Wikiwrimo:Scratchpad

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Articles to write and cleanup things to do. This used to be in Sushi's namespace, so this list may look familiar. Go ahead and write one yourself! If you see a red link somewhere in the wiki, be bold and create the article! Also, if you come up with an idea and don't have the means to create it yourself, whether for a specific article or a broad idea, add it to this list.

Some places that may be of help:

• The Guide
• The Help section
• FAQ

And now, on to the list.

Add to these lists

Check external links for these pages/lists and make sure they still work. Replace the ones that have moved to other places. (Note: it's fine to leave/move a page that just isn't active. The main purpose here is to make sure none of these pages have been abandoned and taken over for evil over creativity.)

• Not really an article, but a page on how to help Wikiwrimo grow. Not a checklist, but a document to show that no task is too small, even for the "But editing is a BIG TASK" folks.
• List of timed artistic challenges. Create full articles as notable non-NaNo challenges arise.
• List of writing software-- Add software to the list.
• List of writing mobile apps-- Create an article on useful mobile apps for noveling. DONE but no content on there yet.
• List of regional Facebook pages-- Add your region's page.
• List of regional Twitter accounts-- Add your region's account.
• List of regional websites-- Add your region's site.
• List of published authors who write quickly because I can't figure out how to make a page on the fly.
• Mascot -- there's a list of regional mascots at the bottom. Add yours! (The list may be moved to another page if it gets too big.)

Offseason cleanup

A few small changes are particular to the the fact that NaNo happens every year. A lot of these changes are wiki-wide, and fixing a few of these on just a few pages would be such a huge help. You have no idea.

• Checking and updating moderators. This used to be an annual thing for each forum, but now that moderators are global, we can just verify that all the mods are still the same.
• Checking and updating URLs that link to the NaNo site, especially since we've seen two big site redesigns (!) since this site was created. Replacing those that link to forums, pages, or popular threads. Thankfully user profiles appear to redirect, but checking those is also worth doing if they're linked.
• Changing tenses as appropriate when you see them. Things that refer to, say, 2010 may need to be referred to in the past tense, for example.
• Basically, look for out of date stuff and make it, well, not out of date!
• Go through Special:AncientPages. This page sorts articles by last edited, with articles edited a very long time ago showing up first. This page would probably make finding out of date articles significantly easier.
• Find links to OLL that should reference National Novel Writing Month (nonprofit). Fix. (By the way, National Novel Writing Month goes to the event page since that's what more people are looking for.)
• Remove the www in articles where nanowrimo.org is linked. This means the URL should read nanowrimo.org instead of www.nanowrimo.org.
• Add past moderators to the various Genre Lounges.
• Separate the participant icons and winner's icons by event into their own articles. Those pages are getting a little big.
• Categorize regions by the year in which they were created. This should be easier for newer regions, as many of these newer regions state the year of creation. Figure out how to deal with merges later.

Articles to write or complete

• Wikiwrimo:Manual of Style -- a manual of grammatical style for the wiki. Most of this can be covered by linking to an external grammar source, but we should outline some things that need to be consistent across the wiki.
• Region--complete an article on your region! Please! No one can write about every single region and their histories.
• Pretty much anything from Special:WantedPages except the template-y stuff that I can't get rid of. Argh.
• Add to an article marked as a stub in Category:Stubs
• Finish NaNoWriMo article. Should we move history to its own article?
• The past and present NaNo/OLL staff who don't already have articles. Check out Template:Ollstaff.
• Having articles on basic writing terms and how they relate to NaNo/Script Frenzy would be cool, too. See Basic writing terms for ideas that may not have their own pages. This was mentioned by a few people when crowdsourcing for ideas.
• Articles on some of the awesome Reference Desk/Character and Plot Realism threads and the stories behind them.
• NaNoWriMo in the News: populate this with all the news articles written about Nano, not just the ones the Nano in the news page on the Nano site shows.
• National Novel Writing Year
• Writing enemy
• Editing
• Update Wikiwrimo's History Article as needed.
• NaNoToons (and how about Debs and Errol?) (Yes!)
• Rich Black (designed 2012 nowd poster) (Now that Sushi thinks about it, it may be better to have a single page for all the designers and break them out only if they're repeat designers)
• Word Count Angel (Opposite of Word Count Dragon)
• Plantser - the middle ground between a pantser and a planner. Suggestion: combine pantser/planner/plantser into one article about levels of planning/non-planning.
• Any NaNo/SF/Camp NaNo related thing that doesn't have it's own article and wasn't mentioned above.
• Add WrimoRadio episodes and summaries to article (or a separate one if the list gets long). Sushi has all the episodes but they may still be listed on iTunes.
• NaNoWriMo website - all about the nanowrimo.org website
• Genre Lounge pages for the separate genres. Treat as a forum as well as a treatise on the genre, so include mods and history and the like.
• Block Ness Monster
• We Need Diverse Books and their association with NaNo
• Clean up NaNoWriMo sponsors to list the sponsors and the years they sponsored, not list every sponsor by year. This is especially useful for repeat sponsors.
• Create Camp NaNoWriMo sponsors. It's time. The main purpose of these sponsor articles would be to keep a list of sponsors.
• Give the sponsor forum articles their own page. Again, it's time.
• Split the Script Frenzy forum on the NaNo site to its own article.
• Dig up Script Frenzy and other NaNoWriMo statistics
• Find and post the 2003-2006 Pep Talks. Sushi thought she had them, but they're nowhere to be found.
• NaNoWriMo blog -- add/update recurring features and post series
• A Nanowrimo authors category for authors associated with Nano and notable authors who participate in Nano. Suggestions would be Marissa Meyer, Hugh Howey, Maureen Johnson, Rachel Aaron and perhaps adding Lazette Gifford to that category?
• NaNo Swaps -- a page for the tea swap, postcard swap, cd swap, general nano swap...
• More for Sushi than anyone else (but if you want to do it, go forth!): create a Reverse NaNoWriMo system for any word count goal.
• Webinar, the live interactive video events hosted by NaNoWriMo, formerly on Spreecast, now typically on Youtube.
• The Great Train Escape for the train trip from SoCal to SF for NOWD
• Interstellar Day of Science and Storytelling (you know, this)
• Reorganize the NaNoWordSprints article, make a separate page listing past sprint leaders.
• Unofficial Camp NaNoWriMo FAQ for those Camp questions that aren't in the official FAQ
• Annual Report on NaNoWriMo's annual reports. Also include PDFs or photos when available.
• Watched Threads - as of Nano 2013 (note: this works differently on the Discourse site)
• NaNo Emoji - created in 2014 if memory serves right
• A page on the Nano merch and design themes
• Update Young Writers Program page and add a little context to YWP Alumni
• Check staff articles and make sure they're up to date and everyone is added
• Article on the various NaNo graphic/merch themes over the years
• Wrimoverse, a multi-regional crawl created in 2017 with 14 regions taking part
• ML forums
• The assorted YWP writing contests (look at the NaNo blog and Twitter, late June 2019. Sushi thinks there was a 2018 one as well, and possibly earlier.)
• NaNoWriMo Writing Marathon -- add details on the April 2019 edition
• 100 Hours of Twitch - 100 hours of MLs streaming write-ins on Twitch
• Turkzilla - days of constant word sprints. Originally started in Los Angeles and expanded to other regions. Eventually run by Winnie on Discord in 2020. This has been a thing for years.
• Global Write-In Crawl - hosted on Discord in 2020, 26 regions participated.
• Great Nordic Word War - started in 2019 and continuing into 2020, participants include Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland.
• Maybe a general article on NaNoWriMo and the pandemic?
• Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers, a podcast hosted by NaNoWriMo's Grant and SheWrites's Brooke Warner. They do a NaNo series every year and I think they've done some camp episodes as well. [1]
• Add all the Camp Care Packages. Sushi has them but not all of them are on the blog page linked in the article. Ask Sushi if you want to do this and she can hand over the HTML files.
• National Novel Finishing Month A Camp NaNo April 2021 initiative to help you finish that novel! Also, there are lots of fish and fins. Here's the page on the NaNo site
• An article on NaNo's DEI statement. Open for ideas on what to title this, as it would cover wider DEI initiatives.
• Figure out the best way to create image galleries for merch and stickers so we can take a design trip through NaNo history.

Photos and other non-article things to add

• General photos of donor swag
• General photos of store merchandise
• A framed winner certificate or two
• A template marking an article as out of date. This would be useful if you know the article is out of date but can't be bothered to fix it yourself or fixing it would take a considerable amount of effort/research.
• Maybe create categories for regions by year of creation (for those where we can figure it out, which will most likely be recently created ones)? A category for all the Elsewhere regions? A category for regions that have been renamed or merged? There's already a category for former regions.
• Screenshot of the Camp NaNo donation arrow for the Fund-o-Meter article.
• The "updated your word count every day" badge, Camp NaNo the Musical, and Vote badges for Badges
• The "hit par every day" badge (added 2020, Sushi didn't earn it)
• Anything else?

More for Sushi than anyone else but if you wanna help

• Make the site more mobile friendly. This may involve the MobileFrontend extension.
• Redesign the homepage so it's more approachable to new visitors and not just a bunch of words
• Review the contribution info, FAQ, and other wiki-meta content and make sure it's still accurate.

Anything else? Add it to the list! Or better yet, search for it, and if it's not there, start an article yourself!