Bhamwiki:Community portal

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.

To do list

Article suggestions

• Special:Wantedpages - proposed articles with the most red links to them.
• 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
• Andy Spinosi & Tim Spinosi
• Baby Doe's Matchless Mine
• Birmingham Batman
• Ramsay High School
• Jefferson County sewer construction scandal
• Leadership Birmingham
• Cliff Holman
• Larry Lemak
• Bessemer Academy
• Iron Age (newspaper)
• UAB Hospital

This week in history

• BhamWiki will be helping provide a "This week in Birmingham history" column for The Terminal. Your help in generating articles for the 365/6 days of the year is most appreciated.

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

• 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.