Wiki todo @ 11:30am ET

[Deanna Zandt]

Good morning! Here we go:

Pages to be cleaned up:

-- I know folks are working on Animal Rescue, but: it's huge, and the huger it is, the less useful it is. I would move most of that page to another page and edit it down to the absolute bare minimum.
-- Life & Death needs phone number verification
-- Help Needed. Kevin, you were working on local phone numbers. Report back?
-- Transport. Once we get that killer Google Map, we'll embed here. Need to add other traffic/transport links. Some are on the front page.

Need report-backs on:
-- Health & Safety.
-- Jobs

You all are kicking unbelievable ass here! I'm so psyched!

[David Parry]

Will verify all numbers on Life & Death page. Will be done in 30 mins, and will report back here.

[David Parry]

Okay I verified the numbers on the Life & Death page. The Coast Guard numbers are accurate. I couldn't verify the NOLA numbers: 225-925-7708 /7709 or 225-925-3511 /4218 they could just be having call volume issues. Does the Helpline Numbers Page also need verification?

[laurie]

Im trying to cull a lot of the junk/old links out of Animal Rescue. I confess to being very new at this, however, so I'm not sure what page to move most of it too? Any help is appreciated. (I'm passionate about this issue and do believe it should be as useful as possible.)

[Debbie Cerda]

Good morning! I'm off for the rest of the weekend :P

I totally agree about the Animal Rescue - front page of it should be clear and concise, and I'd found it overwhelming myself.

- Ruth worked on the shelter page for over 14 hours, but she's enroute out of Japan and is incommunicado. I got some information to her and will check over and update.

- I'll check over the Health and Safety pages. I think I'd seen a paragraph on disinfecting water that needs a little clean up. There's also a lot of great information at http://epa.gov/region6/disaster/ that we link to from our agency.

But first I need to make a pot of coffee, and get myself into the wiki "who's doing what". Feel free to ping me!

[Nancy White]

Now that Aid Agencies/Donations is pretty set, I'm happy to move into another gap. I'm available this am and again later today. Sorry that I am not a Google Map person to get that started. I can help w/ Animal rescue, but don't want to stumble on toes. Feel free to DM me on Twitter (NancyWhite)

[Susan Gleason]

Re Animal Rescue -- It is huge, and since it wasn't immediately clear how to support animal rescue efforts (financially) for Gustav, I created a short list of known-quantity groups for the Aid Agencies & Donations page ... including a link to the full Animal_Rescue_Resources page.

[Deanna Zandt]

no worries, laurie! lemme in there to make one big giant edit-- i'm going to put most of it in another page, link to it from the main animal page. then you can copy and paste relevant info from the subpage to the main page.

i would say that relevant info should include:

-- some groups and forums
-- links to how to prep animals
-- some lost and found links

Are there any animal advocates that can advise as to what else is necessary in these cases?



laurie said:

Im trying to cull a lot of the junk/old links out of Animal Rescue. I confess to being very new at this, however, so I'm not sure what page to move most of it too? Any help is appreciated. (I'm passionate about this issue and do believe it should be as useful as possible.)

[Susan Gleason]

Deanna or others might have ideas about moving information to another page, but short of that, I think the easiest way to remove content that's cluttering a page unnecessarily is to add this code at the beginning and end of content you'd like to disappear from view:

(less-than sign "<", followed by exclaimation point "!", followed by 2 dashes "--")

and put these symbols at the end of any text you're hiding:

(2 dashes "--", followed by greater-than sign "">")

You can see an example of this at the bottom of the Aid Agencies page ( behind the scenes, in edit mode).

That way, if you don't want to delete the content -- since someone did earlier work to find it back in 2005, and there's a chance it might become useful again -- you're still keeping it around, but it's not cluttering the page that people are seeing/reading.

laurie said:

Im trying to cull a lot of the junk/old links out of Animal Rescue. I confess to being very new at this, however, so I'm not sure what page to move most of it too? Any help is appreciated. (I'm passionate about this issue and do believe it should be as useful as possible.)

[laurie]

Great, Deanna -

I was the editor for pets for Blogher for two years and followed Katrina over there and on several blogs. There is some excellent information buried here that should not be missed - it's just in a weird/wrong category (the farther you go down the page, the more things get repeated and given different headings.)

If you give me a main category for Groups and Forums, I can move stuff that belongs in there from other categories, and give them better descriptions.

Lost and found is most important - where to find your pet when you come back.
Also I'd say rescue groups are important because they need donations.

Deanna Zandt said:

no worries, laurie! lemme in there to make one big giant edit-- i'm going to put most of it in another page, link to it from the main animal page. then you can copy and paste relevant info from the subpage to the main page.

i would say that relevant info should include:

-- some groups and forums
-- links to how to prep animals
-- some lost and found links

Are there any animal advocates that can advise as to what else is necessary in these cases?



laurie said:

Im trying to cull a lot of the junk/old links out of Animal Rescue. I confess to being very new at this, however, so I'm not sure what page to move most of it too? Any help is appreciated. (I'm passionate about this issue and do believe it should be as useful as possible.)

[Deanna Zandt]

OK, big giant edit made. Have at it!

[laurie]

Hi Susan - I don't see any code in your message?

I'm only removing dead links. I'm leaving everything else so far. However, I'm guessing that a lot of this stuff lives on the Katrina wiki so it's not really needed here? Or am I wrong?

Until I knew that I really didn't want to take anything off that was still functioning.

Susan Gleason said:

Deanna or others might have ideas about moving information to another page, but short of that, I think the easiest way to remove content that's cluttering a page unnecessarily is to add this code at the beginning and end of content you'd like to disappear from view:

and put these symbols at the end of any text you're hiding

That way, if you don't want to delete the content -- since someone did earlier work to find it back in 2005, and there's a chance it might become useful again -- you're still keeping it around, but it's not cluttering the page that people are seeing/reading.

laurie said:

Im trying to cull a lot of the junk/old links out of Animal Rescue. I confess to being very new at this, however, so I'm not sure what page to move most of it too? Any help is appreciated. (I'm passionate about this issue and do believe it should be as useful as possible.)

[Susan Gleason]

The Helpline numbers were all checked against new emergency postings and materials (from NOAA's Extreme Weather 2008 Information Sheet, the Red Cross site, and the Louisiana Hospital Association site). There are more emergency hotline numbers that can be picked up from the NOAA PDF -- various state departments, NOAA departments, and radio stations that I didn't incorporate yesterday.

David Parry said:

Okay I verified the numbers on the Life & Death page. The Coast Guard numbers are accurate. I couldn't verify the NOLA numbers: 225-925-7708 /7709 or 225-925-3511 /4218 they could just be having call volume issues. Does the Helpline Numbers Page also need verification?