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Contents 1 Short-term 1.1 Wikipedia article import and updates 1.2 User Interface 1.3 Categories 1.4 Spam 1.5 Images 1.6 Templates 2 Long term 2.1 Phase 1 2.2 Phase 2 2.3 Phase 3 3 See also

Short-term

Wikipedia article import and updates

• Cleanup and rewrite the recently introduced company articles from Wikipedia
  • download.wikimedia.org
  • See also this mailinglist message
• Add a "opentimes" or "open" field to the companybox-template service section (search-replace in all the DB).
  • Also replace the few instances where "hours" was used.

User Interface

• Make the Google map extension window resizable. See: leapbeyond.com
• Change the geo code extension syntax from:
  • 51.4977;-0.1423_type:bank, to:
  • 51.4977;-0.1423|type=bank
• Tweak CSS style: create rounded tabs
  • top-10 CSS sites
  • png example
  • monobook hack
• Improve (and experiment with) the Wikicompany logo (nice tools: Inkscape, Blender, The Gimp)
  • http://visual.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/TheArtOfDesigningaLogo
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand
  • http://www.soho-it-goes.com/resources/articles/logo-design-basics.html
  • http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Logo_contest
• Create user-preference option to not show remote images via the "imager" extension.
• Create user-preference option for alternative default "width" and "height" for use in the Google map extension.
• Put the comment section field of the Wikicompany:Imager extension through the wiki-text parser.

Categories

• Ponder the sector category labelling for: manufacturers for X, retailers for X, brokers for X, etc.
• Insert missing links to the stock exchange pages for mainly:
  • Irish stock exchange
  • London stock exchange
  • Also: move companies listed in OMX to their city specific stock exchange category.
• Non-english site creations (category structure synchronization)

Spam

• Evilbot detection, blocking and damage reversal methods.
• Setup spamassassin for the wikicompany mailinglist.

Images

• Logo image management issues:
  • Should the logo image link to the company's website, instead of the image-source?
• Try using an automated image-upload tool: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_upload_service/Script

Templates

• Split "Template:blog" for the regionbox template, to use feedmap

Long term

Phase 1

• Nearly all of the Wikipedia company articles have been imported in, and updated for, Wikicompany.
• The user-feedback about Wikicompany is overall positive.
• There is a small, but growing community of editors and readers.
• The look-and-feel (html/css/search/...) of Wikicompany is nice and consistent.
  • The search functionality is beginning to suck less than it did before.
• The first few official jobs offers are placed on Wikicompany.
• The policy documentation is evolving through consensus, but remains simple and fair.
• Some WikiSysops are appointed to help with vandalism-blocking and deletion requests.

Phase 2

• We start adding company profiles for smaller companies, which aren't of encyclopedic interest.
• We start with the first inter-wiki sites.

Phase 3

• ...

See also

• Fix Wikicompany:Bugs
• Check Wikicompany:Ideas

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