Please do not edit this page.
If this page is found, it may provide some semblance of order to the scattered project that is (or was) the EUSwiki.
Big ol ToDos
- "HEY YOU. Pick a day, sit down, write a shit ton of articles. You have the resources from archives. We're at a measly ~300 pages, most of which are empty/incomplete, redirects, or not great. You can do this.
- Confirm with BoG approval to move redirects from bylaws.mcgilleus.ca to policies.mcgilleus.ca from drive folders to wiki
- I've setup a warning notification whenever any file is changed in Governance folder, seeing as right here and now they're all up to date (wowowowow do MoA though)
- Clean up that shitty script that strips PDF text into wiki format, needs a revamp. Hey! Maybe investigate the creation of php pages and pilot an extension, make it easier and accessible to others.
- REALLY consider the value of having the Council namespace. It's a lot of work to go through the motions every year. But it's not too bad to do it all in one shot after the year is over, plus that's probably when it will be used most.
- Consider proposing another way to name motions at council? How do legit councils organize documents? Right now best we have, for example, is
New Business item X from Council on April, XX XXXX, which is malleable and unreliable
- Say it with me, ISO-8601. A general scheme for listing dates, super important. I guess this goes more into file organization elsewhere, but if we could get EUS to support the date structure YYYY-MM-DD, it'd be way easier to sort things chronologically. Might be fun to make a page praising it
- Consider proposing another way to name motions at council? How do legit councils organize documents? Right now best we have, for example, is
- Get peoples opinion on Gifs in pages like Curator's Choice and The_EUS_Wiki:Privacy_policy. I like these because they have no background, no frame, and most importantly aren't memes. No memes, that's a line I draw pretty firmly. I know, what about Deals, Deals, Deals? I've got a sore spot for Broad City.
- Hey, launch that Facebook Page sometime soon
- Reminder. WRITE ARTICLES. You've done too much work on infrastructure for not enough content, let's reprioritize.
- Hey, bring back work sessions?
- Consider the value of having lists of previous execs. I'm not personally a fan, I think they add clutter and tend to serve vanity, but maybe that's me.
- Hey, meet with people and work with them. Also create content, less infrastructure.
- Do we actually like the background-image & box-shadow on mainpage and others therein?
- Skim the McGill Reddit. They've got some good content.
- This is really annoying. Special:Random seems to have a proclivity for navigating to our Chants section, such as Froshimien Rhapsody, 12 days, and so on. There are loads of other pages, yet it goes back. out of probably 20 redirects, 3 were froshimien. Maybe I'm just in one of those weird instances where extremely uncommon chance based things occur, implying pattern. I hate this, of all pages to be consistently redirected to, this is not what I want. It also goes to Queer Engineer, VP Finance, and IT Committee a whole lot. Apparently the /includes/specials/Specialpagerandom.php generates a random integer that loops if it surpasses the total number of articles, which, while there's a comment claiming it does not effect probability, I think may...? They say they're a mathematician though...
- Update:I may have fixed it?
- Is Joey's Rules of Order a Policy?? Not really
- Why is SelComm Old in the Policy folder?
- wowowow just found a Kaitlyn McGoldrick Special! It's a good start outlining broadstrokes of history, EUS History
- Add facebook icons to EUS Groups Pages using Template:FacebookIcon
- Where's Ski Trip Policy?
- Update:It's being worked on, nothing passed yet
- Meet up with incoming execs to show them the lay of the land
- Look into adding different default fonts
- Infrastructure:
- Update wiki to the newest format
- Create new virtual machine on AWS to migrate to
- Install Mobile view, visual editor, (must be after MediaWiki Update)
- Update Modules
- Holy moly update that room bookings area. I'd love for there to be unique pages for every bookable space (or in the case of trottier, different headers in the same article for the different rooms). This should be straightforward?
- Add extension/ look into addition of "last updated" super module that will display last edit date on the top right and some kind of dashboard to see most outdated pages
- Create Master Category That should in one way or another start categorizing everything into articles
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Sections to Add
GradComm! They get a load of questions every year for the same exact shit. It'd probably be:
- Main article with list of to-do's to graduate
- FAQ page addressing all those strange nuanced questions Can I do this ceremony? What if I'm on exchange? I've missed my grad photos, what do I do?
- Maybe a page for Lassman Photography? They've got McGill under their thumb, not sure Gary and the gang are going anywhere anytime soon
- Iron Ring page?
- Plumber's Ball is currently a subcategory of Graduation Committee. Should be it's own article IMO
Computer Labs: I know McGill IT / NCS is pretty thorough on their online how to's, but it'd be nice to show available software for download, where the computer labs are, etc.
Mental Health & Equity related content:
- What is consent?
- On Campus resources (this is found in so many places it should be real easy to make a nice list)
- How to advertise events with alcohol inclusively (Healthy McGill has a nice infographic for this)
- Equity training resources?
- YEAH YEAH YEAH list of gender neutral washrooms!!
- Land Acknowledgement. That's a must. Bring back the webpage too, as soon as CFES returns our domain
- Tertiary, but same vein I guess? MSERT, RedFrogs, Walksafe, Drivesafe. All good groups. I don't know how to give themexposure on the wiki while keeping it up to date without redirecting to their webpages? I guess it'd be like any other EUS Group, just not in EUS..... Wait, where is that line? There's gotta be one. Maybe focus on EUS first, I'm uncertain
IguanaGate: Fun story, I'd be sad if it does not continue
List of previous EUS execs: Dianne had one that was sent to the wiki.curator email, around April 18th
Funds: Getting money is the number one job of a lot of positions. Doing it on campus has a general procedure to it, almost all of ours are empty right now
- See
- History of funds would be cool, as well as general makeup for how many
- SSMU Funding is pretty robust on the Funding sources page, deserve it's own page?
- Hey while you're at it, why not list a breakdown for what the average Eng student fees are all about? They don't change that often, would be nice to list opt-outables
- Pretty much unrelated to any of this, maybe we could add the Math Extension for MediaWiki matched with templates to do some fun calculations?
- Way off in the future download previous fund distributions (probably excluding EUSF & EFC), upload them to the Wiki Curator's Google Drive (very important that wiki maintain ownership of these files, as far as I'm aware the exec drive is piecemeal and scattered)
Volunteer Banquet: Alex Dow sent Malcolm a whole bunch of photos of previous mugs. It'd be nice to outline what it is. It's a bit dodgy navigating the somewhat exclusive nature of it?
Eng Buildings: I once dreamed of having floor plans of eng buildings on the wiki. We could settle for less.
- I bet there's a nice proprietary embeddable thing out there to better map out spaces. The raw floor plans would be gross, and IMO a JPG insufficient
- Bookable Rooms: Absolute mess. simplify. Need to make decisions about whether rooms need their own articles or not. I think it could be a bit of both, short stuff all together for similar spaces (e.g. trot 5th floor) accompanied by their own individual pages. Individual pages unified by a template of some kind
- EUS Spaces! The EUS Office, "Mall", and so on could be photographed by an aspiring so and so, description of general functions outlined. It's the 'physical cornerstone to the EUS, the fact that it's not updated is sad.
PPO: I understand they're kind of secretive, but they are firmly entrenched as a part of the EUS. They could even benefit from the exposure, people are intimidated by the group. Not having them in the wiki is turning a pretty raunchy blind eye, furthering the general stigma they present.
MESC: They pay people. I mean, can you imagine? Money? I bet they could devote some of their resources to pages on what they do, what ECC is, and so on. PROCEED WITH CAUTION and try and limit their reach on the wiki. I don't mean with literal user permissions, rather verbal agreements on not polluting the wiki, you know? Students for students, they've got so many ways to reach out to students as is.
Tracking
Tracking is a new form of, well, tracking the different pages across the wiki. It's built on the addition of hidden categories to pages that are the responsibility of explicit entities such as execs, departments, etc. It has not become so minute as individual groups yet as that would be unnecessarily trivial. The breakdown can be found in the Category:Tracking page, or in the below category tree.
Major Pages
These pages are jump points to major resources on the wiki. If these pages are not constantly up to date the wiki loses it's credibility.
Empty, Stubs, In Progress
Another way to checkout what's going is by checking out the "What links here" for Template:Empty, Template:Stub, and Template:In Progress.
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VIKI Wiki Mapping
This is a fun extension that needs some taming, but in short you can use it to map connections between different pages. Good for visualization for something, I'm just not sure what yet...