Cleanup old projects

Cleanup old projects
Workgroup	WikiSquad
Start date	Sat 28 March 2020
Contact	contact@pirateparty.be
Status	Done

Description

This project is to go over the projects and make sure that the list of active projects is correct and clear to read.

Purpose

We currently saw the problem of having too much projects that people have started, but not enough people to do them. We want to find a way to advertise the projects better (using the project page), make them more welcoming and have a better overview for the people actually working on the projects.

Events

Meeting	Date	Venue
Cleanup old projects meeting	Sun 10 May 2020, 2:00pm	Online (Sayyida al Hurra Room) – https://talk.parley.be
Cleanup old projects meeting	Sun 19 April 2020, 1:00pm	Online (Anne Bonny Room) – https://talk.parley.be
Cleanup old projects meeting	Sun 5 April 2020, 1:00pm	Online – https://talk.parley.be
Cleanup old projects meeting	Sun 29 March 2020, 1:00pm	Online – https://talk.parley.be
Pirate Lab March 2020	Sat 28 March 2020, 2:00pm	meet.jit.si – Piratelab2020-March 101 The Wire

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Documentation

• Pad of the lab where this started
• Loomio thread
• Pad

Timeline

• Create a wiki page for that cleaning up project
• Advertise on loomio about what we decided / are doing
• Cleanup the Active Projects wiki page : [1]
  • Close inactive / abandoned projects
  • Improve the description of the category
  • Improve templates for creating new projects
• List all active/started project that are not on the list yet (see pad)
• Complete what's missing for each project (so yes, also this one :grin:)
  • Good description of the project
  • Contactperson is known
  • Pad/loomio/wikipage
• Close the project on the wiki

To do list

• Improve the description of the project form
  • For instance, explain that the workgroup should be an existing wiki page
  • Make it clear what options can be used in the sidebar
  • Add better description to the Template:EmptyProject
  • Do the same changes to the project form
• Fix a bug in the active projects list (Moved to WikiSquad/Project/Improving_the_Wiki#ToDo )
  • Sub-projects which have their parent project marked as closed are still displayed in the active projects list. It looks like this is a bug in the way the project list is displayed. Ideally, we should fix this, but on the other hand the inconvenience is not big... (Moved to WikiSquad/Project/Improving_the_Wiki#ToDo )
• When all children of a project are closed, close the parent project as well ? (Moved to WikiSquad/Project/Improving_the_Wiki#ToDo )

Conclusion

We concluded that this project is done now.

Some things could still be improved (the list of active projects is still long compared to the number of active pirates envolved). We did all the items from the timeline as planned. The to-do list items that were left have been added mostly to the Improve the wiki project page.

Thanks for your contribution!