Austrian Economics Wiki:Call to Action/Mises Made Easier

Create pages, or at least neat stubs from the Mises Made Easier glossary, wherever they are missing. Also consider adding the entries to existing pages where useful.

Things to do:

• find the optimal way to import the entries
• do it
• simple, huh? :)

• each entry needs a category, preferably some links to other pages and a review (most categories will be Concepts or Economic concepts)
• optionally, look for more resources and make it a proper page - if interested, go for it!
• some pages ('Verstehen') will need to be redirects ('Understanding')
• do we really need all of them (Zeus, anyone?) - a few might be better off left out

Options

Mass conversion with a bot (suggested by FormerContributor-78162cb3 here):

1. convert the Mises Made Easy page into a format that can be used by the bot. Ultimately, it's going to be turned into an array of glossary entries. It'll be necessary to convert the HTML into wikitext and make a few other changes (e.g. making the page titles bold); that shouldn't be too hard, because it'll be only a few kinds of things such as italics and hypertext that need to be converted. It might be good to go through that list and decide what categories you want those pages to be in; we can then include those from the beginning rather than later going through page by page and making edits one by one.
2. Create a clone of Mises Wiki as it exists right now and do a test import of the articles to it. Wait, say, a week for everyone to have a chance to review the new pages for problems before we do the import here.
3. Create a new namespace on this wiki, e.g. MME:, to which we will import all this content. This will allow us to easily undo the changes if needed; e.g. if we discover problems at this point that we missed earlier, we can do a mass deletion of everything in that namespace, if needed, without disturbing our existing mainspace. I've generally found it's easier and cleaner to delete a bunch of robotically-implemented mistakes than to revert them.
4. Move everything from MME: to mainspace, unless there are already articles there with those names.
5. See what remains in MME:; either incorporate it into existing articles or delete it.
6. Get rid of the MME: namespace, once there is nothing left in it that's of further use.

Advantages:

• Comprehensive, will do the whole editing at once.
• Possible reusability for other imports

Disadvantages:

• Extensive preparations are necessary

Sequential processing with a script (by Pestergaines)

1. Create a script that will pull the dictionary entry out of a page based on the link (e.g. this). (I'd use Greasemonkey for this, but then that's what I have used quite a few times before.)
2. The user(s) would visit each dictionary link in turn. The script will open a new window or tab with a Mises Wiki editing page for the dictionary item in question. It will also pre-format the page (title, reference, stub link, part of the category).
3. Things to do: add category and links. If necessary, rename page on the spot. (The page can be easily redirected by moving after it is created.) Add other formatting if needed. If the page already exists, the script will add the content at the end and the user can move it where desired, or just close the window if there's already enough content or the entry wouldn't bring anything new to the page.
4. Save.

Advantages:

• Users can easily divide the work (e.g. by letter) and proceed as fast or as slow as they want.
• Easier preparation.
• Don't have to go through every page twice.

Disadvantages:

• Results can be uneven with multiple users.

Done:

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