Bhamwiki:Community portal

Some open projects worth consideration:

Messageboard

• General discussion can be found at Bhamwiki Talk:Messageboard.

Announcements

• I've re-organized and slightly expanded the Bhamwiki:Copyrights page, mainly to give express permission for republishing BhamWiki content under Wikipedia's GFDL. --Dystopos 15:45, 29 January 2007 (PST)
  • I reworded the paragraph on contributing BhamWiki content to Wikipedia. If the meaning seems to have changed, that is because I mis-stated my intentions with the previous version. --Dystopos 18:01, 5 February 2007 (PST)
• I've clarified some of the Bhamwiki:Policy articles. The only change, if you can call it that, is that you are now bound by policy to be helpful. So far everyone has been very helpful. --Dystopos 18:52, 16 November 2006 (PST)
• I've created a Bhamwiki Talk:Messageboard for general discussion and chatter. --Dystopos 08:02, 31 October 2006 (PST)
• There is a small, almost useless, stub of a style guide at BhamWiki:Style. In most cases, anything intelligible goes and Wikipedia remains a model.
• A new category branch is under construction for Category:Works by year which will be the parent of the existing Category:Buildings by year and also handle articles about books, artworks, significant recordings and other notable creations.
• As of February 27, I have upgraded BhamWiki's general license to Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike version 3.0. The major changes are the addition of an express "moral right of integrity", and the adoption of a structure that would allow works to be modified and republished under compatible licenses. This article has more details. --Dystopos 11:06, 27 February 2007 (PST)
• I would like to start linking dates for births, deaths, and more or less significant historical events (i. e. the date of Michael Jordan's first home run, but not the date of every Barons game) so that someday we'll have an easy way to generate "on this date" articles. --Dystopos 10:04, 16 March 2007 (PDT)

Needed articles

• These are the Most wanted pages on BhamWiki., measured by the number of red links.
• Municipalities: Re: List of Municipalities in the Birmingham District (with articles for each, using census data)
• Birmingham City Schools, Jefferson County schools, etc. (with articles for each school, stubs if need be)
• Articles on all 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 Civil War, World War II, Works Progress Administration, Civil Rights movement, Labor movement, etc

Other needed articles (as I think of them)

• Gene Bartow
• The Station (nightclub)
• HealthSouth
• Baby Doe's Matchless Mine
• Birmingham Batman

Maps

• Generate aesthetically pleasing non-copyrighted maps for various topics
• Possibly develop Google Earth layers for certain categories or lists (homicides, meat and threes, wallace rayfield buildings...).

Timelines

• 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.

References

• Some useful web references have been collected on this page: Bhamwiki:References.