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


== Outreach ==
== Outreach ==

Revision as of 18:20, 14 August 2011

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 501c(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

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

Other