Projects

Guidelines

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

• current NDC project 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.
• Create a List of Members Certified in Leadership in Action to be added to the Leadership in Action page
  • Add members from Certified Brothers to the list
  • Add a note on their individual bio page about this accomplishment
• 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
  • Current eboards can be found on each Chapter's portal, ex: phisigmapi.org/AlphaBeta
  • Add a Chapter template box to the bottom of each page
• Years project adds important happenings to a wiki page for each year
• Council chronology project: To reference and correct current discrepancies in our records of National Council members
• List of Honorary Members

On going tasks

• Featured Content project To find pages we can use on the front page featured content section
• Wanted Pages, create pages and research content for current 'wanted pages'
• 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
• Create Category Pages for any not yet made from this list Special:Categories (except Sample Members and Sample Chapter)
  • 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;
  • Membership Development
  • Ways to Recruit, Getting the Word Out
• Templates todo

Programming Specific tasks

• Embedable Video Extension for video from YouTube channel
• Embed Audio Player Extension for songs
• Set up spell checking bot, auto link creating bot (assuming these exist, here is a starting point [1])

Completed tasks

• Update List of Chapter assignments by Region Consultant for 2011-12
• Added portal links to Chapter pages
• Chapter Alumni Project
• Chapter Awards Project
• Chapter Redirect project
• add National Development Committee to all current committee member bios under national involvement
• Council biographies project: To create biographical pages for all National Council members past and present
• History Timeline project To move details from the interactive history timeline to the various wiki pages
• Initiate Classes project: To add initiate class sub pages to each chapter page
• Initiate Class Pages Project, create pages for each chapter listing members by initiate class
• Council Succession box project: To add succession infoboxes to the bio pages of past Council Members
• Individual Regional Conference pages project: To create and fill in with data each Regional Conference pages
• Sortable Tables project: To make table data sortable where useful
• Campus buildings project: To create one page documenting all of the campus recognitions, notably building dedications, of Brothers.
• Add new region categories on chapter pages
  • Complete: Added new region names and categories for all chapters.
  • TODO: For historical purposes should probably create pages including the old regions and their chapters.
• Succession boxes for Convention and Grand Chapter
• Wiki data recovery
• Greek Letters project: To change greek letters using Symbol font to unicode