Wikipedia:WikiProject Mesoamerica/Strategy

Details of overall Project strategy —plan of action designed to achieve particular goal(s)— are to be defined here. This will consist of a number of tactical actions intended to work towards the primary aim: "to improve the content and coverage of articles relating to Mesoamerica". All participants and other interested parties are invited to assist with any of the tasks below, to expand them, or to suggest new ones.

Strategy- activities & subprojects
The sections below are intended to document and outline various activities, sub-projects and tasks for the Project —aka a few reminders of "here are some things you can do"— which are to be worked on, or are planned to be worked on.

These are broadly aligned towards the individual high-level aims specified on the Goals subpage, and are grouped according to which of these they most closely address.

General discussion and proposals for new activities can be directed to the corresponding talk page.

As these sub-projects and tasks further develop, there may be a need to create new workspaces (project subpages), these should be linked to in the 'links' column, and also added to the overall Project Navigation panel where appropriate.

(A1) Article to-do worklists
WP:MESO/A (overall view)
 * Status
 * ongoing
 * Tasks
 * general article improvements and running to-do logs
 * identify and add articles requiring some sort of work to the appropriate list/queue
 * ultimate goal would be to work these articles towards FA status, or as high a quality as possible
 * action (ie, edit) articles in the list, moving through the progressive phases if needs be
 * maintain the listings with the Top- and -High-priority articles, per WP:MESO/RATE.
 * Workspace(s)
 * WP:MESO/REQ- New & requested
 * WP:MESO/EXP- for expansion
 * WP:MESO/FIX- for attention
 * WP:MESO/IMP- for improvement
 * WP:MESO/REV- for QA review
 * WP:MESO/M - Review monitoring

(B1) To be defined

 * Status
 * not started
 * Tasks
 * describe here
 * Workspace(s)
 * links here

(C1) Category scheme development

 * Status
 * in progress
 * Tasks
 * develop hierarchy of Mesoamerica categories and sub-categories
 * hierarchy proposed to be based largely upon the top-level major themes identified at Scope subpg
 * The "overall" category Category:Mesoamerica should be reserved for only the most important and general articles, with other articles assigned to appropriate subcategories at lower levels of the hierarchy
 * In principle, it should be possible to navigate from Category:Mesoamerica to every in-scope Mesoamerica-related article via some series of sub-categories (articles can also of course be assigned to non-Mesoamerica specific categories as well)
 * Naming conventions to follow WP:NC and WP:NCCAT where sensible; any exceptions to be notified
 * Workspace(s)
 * WP:MESO/CAT

(C2) Category maintenance for articles

 * Status
 * ongoing
 * Tasks
 * Maintain/improve Mesoamerica-related categories and sub-categories
 * Add the Project's banner WP Mesoamerica with the class parameter set to NA and the cat parameter set to yes (ie:    ) to relevant categories' talk pages to flag as one concerned with this Project. This will automatically applyCategory:WikiProject Mesoamerica categories to the page.
 * Periodically refresh the category-tree dump at WP:MESO/CAT with an updated listing of currently-existing categories.
 * Note, that existing category scheme is to be eventually overhauled once activity [C2] below has worked out new category scheme proposal. Once this is done, the category scheme can be maintained per the proposed structure (to be documented).
 * Use the "Related changes" special view to track any category-related changes.
 * Compare current category names with WP:NCCAT and WP:NC naming conventions, identify any which may need to be renamed, deleted or merged. Propose these at WP:CFD, note the proposal at WP:MESO/M. For unsure cases, ask around for advice.
 * Periodically review the articles listed in these categories and confirm if appropriately categorised.
 * Workspace(s)
 * WP:MESO/CAT

(D1) To be defined

 * Status
 * not started
 * Tasks
 * describe here
 * Workspace(s)
 * links here

(E1) Project editing guidelines

 * Status
 * ongoing
 * identify need or suggestions for guidelines and conventions to help articles achieve a degree of consistency and standardised use of terminology (where applicable)
 * List identified/proposed standards on Project Guidelines subpage
 * Document particulars, examples, exceptions and ambiguous/unresolved points at the 'detailed' section there
 * Develop from these guidelines a Manual of Style (Mesoamerica-related articles) page which can be placed in Category:Wikipedia style guidelines and other relevant links.
 * Develop from these guidelines a Naming conventions (Mesoamerica) page which can be placed in Category:Wikipedia naming conventions and other relevant links.
 * Consider whether at least some of the guidelines need to be proposed and/or publicised at other or wider guideline pages (eg Related WikiProjects' guidelines, general editing conventions such as WP:NAME)
 * Review existing conventions/guidelines for applicability or specificity to WP:MESO scope
 * Workspace(s)
 * WP:MESO/G
 * Guidelines talk pg

(F1)- Resource compendium maintenance

 * Status
 * ongoing
 * Tasks
 * Build a set of centralised links and notes to tools, resources and references, which are likely to be of common use for the Project. These can be both internal (eg WP:TOOLS) or external (eg links to commonly-used references).
 * Add references and commonly-used citations to a list (eg pre-filled {cite} templates), which can be accessed and copied into articles using the reference as a cite.
 * Workspace(s)
 * WP:MESO/REF

(G1) Project workspace maintenance

 * Status
 * ongoing
 * Tasks
 * Maintain the overall Project structure and mainpage-subpage system
 * Keep links and information current, update related pages and texts to reflect changes made
 * Keep log of major design changes at version history
 * Announce major design changes at WP:MESO/N
 * Consider and respond to structure/design comments, requests, and problems
 * Test major changes in Draft mode first
 * Workspace(s)
 * WP:MESO/About
 * Category:WikiProject Mesoamerica subpages
 * Category:WikiProject Mesoamerica talkpages
 * Category:WikiProject Mesoamerica layouts
 * Category:WikiProject Mesoamerica templates

(G2) Related projects liaison

 * Status
 * Started
 * Tasks
 * Browse for other wikipedia projects, portals, collaborations etc which may have some relevance or degree of overlap with this Project's aims/scope. Add these to WP:MESO/REL.
 * Review these related projects etc for collaboration opportunities, useful information, links and ideas.
 * Notify these related projects etc about WP:MESO, inviting any cross-collaboration or coordination as/where appropriate.
 * "Related" can also be extended to similar efforts which may be defined in other language wikis- see for eg de:Portal:Mittelamerika, fr:Projet:Précolompédia, fr:Portail:Précolompédia
 * Workspace(s)
 * WP:MESO/REL
 * Category:WikiProjects
 * Category:Portals