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Many New Members - Communication
Today was a busy day on the Psychology Wiki. At one point there were to many contributors editing at once for people to be able to keep up. This is normal on Wikipedia, but our Wiki is more village sized, so here are some useful links to keep in touch:
 * Forum:General_discussion_forum General Forum - Only up for a couple of days but already in use
 * Active Talk Pages:
 * Psychology Wiki IRC (live chat-room)
 * Remember you can add pages you are interested in to your watchlist
 * Some of us are using MSN, see peoples user pages for details
 * Use the 'Recent Changes' to see what your fellow contributors have been up to recently.

Mostly Zen  (talk ) 21:40, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Tasks To Do List
Linked to from the bottom of each panel in the Tasks to Do Portal; the Tasks to Do List is our general list of things to do, which replaces the discussion previously found at the Community Portal talk page. If you edit the tasks to do list, it will automatically update the Tasks to do in the General Discussion Forum and the Main Articles for each of the 6 Major tasks.

Please add to the To Do list, or mark tasks as completed, when you have done so. Mostly Zen  (talk ) 21:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Tutorial is up and running
Our new Tutorial is up and running and should help new users and contributors to find editing the wiki to be far more user friendly. This is part of a general clean up of all of our articles in the Help Category. See Also Category:Help. Mostly Zen  (talk ) 15:32, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Redesign for Tasks To Do Portal
The Tasks to DO portal has been totally redesigned, to focus on the 6 key tasks of Improving Articles, Featuring Articles, Copying Articles, Improving Structure, Creating New Articles and Attracting New Contributors. This last item is especially important as it is only with the help of the Psychology Community that this project will succeed in its aims. Mostly Zen  (talk ) 17:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Redesign for Community Portal
The Community Portal looks very different now, and is currently in the process of a revitalisation. Also this news feed has been added to the Current events section as well as being placed at the bottom of the community portal. Mostly Zen 17:46, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Manifesto nearly ready...
The Psychology Wiki's Manifesto and mission statement is nearly ready. See Psychology_Wiki:About for more details. Mostly Zen 06:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

User Experiences
We have had our first few User Experiences submitted recently, mainly relating to depression type experiences. See User Experiences and the Depression Experiences Index for details.
 * Mostly Zen 18:17, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Google analytics report
A current Google analytics report on site activity is now available. For details go to the Google Analytics report page.
 * Lifeartist

Article for Improvement
We have copied much information to the site and are already the 5th Largest Wiki overall. At this point it might be a good idea to take stock and clean up one article to an excellent standard, so that it can be used as an advertisement for the potential of the Psychology Wiki, in order to attract more interest, as well as as an example for how to lay out future articles.

Following discussion with Lifeartist, we thought that the best article to do this for would be Depression. So... we need to make Depression and all directly related links really, really good. If we work together it shouldn't be too hard. Have a look at the style we are aiming for and make use of the discussion page for clinical depression to see what we are trying to do.
 * Mostly Zen

New Design for the Main Page
New users are editing the Main Page, Community Portal and Site map to make the goals and structure of the Psychology Wiki more clear.
 * Mostly Zen

Awareness & Attracting Contributors

 * Being only 5 months old, the Psycholgy Wiki is still in its Sensorimotor stage.
 * Raising awareness of the project is important at this time.
 * Please tell anyone you know who may be interested about this project.
 * Templates of emails to send are here.
 * Mostly Zen

The Psychology Wiki is recognised
The Psychology Wiki has been included in the list of best wikis at: 43 Best Wikis
 * Lifeartist

How to reference: Update
A key objective of The Psychology Wiki is to document all the significant references in psychology and link each to either a copy of the full text or to a summary on the MEDLINE database via PubMed.We are gradually clarifying the format for referencing and the latest update can be found on the How to reference and link to summary or text page. Comments and upgrades appreciated.
 * Lifeartist

Hypertext takes off
Following the discovery of the new disorder -PhDitis- Dr Kiff's paper Kiff (2006) was published on the internet with hypertext content linking to the latest information on the new disorder. See PhDitis:outcome studies for a full demonstration.
 * Lifeartist

New disorder discovered
ICD: PhDitis: Ficticious demonstration disorder.

Template expert wanted

 * We have a particular need of a template expert to sort out various reference templates on this site. See Brain and AIDS for examples. If you have experience of linking academic references to databases like PubMed etc... please contact Lifeartist.


 * We have now reached the 5000 pages milestone and there are over 3500 articles currently being worked on. Do come and join us. Remember the Star Wars site has over 22,000 pages!! and we need to top that!!!


 * Work now begining on filling in the links on the List of sexology topics.