Oldsoul

I know my page really sucks. If you're reading this, can you offer me any advice?

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Propose and build a category framework for localized community organizations and develop road map for the project/portal. Objective being to catalogue and organize listings of associations, societies, unions and other non-profit groups. Form and update a template for each geographical region, as well as article heading and perhaps even info box standards for each group.
Establish structure of regional and local task forces.

Existing framework lacking

Aside from a dysfunctional organizations wiki project, the existing 'framework' consists mainly of two monolithic categories within the society portal. Both the clubs & societies, and the organization categories have been developed from the top down, as opposed to bottom up from the grass roots.

This is evidenced by the fact that there is only one categorized Alberta Organization, and no category for any communities within the province. The picture looks a bit better at the national level, but stubs and other incongruities abound.

It will be important initially to develop rules for categorizing international and intraregional grassroots organizations. For example greenpeace should be listed as an international or ubiquitous organization, but should also have national and local offices listed where appropriate, (linking up and down).

I will start by developing this specific framework for my communities of Edmonton, Alberta, and Canada, and hopefully along the way, will have ironed out a system that can be applied and easily extended by other contributers for their own cities and regions.

As this project evolves and grows, local organizers will have an increasingly powerful resource for outreach, cooperation and consensus building.

Onward.

Examples of organization articles

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citizen
economic collapse
Olduvai_theory
Economic_depression
Comparative_military_ranks (add cdn.)
Future studies
Party_platform
Wikipedia:Disambiguation_pages_with_links
Denizen\DEN-uh-zun\, noun:
1. A dweller; an inhabitant.
2. One that frequents a particular place.
3. One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.
4. One admitted to residence in a foreign country.

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