User:John Cummings/Experiments/Sandbox Organiser Plan

Problem statement

Many people have lots and lots of sandboxes which are hard to find and organise

Solution

Make something to help keep people's workspaces on Wikipedia/Wikidata etc organised

To do

First version

• Ask Facebook for common uses of sandboxes
• Make some folders
• Make a button for making new drafts
• Ask Facebook for feedback
• Are there any tools that can help easily move lots of pages to a new directory?
• Change whole page fonts to FreeSans, Gill Sans MT, GillSansSA, Calibri, sans-serif
• CHange Wikimedia icons to square ones

Design

Design based on an OS app menu, with full list of 'apps' and a favourites bar, could be in grid or in lines

Apps and folders

• Folders: A link that links through to a list of pages of a certain 'type' eg article, make it easy for people to create new pages in that folder

• Apps/widgets: Treat each thing as an app which can be moved to favourites and people to create 'apps' for other people to copy into their sandboxes

Ideas for things

Folders

• Draft article with easy to make pages in that space

Apps/Widgets

Can be either new things or just bring in those little tools from people's user pages

• Favourites
• Notes
• Links to sandboxes on other Wikimedia projects
• Feedback on number of views of articles you've created
• Number of articles you've created
• List of chat pages you can customise for various Wikiprojects and Village pump things