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Task and To-dos for Building SikhiWiki

SikhiWiki is just being developed and we need your help to actually brainstorm and organizing the website. Feel free to add to this list or just comment. Click on the "Edit" or "Edit this page" at the top to give your input. Please also add your signature (if you are registered) by clicking on the "signature" button above the edit box so that as people add comments we know who is who. --gmustuk 10:45, 25 Feb 2005

Content & Editorial

• CATEGORIES - Ideas needed for coming up with a Hierarchy of Categories for organizing the topics. Some people will do searches...but we want to have a browseable category list (with subcategories) so that people can go through the articles without having something specific in mind.
• CONTENT - We need people who can help in a variety of ways. There is a lot of work to be done to get the base of the website started.

We would like to encourage you to come participate and be a part of SikhiWiki. There are many ways that you can contribute. Here are a few:

• • Collect/write articles which can be posted online (and get written permission if necessary) - This can be articles from the current time (not necessarily from the Guru's time). History is happening now and every day!
  • Add individual articles to website - If you already have articles you can add them to SikhiWiki.
  • Cross link related articles - Most of the articles will have words that relate to other articles. We want to create cross links so that when reading you can read related information. (See the article on Harmandir Sahib as an example. )
  • Add pictures to articles - Do you have a collection of pictures? You could go through and add pictures that relate to existing articles.
  • Add sound and other media to articles - You can upload Gurbani mp3 clips, lectures or other related multi media.
  • Categorizing all articles for easy browsing and organization - Every article should be assigned a category so that they can be organized. You can help categorize them.
  • Beautify/Format the articles - You can help make the pages look beautiful, by formatting the articles.
  • Add article and pictures about the meaning of "Ardas". Download 11MB compressed word document | uncompressed word document

• CONTENT RESOURCE - Different sources which we can use to get starting content for the website.
  • The Sikh Religion - Volume 1 - by Max Arthur MacAuliffe.
• MODERATORS - Find and setup list of individuals that are committed to this project and willing to spend time adding content and reviewing content that others add.

System Related

• Finish customizing these pages: Boilerplate_request_for_permission AND SikhiWiki:Copyrights
• CSS Underline link problem - The default seems to have changed - underline links. I figured out that when you are not logged in the underline on navigator links is not there. When you login it default "underline links" (in "Preferences" - "Misc Settings"). We should have it default to "no underline"
• CATEGORY SELECTION - In order to facilitate the organization of the articles we should provide a drop down list of categories that people can select. So if they create a new article they can easily select one or more categories for that article. Otherwise most people will not put a category..or it will require someone else to categorize it at a later time.

• SIKHIWIKI LINK IMAGES - Create a set of SikhiWiki images and HTML which can be downloaded and used on other Sikh Websites. Also be able to do a search.

HELP

Do you Have Questions or Need Help getting started? Email SikhiWiki

We are currently working on 6,358 articles.

WikiPakistan

I am the founder of WikiPakistan (http://pakistan.wikicities.com/) and also help here when there is something I can do. I just added some text to http://pakistan.wikicities.com/wiki/Minorities . Please take a look--and feel free to add/edit/correct/etc.

—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 01:59, 5 Oct 2005 (Central Daylight Time)