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Use this page to list suggestions for more specific actions to develop the wiki. (more general suggestions can be included on the Village Green page, or its associated discussion page) This is sort of a global to-do list. Add things that you think would be a good idea but which you don't know enough to do / don't want to do right now, and if you do something on it, take it off.

See Contribute for a more generic listing of ways in which you can help.

SCA wiki community

 * 1) improvements to welcome template - better selection of links (?), suggestions of ways to personalise more (?)
 * 2) version of welcome template for unsigned in users (?)
 * 3) Visitors book (?)

Places, projects and networks

 * brief introductory information copied from wikipedia for recently added articles about countries or places

Ideas Bank
(All topics)
 * 1) 'Why it matters' sub-sections of articles - succinct summaries needed for many articles
 * 2) UK local links - more signposting to existing networks
 * 3) repeating ideas/links/references in all topics/articles if highly relevant
 * 4) Action Ideas - more links to other sources of ideas, including general sources on or via category page
 * Food
 * 1) Local and seasonal recipes - start some or add some

News

 * 1) Global news category pipework
 * 2) 'tagging' (Need to explain this more - but same sort of thing as done for most of News UK) old global news stories

Resources

 * 1) 'Imagine' or Visions section
 * 2) Inspiring quotes - provide links after each quote to relevant Ideas Bank pages

Images

 * 1) categorise images by image type, month (if applicable), place (if applicable), and topic or topics
 * 2) tag GFDL images using the GFDL template
 * 3) find images, for monthly sections for Diary international 2006 and Diary international 2005 - see Diary international for example

Other to do's
(about Help pages, general pages, or long-term possibilities)
 * 1) category portal articles - see which categories need these via list of links / what links here to the Template:Catportneed page


 * 1) project:Manual of style, including for example image width guidelines
 * 2) Continual improvements to Help section (although we may rely to a large extent for a lot of standard info on the central wikia help pages), especially help for those new or relatively new to wikis, e.g. good, clear and comprehensive signposting.
 * 3) rating and reviewing
 * 4) voting
 * 5) time bound, themed collaborations
 * 6) join Wikia tour
 * 7) using wiki to help facilitate LETS or complimentary currencies

Related topics

 * project:Regular tasks
 * Category:Extensive development needed