User:Carcharoth/Reorganisation
- Preliminary reorganisation
- Do lots more content editing, from wikignome work to extensive writings and rewritings of articles.
- Be more focused in non-article namespaces (ie. see things through to a conclusion rather than just commenting and contributing to drift and endless cycles of discussion). If something ends up unresolved, don't just move on - make a note somewhere and come back to it later. Start a page of unfinished business and long-term projects that need attention every now and again.
- Balance time between different WikiProjects (eg. Midle-earth and Academic Journals and History of Science) and Wikimedia projects (eg. Commons and Wikisource).
- Allocate more time to organising (both myself and various projects).
- Find the time to write essays on certain key topics.
- Identify areas I have wanted to spend more time on and become active in those areas.
- Keep ongoing notes to keep things organised.
- Sort my watchlist and keep it tidy by using RecentChanges on subpages created from the watchlist.
- Subscribe to various mailing lists (definitely wiki-en-l and maybe others).
- Don't try and do too much. Aim to get the balance right between various areas.
More points to be added later, eventually to be integrated into the ongoing self-reorganisation. Try not to write lists of more than about 10 points. When a list gets that long, switch to doing work on one of the points on the list. Always try and leave a particular area tidy so that it is easy to come back to it later and do more work in that area (or for others to carry on the work). Carcharoth (talk) 04:01, 23 October 2008 (UTC) Originally posted on 9 August 2008.
- Progress
- Have set up a gmail account: carcharothwp
gmail.com (Note that I am not carcharothgmail.com) - Have subscribed to the wikien-l mailing list
