Tasks to be done by people interested in gnoming on this wiki. Please feel free to add your own tasks.
LV: Please note that these are not things that you should expect other people to take care of for you. The wiki is an interactive collaboration tool - please fix these types of things when you notice them!
Traditional role
Nontraditional tasks
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).
[sure wish I could have sublists under lists...] The first category is 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.
CMcC thinks that whomever's doing all the application pages ought to take a deep breath and be a bit more protective of the title namespace.
Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk -Software Development/IDEs- could as easily be called Software Development/IDE Applications. The 'in Tcl and Tcl/Tk' is completely redundant - if these applications are not in Tcl or Tcl/Tk they are noise and shouldn't be here. The '-' bracketing is just pointless.
The -Index- page idea is also (in my opinion) completely discredited. Please stop using it.
I intend to repair this damage wholesale. Look to the page detritus for a summary of what I think needs to be gone, soon.
LV: That naming was not created by one of the regular gnomes. And in fact, I would drop the Software Development from the titles... -wait, I think I already did when I created the IDE page.
LV There comes a time when an original page grows so large that it takes longer to load, and discussions, etc. can overshadow the original intended content. So I could see discussing a spin off page containing relevant branch information.
JM will reformatting pages be a valid wikignoming task?
I mean, not changing content neither deleting, just reformatting so it makes more sense on how the contributions are organized and to improve the sequence of information.
LV Note that the job of wikignome is one generally of self-nomination. However, personally, I will consider anyone who performs, or thinks about performing, any of the above as, at the very least, honorary wikignomes... Anyways, if you read over the page, what you will probably see taking shape is a set of chores being done by someone who loves keeping the wiki running smoothly. So I would say, to JM, that sure, reformatting pages is a valid wikignoming task. Why not?
LV 2007 June 19: I am starting a list of what I consider higher priority tasks that anyone wanting to do some wikignoming to consider. I won't be able to complete all these tasks - in fact, some of them I won't be able to start...