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::: I'm glad you liked lesswrong, it is refreshingly thorough sometimes. I have checked out the todos, but I am not sure how to find things that need to be done. I'd love to help out with the OpenID login thing. I've done a bit of research on it because of a research position I had last summer, but I didn't actually get "dirty" with any implementation. [[User:Tahnok|Tahnok]] 09:26, 8 January 2011 (PST) | ::: I'm glad you liked lesswrong, it is refreshingly thorough sometimes. I have checked out the todos, but I am not sure how to find things that need to be done. I'd love to help out with the OpenID login thing. I've done a bit of research on it because of a research position I had last summer, but I didn't actually get "dirty" with any implementation. [[User:Tahnok|Tahnok]] 09:26, 8 January 2011 (PST) | ||
:::: I'd like to index Appropedia's to-do pages as part of [[User:Teratornis/Tasks#Index|indexing the whole site]]. That might make it easier to determine priorities and help people find where to jump in. At the moment I'm porting a bunch of templates from Wikipedia. See: | |||
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::::Many Appropedians contribute [[wikipedia:Domain knowledge|domain knowledge]], but not as many are familiar with the technical side of [[MediaWiki]]. Thus we accumulate red links{{w|WP:RED}} and other unfinished things on our special pages: | |||
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::::*[[Special:WantedCategories]] | |||
::::*[[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] | |||
::::*[[Special:UncategorizedPages]] | |||
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::::and so on. We need to cultivate a core group of editors who understand how to fix those housekeeping problems, so the site stays organized as the domain experts continue to add their knowledge. --[[User:Teratornis|Teratornis]] 13:00, 3 February 2011 (PST) | |||
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Welcome, Tahnok!
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Hi Tahnok,
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Internships and volunteering
Would be great to have you on board... a very quick intro to our "to-dos" before I hit the sack:
- Our old PM system - a lot of tasks are still on that system, but our new system is at...
- BetterMeans.
The main priority for me right now is getting a Simple:Press forum set up on our blog, if possible within a week (starting on our dev blog). I'd really like to get cross-login working, using the wiki's user database for logging into the WordPress site (probably with a hidden OpenID backend).
If anything there grabs your attention, it would be great to have your input. Thanks for getting in touch!
Btw, how did you hear about the internships? --Chriswaterguy 18:52, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
- Ummm, a while back I started following the twitter account when I saw a call for internships. Tahnok 01:20, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
- Great to know - good motivation to keep putting news out that way.
- Thanks for your userpage link to http://lesswrong.com - reading it and liking it. I also just discovered http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/ but I think I like Less Wrong better. --Chriswaterguy 12:52, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
- I'm glad you liked lesswrong, it is refreshingly thorough sometimes. I have checked out the todos, but I am not sure how to find things that need to be done. I'd love to help out with the OpenID login thing. I've done a bit of research on it because of a research position I had last summer, but I didn't actually get "dirty" with any implementation. Tahnok 09:26, 8 January 2011 (PST)
- I'd like to index Appropedia's to-do pages as part of indexing the whole site. That might make it easier to determine priorities and help people find where to jump in. At the moment I'm porting a bunch of templates from Wikipedia. See:
- Many Appropedians contribute domain knowledge, but not as many are familiar with the technical side of MediaWiki. Thus we accumulate red linksW and other unfinished things on our special pages:
- and so on. We need to cultivate a core group of editors who understand how to fix those housekeeping problems, so the site stays organized as the domain experts continue to add their knowledge. --Teratornis 13:00, 3 February 2011 (PST)
- I'm glad you liked lesswrong, it is refreshingly thorough sometimes. I have checked out the todos, but I am not sure how to find things that need to be done. I'd love to help out with the OpenID login thing. I've done a bit of research on it because of a research position I had last summer, but I didn't actually get "dirty" with any implementation. Tahnok 09:26, 8 January 2011 (PST)