CZ:Wishlist

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Revision as of 08:26, 9 October 2009 by imported>Daniel Mietchen (transcluding approved content to welcome page)
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This page is meant to collect ideas on how to make CZ better, both in a fundamental or incremental way, with a focus on practical rather than theoretical improvements. We need an overview here, so please do not use more than about 50 words per field and link to other pages (on the forum, or in the CZ or user namespaces) if further information is necessary.

Please sort by priority (from 5=crucial to 1=nice to have to 0=neutral to -1=counterproductive), and if a problem was solved, move it to a similar table at the bottom of this page.

To do

Problem Priority Solution Possible trial solution Comments Contact person Status
No established relationship with external organizations 5 Potential partners Trial Partnership Talk Page Dan Nessett, Howard Berkowitz Problem description to be completed
The Healing Arts Workgroup currently allows advocates of fringe positions to act as editors. 4 merge it with the Health Sciences Workgroup none, though in principle, one could just merge the respective categories of the type Category:Healing Arts Content and Category:Health Sciences Content Forum thread please add your name here, Daniel Mietchen Problem description to be completed
no policy on installing extensions 4 draft one ask Greg Forum thread Daniel Mietchen Problem description to be completed
Some search engines display our disclaimer rather than useful page summaries, thus keeping visitors away 4 display the definition on the cluster's main page rather than on the talk page demo Forum thread Daniel Mietchen Problem description to be completed
much of our best content is hidden to occasional visitors, and CZ:Article of the Week / CZ:New Draft of the Week require more energy than we seem to have on a permanent basis 3 Display the introductory parts of approved articles on the CZ:Welcome Page by means of transclusion and random selection (as already practices for CZ:Quotes. CZ:Article of the Week / CZ:New Draft of the Week as well as CZ:Quotes, all of which have been in operation for a while Forum thread Daniel Mietchen Problem description to be completed
no policy on bots and scripts 3 draft one document all your bot and script runs; bots using non-PWB scripts must operate with categories that allow for undo Forum thread Daniel Mietchen Problem description to be completed
No coherent guidance on Citations, References, and Bibliographies on CZ, and content overlap with External links 3 Solutions Trials Talk Page / Forum thread on merging Bibliography and External Links subpages Dan Nessett, Daniel Mietchen Problem description to be completed
Special:Upload allows too few file types and too small maximal file size 3 change it no demo needed Forum thread Daniel Mietchen Problem description is complete
Further information not linked from bottom of page 2 changing {{Subpages}} a demo demo2 Forum thread John Stephenson, Daniel Mietchen Problem description to be completed
Printable version contains unneeded material (frame,links) 2 change layout and content Peter Schmitt

Done

Problem Priority Solution Possible trial solution Comments Contact person Status
Confusing message on Lemma pages 1 change wording on Lemma pages only Forum thread Daniel Mietchen Solved