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A Citizens' Compendium can get off the ground only if there are many "citizens" at work on it--working not only on articles, but also on other essential tasks.  This page is a summary of outstanding tasks you can help with, and has links to more information.
'''Want to help, but don't know quite what to do?'''


''Folks, can you please help fill this out?  This is just a start.  A lot of the items below '''don't''' need to be on this list.  The focus of this list should be a list of projects that people can help with. Recruitment, design, software, policy drafting and discussion--that's a start. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 13:53, 28 November 2006 (CST)''
You've come to the right place.  Here is a list of general tasks that "worker bees" can help with.


'''Tagging and cleaning up'''
* Add <code><nowiki>[[Category:CZ Live]]</nowiki></code> to articles that you see other people working on, if they lack this essential tag.  Just scan through [[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]] (on your left, under "project pages") and, when someone starts a new article, or works on an article that is unfamiliar to you, check to see if it has that category.
* Add <code><nowiki>[[Category:CZ Live]]</nowiki></code>
* Remove Wikipedia templates and categories.  Wikipedia uses a whole bunch of t


TECHNOLOGY


* Hardware - We badly need donations of [http://citizendium.org/#donations money] and [mailto:citizendium-tools@lists.purdue.edu hardware]. We need a serious database server, which is not cheap.  We're looking for SCSI drives and some sort of RAID solution (5 or 10).
# Get rid of orphans.
* Software - Please sign up at the [http://forge.citizendium.org development site] and join the "Citizendium Tools mailing list". Bugs can also go [mailto:bugs@citizendium.org to this address] (but not to both places)
* Website and Design
 
CONTENT
 
* Policy Documents - We need to flesh out the policy pages listed [[Citizendium_Pilot:Policy_Outline|here]].  Most of them don't exist yet. Try to incorporate information from that page, and [http://www.citizendium.org the main Citizendium site] as well as forum/list discussion.  If you create a page, let everyone know on the forum so they can help.
* Help Documents - we need to port help pages from Wikipedia and Wikimedia and adjust them to Citizendium Policies
* Website and Design
* Multimedia
* Deletion?
* Interview Program
 
COMMUNITY
 
* Editor Policies and Editorial Workgroups
* Recruitment
* Constable Issues
* Copyeditors
* Advisory Board Construction
* Internationalization
* Consolidation of Conversation
 
LEGAL
 
* Multimedia
* Set up 501(c)(3)?
* Tides Foundation opportunity?
* License?
* Approval Process Liability
 
COLLABORATION
 
* Sponsorship
* Partnerships and Donations?
* Content Brokerage/Public Patron program?

Revision as of 14:39, 25 January 2007

Want to help, but don't know quite what to do?

You've come to the right place. Here is a list of general tasks that "worker bees" can help with.

Tagging and cleaning up

  • Add [[Category:CZ Live]] to articles that you see other people working on, if they lack this essential tag. Just scan through recent changes (on your left, under "project pages") and, when someone starts a new article, or works on an article that is unfamiliar to you, check to see if it has that category.
  • Add [[Category:CZ Live]]
  • Remove Wikipedia templates and categories. Wikipedia uses a whole bunch of t


  1. Get rid of orphans.
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