Village pump/Ideas Bank

Wanted pages
suggested format: page title, followed by notes'


 * Green New Deal Group eg from press release, via Towards Sustainable Economies UK


 * Biodiversity UK resources from Biodiversity UK


 * Transition towns Victoria Australia from Transition towns Australia


 * Local food from, Free stuff, Food, etc


 * Transition towns Ontario from Transition towns Canada


 * Sustainable cities from Category:City


 * Diary Food UK from Food UK


 * Community involvement Birmingham from Birmingham links


 * Food Yorkshire and the Humber from Yorkshire and the Humber links


 * Rural UK news 2008 from Rural UK news


 * Renewable energy UK, Renewable energy UK resources from Renewable energy, plus some content from Sustainable energy?


 * Nuit Blanche and related local entries, link to Arts and culture


 * Bike move from http://green.wikia.com/wiki/Bike_move and sources


 * Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD) - Participatory Avenues based on Sustainability indicators


 * Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership report card 2007-08 from Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership, Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership


 * Local and seasonal recipes - start or add some


 * more wanted pages listed on specific topic pages listed within the Ideas Bank

Tasks
relatively simple, easy short, tasks


 * sort uk links on Reduce, reuse, repair & recycle UK into a more useful listing


 * sort Transition towns East Midlands links into places (eg counties)


 * sort Transition towns North West England links into places (eg counties)


 * sort Transition towns East of England links into places (eg counties)


 * Community involvement UK news 2006 and 2005, Community involvement UK news 2007 same style as Community involvement UK news 2008 (incl. template)


 * clear out unwanted links from Camp for Climate Action 2006


 * set up category:Food UK as a subcategory of category:Food


 * check all Local and seasonal recipes pages have Template:End Menu2IB end menu


 * improve Teleconferencing with issues and impacts content from Videoconferencing


 * Visioning, improve using text from nearest WP article (link in article)


 * Participatory budgeting UK pilots, etc info from Communities and Local Government, September 16

Comment box wanted
using Template:Commbox

Topic box wanted
When categories have 3 or more articles - examples at Climate change, Food (top rh box)


 * Regeneration, include also in Category:New Start editorials

Projects
may take more time


 * develop local UK food section or category, from Food UK, etc


 * internal links to Housing


 * more Farmers' market and Farmers' market USA links to w:c:green:Category:Farm Markets


 * ideas bank by place articles redesigned as London links


 * Local Sustainability Ideas Bank UK based on Local Sustainability Ideas Bank, perhaps with wanted pages included? which could then act as a model or template for future ideas bank by place articles?


 * once a topic has a resources page consider moving external links to that page. Eg Food UK resources?


 * consider if topic boxes should be included on all articles in a topic's category?


 * use templates eg template:top1, (2 & 3) for all topic boxes


 * consider setting up Personal options menu (for top of pages)


 * pages that link to Sport, Arts & Culture: change links to Sport or Arts and culture, and once all changed delete forked article (History is in Arts and culture)


 * redesign portal to be more like Places, projects and networks - topics on lh with images to the left, more concise 'how you can help' type box for the right. Then set up templates like template:Po which can use in all section portals, and use images in layout as on Places, projects and networks


 * consider if Water should be in Category:Environmental wellbeing


 * Ecovillages from List of ecovillages to place articles, example Ecovillages Australia


 * 'Why it matters' sections (or introductions) for articles - succinct summaries needed for many articles

Wish list
What you'd like to see, though not sure of the best way to get these as yet


 * UK local links - more signposting to existing networks


 * repeating ideas/links/references in all topics/articles if highly relevant


 * Action Ideas - more links to other sources of ideas, including general sources on or via category page