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1 To Do List
2 Configuration options for later
- 2.1 Email confirmation required for edit
- 2.2 Editing footer character bar
3 Add Pages
4 Content for Language.php
5 Site Management

To Do List

This is the page the webmaster used to create a data dump of the old site in order to wikify it manually. It now functions as an administrative springboard.

More delicious extensions and hacks
PR
- PR Web
  - PR Web Direct - Prices
Change meta content to where search engines that use them have a descent listed description.
Find people to help, put links on sites
check this Wikipedia page for functions to add to ResearchID.org
compile links to resources for research (like a periodic table, lists of compounds, electromagnetic spectrum, and other such useful items), Make resources for each discipline in category pages, maybe in templates to be inserted into many category pages
Find and establish a good bot for automatic archival of Main Page headlines and content, and automatic link generation as well.
- Cached tmbw bot
- source forge search for "mediawiki bot"
find out threshold for automatic labelling of a page as a content page
update ResearchID.org:Administrators by moving relevant info there
make sure large files can be uploaded
Check this:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Write_your_own_MediaWiki_extension

Configuration options for later

Email confirmation required for edit

To require that users provide an authenticated email address before editing pages, set $wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true; in LocalSettings.php.

Editing footer character bar

> . When adding an article at the Wikipedia one can see at the bottom that a
> nice Javascript capability have been added in order to "click-and-add"
> characters like ? ? ? ? ?, ?, ?, etc. I believe that this must be somehow
> added at the MessageXX.php file. If true, how to do it?

That particular functionality is added through the use of the CharInsert extension.

Add Pages

Content for Language.php

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Designer Regress

Abstract

Circular reasoning, begging the question.

Naturalism Regress

Design Inference

Abstract

Name Design Inference Field(s) Design Detection, Philosophy of Science Type Theoria Level Definition Objectives Questions Keywords eResources Monographs Status Current Active William Dembski, ISCID Extend Related Criticisms Classification Research Applications > Design Detection > Design Inference

Site Management

spell check entire site
internal link in EVERY paragraph
Sub-areas for future development
- OpenSourceID - The ResearchID active database of wikified research articles (articles being edited by any registered user)
- FlashpointID - the ResearchID archive of exemplary articles from OSID
- ExpertID - The ResearchID archive of professionally reviewed articles, a type of expert anthology
- ProOSID - wikified articles and papers being edited by experts only

make ResearchID.org more self-explanatory and self-evident
polish all correspondence
find out how to backup ResearchID.org (look at wikimedia.org first, the ask siteground.com by submitting service ticket)
find someone to maintain the shorthand legend page

MediaWiki:Sidebar

Place links in this box in order to foster traffic there when needed, otherwise, only use the barest of essentials in this space. All other useful links for main sections should be detailed and described on the Main Page (** Glossary:Contents|Glossary, ** recentchanges-url|recentchanges, ** currentevents-url|currentevents, ** sitesupport-url|sitesupport)

Left navigation:

Main Page
Fields
Categories (All, A category is a field that has at least 4 research applications associated with it)
Hot Apps (Top 5 newest apps, Top 5 last modified, Top 5 most visited, Top 5 most edited)

Community portal (Where are we going? What are our goals?)
Current events (Current research initiatives)
Recent changes
Random page
Site map
Donations

Left toolbox:

Make new page (new ra and new cat)
Join our team (Volunteers and Hierarchy)
Help
FAQ's
Links
What links here
Special pages

Site promotion

Synchronized delivery of hard-copy and emails about the site to targeted addressees: (in emails) Very soon, if not already, you will receive a press release from us in the mail. This press release is concerning a new website due to be unveiled on...
Quote of the day/week/month
ideas for tutorials: Google AdSense Quick Tour [1]

aspirations for the future:

epublish papers and let others edit and critique them on the wiki
branch off into individual subject sites
publishing a collection of research ideas (as a whole or in individual subjects)
bibliography database/file of all referenced material