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 (perhaps with some kind of "Verified account", e.g. as at Twitter, or an endorsement system similar to the one in use at arXiv) or even provisions for some forms of 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) and real-name requirements remain in place at least for Editors.

• 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