User:Go for it!/Wikigoals



  Monday, 29 July







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 [ purge]  This page is for my Wikipedia-related goals and tasks. Drafts and various works-in-progress can be found in my workshop.



Find the Nuvola 600 (I can't seem to locate more than 35 or so), with verification of their license-status
''If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would certainly appreciate it. I've already checked the creator's web-site, and if they are (all) there, I must be blind.'' - found it, done

Round 4 of Main Page Draft changes

 * Move picture of the day to top of column - Done
 * Fix picture of the day width - This may have to be fixed on the POTD end
 * Recruit some help - help has arrived! Hopefully we'll figure it out.
 * Contact the POTD people - left messages in 3 places
 * Reduce white space - Done
 * Make columns match (at end)
 * Recruit help - 'called upon User:Infinity0 and User:Cyberjunkie
 * Read up on AJAX integration -- Took a look: it's beyond the scope of this project
 * Home page customization??? -- 'Impractical at this time: task cancelled''
 * Remove "purge" button from final version
 * See French Main Page for icons and color - Took a look.  This is similar to our Portal:Browse and would push our Main Page portal-like format (the articles) down the page too far to be seen without scrolling.  I think the navbar with links to the Browse Triumvirate is a better approach.  The "Browse Triumvirate" = Portal:Browse Browse and Browse by overview.


 * Fixed-height boxes -- Cancelled this task due to quality issue: blatant cut-off undesirable
 * Set boxes up so that articles run off, with a leader to the full article -- Cancelled this task due to quality issue: blatant cut-off undesirable
 * Pull picture of the day in independently of the template, like the featured article box --Tried this, but the border is included in every picture page


 * Add donations link to the mainpage browsebar, or somewhere - Done
 * Add the searchbox back in

General tasks

 * Implement round corners on: - Done
 * goals page - Done
 * talk page - Done
 * the Browse Triumvirate: - Done
 * Browse - Done
 * Portal:Browse - Done
 * Browse by overview - Done

Round 5 of Main Page Draft Change Requests

 * Add margin left of heading text - Done
 * Change heading colors - no more pink! - Done
 * Too bright/bland for some people. Tone the brightness down? - Done
 * Add spacing under headings - Done
 * Extend heading bars to the width of the boxes - Done
 * Check out User:Cyberjunkie/AWNB - Done
 * Change cyan, and border colors - Done
 * Unbury the page header elements (pull in source from browsebar) - Done
 * Ask for help updating the In the news and second feature templates daily - Done
 * Add second search box - Done - thanks to User:Kmf164
 * User:Kmf164/Main_page_draft - Done
 * Test the search box - Done - It doesn't work, it's offset
 * Fix search box, and test - Done - it works!
 * Make new templates for lang and wikimedia, so we can reformat those - Done
 * Hook them into the draft - Done
 * Add icons to the headings - Done
 * check out User:Kmf164/Main page draft for icon treatment - Done
 * find Nuvola style icons - requested help - done, got pointed to 200+ of them
 * Better linkage to community portal - Done
 * Look at community portals on English and Italian WP - Done
 * Create a community box above languages and wikimedia? - ''Done' - others can spruce it up
 * Better linkage to the Refdesk WP:RD - Done (in community box)
 * Better linkage to Helpdesk WP:HD - Done (in community box)
 * Add languages to the sidebar - Done


 * More drastic change - rounded corners, perhaps - 'Done - added to Draft 5, for immediate feedback''
 * Fix cell spacing on the outer edges of columns - Done - thanks to Infinity0

--- Switched to pen and notepad task list for awhile:

Round 5 Main Page redesign

 * Feedback session - write intro/instructions - done
 * Declare open-editing session, write intro/instructions - done

Took break during feedback session - Overhauled the Help page

 * Revamped help page - done
 * Gathered links from community portal, link dump, etc. -- done
 * Integrated links (page grew a bit too huge) -- done
 * Gathered and inserted icons -- done
 * Went brain dead - asked for help with icons. Lots of people joined in. -- done

Create Help Project

 * Set up page done
 * Start discussions on talk page - done
 * Request help on site-map initiative - done

Prepare Round 6, Main Page Redesign Project

 * Clear instructions on where to place votes -
 * Header -
 * Voting section -- "Place your vote in this section" -
 * Footer in comments -- "Do not post below this line. Votes go in Voting section above."
 * Study permanent links

Look at these:
Independant drafts:
 * User:Violetriga/inprogress - done
 * User:Drumguy8800/Main page draft - done
 * User:Kmf164/Main page draft - done
 * User:David Levy/Main2 - done
 * User:Ashibaka/Main (just revamped) - done
 * WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page/Draft (Italian_Inspired) - done

Other language Main Pages:
 * Dutch main page - done
 * Hebrew main page - done
 * Italian main page - done
 * Spanish main page (left column) - done

Prepare Draft 6 - rough list

 * Featured article and picture on left, news and on this day on right - Done
 * Merge the FAQ and Ask page - Done
 * Remove:
 * Search box - done
 * Heading icons - done
 * Loud colors - done
 * Round corners - done
 * languages on left - done
 * Finish setting up the Health Portal -- done
 * minimize the number of templates feeding into the draft -- done

Help coordinate Round 6 voting session

 * Set up multi-draft poll - done
 * Wrote intro, instructions, and set up voting section - done
 * Transferred voting and poll sections to subpages when it got unweildy - done

Round 6 Open-editing session

 * Wrote intro and instructions for the collaboration - done
 * Non-stop edit-war (exhausting) - done
 * Conclusion: the draft/election approach of upgrading pages should be used as a last resort only, limited to the Main Page only, and only because of the threat of vandalism to Wikipedia's front door
 * Reached point-of-diminishing returns - took another break...

Main Page alternates project

 * Start Main Page alternate page - done
 * Clean-up Main Page article space - done
 * Find existing Main Page alternates - done
 * Copy runners up from Main Page redesign to MP alternate project - done
 * Create a couple more Main Page alternates - done
 * Main Page alternate (italian-style) - done
 * Main Page alternate (blue boy) - done
 * Add to browsing seciton of Help Page - done

Upgraded Community Portal

 * Added and templatized Community Bulletin Board - done
 * Added and templatized New Featured Content - done
 * Templatized Current Collaborations - done
 * Streamlined help sections - done
 * Rewrote intro - done
 * Built custom TOC - done
 * Reformatted page layout and color scheme - done

Help page redesign --> creation of Help menu

 * Convert help page into help menu with submenus (subpages) - done
 * Create help site map to display all subpages on one page for those who like to scroll - done

Start Tip of the day project

 * Set launch date for 60 days (April 20) - done
 * Write at least a tip per day, for each of those 60 days - in process
 * Sprinkled links around to attract contributors (not to many during formative stage) - done
 * Created userbox for contributors - done
 * Prepared template - done
 * Prepared tip queue - done
 * Prepared project instructions and procedures - done

Prepared for Main Page transition

 * Coordinated integration of two pic of the day splinter projects (POTD column and POTD row) into the main pic of the day project. Archives combined. - done
 * Stocked up pics of the day one month in advance - done and undone see subcomment below...
 * Since it was not done in accordance with department policy (sprinkled thoughout discussion on various pages), the whole thing needs to be done over, though the new pic pages can be reused, so the time spent wasn't wasted. Rescheduled further down this page
 * Integrated pic of the day splinter projects (See Picture of the day/March 2006 - done
 * Arranged for the Pic of the day one-month safety buffer to be maintained - approved

User page clean-up and fine-tuning
- done

Back to scheduling here:

Main Page redesign draft beta-testing

 * Check all skins - done

Further refine Community Portal

 * Find out how colspan and rowspan work - done
 * Clean up code - done
 * Add Signpost template - ''done'
 * Integrate Collaborations sections - done

Main Page Redesign Project / Election

 * Proofread, improved election instructions; reformatted voting sections - done
 * Monitor election and update election returns daily - done, concensus resulted in static announcement.
 * Conclusion: the purpose of the election seems to have turned into a vehicle for grandstanding, rather than merely upgrading the main page. Far too much effort was put into the project for the results obtained.  A more efficient method would be to refine the main page element-by-element, using its talk page to reach consensus on each element.
 * Further conclusion: due to the inefficiency of its approach, and the potential for power struggles over its management and the writing of announcements and instructions, the redesign draft project should never have been implemented.

Pic of the day project

 * Expand archiving page and process to support 5 versions (up from the previous 3) - done
 * Stock pics for all five versions for all of March - done
 * Not as easy as it looks
 * Build (fill) the prestock buffer to one-month

Tip of the day project

 * Write a tip a day - ongoing, see talk page for Tip of the day previews
 * Write project instructions - done
 * Set up project's scheduling queue for tips - done
 * Set up projects's templates - done
 * Find icon for templates - done
 * Design project's userboxes - done
 * Place templates and post announcements - done
 * Create theme groups section, and add to instructions - done
 * Collect tip ideas by participating in Help desk, Newcomers help page, and Village pump (technical). - ongoing

Refine Help Menu System

 * Install standardized header on all help menu subpages - done
 * Integrate Questions page into the help system for optimized exposure and accessibility. - done
 * Add "noinclude" tag for header so it isn't duplicated a dozen or so times on the help site map - done
 * Centralize help menu discussion by redirecting all subpage discussion pages to the help menu's talk page - done
 * Add all help submenus to watchlist - done

Help Desk Department

 * Answer and ask questions to get a feel for the department, and to gather tips for the Tip of the day department - ongoing
 * Rewrite instructions, rework header layout - done
 * Try to reroute Reference Desk traffic more effectively, to minimize those questions being posted on the Help Desk - done
 * Remove all instances of "this is not the right place for your question" and similar statements from policy and reply templates (it's not a friendly manner or approach) - done
 * Place emphasis on helping question askers and friendly manner - Revise policy concerning the handling of knowledge questions to try to answer them anyways in addition to referring them to the Reference Desk" - done
 * Rewrite Refdesk answer template to be more helpful/friendly - done
 * Adapt icon menu from Reference Desk and install in header - done
 * Though couldn't get search box to work, so had to remove it - done

Newcomers help page

 * Rewrite header/instructions (streamline & simplify) - done
 * Add volunteer instructions subpage - done

Questions page

 * Reroute links from pointing to Desks, to pointing to Questions - ''about half done', no longer relevant due to expanded header on the Help Desk.
 * Adapt icon menu from Help Desk - done

Reference Desk

 * Expand header to include Help Desk, Newcomers help page, Village Pump (technical) - done
 * Linkify icons in new menu items - done

Linkify new icons on the other questions menus

 * Questions page - done
 * Help desk -

Design Special Project

 * Design main structure - done
 * Determine subpage contents, write subpage outlines - done

Complete the Community Portal transformation

 * Create new menu - done
 * Replace current menu with new icon bar - done
 * Move menu draft to subpage of Community Portal and change inclusion link - done
 * Add outer border, remove inner borders - done
 * Convert bottom section into department directory - done
 * Complete the department directory

Main Page Redesign wrap-up

 * Contact a Bureaucrat (Raul654) to interpret the poll results and post the redesign to its new home. - done
 * Place old Main Page on Main Page alternates - somebody else did this already

Build the Special Project

 * Write/design page -
 * Write/design subpage 1 -
 * Write/design subpage 2 -
 * Write/design subpage 3 -
 * Write/design subpage 4 -
 * Write/design subpage 5 -
 * Write/design subpage 6 -
 * Write/design subpage 7 -
 * Write/design subpage 8 -
 * Write/design subpage 9 -

Further improve the navigation system(s) of Wikipedia

 * Find a better way to find unincluded lists for the almanac and the list of lists pages
 * Find a faster way to place the catbar on category pages
 * Integrate the main page into the main space navigation system, and improve the main page in general.
 * Create a better navigation system for the Wikipedia namespace.
 * Specialized navbar
 * Better topic lists
 * Rewrite key pages

Improve the Health, Nutrition, and Life Extension coverage of Wikipedia

 * Contribute content to Health, Nutrition, and Life Extension
 * Create a navigation system for Health, Nutrition, and Life Extension
 * Create/start comprehensive topic lists
 * Create basic topic lists
 * Create one or more portals, once there is enough content to warrant such