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| [[Image:Lsanger02sm.jpg|left|]] Hi there! Larry Sanger here. I'm the Editor-in-Chief of the ''[[Citizendium]].'' I am also currently, and temporarily, serving as Chair of the [[CZ:Editorial Council|Editorial Council]]. If you have a question, I'll try to answer, but you might want to try the [http://smf.citizendium.org/ Forums] first if I don't answer instantly. I'm happy to report that I'm extremely busy! You can join my shameful backlog of e-mail at sanger <at> citizendium <dot> org. | | {{AccountNotLive}} |
| | [[Image:Lsanger02sm.jpg|left|]] Hi there! Larry Sanger here. My [[CZ:Charter|official]] title is now Founding Editor-in-Chief of the ''[[Citizendium]].'' I started this thing, but I'm no longer in any official leadership capacity. I'm happy to be able to report that the project now enjoys an existence independent of me, per my own previously-announced intentions back in 2006. My best wishes go with this very worthy project! |
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| You can read more about me at [http://www.Larrysanger.org my personal home page.] I have a Ph.D. in [[Philosophy]] from Ohio State and a passion for [[Irish traditional music]]. I was born in the [[Seattle]] area and grew up in [[Anchorage, Alaska]]. | | I'm happy to report that I'm extremely busy! You can add to my shameful backlog of e-mail at larry <at> sanger.io. |
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| I do not claim any sort of editorship other than being Editor-in-Chief, I'm afraid, not even in philosophy or the Internet. I am too long out of doing any serious research. (Although this is changing!) | | You can read more about me at [http://www.larrysanger.org my personal home page and blog.] I have a Ph.D. in [[Philosophy]] from Ohio State and a passion for [[Irish traditional music]]. I was born in the [[Seattle]] area and grew up in [[Anchorage, Alaska]]. |
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| I've worked on many articles, but I wrote significant parts (or all) of: [[John Doherty (fiddler)]], [[philosophy]], [[Ship of Theseus problem]]. None are done yet! | | In 2008-10 I slowly ramped up my work on what became [http://www.watchknowlearn.org WatchKnowLearn.org,] a project to organize educational videos for PreK-12 education. I also posted a 140-page essay, free of charge, called ''[http://www.larrysanger.org/reading.html How and Why I Taught My Toddler to Read.]'' In October 2011 I launched [http://www.readingbear.org/ Reading Bear,] a free reading tutorial for children. I have since worked on a variety of Internet projects as founder and as consultant. As of 2020, I am a consultant at [https://sanger.io Sanger Consulting]. |
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| |Sat., Oct. 6: I've been working on a series of unexpected top-priority items that don't let me spend much time on the wiki--grant proposals with deadlines looming, for one thing. I sent out some invitations to join a new list, [http://mail.citizendium.org/mailman/listinfo/sharedknowing#more SharedKnowing,] but am deferring actually starting the discussion until I have a few more cycles and I've given more people a chance to arrive (78 subscribers and counting...I'll be doing some more promotion of the list before we start the discussion, later this month or next month).
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| My top short-term priorities, as reported to a group of Citizens: we're going to finish writing policy and instruction pages, and then we are going to do what I've called "the changing of the guard," meaning we are going to reshuffle our personnel, add new positions of responsibility as people are willing to take them on, and so forth. Also, switch to the latest version of MediaWiki, get the automated application approval system started, start on systematic recruitment--and finally do a press release. :-) Also at work on [[CZ:What's Your Article?|What's Your Article?]] and [[CZ:What's Your Message?|What's Your Message?]]
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| |Got a suggestion for me personally? I mean, you can use the [http://forum.citizendium.org Forums] to make any suggestion, but if there is some big sweeping change or project or idea that probably ain't gonna happen if I don't get behind it, please let me know at [[User talk:Larry Sanger/Suggestion Box|Suggestion Box]].
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| |colspan=2 align=center style="color:#FFFFF0; background:darkgreen"|<big>'''Sanger's Dashboard'''</big>
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| == New project planning ==
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| [[/Done|Done]]
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| * Finish grant proposal
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| * Transfer to automated application system
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| ** <s>Solicit testing from constables</s>
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| ** <s>Use contents of [[CZ:Register]] to enhance [[Special:RequestAccount]]</s>
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| ** <s>Make sure testing has gone well</s>
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| ** <s>Redirect [[CZ:Register]] to [[Special:RequestAccount]] (Sunday night?)</s>
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| ** <s>Redirect all links to [[CZ:Register]] to new page (Sunday night?)</s>
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| ** <s>Make posts about new system on all main CZ outlets (not a press release) incl. front page (Sunday night?)</s>
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| * Finish work on various policy and instructions pages:
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| ** Change links to "external" citizendium.org pages (which have been imported to the wiki).
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| ** Redirect links past [[CZ:Policy Outline]] and past [[CZ:Project Home]].
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| ** Gut [[CZ:Editor Policy]].
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| ** Write various community home pages. Particularly important are <s>[[CZ:Getting Started]] (most of all),</s> [[CZ:Technical Help]], and [[CZ:Content Policy]].
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| ** Write (or make sure is written [[CZ:The Constable Role]].
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| ** Attempt to wrangle a "Citizendium for Dummies"-type technical introduction--incl. subpages for dummies.
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| ** Redesign sidebar...again.
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| ** Rewrite [[Template:Awelcome]] and [[Template:Ewelcome]].
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| ** Revisit [[CZ:Home]] and community pages templates
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| * Write up some guidelines for editing policy documents: which details go in the document and which go on more specialized policy pages, who needs to be informed of changes, and that we should be linking to all (yes, all) policy pages from the Policy Outline
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| * Citizendium advocates' guidelines
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| ** Encourage authors and editors to become advocates and spread the word; feel proud
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| ** Part of the recruitment ramp-up effort
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| ** Button to put on blog: "I power the Citizendium"
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| Other stuff:
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| * Use wiki pages for public patron program
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| ** Write policy
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| ** Write mock-up pages
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| * Planning for the Big Invite
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| * See [[User talk:Larry Sanger/Approved in pagehist]]; discuss [http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,831.msg6349.html#msg6349 here.]
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| * Expand the Article Checklist (incl. AmE & BrE, and various other suggestions, including perhaps degree of importance)
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| * Ensure that "the recent unpleasantness" results in effective policy solutions
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| * [http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1185.0.html "Ramp up editor participation"]
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| * Add editor policy and relevant workgroup templates to all editor pages.
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| * [[CZ:Core Articles|Core Articles]] + [[CZ:What's Your Article?|What's Your Article?]] and [[CZ:What's Your Message?|What's Your Message?]]
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| * Think about how to make self-registration (again) work
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| * Public comments feature - MW plugin?
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| * Add an important distinction: pulling rank in order to resolve a dispute vs. pulling rank in order to win an argument. The former, only, is permitted. -- Add this to [[CZ:The Editor Role]] and [[CZ:Dispute Resolution]].
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| == Governance policymaking ==
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| * Follow up on talk page conflict problem proposals
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| ** Mediation
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| ** Judicial Board
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| ** Editorial oversight of authors
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| * Write policy affecting the Personnel Manager
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| * Write policy regarding "job listings"
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| * Craft Judicial Board policy
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| * Get feedback & confirmation of this policy from Editorial Council & Constabulary
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| * Finish drafting policy regarding entrance and exit from Constabulary (an element of sortition here?)
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| * Hammer out policy about how new Constabulary policy is created
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| * Discuss with the Council: open up Chair actions to all Council members?
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| * Start a general debate about sortition
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| * Pass a resolution about how to get new people on (and off) the Council; also, address the issue of term limits and total number of members; and about how to get authors on the Council
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| * Write Executive Committee rules into Policy Outline
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| * Write various Editor-in-Chief powers and constraints into rules
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| ** Veto power
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| ** Minor policymaking power (must be exercised before Council & Const.)
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| ** Ask Editorial Council and Constabulary to vet the rules about Editor-in-Chief powers and constraints
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| * Start a central "proposals" page?
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| * Hammer out author demotions policy--long anticipated, never acted on
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| * Technical Committee
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| * Procedure for adding workgroups, including breaking "Hobbies Workgroup" into a zillion subgroups
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| == Recruitment Step 1 ==
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| * Create "one-off" job board
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| * Request resignations from inactive members of Executive Committee, Constabulary, and Editorial Council
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| ** Follow up to nonreplies after a week (set reminder)
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| ** Actually remove people from various wiki lists and mailing lists
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| * Accomplish separation of powers
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| ** Compile list of people who serve on more than one group
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| ** Send mail to all of them asking them to choose which group they want to remain on
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| ** Follow up to nonreplies after a week (set reminder)
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| ** Make decisions for any laggards (set reminder)
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| ** Actually remove people from various wiki lists and mailing lists
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| * Do big management recruitment push
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| ** Create "job listings" page
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| ** E-mail lists when ready
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| * "Jobs" to list include (be sure to specify which positions are pending approval):
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| ** Chair of the Editorial Council
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| ** Constables (6-10 new recruits)
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| ** Executive Committee (6-10 new recruits)
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| ** Executive Committee Secretary
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| ** Editorial Personnel Administrators (8-12 new recruits)
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| ** Chair of the Editorial Personnel Committee
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| ** Judicial Board members (3)
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| ** Personnel Manager
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| ** Project Coordinators: annotated Web links; annotated (non-Web) bibliography; categories (subtopics, supertopics, related topics); catalogs (almanac-type information in tabular form; see e.g. [[catalog of religions]]); gallery/multimedia; expert (curated) articles with bylines; debate guide; news summary; tutorials
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| * Update [[CZ:Personnel]] with data about beginning and end of terms
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| * Follow up on old volunteer offers
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| == Recruitment Step 2 ==
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| * If possible, find a Personnel Manager first; work with this person to complete Step 2
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| * Begin matching jobs to persons when applications begin dropping off
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| * Work with current constables and Chief Constable to get new constables on board
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| * Do the sortition to get new editors and authors on board
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| * Select new Executive Committee members (from within set of general volunteers, and possibly others)
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| * If necessary, use Craigslist and/or other sites for recruitment
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| * Find new E.C. Chair
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| ** Solicit from within Council
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| ** If there are no replies (set reminder), solicit from outside Council
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| * Create coder wiki page, to include: desired projects; "bounties" (solicit donations for particular software projects--domystuff.com?)
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| * Assign authority to edit certain pages to certain specific individuals; track these assignments on [[CZ:Policy Outline]]
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| == Implementation ==
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| * The Big Subpage Move
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| * Son of the Big Delete (eeee!)
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| * Start the Big Invite
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| * Nominate new Editorial Council members
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| * Create new workgroups, finally
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| * Add rules about the Editorial Personnel Committee and its Chair
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| * Do "training" of new positions
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| * When finished, make self rank-and-file member of Council & remove self from Constabulary
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| * Establish Execute Committee meetings (conference call)
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| ** Settle upon technology
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| ** Settle upon time
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| ** Ask whether anyone will serve as Secretary
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| ** Set up new Executive Committee wiki page, containing reports/minutes
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| ** Decide whether to post these meeting reports to Citizendium-L
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| == Other Tasks ==
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| * Create Board of Advisors
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| ** Ask for nominations from Citizendium-L, Citizendium-Editors, Executive Committee, as well as the blog
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| ** Create criteria
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| ** Do further research into possible invitees
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| ** Make a master list of possible invitees
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| ** Approach each personally
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| * Follow up on eBay thing
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| * "Submit articles" button/address & process?
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| * Move discussion from workgroup forum boards to workgroup mailing lists?
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| * Follow up (write policy on and develop) "Cold Storage"
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| * Establish a method to raise neutrality issues (and other issues of failure on the part of the editor to follow CZ policy)
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| * Create a uniform dispute resolution mechanism, in the form of a vote on proposed issue.
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| * Other quality checklists?
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| * <s>Open up stubs?</s>
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| * Start up weekly focus days? -- New article day, edit someone else's article day...
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| * Put editor names on talk (or info) pages?
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| * Popovers
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| * A page for giving credit to "First Collaborators"
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| * Move discipline-oriented discussion to mailing lists, shut down workgroup forums??
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| * Ensure the Constabulary gets a policy about exiting members going
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| * "Pop culture" subpages
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| * Proof subpages
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| * A better way to get programming support
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| * Decide whether to use [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs Flagged Revisions]
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| * Review system (see exec mail of Oct. 10)
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| [[Category:CZ Editors|Sanger, Larry]]
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| [[Category:CZ Editorial Personnel Administrators|Sanger, Larry]]
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| [[Category:CZ Editorial Council Members|Sanger, Larry]]
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| [[Category:CZ Constables|Sanger, Larry]]
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| [[Category:CZ Authors|Sanger, Larry]] | | [[Category:CZ Authors|Sanger, Larry]] |
| [[Category:Philosophy Authors|Sanger, Larry]] | | [[Category:Philosophy Authors|Sanger, Larry]] |
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