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Wanted pages Edit

suggested format: page title, followed by notes'

• News Mongolia from Mongolia

• News Yorkshire and the Humber 2006 - 2009 from News Yorkshire and the Humber

• Sustainable energy global news 2006 - 2008, Sustainable energy global news 2009 from Sustainable energy global news

• News Scotland 2009 from News Scotland Philralph 19:26, December 28, 2011 (UTC)

• Big Society news 2010 from Big Society news

• Template:Localforum2007&8, Template:Localforum2009 from Template:Localforum

• News Bristol 2005 -2009 from News Bristol

• News North East England 2001 - 2009 from News North East England

• News Kent 2006 - 2009 from News Kent

• News North West England 2007 - 2009 from News North West England

• News South East England 2008 (also 2009, 2010 - separate articles) from News South East England Philralph 19:26, December 28, 2011 (UTC)

• News USA Jan-Jun 2009 from News USA

• News East of England 2008 from News East of England

• template news USA for inclusion on local USA news pages

Tasks Edit

relatively simple, easy short, tasks

• split news by topic on main News page into global and uk sections

• add catgeories (by year where applicable) to UK news pages
• Climate change global news 'quick links'

Commbox wanted

• London news 2008 Jan - Jun
• London news 2007 Jul - Dec

Bold for headings

• Spatial planning UK news Jul-Dec 2007, Spatial planning UK comment Jan-Jun 2007, Spatial planning UK news 2006 and end menu

• News Europe 2005 to 2007

• London news 2007 Jan - Jun
• London news 2006 and 2005

Projects Edit

may take more time

• set up condensed end menu for News UK, current year by month, other years - just link to start year, can then put year categories in different end year templates

• sort out Category:News eg separate (sub)category for New Start articles

• sort out categories for UK comment, etc

• Global news (sub) categories for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

• start collating News USA by topic eg Climate change USA, Sustainable energy USA

• redesign Articles with RSS feeds, more like News, separate by place and topic (and use where possible (helpso show why each included)

• Global News June 2008 and backwards redesign as current. Involves use of Template:GN, and categories for years eg 'Global News|2008' changes to 'Global News 2008|'

• News UK May 2007 and backwards redesign as current. Overlaps with changing sources into refs

• sort out end menu's for news, and how handle categories and links to country news

• Global news category pipework

• 'tagging' (Need to explain this more - but same sort of thing as done for most of News UK) old global news stories

• older news articles, changing headline sources into refs

• topic and place link pipework