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This page documents ongoing projects and maintenance. To see a description and discussion of prior projects, please see [[Lesswrongwiki:Closed Projects]]. If you wish to propose a project, please use this page. If you have a specific request for an administrator (e.g. page deletion, sidebar edits), please do it here: [[Lesswrongwiki:Admin Requests]].

==General Projects and Maintainence==

*[[High-priority pages]]

*[[Open problems on Less Wrong]]

*Wanted Content: - Whenever someone makes a wiki link to a page that doesn't exist yet, it shows up in the list on [[Special:WantedPages]].  You can help by creating pages from this list.  Also, for a list of pages that already have some content, but could still use some improvement, see [[:Category:Needs Improvement]]. Wanted categories are listed in [[Special:WantedCategories]].

*Page Stubs - A lot of the pages of this wiki are currently just stubs.  You can help by adding more content to these pages.  For a list of the page stubs, see [[:Category:Page Stubs]]

*General Cleanup - when reading a page on this wiki, did you notice any typos?  broken links?  missing category tags?  something else that should be fixed?  Please feel free to edit the page, and fix the problem.  Here are some [[Special:SpecialPages|Special Pages]] that you can use to find broken links or improperly categorized pages:

**[[Special:BrokenRedirects]]
**[[Special:DoubleRedirects]]
**[[Special:Lonelypages]]
**[[Special:UncategorizedCategories]]
**[[Special:UncategorizedPages]]
**[[Special:UncategorizedTemplates]]
**[[Special:UnusedCategories]]
**[[Special:UnusedImages]]
**[[Special:UnusedTemplates]]

*continue filling in [[Less Wrong/All Articles]]

*continue fixing the issues listed in [[User:PeerInfinity/Scripts/SyncArticleLinks.php/SyncArticleLinksOutput.txt|the sync script output file]]

*continue filling in this list of priorities

*continue categorizing the pages on this wiki

*continue filling in the [[Lexicon]]

*consider adding content from other sources:
**http://www.overcomingbias.com/
**http://www.lesswrong.com/

*things from the other todo lists scattered around the wiki:  [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Todo]]

*clean up all the templates, add descriptions of how to use the templates, using the includeonly tags

*other obvious cleanup of the pages on this wiki

*make a [[WikiNode]]

*Apologies if this is the wrong place to put this; but is anyone else alarmed by the flood of "new users" with spambot-style names who never contribute anything?  Should we add a captcha at user registration?  Should we mark some of these users for deletion?

**They don't cause any trouble, but I guess we could introduce a rule that any users with shady names who don't make a contribution in, say, a month, are deleted, and write a template for easy tracking and notification about this rule, to be added to new users' talk pages. --[[User:Vladimir Nesov|Vladimir Nesov]] 22:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

*Fill in the [[:Category:Requested pages]]

*[[Lesswrongwiki:Copyrights]] still has the copyright information automatically added by [[Wikia]].  This should be updated.  Also [[Lesswrongwiki:Policy]].

*Main blog project: [[Lesswrongwiki:Sequence_Post_Exercises]]

*Build a better [[Study Hall]]

==Random Ideas==

*[[The Less Wrong Video Game]] - brainstorming ideas of how we could make a video game for teaching or testing the concepts and techniques discussed at Less Wrong.

*[http://lesswrong.com/lw/e5/rationalist_role_in_the_information_age/ byrnema's WikiAnalysis project] - like Wikipedia, but with a Rational Point of View rather than a Neutral Point of View.  I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean, but it sounds interesting. --[[User:PeerInfinity|PeerInfinity]] 19:22, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

==Categories to consider expanding or deleting==

*[[:Category:Bayesian]] - currently has no category page, and contains just one article: [[Bayesian probability]]
*[[:Category:Content]] - currently contains only the subcategory [[:Category:Article stubs]].  This category should be either expanded or removed.
*[[:Category:Decision theory]] - currently has no category page, and contains just one article: [[Newcomb's problem]]
*[[:Category:Definitions]] - the category page was deleted, but 6 subcategories are still in this category.  Either restore the category page, or remove the other pages from the "Definitions" category.
*[[:Category:Ethics]] - currently has no category page, and contains just one article: [[Alien values]]
*[[:Category:Evolution]] - currently has 3 articles, but not category page
*[[:Category:Learning]] - currently has 7 articles, but no category page
*[[:Category:Metaphors]] - currently has 3 articles, but no category page
*[[:Category:Page Types]] - improper capitalization
*[[:Category:Rationality]] - currently has 3 articles, but no category page
*[[:Category:Signaling]] - currently has no category page, and contains just one article: [[Near/far thinking]]
*[[:Category:UserGuide]] - currently has 2 pages, but no category page
*[[:Category:Values]] - currently has 3 articles, but no category page
*[[:Category:Virtues of Rationality]] - currently has no category page, and contains just one article: [[Curiosity]]
*[[:Category:Work in progress]] - currently has 2 articles, but not category page

See [[Special:Categories]]


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