I’d like to invite you to sign up to help with the Big Cleanup.
This is actually very important. Let me explain why.
It’s another pass through our entire corpus, similar (in that way) to “The Big Speedydelete” (which, I’d like to report to this blog, was a resounding success). But this new initiative will be considerably more useful than “The Big Speedydelete.”
When I sat down last night to list off all the benefits of the Big Cleanup, I was surprised at how many there were. Here are some of the benefits: we assign all articles to workgroups; we divide our body of articles into five categories, namely, approved, developed, developing, stub, and “external”; we give Wikipedia credit where we’ve borrowed their content; our articles look considerably “cleaner”; and more. But the benefit of assigning all of our articles to workgroups is particularly consequential.
We really need your help. It turns out that we have something like 2500 pages to go though. This means we need casual contributors to do one or two sets, and regular contributors to do even more. We probably have 1500-2000 actual pages with content–and not quite 1200 “CZ Live” articles. (Another benefit is that we give ourselves credit for all of our “live” articles.)
Interested in helping? Here is what you’d be doing. First, you’d go to The Big Cleanup/Signup and volunteer for a set of articles (a dozen in a set). Then, for each article, you’d go through a “to do” list. Sometimes you won’t have to do anything; sometimes you’ll have to do a few things. In either case it doesn’t usually take longer than a minute or two per article. Next, you click on the article’s discussion tab. You paste in the blank checklist (a template) and fill it in. This won’t usually take more than a minute or two. Out pops a bunch of useful categories.
If you want to skip straight to the sign-up page, here it is.
By the way, this is also a great way to get acquainted with our content and the people who have worked on it.