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Transition stuff
The OpenCongress team is in the process of building this wiki and importing the Congresspedia wiki on SourceWatch. Contact Conor Kenny via email to get it touch.
Pages requiring post-import cleanups
Because all pages that exist on Congresspedia (they have the "{{congresspedia}}" tag) over-write any pages here. Content-wise, this is good, but there's a few nuts-and-bolts pages that have to be reverted back to their old version, including:
Cleanup these categories:
- Category:Communications, Science and Intellectual Property Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Culture Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Economic Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Education Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Elections and Government Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Food and Agriculture Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Health Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Infrastructure and Transportation Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Labor, Immigration and Retirement Policy (U.S.)
- Category:National Security and Foreign Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Rights, Liberties and Courts Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Science and Technology Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Social Policy (U.S.)
- Category:Telecom, Media and Intellectual Property Policy (U.S.)
Headline content
Important pages
- Special:Properties
- Special:CreateProperty
- Special:Wanted pages
- Special:ListGroupRights - Wikipedia's position
- Template:Congressional district
- Project:RaceTracker
- Template:Racetracker
Example: Harry Reid dev page
Example: California congressional districts and candidates
Design work
- Page tools link in navbar goes to the bottom of each page.
- The page tools are labeled as page tools.
- Connect the light blue in the "wiki" tab to the wiki navbar.
- No wrapping text around the table of contents
- Reorder wiki navbar order to: Wiki Home - Community Portal - Participate! - About - Help - Random Page - Special Pages - Page Tools
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Current meta-SourceWatch/Congresspedia projects
- A proposal for a set of "ground rules" for SourceWatch
- A proposal for a standard referencing format
- SourceWatch:How to run a good working group - A guide for people using our new working groups.
- Example simple source.[1] [2]
Meta templates
- Template:From Wikipedia-Meta
- Template:Metadata
- Template:Wikipedia-Meta link
- Template:Ambox
- Template:Ambox/core
Schedules
Revamping Help pages
- Wikipedia's Help:Contents
Actions on SourceWatch/CP
Meta projects not started yet
Debating points on SourceWatch
Wikipedia has put a lot of thought into this and in general I'd like to move SourceWatch away from depending on case-by-case judgments from the sysops and managing editors. This should include a way of debating topics on SourceWatch.
- An example of debate on Wikipedia.
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Original research policies
- Wikipedia has a policy banning synthesis of sources to advance a point (WP:SYN) as part of its policy on no original research. We need to write a more complete policy on original research for SourceWatch and I think I have no problem with what is banned under WP:SYN. This should be looked at thoroughly, however.
Keeping track of changes
- Wikipedia's Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol
Headline feeds
- Drupal has a 255 character limit for RSS feeds?
Updating OpenTasks through the pearlebot
- See conversation with User:Beland on Wikipedia
- w:Wikipedia:Navigational templates
- w:Wikipedia:Embedded list
- w:Template:Navbox
- w:Category:Navigational templates
- w:Template:Otherarticles
- w:Wikipedia:Article series
- w:Wikipedia:Series templates
Opening up the policy-making process
Differences between Wikipedia and SourceWatch
Articles that need revamping:
Current research projects
Thoughts on design
One of the things I think about a lot is the design and display of SourceWatch and Congresspedia. If you like, you can see my notes on the matter and share some wisdom with me:
Useful shortcuts
- For orgs -> SourceWatch:For research and advocacy organizations
- Voting Record Resource Center -> Help:Congresspedia Voting Record Resource Center
Things I'm looking at that are cool
Thoughts on wikis and news
- "Most notably, wikis can transcend the short attention span and fragmented view of issues and events inherent in traditional story-format reporting. With a wiki, no topic ever really "scrolls off the home page." Wiki pages are forever active -- even if they lie fallow for long stretches of time. And interested people can continue to watch and edit these pages indefinitely."
- Amy Gahran, "Where Are the News Org Wikis?" Poynter Online, March 20, 2007.
Stuff of utility to me
- My scratchpad
- Conor Kenny/user greeting
- List of interns
- Conor Kenny/Monsanto
- User:Conor Kenny/Using del.icio.us with SourceWatch
Congress upcoming week news
These are other sources of upcoming-week-in-Congress news:
