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This '''Projects''' page is a listing of items wiki users would like to see completed. This is a public effort meaning anyone who has free time can take on a project, or a part of a project, and help us complete it. The goal is to continue to grow the wiki as a valuable resource for the fraternity.
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== Guidelines ==
 
== Guidelines ==
 
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Each project has its own wiki page explaining the project needs as well as a break down of parts that you can sign out to complete. Please feel free to add projects as you see fit and join in tackling some of the projects as a participant.  As projects are completed and reviewed please remove them from the Open Tasks section below.  Everyone is welcome and encouraged to help.  If you have questions click the discussion tab and leave a note so that we can help get you involved.
Please feel free to add projects as you see fit and join in tackling some of the projects as a participant.  As projects are completed and reviewed please remove them from the Open Tasks section below.  Everyone is welcome and encouraged to help.  If you have questions click the discussion tab and leave a note so that we can help get you involved.
 
  
 
== Open tasks ==
 
== Open tasks ==
 
===Defined Tasks===
 
===Defined Tasks===
* '''<font color="red">current NDC project</font>''' [[Chapter In the News project]] is adding news articles from Google Alerts that mention a Chapter to their wiki page. The articles are already aggregated on the wiki under the In the News section so they just need to be cross referenced on the Chapter's page.
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* [[Chapter Presidents project]] is an attempt to add all current Presidents to each Chapter page
* Create a List of Members Certified in Leadership in Action to be added to the [[Leadership in Action]] page
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* Create Regional Conference pages for:
** Add members from [http://phisigmapi.org/Inspire/CertifiedBrothers/tabid/4948/Default.aspx Certified Brothers] to the list
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** [[Great Plains Region Conference]]
** Add a note on their individual bio page about this accomplishment
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** [[Pacific Coast Region Conference]]
* [[Chapter History Preservation project]] is an attempt to help complete Chapter wiki pages by finding Chapter history/information from various resources and adding it as well as reaching out to Chapters and working with them to update their own content
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** [[Philadelphia Metropolitan Region Conference]]
** Current eboards can be found on each Chapter's portal, ex: phisigmapi.org/AlphaBeta
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** [[Upper Midwest Region Conference]]
** Add a Chapter template box to the bottom of each page
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** [[West Region Conference]]
* [[Years project]] adds important happenings to a wiki page for each year
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* [[Distinguished Service Key Project]] is an attempt to help complete the list of Brothers receiving [[Distinguished Service Keys|DSKs]].
* [[Council chronology project]]: To reference and correct current discrepancies in our records of National Council members
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* [[Chapter Service Key Project]] is an attempt to add recipients of the [[CSK]] to each Chapter's page, via the Chapter infobox template at the bottom of their page
* [[List of Honorary Members]]
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* Add Council Motions links to each Empowered National Council page, currently completed for 30th to 49th
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* [[Buildings Named After Brothers Biography Project]] is an attempt to build biography pages for Brothers who have known campus buildings named in their honor
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* [[Chapter History Preservation project]] is an attempt to help complete Chapter wiki pages
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* [[Council chronology project]] is an attempt to reference and correct current discrepancies in our records of National Council members
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* [[List of Honorary Members project]]
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* Improve the content around the creation/early years of the Council… we know more than this: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.phisigmapi.org%2Fpspwiki%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DNational_Council&h=oAQGG1te9
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* Finish researching National Convention locations over the years via looking at old P&G’s/Minutes in the National Archives for: http://wiki.phisigmapi.org/pspwiki/index.php?title=National_Conventions
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* Gather pictures and bios of all past National Officers… there are still many images that we could fill rather easily
  
 
===On going tasks===
 
===On going tasks===
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* [[Years project]] adds important happenings to a wiki page for each year
 
* [[Featured Content project]] To find pages we can use on the front page featured content section
 
* [[Featured Content project]] To find pages we can use on the front page featured content section
 
* [[Special:Wantedpages|Wanted Pages]], create pages and research content for current 'wanted pages'
 
* [[Special:Wantedpages|Wanted Pages]], create pages and research content for current 'wanted pages'
 
* [[Stubs]]: To complete partial pages labeled as stub
 
* [[Stubs]]: To complete partial pages labeled as stub
* [[Name Changes project]]: To create redirects for any commonly used or maiden names for brothers to their official biographical page
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* [[Name Changes project]] creates redirects for any commonly used or maiden names for brothers to their official biographical page
* Create Category Pages for any not yet made from this list [[Special:Categories]] (except Sample Members and Sample Chapter)
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* [[Category Pages project]]
** Directions: On the category page linked above any red links are categories that are added to the bottom of an article but don't yet have an aggregate category page. Simply click the link and create/edit the page. Please add an intro sentence explaining what type of pages use this category tag and save the page.
 
 
* Resource Guides content updates;
 
* Resource Guides content updates;
 
** [[Membership Development]]
 
** [[Membership Development]]
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===Programming Specific tasks===
 
===Programming Specific tasks===
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideo Embedable Video Extension] for video from YouTube channel
 
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Player Embed Audio Player Extension] for songs
 
 
* Set up spell checking bot, auto link creating bot (assuming these exist, here is a starting point [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Status#Active_bots])
 
* Set up spell checking bot, auto link creating bot (assuming these exist, here is a starting point [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Status#Active_bots])
 
  
 
== Completed tasks==
 
== Completed tasks==
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* [[Move User Page Biographies to Bio Pages]]
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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideo Embedable Video Extension] for video from YouTube channel
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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Player Embed Audio Player Extension] for songs
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* spam blocking
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** add captcha to user registration, see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam
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* Create Regional Conference pages for:
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** [[Buckeye Region Conference]]
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**[[Central Pennsylvania Region Conference]]
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**[[Dominion Region Conference]]
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** [[Western Pennsylvania Region Conference]]
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* [[List of Members Certified in Leadership in Action project]] will track certified Brothers
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*  [[Chapter In the News project]] is adding news articles that mention a Chapter to their wiki page
 
* Update [[List of Chapter assignments by Region Consultant]] for 2011-12
 
* Update [[List of Chapter assignments by Region Consultant]] for 2011-12
 
* Added portal links to Chapter pages
 
* Added portal links to Chapter pages

Latest revision as of 12:39, 23 June 2015

This Projects page is a listing of items wiki users would like to see completed. This is a public effort meaning anyone who has free time can take on a project, or a part of a project, and help us complete it. The goal is to continue to grow the wiki as a valuable resource for the fraternity.

Guidelines

Each project has its own wiki page explaining the project needs as well as a break down of parts that you can sign out to complete. Please feel free to add projects as you see fit and join in tackling some of the projects as a participant. As projects are completed and reviewed please remove them from the Open Tasks section below. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to help. If you have questions click the discussion tab and leave a note so that we can help get you involved.

Open tasks

Defined Tasks

On going tasks

Programming Specific tasks

  • Set up spell checking bot, auto link creating bot (assuming these exist, here is a starting point [1])

Completed tasks