Bhamwiki:Community portal
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Some open projects worth consideration:
Important community pages
- Bhamwiki Talk:Messageboard - general discussion about the project.
- Bhamwiki:Policy - the foundation of any organization.
- Bhamwiki:References - useful references for research.
- Bhamwiki:Style - a few notes on stylistic precedent.
- Bhamwiki:Categories - some notes on categorizing and subcategorizing.
- Bhamwiki:Templates - a list of commonly used templates.
- Bhamwiki:Milestones - a timeline of the site's growth and recognitions.
To do list
Article suggestions
General needs
- See also: Special:Wantedpages for unwritten articles with the most red links to them.
- Birmingham City Schools, Jefferson County schools, etc. (with articles for each school, stubs if need be)
- Articles on all former Birmingham City Council members and everyone listed in Mayor of Birmingham
- List of Railroads operating in the Birmingham District
- Articles for each entry in the List of Birmingham neighborhoods
- Big portal/survey-type articles for major events which had an impact on the area such as World War II, the Great Depression, Works Progress Administration, Labor movement, etc
- Walker v. City of Birmingham and other Supreme Court cases involving local issues
People
- Buddy Anderson
- George Barber
- Liesa Cole
- Thornton Dial
- Jonathan Dunning
- Jim Fyffe
- Joe Gelders
- Andy Kennedy, UAB player (disambiguate from Father Andrew Kennedy of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church)
- Martin Luther King, Jr
- Ed May
- Andy Spinosi & Tim Spinosi
- O. V. Hunt
- Odessa Woolfolk
- "Birmingham's Freedom Sisters" (Geraldine Bell, Leila Butler, Minnie Gaston, Mildred Johnson, Savannah Jones, Helen Shores Lee, Lucinda Roby)
- Barett Jones, Trent Richardson
Places
- Brookwood Medical Center
- North Birmingham
- Falling Rock Falls
- Valleydale Road
- UAB Hospital, Veterans Administration Medical Center
- Bessemer Academy
- Norfolk Southern-Irondale Yard
- SoHo Square
- Brookwood Medical Center
- Peavine Falls
- Hillbilly Mall and The Oaks (Tuskegee)
- Vanderbilt Furnace, Vanderbilt Road
- Sumiton
- Shannon Landfill
Organizations
- Bessemer Police Department
- NWA Mid-America
- Leadership Birmingham
- Tekneek
- Presbyterian Church in America
- Bruno Event Team
- Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Russell Athletic ([1])
- Region 2020
- WVOK-AM
- DeBardeleben Coal and Iron Company
- St Mary's on-the-Highlands Episcopal Church
Long-term projects
Maps
- Generate aesthetically pleasing non-copyrighted maps for various topics (See 6th Congressional District of Alabama and Vestavia Hills for examples)
- Possibly develop Google Earth layers for certain categories or lists (homicides, meat and threes, wallace rayfield buildings...).
Timelines
- Articles for each calendar day have been created (Thanks, Wheresdib!). Let's keep expanding them with important dates from new articles.
- Begin creating articles for decades and years with links to specific topics (See 1901, 2005, etc.)
Portals
- Bhamwiki:Sustainability is online. It has some aesthetic problems to be worked out.
- Eventually, I'd like to see subject-specific portals for BhamWiki, consisting of an introductory page with links to main articles, categories, lists, etc. These would be called Bhamwiki:Architecture, Bhamwiki:Arts, Bhamwiki:History, Bhamwiki:Music, Bhamwiki:Sports, etc.
- There could also be regional portals, such as Bhamwiki:Bessemer or Bhamwiki:Shelby County.