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Markings to place in Wiki Pages

• TBD - generic To Be Done
• TBD topic - whole topic needs to be worked on. Used as a placeholder when I want to create a definition of a phrase so that it appears in the terminology, but where I am not yet ready to actually write up a proper description.

Q: might it be better to have templates?:

• Template:TBD
• TBD-topic
• TBD - topics to be written

This could allow for more text.

Also stands for

• To Be Done
• To Be Delivered
• To Be Documented
• To Be Deposited
• To Be Determined

Occasionally, rarely, "To Be Deleted". Better to call that "Remove Me (RM)".

How to find stuff that needs to be worked on

TBD: time estimates, so you can search for, e.g. a 30 minute fix, or a 4 hour task, or ...

Manually maintained pages

• Topics_for_CompArch_wiki
• Incoming_and_Wanted_Topics_and_To-do_List
• Vocabulary_to-do_list
  • Category:Terminology and its subcategories contain finished pages, but you can often notice things that need to be worked on by noticing pages that are missing. e.g. NUMA but not NUCA

Searching for TBD markings inside pages

• Search for "TBD" or "tbd" in text
• Search for pages marked "TBD-topic" - whole topic needed
  • older attempts marked "TBD topic", etc., but I was not able to create a search link for that.

Categories related to TBD

• Category:TBD
  • Category:TBD topic
    • use template TBD-topic
• TBD - topics to be written

• • Category:TBD minor

Many of the maintenance reports on Special:SpecialPages

• Special:WantedPages
• Special:UncategorizedPages - pages that need a category
  • TBD: unfortunately, many pages have category Terminology, but need other Topic Categories. Neeed to search for pages that do not just have terminology category.
  • Special:UncategorizedCategories

etc.