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Village pump pages are a sort of a global to-do list. Use these pages to list suggestions for specific actions to develop the wiki. Add things that you think would be a good idea but which you don't know enough to do / don't want to do right now. See Contribute for a more generic listing of ways in which you can help.
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Wanted pages 
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suggested format: page title, followed by notes'
- Cycling Resources from Cycling
- Hydro power from search results, linking to Sustainable hydropower
- Food San Francsico from San Francisco links (plus video)
- Water justice from Water
- Participatory budgeting UK news from Participatory budgeting UK, pl pb template
- Trees, woodland and forest global news 2007 to 2008, Trees, woodland and forest global news 2009, Trees, woodland and forest global news 2010, from Trees, woodland and forest global news
- Community Powerdown from Community Powerdown press releases
- Green New Deal Group eg from press release, via Towards Sustainable Economies UK
- Diary Food UK from Food UK
- Renewable energy UK, Renewable energy UK resources from Renewable energy, plus some content from Sustainable energy?
- Nuit Blanche and related local entries, link to Arts and culture
- Bike move from http://green.wikia.com/wiki/Bike_move and sources
- Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD) - Participatory Avenues based on Sustainability indicators#External links
- Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership report card 2007-08 from Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership, Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership
- Local and seasonal recipes - start or add some
- more wanted pages listed on specific topic pages listed within the Ideas Bank
Tasks Edit
relatively simple, easy short, tasks
- sort uk links on Reduce, reuse, repair & recycle UK into a more useful listing
- sort Transition towns East Midlands links into places (eg counties)
- sort Transition towns North West England links into places (eg counties)
- sort Transition towns East of England links into places (eg counties)
- Community involvement UK news 2006 and 2005, Community involvement UK news 2007 same style as Community involvement UK news 2008 (incl. template)
- clear out unwanted links from Camp for Climate Action 2006
- set up category:Low carbon communities as a subcategory of Category:Low carbon future, with further subcategory category:Low carbon communities UK
- check all Local and seasonal recipes pages have Template:End Menu2IB end menu
- improve Teleconferencing with issues and impacts content from wikipedia:Videoconferencing
- Visioning, improve using text from nearest WP article (link in article)
- Participatory budgeting UK pilots, etc info from Communities and Local Government, September 16
Comment box wanted Edit
using Template:Commbox
Topic box wanted Edit
When categories have 3 or more articles - examples at Climate change, Food (top rh box)
- Regeneration, include also in Category:New Start editorials
- Water
Review links Edit
- Biochar W
Projects Edit
may take more time
- set up template:Cycling USA from template:Cycling with extra US city links, etc
- use Template:Pwe and Template:twe throughout eg on Transition towns pages
- internal links to Housing
- more Farmers' market and Farmers' market USA links to w:c:green:Category:Farm Markets
- ideas bank by place articles redesigned as London links
- Local Sustainability Ideas Bank UK based on Local Sustainability Ideas Bank, perhaps with wanted pages included? which could then act as a model or template for future ideas bank by place articles?
- once a topic has a resources page consider moving external links to that page. Eg Food UK resources?
- consider if topic boxes should be included on all articles in a topic's category?
- use templates eg template:top1, (2 & 3) for all topic boxes
- consider setting up Personal options menu (for top of pages)
- pages that link to Sport, Arts & Culture: change links to Sport or Arts and culture, and once all changed delete forked article (History is in Arts and culture)
- redesign portal to be more like Places, projects and networks - topics on lh with images to the left, more concise 'how you can help' type box for the right. Then set up templates like template:Po which can use in all section portals, and use images in layout as on Places, projects and networks
- consider if Water should be in Category:Environmental wellbeing
- Ecovillages from wikipedia:List of ecovillages to place articles, example Ecovillages Australia
- 'Why it matters' sections (or introductions) for articles - succinct summaries needed for many articles
Wish list Edit
What you'd like to see, though not sure of the best way to get these as yet
- UK local links - more signposting to existing networks
- repeating ideas/links/references in all topics/articles if highly relevant
- Action Ideas - more links to other sources of ideas, including general sources on or via category page
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