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Big list o' reorg ideas

Merger suggestions

Bureaucracy + Civil service (Society)

Trust (business) + Trust company + Corporate group + Holding company (Society)

Academic study of Western esotericism into Western esotericism (Society)

Already discussed and seconded on the article talk-page
The content can probably be pruned significantly before / after moving into the primary page

Classification + Classification (general theory) + Categorization (Science Basics)

May be a tricky one, but all 3 have significant overlap, even if technically different
Also see Classification of the sciences (Peirce) and the general Typology article (currently a disambig)

Primary alcohol into Alcohol (chemistry) (Chemistry)

This is an easy one :-)

Primary carbon, Secondary carbon, Tertiary carbon, Quaternary carbon all into Carbon-carbon bond (Chemistry)

Another easy one

Ice II + Ice III + etc. (Chemistry)

Essentially all phases of ice except maybe Ice Ih
Two possible approaches:
- Squeeze them into the current Phases section on the Ice article
- Split out the Phases section into its own article, then consolidate there

Aqueduct (water supply) + Navigable aqueduct + Aqueduct (bridge) + Canal (Tech)

This will be a challenging one that takes some thinking through
Some of these articles should definitely remain separate, but there's a lot of overlap across them

Assisted-opening knife into Switchblade (Tech)

Technically slightly different, but the same idea, with a lot of redundant content

Manchester Baby and Manchester Mark I into Manchester computers (Tech)

A borderline case so ask for consensus first at the article
Definitely a lot of redundancy though, especially in the Background sections

MEMS + Micromachinery + Nanoelectromechanical systems (Tech)

Even if keeping the micro- and nano-scale articles separate, there's a lot of redundancy
Also check links on the MEMS article for others that could potentially be absorbed

Solid geometry into Three-dimensional space (Math)

Symmetry + Symmetry (geometry) (Math)

At first glance, makes sense they're separate
A close reading shows the Symmetry article is still overwhelmingly mathematical though

New article ideas (or expand in existing articles)

Benediction sign (Religion)

Noticed no direct explanation of benedictio latina & benedictio graeca on English wiki
- Especially relevant to art history
Can migrate over article from French wikipedia: fr:Signe de bénédiction
Will need to disambiguate with:
- Hand of benediction (medical condition with related etymology)
- Benediction (a full ritual, not just the gesture)
Related concepts include Mudra and (parts of) Priestly Blessing
- Include intro sections and out-link to main articles?

Event notification (Tech)

Currently just a redirect to a (pretty generic) subsection on Event (computing)
Noticed while working on Reactor pattern that there's no detailed discussion of the mechanism
Many specific instances have their own articles:
- Select (Unix), kqueue, epoll, IOCP
- libevent is also related, though it's more of an abstraction layer

Improve separation of related articles

Gossypium vs. Cotton (product)

Already split, but could improve cross-links and hatnotes
Also check for redundancy between articles

Sugar vs. Sugarcane vs. Sugar (chemistry) vs. chemical types like Sucrose vs. product classes like Brown sugar

Another product vs. source one, but this one gets messy really quick
Current suggested course of action
- Add Sugarcane to hatnote on main article and disambiguation page
- Move Sugar (chemistry from current redirect (Carbohydrate) to its own page
- Migrate very specific details from Carbohydrate to Sugar (chemistry)
- Migrate chemical details from main article to Sugar (chemistry)
- Consolidate / re-orient specific types like Sucrose to Sugar (chemistry)
- Consolidate / re-orient specific product classes towards the main article
- Consolidate cultivation parts of production from main article onto specific source crops

Palaquium gutta vs. Gutta-percha

One more product vs. source one
Improve hatnotes and cross-links, then consolidate redundancies
Possibly add disambiguation page?

Western esotericism vs. Exoteric

Already discussed this some on talk for Western esotericism
Essentially, eso- and exo-teric have two historically related but distinct contexts:
- In the loose sense, esoteric doctrines vs. more mainstream ideas
- More technical in philosophical scholarship, when a philosopher's works are believed to be written for select students vs. a general audience
Consensus seems to be for the following course of action:
- Rename Exoteric to Esoteric and exoteric
- Move content on the scholarly context from Western esotericism to the new page

Surface vs. Surface (mathematics) vs. Surface (topology) et al.

Need to discuss and get consensus; no clear course of action yet but consider the following
Migrate out details from Surface (mathematics) to more specific articles, such as:
- Algebraic surface, Coordinate surfaces, and Solid geometry
- This has already been done to an extent for Surface (topology)
Migrate out generalities from Surface (mathematics) to the main page
Re-evaluate Surface (mathematics) page
- Make a redirect to the main article section if minor enough at that point
Re-evaluate specific articles for further consolidation with each other
- E.g. Coordinate surfaces vs. Solid geometry

VA bot task list

The VA project is especially starting to pick up at level 5, which is at a whole different scale. Cewbot already does a lot, but I'm interested in trying something new and maybe taking up a bit of the load:

Preliminary research and planning

Want to try doing an initial version in Lua even though it doesn't have a bot framework
Shouldn't be too bad though if I keep the logic clean and Mediawiki API calls simple
Can always fall back onto Python / PyWikibot if necessary

Check I won't be stepping on Cewbot's toes

Spoke with Kanashimi who said a 2nd bot would be good
Cewbot's code is available if I decide to fall back onto JS and reuse it

Settle on vitality metrics & figure out sources

Quarry is good for basic queries & testing
However, the DB replicas impose a lot of limits
- Particularly in regards to views & indices (and therefore potential joins)
- By creating a user DB on ToolDB, one can have much fuller control
Many items will need to be pulled from content though
- Probably via the Wikimedia API

Task #1: Compile DB vitality metrics

Get account setup on ToolDB

Get enwiki_p as a user clone

Configure all tables, views, & queries

Publish the following result set with other fields:

Vitality Estimation Metrics
Metric	Frame	Expected dynamics	Breakout?	Other comments
Creation date	Historical	Stable		See Lindy effect
Last revision date	Current	Unstable		Primarily to filter out stale articles
Edit density	Moving average (MA)	Cyclical and fluid	3, 12, & 36 month MAs
Watcher count	Current	Sticky
Languages	Current	Sticky
Interwikis	Current	Sticky
Wikilinks	Current	Sticky	In- and out-links	Article namespace only

Task #2: Create Bot to Automate Runs & Expand

Research and start proposal process for new bot

Create skeletal bot (in Lua?) to perform actions

Automate quarterly runs of the Mk-I query

Integrate page-view data into table

Views are likely cyclical and fluid so use moving averages
- Provide breakouts of 3, 12, and 36 months
Also provide breakouts with and without bot views

Add aggregate "vitality" score based on current metrics

Equal weighting across items

Task #3: Add Content-based Estimates & Improve Access

Investigate Wikimedia API further

Expand / create 2nd bot to gather other estimators:

Vitality Estimation Metrics
Metric	Frame	Expected dynamics	Breakout?	Other comments
Wikiproject priorities	Current	Stable	Tally by rank
Citation density	Current	Stable		Seems promising, but details need some thought
VA level	Current	Stable		Context only, not scored (circularity)
Assessment	Current	Stable		Context only, not scored (circularity)

Provide result set in convenient forms

See if it can be dumped to somewhere with a dynamic UI
Table should be sortable
- May need to trade-off some with pagination though (for data-size)
Breakout columns can use lexicographic sorting

Task #4: Collate historical list size data

This was a request on the VA talk pages, may be more insightful for Lv 4 and 5 subpages. This also should probably get its own bot too.

Grab more recent counts from edit-descriptions

Probably the simplest strategy going back as far as Cewbot documents the section count
- Obviously, won't be 100% accurate for all times (e.g. if Cewbot was down for maintenance)

Export data dump somewhere

This may make more sense as a table or page under WP:VA
The data should mostly (barring corrections) be append-only

Include moving-average calculations in data dump

(Wishlist) Data-mine actual page-versions prior to Cewbot

This could get tedious so probably won't implement anytime soon

Other miscellaneous tasks

These are just various ideas or little tweaks the bot could eventually do. Several may just entail taking on some responsibilities from Cewbot.

Delete / replace Wikipedia:Vital articles/Popular pages?

This appears to be dormant but was previously maintained by Community Tech bot

Flag duplicates within a single level

Cewbot already does this too

Detect category crossovers between levels

For example, if Petroleum is in Chemistry at one level and Tech at another

Auto-resolve redirects

Cewbot may already do this

Flag other non-article types (lists, disambig, etc.)

Update the landing page tables at Lv4 and 5 automatically

Update any other quota indicators from a single source of truth