Wiki changes for Gen4 model

@mlines @bosanek

I wanted to start adding info to the Wiki for the new model, but think adding it into the existing Gen3 pages is going to get confusing.

I don't have permissions to create new links from the main wiki page, so wondered what the owners thought about renaming the current "The Workshop Manual" and "Jimny Info" tables to "Gen3 Workshop Manual" and "Gen3 Jimny Info" then creating duplicate tables below for "Gen4 Workshop Manual" and "Gen4 Jimny Info"?

Renaming has a lot of issues as it breaks existing links, such as links to the wiki from outside webpages.

My preference is to create little coloured info boxes on the pages saying "Applies to Gen 3" and/ or "Applies to Gen 4" - each info box linking to a page that has a picture of a Gen 3 or Gen 4 so it's clear to people which is which.

At the bottom of the pages we have category tags as well. By setting these on each page then they can be filtered to the correct car

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I gave some considerable thought on this matter.

Although renaming the existing pages might appear as the ideal solution at a first glance, it is practically very "costly" for two reasons. First is the sheer amount of work on renaming all of them. Second is the consequence of broken links like Martin pointed out. Broken links can be solved with phantom redirecting pages, but this process would create somewhere more than a hundred of them.

The other quite interesting solution might be to have two completely separate wikis - one for Gen 3 and the other for Gen 4.
This might as well be the "cleanest" solution. Its main advantage is that it avoids any chances of confusion among the readers and any risks of mixing up the content.
However, there are quite a few wiki articles which can (for the most part at least) apply to any Jimny generation, and those would have to be duplicated, making any future changes to them a double work to implement.
Examples: Universal joint replacement, Fluids and filters - proper selection, Oil additives, Transmission breathers, Tie rod end replacement, Tyre selection and usage, Wheel spacers, Brake pipes and hoses replacement, Rust protection, etc.etc.

The third solution is what Martin suggested - to just create two additional "tags" and apply them to each article.
This sounds like a good start, but I think that it is insufficient just on itself.



Remember, the goal is to avoid two things:
1. Mixing up of unrelated gen3/gen4 specific articles, so that a reader can not discern what is for what;
2. Creating duplicated articles so that any future change demands changing them both (double work);

These two goals are a bit contradictory, so no solution can ideally solve both completely at the same time.



So after all the consideration, I think that this might be the best solution given all the circumstances:


Keep it all in one wiki, but make separate analogous categories for gen3 and for gen4. So, each of the existing categories would be created for gen4 as well (and have a different name to differentiate from from an existing category). Then each new and existing article can be associated with any combination of all the wiki categories. In an addition to this, implement Martin's idea about gen3 and gen4 pictograms article "tags".


Here is what I suggest to do in specific steps:

1.
Rename the existing tables "The Workshop info" and "Jimny info" in the main Wiki page to " Jimny gen 3 - The Workshop info" and "Jimny gen 3 - Jimny info" in the main wiki page.

2.
Create two additional tables in the main page below the two existing tables, with the same appearance as the two old tables, but just rename the two new tables below with "gen4" prefix.

3.
Rename all the existing wiki category tags to have a suffix or a prefix "gen3".

4.
Create new analogous category tags to all the old ones, but add a suffix or prefix "gen4" to their name.

5.
Sort out the content of the two new tables in the main wiki page to point to new gen4 category tags/pages.

6.
Update the category tags in all the existing articles to point to renamed categories (to amend broken tag links due to the previous category renaming to gen3 prefix or suffix) and also to point to new gen4 categories for those existing articles which can be applied to gen4 as well.

7.
In addition, apply Martin's idea about additional gen3/gen4 pictogram tags for quick reader orientation. Furthermore, I would apply these pictogram tags even to individual chapters in articles (to further enhance quick reference ability).


I welcome others' suggestions to my idea.

The only significant work which I see in the implementation of my idea is updating category tag references in each existing article.
Martin, can a web site administrator do it by writing a "search and replace" program script which would edit each article and update the category tag names? It should not be complicated to perform if someone knows how to do it.

P.S.: The work on the implementation of my proposed solution can be significantly simplified by just keeping the names of the existing categories intact instead of adding "gen3" prefix or suffix to their names, and just creating new analogous "gen4" prefixed/suffixed categories.

This would completely eliminate the steps 3 and 6 from the implementation of my proposal. Therefore, there would be no the need to update category reference tags in all the existing articles, which would be the largest amount of work to be done in the implementation.
The only disadvantage of this "simplification" is that the existing category name tags would be left somewhat "undefined" as to whether they point out to gen3 or gen4 (but any experienced wiki editor would be aware of that anyway).

P.S.: I have just quickly revamped the main wiki page to showcase what I mean by my proposal. It's just a quick edit and the content can be beautified, but you can get the idea.

The edit is easily reversible if we decide not to implement the idea.


So, the point is to have separate categories for gen3 and gen4 in the same wiki, and then each individual article can be associated with (placed into) either a gen3 category or a gen4 category, or both. So it's completely flexible.

And on top of all that, we should then implement Martin's idea with pictogram gen3 and gen4 tags (also in article chapters).

That change is exactly what I had visualised Bosanek