(Largely unsorted)
- Get work started on bot tasks
- How to handle "interesting stubs" e.g. Plastic bottle greenhouse. Socmed -> "Can you add to our page on...?"
- How to request synopses - special case of the copyedit tag, adding pages to a subcategory? {{add summary}}? (On Plastic_Sheeting_for_Emergency_Shelter_and_Other_Purposes I used {{copyedit|Add summary of the original document - at least take something from its introduction would help. Use your own words, as we do not have permission to use the document's text.}} - adapt this, with Help:Notices.)
BetterMeans (when I have a good connection):
- Request a way to "open" or remove an owner from the bot task.
- Identify data sets, and ways to use them. E.g. clean teach data at http://www.reegle.info/ & http://data.reegle.info/ - we can embed their open data/data sets in MediaWiki, Explore OKFN's database of data sets.
- Check User talk:Teratornis #File license details -> create a task.
Bot tasks:
- Remove inappropriate redirects to userspace. "(?si)#redirect ?\[\[User:.*]]" -> create a list of pages to check and delete. (Redirects from names aren't a big problem. Redirects to pages that are unsuitable due to quality concerns are a problem.)
Deal with PATBs
- check against other pages.
- move dubious ones to userspace? Or move all to userspace? Redirect to the better pages.
- Check footer/history before moving.
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/Wikignome/moving category page content with history, User:Chriswaterguy/Wikignome/moving category page content with history - list, User:Chriswaterguy/Wikignome/moving category page content with history - track last edits & personal notes.
Then use bot to remove {{Browsetopic}} and {{Newpageresource}}. Have asked about {{Topicadmin}}
"Nowiki" topic categories in userspace
- exceptinsidetag:nowiki
- Ensure doesn't include cat links starting "[[:"
Use manual check, if possible with an edit-modified-version-in-browser or tk editor option.
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)
Partnerships
- Look up admins/bureaucrat/sponsor for http://www.developmentcommons.org/wiki/ & offer to host.
Misc jobs
- See User:Chriswaterguy/AF/Strategy 2012 #Board meetings
- Appropedia:Fundraising/Tasks
- {{WP}}: -> \{\{(WP(:p?)}}\|(.*?)}} -> \\1W then consider whether to add a local wikilink.
On hold...
Hoping for help with some of these
- Wikilink bot
- Categorization bot
- Writing articles...
- Turning raw ported content into articles.