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Details of overall Project strategy —plan of action designed to achieve particular goal(s)— are to be defined here. This will consist of a number of tactical actions intended to work towards the primary aim:
"to improve the content and coverage of articles relating to Mesoamerica".
All participants and other interested parties are invited to assist with any of the tasks below, to expand them, or to suggest new ones.
Strategy- activities & subprojects
The sections below are intended to document and outline various activities, sub-projects and tasks for the Project —aka a few reminders of "here are some things you can do"— which are to be worked on, or are planned to be worked on.
These are broadly aligned towards the individual high-level aims specified on the
Goals subpage, and are grouped according to which of these they most closely address.
General discussion and proposals for new activities can be directed to the corresponding talk page.
As these sub-projects and tasks further develop, there may be a need to create new workspaces (project subpages), these should be linked to in the 'links' column, and also added to the overall Project
Navigation panel where appropriate.
[A] Article improvement and maintenance tasks
(A1) Article to-do worklists
Status
ongoing
Tasks
general article improvements and running to-do logs
identify and add articles requiring some sort of work to the appropriate list/queue
ultimate goal would be to work these articles towards FA status, or as high a quality as possible
action (ie, edit) articles in the list, moving through the progressive phases if needs be
maintain the listings with the Top- and -High-priority articles, per
WP:MESO/RATE.
develop hierarchy of Mesoamerica categories and sub-categories
hierarchy proposed to be based largely upon the top-level major themes identified at
Scope subpg
The "overall" category Category:Mesoamerica should be reserved for only the most important and general articles, with other articles assigned to appropriate subcategories at lower levels of the hierarchy
In principle, it should be possible to navigate from
Category:Mesoamerica to every in-scope Mesoamerica-related article via some series of sub-categories (articles can also of course be assigned to non-Mesoamerica specific categories as well)
Naming conventions to follow
WP:NC and
WP:NCCAT where sensible; any exceptions to be notified
Maintain/improve Mesoamerica-related categories and sub-categories
Add the Project's banner {{WP Mesoamerica}} with the class parameter set to NA and the cat parameter set to yes (ie: {{WP Mesoamerica|class=NA|cat=yes}} ) to relevant categories' talk pages to flag as one concerned with this Project. This will automatically apply
Category:WikiProject Mesoamerica categories to the page.
Periodically refresh the category-tree dump at
WP:MESO/CAT with an updated listing of currently-existing categories.
Note, that existing category scheme is to be eventually overhauled once activity [C2] below has worked out new category scheme proposal. Once this is done, the category scheme can be maintained per the proposed structure (to be documented).
Use the "Related changes" special view to track any category-related changes.
Compare current category names with
WP:NCCAT and
WP:NC naming conventions, identify any which may need to be renamed, deleted or merged. Propose these at
WP:CFD, note the proposal at
WP:MESO/M. For unsure cases, ask around for advice.
Periodically review the articles listed in these categories and confirm if appropriately categorised.
[D] Information and presentation consistency tasks
(D1) To be defined
Status
not started
Tasks
describe here
Workspace(s)
links here
[E] Editing guidelines and conventions tasks
(E1) Project editing guidelines
Status
ongoing
identify need or suggestions for guidelines and conventions to help articles achieve a degree of consistency and standardised use of terminology (where applicable)
List identified/proposed standards on Project Guidelines subpage
Document particulars, examples, exceptions and ambiguous/unresolved points at the 'detailed' section there
Consider whether at least some of the guidelines need to be proposed and/or publicised at other or wider guideline pages (eg Related WikiProjects' guidelines, general editing conventions such as
WP:NAME)
Review existing conventions/guidelines for applicability or specificity to WP:MESO scope
Build a set of centralised links and notes to tools, resources and references, which are likely to be of common use for the Project. These can be both internal (eg
WP:TOOLS) or external (eg links to commonly-used references).
Add references and commonly-used citations to a list (eg pre-filled {cite} templates), which can be accessed and copied into articles using the reference as a cite.
Browse for other wikipedia projects, portals, collaborations etc which may have some relevance or degree of overlap with this Project's aims/scope. Add these to
WP:MESO/REL.
Review these related projects etc for collaboration opportunities, useful information, links and ideas.
Notify these related projects etc about
WP:MESO, inviting any cross-collaboration or coordination as/where appropriate.