[OWASP-wiki-editors] Very Popular: Download Page
Jim Manico
jim.manico at owasp.org
Tue Aug 19 05:15:56 UTC 2014
Some options for you...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Empty_category
On 8/18/14, 3:36 PM, Neil Smithline wrote:
> "OWASP Boot Camp Project" or any subcategory that says "(empty)" next
> to it
>
> On Monday, August 18, 2014, Jim Manico <jim.manico at owasp.org
> <mailto:jim.manico at owasp.org>> wrote:
>
> Empty subcategories makes sense. A subcategory and contents of a
> subcategory are two different things....
>
> Can you give me an example?
>
> Aloha,
> Jim
>
> On 8/15/14, 12:56 PM, Neil Smithline wrote:
>>
>> Cool? Wanna give it a go, Neil?
>>
>>
>> Huh? Me!??! OK. I was planning on it :)
>>
>> I'll try to create templates for the formatting so that we can
>> repeat it on other category pages where we think it's appropriate.
>>
>> Do you have any idea why empty subcategories show up in the page?
>> I checked a few of the pages and found subcategory pages that
>> have been customized but contain no pages in them. That seems
>> broken to me. My guess is that there were pages in that category,
>> someone customized the category page, the pages were deleted or
>> moved to another category. Now we're left with these dangling
>> category pages. They probably need cleaning up as well :(
>>
>>
>> Neil Smithline
>> 408-634-5764
>> http://www.neilsmithline.com <http://www.neilsmithline.com/>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Jim Manico <jim.manico at owasp.org
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jim.manico at owasp.org');>> wrote:
>>
>> +1 I like what you did there.
>>
>> Between adding the OWASP banner and doing the highlighting, I
>> think these pages will be a lot more attractive without major
>> effort or redesign.
>>
>> Cool? Wanna give it a go, Neil?
>>
>> Aloha,
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/15/14, 12:01 PM, Neil Smithline wrote:
>>> Ahh. I seem to have consistent ideas.
>>> https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-Table_of_Contents is
>>> a page where I manually created the top-half of a category
>>> page to look nice, leaving the bottom half looking ugly. We
>>> could do something like this for
>>> https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Authentication_Cheat_Sheet.
>>>
>>> Neil
>>>
>>>
>>> Neil Smithline
>>> 408-634-5764 <tel:408-634-5764>
>>> http://www.neilsmithline.com <http://www.neilsmithline.com/>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Neil Smithline
>>> <neil.smithline at owasp.org
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','neil.smithline at owasp.org');>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK. There's very little flexibility on the category
>>> pages. We can't do anything to change the format of the
>>> existing one (http://enil.us/1sK7M13).
>>>
>>> We can create something autoformatted using
>>> http://enil.us/1re1mHQ. We'll need to get that extension
>>> installed (I'm guessing that it isn't).
>>>
>>> If we create a substitute for the category page. It will
>>> need to have a different URL. This will affect the
>>> search function as I don't believe that we can remove
>>> the existing category page as it's auto-generated. So
>>> both our new page and the old category page will have
>>> search hits. We *might* be able to put a redirect on the
>>> current category page to our new page. I haven't tested
>>> if this is possible.
>>>
>>> If we can't create a redirect, we can just create a
>>> pretty top to the current category page that is
>>> formatted similar
>>> tohttps://www.owasp.org/index.php/Authentication_Cheat_Sheet and
>>> leave the nasty category stuff at the bottom of the
>>> page. Not a great solution but a definite improvement.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Neil Smithline
>>> 408-634-5764 <tel:408-634-5764>
>>> http://www.neilsmithline.com <http://www.neilsmithline.com/>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Neil Smithline
>>> <neil.smithline at owasp.org
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','neil.smithline at owasp.org');>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I agree that the default category page looks ugly.
>>> In general I'm not a big Mediawiki format fan.
>>>
>>> The category page is automatically generated.
>>> There's no need to add new pages to it. If you add a
>>> new page to the category, it will automatically
>>> appear. The cheat sheet guide is manually created
>>> via the template at
>>> https://www.owasp.org/index.php?title=Template:Cheatsheet_Navigation_Body&action=edit.
>>>
>>>
>>> So if we change the category page we'll either lose
>>> the automatic maintenance of the links or need to
>>> learn how to keep the automatic listing function
>>> available. Also, the "Category:" URL is special to
>>> Mediawiki and we're limited in the changes we can do
>>> (at least in a straightforward way). I'll see what I
>>> can google about monkeying with category pages.
>>>
>>> Neil
>>>
>>>
>>> Neil Smithline
>>> 408-634-5764 <tel:408-634-5764>
>>> http://www.neilsmithline.com
>>> <http://www.neilsmithline.com/>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Jim Manico
>>> <jim.manico at owasp.org
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jim.manico at owasp.org');>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Editors,
>>>
>>> This download page ...
>>>
>>> https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Download
>>>
>>> ... is one of the top ten most popular pages in
>>> recent months.
>>>
>>> It looks awkward. Do you think styling this like
>>> https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Authentication_Cheat_Sheet
>>> or similar is prudent?
>>>
>>> Aloha,
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
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> Neil Smithline
> 408-634-5764
> http://www.neilsmithline.com <http://www.neilsmithline.com/>
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