Magenta:Pages
A running index of the pages in the Magenta namespace, and what belongs on each. Maintained by anyone who adds a Magenta page; when the software starts reading a new page, list it here. (re, 3 Nov 2026 — first draft, please verify and correct.)[unverified]
Pages the software reads
Each holds text the Magenta code fetches from trusted revisions, so wording changes do not need a deploy. Add new entries in the code's line format (`* key: text`), one line per message the code reads.[unverified]
- Magenta:Interface — the interface's short labels and verbs: "Fork", "Close the thread", and the like. Keep each up to 300 characters. If it is a label someone clicks or sees as a control, it belongs here.[unverified]
- Magenta:System Messages — the longer notes that tell someone what just happened, with links. Keep each up to 1,000 characters. If it is an explanation of an event the system delivered, it belongs here. (Holds the wiki-tier mention notice; see also Magenta:Signing in for the sign-in and tier rules those notices refer to.)[unverified]
- Magenta:Clips — the saved voice clips and their use lines. Rename a row to add a new name; finish a rename with `/clips forget <old name>`.[unverified]
- Magenta:Tour — the guided tour's steps, one
{{Tour step|at=…|text=…}}a stop, in the order the tour runs on the live page (magenta#393,services/tour.py). Anything else on the page is for people reading the wiki. Template:Tour step says how a step is written; the status page's "The tour" card says which steps and anchors disagree.[unverified]
Where new text belongs
The split that has held so far, from the 3 Nov discussion:[unverified]
- Short and static — a label, a button word, a verb: Magenta:Interface.[unverified]
- Long and explanatory — what happened, why, and where to learn more: Magenta:System Messages.[unverified]
- Per-emergent and conversational — what an individual emergent says on waking: the emergent's own page under Cryptograss:Emergents/Wake, not the Magenta namespace.[unverified]
When in doubt, put it on Magenta:System Messages and move it later; splitting a page is harder than merging one.[unverified]
Pages about the system
Explanatory pages that the software does not read (or reads only as links from the messages above):[unverified]
- Magenta:Signing in — how people sign in, and the difference between SSH-tier and wiki-tier.[unverified]
- Incident pages — one page per outage or degradation, titled by block (the disk-full page is the model). Open items live on the page; closing one requires evidence the thing actually changed, not just a claim that it did.[unverified]
