on the subject and have been looking through the related articles, feel free to improve them. I suspect I and/or Red Leader will pop in and help you with the style here and there (layout and typographic).
Ideally there would be articles both of reference value as well as series of articles guiding both new and old ATC:s (and to some extent pilots) step by step in various areas. All this in a logical and navigable way. An improved navigation template could probably be of big help for the readers.
If you have not read it yet, please look through the article
Help:Your first article as there are many tips helping avoid the previous mentioned pitfalls (and some more).