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To Do

• Major content that needs to be added:
  • Info on other collaborators - Kerrin, Len Peralta, The Doifter, Molly
  • Shows stuff:
    • Info on older shows (setlists being the hardest to find)
    • Also, a real show template (infobox and everything)
    • Perhaps a way to link songs to what shows they were played at
  • Links to interviews (podcasts and otherwise) -- Mason's got a start on that
• From old to-do list (still unfinished stuff):
  • Deletion policy
  • Page on Creative Commons
  • A page to discuss songs
  • All the songs from "The Aftermath" -- could add links to JoCo-in-a-Bubble
  • Continue work on List of people mentioned in songs.
  • "Downloads" page? Getting the store links to work would be pretty cool, I have to say...
  • Some kind of automation expert. A lot of this stuff should be handled by bots...

--Bry 03:42, 18 April 2008 (EDT)

To Do (old)

Archived.

New Skin

What does everyone think? --Agent Lex 23:00, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, Lex but YUCK. --MitchO 23:03, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

April Fools joke is over. Glad you enjoyed it ;) --Agent Lex 12:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Time Zone

All due respect to our illustrious overlord, I mean protector ... but shouldn't the JoCo Wiki be on the same time zone as JoCo? I noticed that we appear to be on GMT. I would think the bulk of the users are going to be American. Sorry Lex, but it's true :) --MitchO 15:04, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

The wiki actually defaults to UTC, which happens to correspond to GMT. I'll see if I can change the time zone once I'm home from work. --Agent Lex 15:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

• ETA: Time zone has changed to EST/EDT, which should be reflected in the following signature: --Agent Lex 14:45, 3 April 2008 (EDT)
  • Lex, I think the time zone reset with the move: It's currently 9:15 PM EDT, and "This Day In JoCo" already says April 23rd. --MitchO 21:15, 22 April 2008 (EDT)

Community Stuff

Hi all! I'm Ceridwyn over on the main site/forums btw! Thought I'd sign up and offer my wiki-help where I can. I was a contributor on Uncyclopedia for a long time and wanted to suggest a couple community type things that might be useful/fun here. Feel free to tell me no way!

• Forums. I know we have forums already but wiki specific ones would help keep things on track and more focused, particularly if users sign up here but not on the main site it will make more sense to them
• Welcoming Committee. On Uncyc this is used to welcome new users who sign up on the site. All that is required is a welcome template and users who peruse the Recent Changes and spam the template basically. The template both offers a friendly welcome and points users to useful guides (wiki editting, etiquette etc) which can be the Wikipedia ones if needed as well as points them to things like the forums, irc channels etc. Could even be changed regularly to highlight the pages which are being particularly focussed on at the moment (the ones on the main page) - Although I see Bry is diligently (as ever!) doing this already!
• Proofreading Service. Admittedly, this is more a concern for a bigger wiki but it could still be useful. It would be a category or page (or both) where users can nominate a page that needs a once over for spelling, grammar, punctuation etc. Some of us are that way inclined but aren't as big on fact checking or content writing. It would give people like me a good way to help with the quality of the site. The way it works on Uncyc is a template is added to the page in question which automatically adds it to the category. Users who want to help spellchecking visit the category page as well as the main proofreading service page and can see what pages need help, as well as browsing via Recent Changes or Random Page. They fix it up, remove the template and slap a Been Proofread template on the page's discussion page. A simplified version would work just as well while the site is smaller :)

I'd like to offer my services where I can to help setup/maintain some of these suggestions too, obviously! I can also link examples from Uncyclopedia (and probably Wikipedia) if anyone would like to see how these work. Most of them have a page dedicated to them in the special wiki namespace like this, or this

Feel free as I said to tell me to poke my nose out! ;P Percephene 03:29, 23 April 2008 (EDT)

Hey Percephene, great ideas there! There's no need to be afraid to suggest things, since day one I've been wanting someone with proper wiki experience to contribute. In relation to each of your points:

• I think the forums can wait, I'm of the opinion that talk pages are fine for now. But we could one day have wiki-specific forums.
• The welcoming committee is a great idea, and I'll create a WikiProject page for it right away.
• This is another great idea, that might go to either a WikiProject page or a Project page. Feel free to create something along those lines, too.

This means I'll have to dig the Community Portal link back out onto the sidebar again soon, doesn't it? :P Anyway, thanks for the ideas and the help you've offered to put into them. --Lex (talk - contribs) 17:40, 23 April 2008 (EDT)