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=== Category cleanup === | === Category cleanup === | ||
Cleanup & make consistent | Cleanup & make consistent the subcategories of: | ||
* [[:Category:Organizations]] | * [[:Category:Organizations]] | ||
* [[:Category:Energy]], esp [[:Category:Wind]]. Remove [[:Category:Renewable energy]]? | * [[:Category:Energy]], esp [[:Category:Wind]]. Remove [[:Category:Renewable energy]]? | ||
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''Please add to this list. To link a category, use a colon, like this: <nowiki>[[:Category:Wind]]</nowiki>'' | ''Please add to this list. To link a category, use a colon, like this: <nowiki>[[:Category:Wind]]</nowiki>'' | ||
Request help via blog - draft: | |||
<blockquote> | |||
Over a breakfast meeting with [http://www.mitra.biz/joomla/index.php/home Mitra Ardron] recently, he described how he's someone who prefers to navigate via categories, rather than search - and he'd come up with some examples on Appropedia that are very confusing. | |||
Now, anyone can edit the categories in a wiki, but it's best if final changes are made by someone who's been working with the wiki and with the categories for a long time - so I'm putting out a request for help. Have a look through our categories, by: | |||
* looking up topics you're interested in, or | |||
* browsing the [http://www.appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special%3ACategoryTree&target=Fundamental&mode=categories&dotree=Show+tree Category Tree]. | |||
Find examples of confusing categories - places where categories are duplicated, badly named, or you wouldn't know which category to use on a page. Then paste the category names or links in the comments below. | |||
Thanks! | |||
</blockquote> | |||
== On hold... == | == On hold... == | ||
Revision as of 12:18, 24 April 2011
Goals
I'm setting goals to stretch myself, so that I strategize how to reach them. Here are some of them. I chose the dates as something to aim for (no specific meaning - just x weeks or months from when I set the goal).
- Find 3 more tech interns - 11 May 2011
- Make outline of a fundraising campaign - 15 June 2011
- Get some mainstream media coverage for Appropedia - 14 June 2011
- Find funding, including: $20,000 in sponsorship - 19 June 2011
- Find 3 corporate volunteers - 19 Aug 2011
- 1 million page views per month for Appropedia (up from ~0.5 million currently) - 19 Aug 2011
Current projects
- Finding tech interns, setting up the Appropedia:Tech Interns, mid-2011 project.
- Corporate volunteering:
- keywords: corporate responsibility; try with other keywords such as MediaWiki, green...
- Corporate Volunteering - Organisations
- Check resources: http://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/html/s12_content/default.asp?tnid=16&dsb=300
- x http://www.volunteering.com.au/about_us/index.asp -> seem to need ABN, i.e. Australian orgs only. Fee starts at $50.
- started Appropedia:Corporate volunteering
- Looking for funding - going through lists of potential funders for potential matches.
- Using Google Spreadsheets. Happy to share with anyone who's interested.
- started Appropedia:Sponsors/FAQ
- How to raise our profile? (-> traffic and media)
- Identify controversial and current topics, & link from front page.
- -> Need a main page team. This might be mainly a community-building issue - need a few admins as members, so there's always someone who can actually update the page.
- How to identify controversial content? Someone who follows the news and writes content. Talk with Wikinews community.
- Look for journalism student intern to lead this content, or is that stretching too far? Communications intern?
- Identify controversial and current topics, & link from front page.
Category cleanup
Cleanup & make consistent the subcategories of:
Please add to this list. To link a category, use a colon, like this: [[:Category:Wind]]
Request help via blog - draft:
Over a breakfast meeting with Mitra Ardron recently, he described how he's someone who prefers to navigate via categories, rather than search - and he'd come up with some examples on Appropedia that are very confusing.
Now, anyone can edit the categories in a wiki, but it's best if final changes are made by someone who's been working with the wiki and with the categories for a long time - so I'm putting out a request for help. Have a look through our categories, by:
- looking up topics you're interested in, or
- browsing the Category Tree.
Find examples of confusing categories - places where categories are duplicated, badly named, or you wouldn't know which category to use on a page. Then paste the category names or links in the comments below.
Thanks!
On hold...
Hoping for help with some of these
- Wikilink bot
- Categorization bot
- Writing articles...
- Turning raw ported content into articles.