The Lonsdale Battalion:Site projects

Projects that are currently being developed by the administrator. However, feel free to add projects to this list and/or cross out any that have been completed using the {{Done|date=01-01-2017}} template.

The Lonsdale Battalion Introduction page

• Write piece for A different kind of Service Battalion section.
• Write a piece for The man that started it all section.
• Write a piece for A very quick history of the Battalion section.
• Re-write old Battalion history (1914-1916).
• Write a continuation of the Battalion history (1916-1918).
• Add selected images from the image gallery using the <gallery> tag.   ✔ (completed 25-8-2016)
• Add a bulleted list of publications to the Further reading section.
• Add a bulleted list of links to other sites of interest in the External links section.

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The Lonsdale Battalion war diary

• Add old war diary transcripts from 1915–1918   ✔ (completed 8-7-2016)

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The Lonsdale Battalion on this day...

• Add all the pre-existing on this day pages for the entire year   ✔ (completed 21-7-2016)
• Go through war diary transcripts from November 1915 and double check events for each day of the year.
• Add new events from the war diary transcripts that have not yet been included.
• Add references and notes for each event where possible.
• Add the names of Lonsdale men for enlistments and deaths to a subheading under each year.

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Newspaper articles

• Transfer all newspaper articles from old the site and use the Quote-news template.   ✔ (completed 26-8-2016)
• Add each article to the corresponding date in The Lonsdale Battalion on this day... project.   ✔ (completed 26-8-2016)

The Army Lists

• Transfer the Lonsdale Battalion British Army Listing from the old site using simple wikitable format.

Remembrance pages

• Create a remembrance page for every Lonsdale soldier.

Uploading image files

• Upload all Lonsdale related images from old wiki to the various image galleries.
• Upload all Lonsdale related images from archives to the various image galleries.
• Upload edited (borderless) versions of officer images (from K.J.) specifically for use in Template:Soldier-infobox  ✔ (completed 25-8-2016)
• Upload edited (borderless) versions of other ranks images (from K.J.) specifically for use in Template:Soldier-infobox

Image galleries

• Create thumbnail gallery links to the various image galleries.  ✔ (completed 25-8-2016)

Lonsdale Battalion quotes

• Find and add Quotes by Percy Wilfred Machell
• Find and add Quotes by P. G. W. Diggle
• Find and add Quotes by J. H. Cowie
• Find and add Quotes by H. C. Wylly

Designing pages

• Main Page: Use the Tabber extension to redesign the main page. Used Template:Main Page/Frame instead.   ✔ (completed 7-8-2016)
  • Create one box with 8 tabs or two boxes with four tabs each (depending on aesthetics) to save space on the main page. (Design feature not used)
  • Add a single image or a slideshow of images to the main page.  ✔ (completed 7-8-2016)

Using special pages for other tasks

• Check the wanted pages listing and create new pages for every wanted page.
• Check spelling of war diary / on this day entries where there are discrepancies and use ReplaceText:
  • Corcelles - change to Courcelles   ✔ (completed 14-8-2016)
  • Pushevillers - change to Puchevillers   ✔ (completed 14-8-2016)