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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.
- Collect Articles which can be posted online (and get written permission if necessary)
- Add individual articles to website.
- Cross link related articles.
- Add pictures to articles
- Add sound and other media to articles.
- Categorizing all articles for easy browsing and organization.
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.

NEWS - Investigate setting up RSS Sikhism news feed on Main Page. You can't use javascript or standard HTML so this would have to be done somehow on the backend.
SPEED & PERFORMANCE - Setup and test various caching methods. [1]
DATA BACKUP - Setup automated system for doing daily backups of the MySQL database and all web files (through FTP?).
DOMAIN NAME Admin/Registrant - Transfer SikhiWiki domains to SikhNet godaddy account (and change registrant). So legally domain is under the SikhNet organization.
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"
WEBSITE SKIN - Move the current customized "Monobook" theme to unique named theme "SikhiWiki" so that when upgrades are done that it does not get overwritten.
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.

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

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