Wikipedia talk:Task Center/Archive 1

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Video Wikipedia talk:Task Center/Archive 1

Good idea

This seems like a good idea. I'll look it over more closely and may add to it in the morning. --FloNight 06:40, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

It's a great idea. I've said for a couple of years that we needed something to replace the never-used (ok, seldom used) Requested Articles, but I've been lazy. This is a great idea because it opens the umbrella wide and makes our "work" fully representative. I'm thrilled with this idea, if people use it. (Folks will need an "I'm on it" line under each request so that everyone knows the other workers in the field to contact to cooperate and so folks don't butt heads over a task.) Geogre 12:11, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

• Okay. Put me down under category/template work, patrol of several maintenance categories, translation jobs and guideline/policy matters. >Radiant< 15:48, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

This is absolutely brilliant. Snoutwood (talk) 18:16, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

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Scope

The idea is to have this as a self-help guide for newbies (and others), and a direction finder, not as a bulleting board for specific tasks that need to be done (we already have many of those). It's "some people are plumbers, plumbers repair plumbing, plumbers need wrenches, to find a plumber, look in...", not "plumber needed".

Maybe the title doesn't have the correct connotations. Any ideas for a better name? Zocky | picture popups 17:42, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

To use an obvious example, this is supposed to be a much upgraded version of the left column of Wikipedia:Community Portal#To do lists. Zocky | picture popups 18:56, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

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job question

should i be posting jobs that are general, like wikifying? or should i be posting jobs that are more specific, like adding inline citations to a certain article? JoeSmack ^Talk(p-review!) 16:32, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

As I say above, general, not specific. Zocky | picture popups 17:44, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Any way that 'edit' can be inserted for each area, as opposed to having to bring up the source for the whole page? JoeSmack ^Talk(p-review!) 17:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I think it will requeire puting every box on a subpage. Alternatively, we could remove the subtitles from the boxes and put them above. Zocky | picture popups 18:56, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've decided to go for simplicity - the individual boxes are no longer subsections, so they don't appear in the TOC, but you can edit a section with 2-3 boxes instead of the whole page. Zocky | picture popups 19:50, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

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How to go about it?

Ideally, everybody would describe a job they like doing or are at least familiar with, but it won't happen until this becomes at least somewhat useful, so visitors come by. We should therefore start by finding pages about the jobs we know about and copying the appropriate text and supplying the links. Zocky | picture popups 19:00, 7 October 2006 (UTC) As an alternative, we could spam various process pages that we know about and ask the editors there to help with theirs. Zocky | picture popups 19:56, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

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Old wikiquest list

I has a similar list made up at User:Rayc/Wikiquest, only it took more of an RPG angle on it. Feel free to use.--Rayc 20:58, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh, that's a brilliant collection. I also love the "benefit to wikipedia" bit. Perhaps we should add that to this template? Zocky | picture popups 23:02, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

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Resolving Conflicts

I have spent some time doing RFC (well, a few days), and i was going to write a description for that job. However, there isn't a place to put it. Its not writing, it's not patrolling, and it's not gnoming. I am going to be bold and include a new category.--Connor K. 21:39, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh, of course, feel free to add and regroup categories as needed. Zocky | picture popups 21:43, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

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Setting the tone

Ideally, this will become a useful page for newcomers to look over and find out how to help. I suggest that we avoid inside jokes, references to fighting, battles etc., for WP:BEANS reasons, if nothing else. Zocky | picture popups 23:05, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Here's an example: The current description of the new article patrol talks only about deletion of spam and such. A more appropriate angle would, IMO, be to talk about reviewing new additions to Wikipedia for encyclopedic value. In short, I think we should use language that a potentially useful contributor will find interesting, but that a vandal will find boring. Zocky | picture popups 23:15, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

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A few ideas

I can't figure out how to include these, so I'm saying it here:

• Portal Patrol - We've got lots of portals out there, and many of them would love to have information on what new articles are out there about their subjects, and what articles have recently been improved. Newcomers would be good at this sort of thing, as it basically consists of reading articles.
• Reference Recovery (I love alliteration, don't you?) - Reading articles and determining which don't have references, or enough references, and marking them accordingly. Another thing that can be done relatively easily by newcomers.

Badbilltucker 17:37, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

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Rename?

I know, I know, I'm nitpicky -- but honestly, these things have always caught my eye (I can't help it!). All I was thinking of is renaming the page to lowercase the "c", if that's acceptable. (I can't help but mention that secretly I want to rename the page to Wikipedia:Unemployment centre). Snoutwood (talk) 18:21, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Lowercase 'c' is fine by me. Also, i'm wondering if a redirect from Wikipedia:Unemployment centre would be objectionable (meh, i'm 'thinkin why not'?) JoeSmack ^Talk(p-review!) 18:27, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

I've done the rename... hope that's O.K. Snoutwood (talk) 07:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

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Category and template work?

Should category and template work be on here somewhere? Well, maybe not template work, as I don't understand template codes either... But category work would be nice to see here somewhere. I've often thought of writing something about each of the areas I've worked in, just to consolidate my thoughts on those areas. But I think what I'm thinking of is more like the Wikiquest page mentioned above. Anyway, this looks like a nice clear way of introducing people to different areas of Wikipedia work. I've always found the Community Portal list of things to do terribly long. It would take years to work through the different areas mentioned there. Is this intended to be broader? If so, we probably don't want to mention individual wikiprojects, but rather just explain the idea and link to a list. Carcharoth 20:31, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

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WP:BORED

There already some stuff listed at Wikipedia:The Cure for WikiBoredom. Maybe some of it can be used here too... benzband (talk) 12:35, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

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