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Ongoing Messages

• Here's a link you might be interested in - Better business bureau search. Not sure how the search will work for many companies, but seemed like this potential "risks" info is up your alley.

• REITs and ETFs have no members in category? 10:30pm Monday

• Incorporated changes to Tutorial. Tried it with black border & grey background per your suggestion but decided to keep as is for now.

• Badges no longer allow for Wiki, only html (Dec 4)

• I put the world's simplest frame around the header boxes (except TOC); check out User:Jonathan_Stokes/Header_Experiment. I think a frame makes the page appear cleaner, more understandable, and helps imply that there is more content to scroll down to. Can you make it slick?

• I noticed the IDWD badge is at least 1 day out of date. The GOOG and AAPL badges look okay.

Seems better Tuesday night?

• On Blogspot I can't figure out how to tag posts by category. Any ideas? So far it looks like the categories might be "New Features" "Startup Gossip" "Stock Coverage" "Web"

Also, any formating you want to do to the blog is welcome. I don't think the font is very readable - I wish it was darker.

Also, maybe you should blog the New Features announcements...I'm always worried I'll explain the voting incorrectly. Better coming from the horse's mouth? Plus, then we get two voices on the site

• This contributer moved the RHMX page Special:Recentchanges. How to fix that? Also, should you move NDOL to NWOG now? Let me know so I can notify the NWOG board

• I took this out of Top 10 until it gets written Top_10_Investment_Software

Same for this Top_10_Strategies

• Talk:Suggestions#Navigation_Problem_with_Firefox The Firefox problem

I fixed the article link problem.

• Maybe your Category-Top-10 or vote tag can automatically add a digg button to that top 10 list. All the more complete Top 10 lists should have digg buttons...I like the "Digg this Story" buttons that display how many diggs a story has got...encourages digging

• Talk:Suggestions#Another_Firefox_Anomaly Another Firefox issue. I've experienced this too, but I just hit "back" and save again. Do you have the suggestions page on your watchlist?

I will try playing around in the sandbox in Firefox, but I can't think of what would cause that behavior.

• Maybe take a second to explore the Semantic MediaWiki Extension to see if it can help us categorize and search our data

I've been following this for a bit. I think much of what SeMW offers is accomplished with our extensive use of categories (and the custom cross-referencing). The query capabilities they offer are neat, but seem to be for lots of different types of structured data. Because the structured data we have is more uniform, I think categories work best. I will investigate more, but I don't immediately see the benefit.

• Off Topic - thought you'd be interested in http://www.richdex.com/rich/index.php/Main_Page He used robots to build the largest wiki; it's just a directory/google ad farm. I was impressed with his programming

This is neat.

Programming ToDo

1. Redo Jon's "How to use ValueWiki" screen shots?
2. Zach Call Out the help links in edit windows?
3. Default image for broken tickers
4. Wiki Badges
5. Zach puts Fundamental Box onto all pages
6. Zach changes Vote Magic Word to Category. Then tells Jon to update Category:Top_10/Help & Blogspot Explanation
7. Zach adds Message board to Navigation box (any notes to improve this page?)
8. Zach caches buttons
9. Link to DeepMarket on Major stocks
10. Zach New Message Board pages User:Jonathan_Stokes/Talk_Sandbox
11. Zach adds "Message Board" callouts onto the main articles pages (under links, and "add a comment")
12. Replace CTA w/ Summary Template
13. Zach adds Funds to Investor Relations mailer b/c they may be more likely...
14. Zach builds InfoBot to populate Yahoo/Reuters/MoneyCentral "leadership" links into 100+ stock pages

Writing ToDo

1. Add wording for User voting in various places
2. Fix "edit+" content in existing pages
3. Whenever Write Top 10 Socially Responsible Funds/Stocks (for Green Blogs)
4. Whenever Top_10_Blogs
5. Zach's IR peeps http://www.pinksheets.com/otcguide/issuers_service_providers.jsp?sptype=ir
6. New explanation for Category:Top_10/Help and Blogspot Explanation
7. Write new Tutorial
8. Write new or delete "Message Board" entry
9. Whenever IR mailer
10. Explain Message Boards and Chat Rooms on ValueWiki

Long Term

1. Hire an ad company like Tribal Fusion (for brokerage advertising)
2. Zach turn on More Servers
3. Zach fixes Technorati
4. Zach puts ads on Mainpage (or is this longterm)
5. Zach builds tools to rank users by edit count?
6. Zach builds "stock screener" search
7. Zach adds "email this article to a friend" feature on every page?
8. build [[NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}
9. Rss feeds (if we want them, which we may not)
10. Polls are cool ttp://wikipoll.free.fr/mediawiki-1.6.5/index.php?title=Source_code
11. Zach builds Voting for Users
12. Zach implements competitive ad filter to increase google adsense earnings by shutting out MFA sites
13. Barnstars on Top 10 pages for Users to earn