User:Conor Kenny/Stuff I'm working on

Transition stuff
The OpenCongress team is in the process of building this wiki and importing the Congresspedia wiki on SourceWatch. Contact Conor Kenny via [mailto:ckenny@sunlightfoundation.com email] to get it touch.

Pages requiring post-import cleanups
Because all pages that exist on Congresspedia (they have the " " tag) over-write any pages here. Content-wise, this is good, but there's a few nuts-and-bolts pages that have to be reverted back to their old version, including:


 * Template:Politician

Cleanup these categories:
 * Category:Communications, Science and Intellectual Property Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Culture Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Economic Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Education Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Elections and Government Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Food and Agriculture Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Health Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Infrastructure and Transportation Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Labor, Immigration and Retirement Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:National Security and Foreign Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Rights, Liberties and Courts Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Science and Technology Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Social Policy (U.S.)
 * Category:Telecom, Media and Intellectual Property Policy (U.S.)

Headline content

 * 111th United States Congress
 * Template:Member of Congress committee display

Important pages

 * Special:Properties
 * Special:CreateProperty
 * Special:Wanted pages
 * Special:ListGroupRights - Wikipedia's position
 * Template:Congressional district
 * Project:RaceTracker
 * Template:Racetracker


 * MediaWiki's Common.css

Example: Harry Reid dev page

Example: California congressional districts and candidates

Design work

 * Page tools link in navbar goes to the bottom of each page.
 * The page tools are labeled as page tools.
 * Connect the light blue in the "wiki" tab to the wiki navbar.
 * No wrapping text around the table of contents
 * Reorder wiki navbar order to: Wiki Home - Community Portal - Participate! - About - Help - Random Page - Special Pages - Page Tools

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Current meta-SourceWatch/Congresspedia projects

 * A proposal for a set of "ground rules" for SourceWatch
 * A proposal for a standard referencing format
 * SourceWatch:How to run a good working group - A guide for people using our new working groups.
 * Example simple source.

Meta templates

 * Template:From Wikipedia-Meta
 * Template:Metadata
 * Template:Wikipedia-Meta link
 * Template:Ambox
 * Template:Ambox/core

Schedules

 * Template:Member posts schedule

Revamping Help pages

 * Wikipedia's Help:Contents

Actions on SourceWatch/CP

 * Care2's action alerts

Debating points on SourceWatch
Wikipedia has put a lot of thought into this and in general I'd like to move SourceWatch away from depending on case-by-case judgments from the sysops and managing editors. This should include a way of debating topics on SourceWatch.
 * An example of debate on Wikipedia.

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Original research policies

 * Wikipedia has a policy banning synthesis of sources to advance a point (WP:SYN) as part of its policy on no original research. We need to write a more complete policy on original research for SourceWatch and I think I have no problem with what is banned under WP:SYN. This should be looked at thoroughly, however.

Keeping track of changes

 * Wikipedia's Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol

Headline feeds

 * Drupal has a 255 character limit for RSS feeds?

Updating OpenTasks through the pearlebot

 * See conversation with User:Beland on Wikipedia

Navigation templates and boxes

 * w:Wikipedia:Navigational templates
 * w:Wikipedia:Embedded list
 * w:Template:Navbox
 * w:Category:Navigational templates
 * w:Template:Otherarticles
 * w:Wikipedia:Article series
 * w:Wikipedia:List of article series
 * w:Wikipedia:Series templates

Opening up the policy-making process

 * w:Help:Modifying and creating policy

Differences between Wikipedia and SourceWatch
Articles that need revamping:
 * SourceWatch:How does SourceWatch relate to Wikipedia?
 * SourceWatch:FAQ

Current research projects

 * Alan Keyes and the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Inc.

Thoughts on design
One of the things I think about a lot is the design and display of SourceWatch and Congresspedia. If you like, you can see my notes on the matter and share some wisdom with me:
 * User:Conor Kenny/Thoughts on wiki design

Useful shortcuts

 * For orgs -> SourceWatch:For research and advocacy organizations
 * Voting Record Resource Center -> Help:Congresspedia Voting Record Resource Center

Things I'm looking at that are cool

 * Platial, map mash-ups made easy.
 * Blip.tv, a new video hosting site.

Thoughts on wikis and news

 * "Most notably, wikis can transcend the short attention span and fragmented view of issues and events inherent in traditional story-format reporting. With a wiki, no topic ever really "scrolls off the home page." Wiki pages are forever active -- even if they lie fallow for long stretches of time. And interested people can continue to watch and edit these pages indefinitely." - Amy Gahran, "Where Are the News Org Wikis?" Poynter Online, March 20, 2007.

Stuff of utility to me

 * My scratchpad
 * Conor Kenny/user greeting
 * List of interns
 * Conor Kenny/Monsanto
 * User:Conor Kenny/Using del.icio.us with SourceWatch

Congress upcoming week news
These are other sources of upcoming-week-in-Congress news:
 * [Project Vote Smart's blog