AquaticDatabase:Development

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This is the AquaticDatabase Development Guide. If you know how to contribute, but are wondering where your contribution is needed, you have come to the right place. This article presents an outline of our goals for AquaticDatabase and how you can help build the database in an organized way. For a more general overview of using AquaticDatabase visit the welcome page.

To learn how to edit articles, visit the editing help page

For a list of general guidelines for contributors read our list of guidelines

To offer an idea to enhance AquaticDatabase visit the proposals page

Contents 1 Stages of Development 1.1 Stage 1 (Conversion and Infrastructure) 1.2 Stage 2 (Invite users to participate) 1.3 Stage 3 (Sit back and watch) 2 Projects in Progress 3 More Ways to Contribute

Stages of Development

Stage 1 (Conversion and Infrastructure)

• Transfer Jake's existing data to MediaWiki format on this site
• Create article templates and start pages
• Create development guidelines (this page)
  • AquaticDatabase:Welcome, newcomers - Explanation to new users of what to do with this site
  • AquaticDatabase:List of guidelines - Guidelines for editing
  • AquaticDatabase:Proposals - Page where users can make proposals and come to consensus
    • AquaticDatabase:Proposals, accepted - Proposals that have been discussed and accepted, move here
    • AquaticDatabase:Proposals, rejected - Proposals that have been discussed and rejected, move here
    • AquaticDatabase:Requested articles - Proposals for articles to be created
  • AquaticDatabase:Structure standards - Specific guides for structure of pages
  • AquaticDatabase:FAQ - Page for Jake to write answers to questions when he is frustrated about having to answer them so often.
  • AquaticDatabase:About - Page describing AquaticDatabase.com and its goals
• Create a small number of interlinked articles or stubs that will be interesting for new users to browse and contribute to.
• Create commonly used editing templates and populate articles with examples of their use
  • Template:Main
  • Template:Merge
  • Template:Stub
  • Template:Delete

Stage 2 (Invite users to participate)

During this stage, new users will actively be sought so that the wiki can take on a life of its own.

• Announcement to WMAS
• Start a article announcement thread on utahreefs.com/forum
• Announce on reefcentral
• Frantically revise AquaticDatabase:List of guidelines

Stage 3 (Sit back and watch)

• Select several users upon which to bestow admin rights
• Fight spam and vandalism
• Enjoy watching the users grow the site

Projects in Progress

Beginners Guides

This project will be something like Beginners Guide to Aquariums or ...to Saltwater Aquariums or ...to Reef Keeping or maybe each one. Not sure how to organize it. See entry on the proposals page

Livestock Classification

A comprehensive list of aquatic organisms and their classifications.

More Ways to Contribute

• Review the needs picture list. Upload a picture and apply it. Remember to remove the {{pic}} tag after adding a picture.
• Review the needs work list. Do some research and expand the page.
• Review the list of orphaned pages. These are articles that have no links leading to them. Choose an orphaned page, and adopt it by linking to it from other articles.
• Review the list of uncategorized pages. Find a category for one of these pages to fit into.
• Review the list of broken links. These are links to articles that don't exist. Click on one of the links and write an article.
• Visit requested articles and write an article