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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 | Date filed | Status |
No established relationship with external organizations | 5 | Potential partners | Trial Partnership | Talk Page | Dan Nessett, Howard Berkowitz | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description missing |
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 | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description missing |
WP credit often vanishes | 4 | include in Metadata | Peter Schmitt | 20:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC) | |||
no policy on installing extensions | 4 | draft one | ask Greg | Forum thread | Daniel Mietchen | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description missing |
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 | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description missing |
Obtrusive requests to edit subpages | 3 | restrict to logged-in users, if possible | Peter Schmitt | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description missing | ||
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 | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description missing |
Technical approval mechanics: Can it be simplified? | 3 | Can branches of the revision control be used? | Peter Schmitt | 20:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC) | Is copy and paste indeed the best method? | ||
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 | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description missing |
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 | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description missing |
Special:Upload allows too few file types | 3 | change it | no demo needed | Forum thread | Daniel Mietchen | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description complete |
No easy way to compare current approved with current draft version | 2 | extend diff (if possible) | workaround Only if approved version has not been changed independently!: (0) Add &diff=cur to the url of the approved revision of the draft. If that is too complicated, you can get there in the following three steps too: (1) Go to an approved article's Approval subpage, (2) Follow the link to the latest approved version, (3) The "diff" link after "Current revision" gives you the difference, and its content will update automatically when new edits to the draft have been made | Current possibility: Paste approved version into draft, use "view changes" //Has to be included into {{Approval}} by adding &diff=cur to the url of the approved revision of the draft, along with a brief statement that this is the difference. |
Peter Schmitt | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description missing |
Further information not linked from bottom of page | 2 | changing {{Subpages}} | a demo demo2 | Forum thread | John Stephenson, Daniel Mietchen | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description missing |
Printable version contains unneeded material (frame,links) | 2 | change layout and content | Peter Schmitt | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description missing | ||
The title of subpages is displayed with an " > ", which is an unnecessary burden for copy/pasting page titles while editing | 1 | Change it to "/" in the MediaWiki settings | none | Comments or Forum thread | Daniel Mietchen | 11:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC) or before | Problem description complete |
Problem | Priority | Solution | demo/ trial/ workaround | Comments or Forum thread | contact person | replace with five tildes | Problem description missing |
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 | |