User:TheFearow/Adoption

This is a system of adoption I am working on, with various steps/branches/etc.

First Steps

 * 1) First Contributions
 * 2) Maintenance Tasks
 * 3) Vandal fighting
 * 4) CSD and Newpage patrol

Next Steps
After the first 4 steps, you have a choice of several paths. You may do as many as you want, but one at a time. These paths may take weeks or months.

Article Writing

 * 1) Your first stub
 * 2) Expanding
 * 3) DYK
 * 4) WikiProjects
 * 5) Sourcing and Referencing
 * 6) GAC
 * 7) Improving related articles
 * 8) Peer Review
 * 9) More information
 * 10) FAC - This is the finish. Once you get an article as a Featured Article, you are done with this path, and get a Barnstar.

Maintenance and Administration

 * 1) Your first AIV report
 * 2) Reporting to UAA
 * 3) Wikifying
 * 4) More CSD
 * 5) RFPP
 * 6) Maintenance WikiProject
 * 7) Helping out a user
 * 8) Perform an Open Task
 * 9) Vote in AFDs
 * 10) Your RfA - This is the finish. Once you have completed an RfA (either passed or failed) you have completed this path. If you failed, take the comments onboard, and try again in several months.

WikiLove

 * 1) Your first Smile
 * 2) Welcoming a user
 * 3) Responding to a help request
 * 4) Giving out a barnstar
 * 5) Thank a user for their contributions
 * 6) Make something for a user
 * 7) Helping out on the Reference Desk
 * 8) Nominating a user for a RfA
 * 9) Perform a Peer Review
 * 10) Earn a barnstar - This is the finish. Once you have done a heap of wikilove spreading, you should be given a barnstar. At this point, you are officialy a fantastic user!

Programming and Development

 * 1) Your first bot
 * 2) Another bot task
 * 3) Toolserver
 * 4) A simple MediaWiki Patch
 * 5) A PHP tool
 * 6) A bot using the Toolserver databases for data
 * 7) Fixing a MediaWiki Bug
 * 8) A basic user script
 * 9) An AJAX user script
 * 10) Joining the BAG - This is the finish. Once you have gone through a nomination to join the BAG, you have finished this path. If you failed, then listen the advice, and run again in a couple months.