'''Tasks to be done by people interested in gnoming on this wiki'''. Please feel free to add your own. 

--> Larry and Donal, since you have been gnoming here for years (many many thanks by the way) and since you are the experts, please help us establish this list

Traditional role

   1. Correct misspellings (is there a spelling mistake on the word mispelling? :-))

   1. Remove spam text from pages. If page has nothing left, leave one blank

   1. Restore pages that have been replaced by spam or nonsense

   1. Add or modify category pages

   1. Add category references to pages without a category

   1. Modify category references when they are mispelled, or not the correct wording (alas, some of the categories are singular, some are plural, and some have had names chosen that are not so obvious)

   1. Fix broken formatting and links

   1. At least one Wiki Gnome would like to see URL references like http://wiki.tcl.tk/1234567890 (that is, use of the page number) or http://mini.net/whatever/the/url/is/to/these/pages turned into [[''symbolic'' references]]. That makes it easier for someone who might have some alternate need for the data from the wiki to find the reference.

   1. Correct outdated information (in other words update information)

   1. Start a new ''Ask, and it shall be given'' page. Update the info on all previous versions (post your question at: ...) . 

   1. Move questions and answers from the Ask page onto the appropriate page, after a few weeks have gone by. '''Appropriate''' means a page where the topic would typically be sought. If it is a question about a particular Tcl command, that might be the best spot. If it is a question about a Tcl extension, perhaps that's the best spot. If it is a question about the Wiki, then find a page there. The original intent, when I created the first of these pages, was that there would never need to be more than one of them... [LV]

Non-traditional tasks

   1. Okay, this is something that I ([LV]) have found fun to do (yes, fun... okay, so I'm weird. Nothing new about that... move along.) Grab the wikit file itself, extract the pages, and work on determining a) which pages do not have a category reference (there are over 3000 of these!), and b) which pages have no reference to them (there are at least 380 of these during mid March, 2007 which legitimately might deserve a reference somewhere). The first category are easy enough to fix - edit the page, and give it a category. We have tons to choose from, and if the page is unique, then creating a new category is relatively simple. The second category is for the '''orphan''' pages - in many cases, it is probably a page that is blank, either by accident, or by a misplaced square brace. In some cases, however, someone's contributed data but it never was referenced by any other page (or only was referenced on [New Pages] and someone decided to be ''helpful'' and delete older references). In those cases, it is
useful to add a reference in an appropriate place (or even to create an appropriate place), just so that people have a chance of finding the information.

New tasks

   1. Write a summary on the top of a page

   1. Divide a page into paragraphs and write in bold titles for paragraphs

   1. Start a discussion page when a page has become too illegible and summarize positions on the first page. 




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