User:NGerda/Todo list

This is a list of work that should be accomplished on Wikinews, and is ordered roughly chronologically by how we, as a community, should work on each task. According to what a few Wikinewsies have said, we should attack each obstacle one at a time. Feel free to edit the list as you see fit.
 * 1) Redesign Main Page.
 * 2) Reorganize far-left navigation column.
 * 3) Resolve Portal namespace and Portal design issues (encourage local reporting). '''Please discuss at Water_cooler/technical
 * 4) Resolve Google News indexing issues (Stable version flagging).
 * 5) Revise decision-making process (Voting policy).
 * 6) Main Page (what belongs, what doesn't belong).
 * 7) Work on modifying WNN proposal to appease community's requests.
 * 8) Encourage more Investigative reporting.
 * 9) User-friendliness (we currently have high standards, possible "This just in" raw news box).
 * 10) Expand editor base (Contact college journalism departments, etc.).

Main Page design (not skin)
With regard to the work done so far by NGerda on this in progress redesign effort for the Main Page, what about moving the community links for Wikinews that are currently in the left column to the right column. Of course keep in the middle column for story space. Then make the left column for navigation targeted at "non-contributing" readership.

By that I perhaps mean, 'Regions' and 'Topics' go on the left. The right would be taken up by the community links like the 'Navigation' box, 'Start a new article' and 'Stories in development' boxes. -Edbrown05 05:51, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

The column logic behind this is: -Edbrown05 06:05, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) left column for general readership navigation --> topic/region box, search box, language box.
 * 2) middle column for story presentation
 * 3) right column (next to the scroll bar) for community navigation --> recent changes, 'Start article', 'Stories in development'
 * While I agree that this would be a good change, there is a technical problem with editing the left box. It is software based, meaning it is built in to the MediaWiki software that runs Wikinews and Wikipedia.  We would have to call a developer in, like Brion Vibber, Tim Starling, or Wrik Möler (Eloquence), to edit the software, which means we need community consensus before they proceed.  -- NGerda 02:30, August 29, 2005 (UTC)