CZ:Wishlist

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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.

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
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
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 to 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
Confusing message on Lemma pages 1 change wording on Lemma pages only Forum thread Daniel Mietchen Problem description to be completed