User:Sj/Active projects

Infrastructure

Statistics

Intern project
Lang-lists for placenames, &c.
New fonts. R.Project.
Projection.

Non-profit

Incubators FI.org, Tides
Advice and Advisors
Models : (Int'l, multilingual orgs)

Volunteering

Coordination models : lj (single-dispatch), ravers(sf)
APIs for parallelizing tasks : RCP, other P, parcelling software
Feedback for steady progress-sense : WWW|N

Subproject development

Wikitravel
Wikipeople (see Biojack, founded in October of 2004)
Wikidata
Wikicite
Places for informative/historical Wikinovels, Wikigames, Wikimusic/art, and other free-form information wrapped up in collaborative content
Wikifood (see Wikipes, founded 1/1/2005)

Outreach

In libraries, @ schools : Wikipedia Wissenswochenende
Via informal UG's (cf wm disc w/elian, jd)
Via press releases, postering, parties, QA
Via Wikimania : conf

Press, Marketing

Finding cheap ways to get out T-shirts, mugs, &c.
Reaching out to news orgs that express and interest
Making it easy to reach contributors for comment & interviews (cf. de, 
 Fragen der Süddeutschen Zeitung, etc)

Newsl et al

Division of Labor

Reaching out to people not currently caught up in a larger engine.

Dev tasks that languish for inattention: langXX.php updates and lang files to update
non-dev tasks for devs, reattribution of edits, ...

Technical Development

Efficient Scaling of Services

(services, not <particular technical feature>")

Identifying very cheap/scalable tools
Identifying key services provided, mapping services to tech features

Recent notes on Q3-4 hardware budget, efficiencies
80% solution: be great at 80% of features, for 10% the cost; graceful degrading

Editorial review (See also non-tech issues below)

diff review

Other tech plans, tar pitted and otherwise

Wiki HTML parser (10/03), transparent page renaming 
(see also MM's Editable_titles)

Identifying bottlenecks as the arise

Biggest en watchlists

DB upgrade

Schema update (better metadata/auditing, flags, normaliz'n)
- See Language integration below

Integration

Languages

Interlanguage links and Interlanguage use case
2002 Early enthusiasm

Clutch/Brion/El on ACLs & uni-db
Thoughts & Proposal on lang inegr8n.

Unilogins -- Single login et al.
Portals, Main Page and other splash pages

What to do with www.wikipedia.org - conv + vote dead ca 2/2003
  portal dead ca 3/2004... all dead by 4/2005?

Users

Ways for users to be part of the broader project and MW community

Newsletter & anncmt-mailing-list signups, persal fat on registration
Freshman dorms - places designed for newbies
Guilds - keeping assoc've grps to human-manageable sizes

Ombudsman network

Orgs

Chapter and Verse

FA:chat 1, 2

Verein: ...
Other: (list)

Communication Channels

Mailing lists & communication

where are the multiling ones?  major annonces?
how about non-mls comprised of WM emails of people who want annonces?
Board & other meetings: Vereins-Chat(de), ...

Written Record

Coordinating writing things down, by group/subject area

Technical - wikidev, meta: pages, committee?
Grants - Grants, NEH recap?, NEH format
Translations - Translation procedures, Phrase-transl-lists (server downtime, php files, &c)

Global messages

News, for downtimes & annonces

[14|21:52] <_sj_> so maybe also a little "Wikimedia news" mesg
[14|21:52] <_sj_> available for inclusion on any project

Other rss feeds

Translations

... of WMF pages, MW messages, etc

See Talk:Wikimedia Fundraising page, Wikimedia Fundraising page (Deutsch)
 Language files to be updated & Requests for languageXX.php update -- old reqs?
 LocalSettings.php

from Talk:Language files to be updatedSo long as the schedule remains unknown, the incentive is to rush out a translation for fear of not getting on the train in time, so to speak. This is particularly true of new language Wikipedias, for which missing an update cycle translates to a major diff. A-giâu 15:43, 19 Jun 2004

en masse, small and large

Translation reqs; older attempts: Election notice translations 2004

... of Press releases, copyright notices & legal text

 Delicacy req'd; skilled prufers (w/suitable specialization) needed

Metrics

Collected on-wiki

Referrers, most popular pages, editors by wiki by # of edits

User, Edit & Article Metadata

Local observations (non-bot, vandal; significant edit; peer-reviewed, featured, pov, facts disputed, protected, deleted)
Global obsvs (serious contrib, troll; ...; needs transl/editing/grammar/fact-chcking, prone to edit wars)

Validation

The future of WP, specifically Wikipedia in schools, Anti-vandalism ideas, Automatic edit war squashing, ...
Other ideas: Layered ice

New thoughts: Default view of content, Default simple interface
see also WP 1.0, under #Grand Designs.

Statistics & Auditing

Requests for queries, db stats
Clickthrough stats (use 3d-party svc?)

Clean Policies

Editorial policy, vandalism, &c

summarized suggestions, ...

Copyright, trademark and their brethren

suggested intro changes
explanation of CC/GNU parallels & compatibility, other spectra
appropriate logo use

Resources and toolchains for organization & order

Tools for eff. communication and wiki-use (non-ml group-mail, ...)
Templates for subpolicies, orgal work

Occasional Beauty

A Mediator watchlist and old odd userpage
Multilingualism: Ling democracy

Grand Designs

and other proposed projects

News a la Wiki

Wikews/Wikinews : El and Mav and ... like it. Suitable for past/pres/fut?

Dead Tree Wiki

WikiReaders : $5k in seed money from JW to individuals in Germany? Details...

 TomK spearheaded the de: project and 1st en: Reader. 
 Results: initial run of 1000?  printed 6/04? sold 300 by 7/04? all unsure.
 Thinking of ways to sell wholesale or at a slight loss now, 7/21.

Wikipedia 1.0 : Jimbo's page, w:en:User_talk:David_Gerard/1.0 DGerard's ideas