CZ:Priorities

This page is meant to help us define what to concentrate on. Please edit as you see fit. For comments, please use this Forum thread.

Financial

• reactivate donation button
• paying the monthly bills of USD 319.90
• finding stable source of revenue
• thinking of ways to reduce costs

Legal

• getting registered as a non-profit organization, e.g. as per 501(c)(3)

Community

• Facilitate registration

This could include experiments with short periods of self-registration or even anonymous editing, provided that the tools to fight spam are beefed up (e.g. by using Flagged Revisions or by giving most regulars sysop powers)

• Facilitate newcomer integration
• Reconsider community events like CZ:Write-a-thon and how participation could be increased
• Reconsider communication channels (especially forums, email)

Content

• Request external peer review of developed articles
• Establish content partnerships
• Ban pseudoscience topics at least temporarily, to avoid them serving as time sinks
• Get rid of articles listed in Category:External Articles

Technical

• Get an overview of what technical components contribute how much to our costs
• Reconsider what should be listed in http://en.citizendium.org/robots.txt
• Consider enabling InstantCommons

Outreach

• Allow some easy feedback
• Develop outreach strategy
• Explore outreach channels, including social media and offline

Bureaucracy

• Link all policy from relevant passages in the Charter