To Do

There's always a lot of work to be done on the wiki.

Special Pages

• Wanted Pages are pages that people have linked to, but haven't written about yet. You could write about some topics that people want to know more about!

• Orphaned Pages are pages that people wrote about in the past, but are no longer linked to. There could be a couple of reasons for this.
  • First, a link may have just been accidentally removed. Check the pages orphaned pages link to, and see if they link back.
  • The orphaned page might also be an error of some sort, such as a misspelling. You should make sure the real page has all the information on the orphan page, and then redirect it to the real page.

• Dead-End Pages are short pages that have no links leading away from them. They most likely do have terms in them that can be turned into links, but just haven't yet.

• Old Pages could probably use updated information.

• Short Pages are empty or nearly-empty pages.
  • If the page was emptied because it was a duplicate, you should check their histories to see if all their information is covered elsewhere, and then delete the page.
  • If it is not a duplicate, treat it like a Wanted Page and write something for it.

Consistency and Formatting

Ideally, we should use some general consistency and formatting rules across the wiki.

• Making Stub Templates will also help ensure that similar pages have a similar look.
  • Member pages should follow a common template.
  • Officer pages should follow a common template.
  • Pledge Class pages now have a similar look. Replace shoddy html coding with wiki mark-up.
  • Awards pages should follow a common template.
  • Inside Jokes and Fun Facts should follow a common template.
  • (Any other templates you can think of?)
• After these are standardized into stub templates, we can throw up stubs for all the wanted pages.
• For a list of existing stub templates, see Stubs.
• Use the following standard for articles to refer to offices and awards received in a term, ordered from most recent to oldest:
  • Fall 2007 (Jadel): Angela J Cheng and Tim Chen
  • Note that the names are listed alphabetically by first name.

Leadership Portal

• Re-do the format of the following pages to have follow the proper format for officers as shown above:
  • Pledge Role Model
  • Webmaster

Content

General

• Create a substantive article for any wanted pages on the following portal pages:
  • Portal:Leadership
    • Update Active Leadership Workshop
    • Create an Iota Phi Leadership Resource Clearinghouse to collect workshops outlines, PowerPoint presentations, and descriptions of activities used to build leadership skills.
  • Portal:Friendship
    • Create an Event Report for every listed fellowship
    • Write a substantive article about each fellowship
    • Update Pledge Retreat page
    • Create page about Interchapter Penpals
    • Seek out which IC events are done annually, and create a page for each of them.
  • Portal:Service
    • Create substantive article for Santa 4 Kids (seek out its history)
    • Create a page describing each of the 4 C's, with examples of each
    • Create page for How to Chair a Service Project
    • Create a page for each organization Iota Phi does service with, and list associated service projects. Include time of year and which of the four C's the project traditionally fulfills.
  • Portal:Fraternity
    • Update Types of Members pages
    • Update Loose Family
    • Update Tight Family
    • Update Torch and Trefoil
    • Update Xpressions
    • Add a link to each namesake's pledge class challenge.
    • Add national awards to Awards page
• Create an article for new users so they know to re-direct their User profiles and talk pages to the article about them and its talk page. May want to explain how to use Infoboxes and picture thumbnails.
• Create pages about different Pledge Retreat camp sites, with pictures.

Chew Term

• Create a page for every Chew Class pledge
• Update each PlexComm officer page with Chew Class officers
• Update each Chew class officer's personal page to list them as an officers
• Update the Chew Class page to include their PlexComm
• Update all chair pages with Chew Term's chairs
• Update individuals' pages to list them as chairs/ExComm officers
• Note all program changes on the Chew Class page
  • e.g. Unofficial name change to Pledge Guardian, cap on pledge retreat (130 allowed vs. the usual 180), minutes are now approved by the president, alumni secretaries' changes, etc.

If any article you see is low on content, add more information!