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.
- Get work started on bot tasks
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!
Moving categories
- User:Chriswaterguy/moving category page content with history & personal notes
Dev wiki
Change group membership on dev site after update:
- User:Tahnokbot from (none) to Bots
- User:Munimortal from (none) to Administrators, Bureaucrats and Widget editors (tech intern)
- User:RichardF from (none) to Administrators and Widget editors (play with widgets)
- User:Tahnok from (none) to Administrators, Bureaucrats and Widget editors (have fun :-))
- User:Woozle from (none) to Administrators and Widget editors (may wish to help with site dev)
- User:Willd from (none) to Administrators (to play with new features esp semantic)
Misc jobs
See User:Chriswaterguy/Board of Directors meeting prep
On hold...
Hoping for help with some of these
- Wikilink bot
- Categorization bot
- Writing articles...
- Turning raw ported content into articles.