HymnWiki:Needed

Here is a list of things HymnWiki could really use:

Requests from HymnWiki

• People to add more articles on children's songs.
• Public domain, or original icon images for media links (PDF, Midi, LilyPond, etc.), templates, and such.
• Full articles on LDS organizations that sometimes have music: Relief Society, Primary (and its various stages, as there are some songs particular to certain stages), Young Women's, Young Men's, the various priesthood quorums, mutual/MIA, EFY, and so forth. Be sure to add them to the terms category.
• We need editors to add topics to hymns. Go to a hymn, read the lyrics, figure out what topics it should go under (even if they don't yet exist on HymnWiki), and type [[category:TopicName]] for each topic, where TopicName is replaced by the name of the topic. Then, go to the topic (click on it), and put it in the topics category (if it isn't there already) - i.e. type [[category:Topics]] in the specific topic category page.
• People to host contests, for hymn-writing and such.
• We need people to watch Ebay for hymnals (lesser-known ones) that aren't listed on HymnWiki; these are nice because you can get names and dates (and even pictures) of them as evidence that they exist.
• Translators (I have lots of foreign hymnals, and would like to get translations of songs I notate from them; I especially would like translators from Swedish and German to English. You don't have to versify them unless you feel like it; versification can come later. Veramet 21:14, 16 July 2007 (MDT); also, translating English songs into other languages would be great, especially if versified.)
  • See category:Needs English Translation for a list of songs currently needing translations.

Help Promote HymnWiki

We want the following:

• Someone to make a HymnWiki search plugin for the Mycroft Project (or a Mozilla search plugin).
  • I've begun making them, actually—somehow I figured it out, right after I asked someone (before he could respond). Anyway, we still need some good 16 x 16 pixel icon images. I'm doing one for the Go-style search and the Search-style search, and another for the forums on Nabble. Veramet 17:33, 6 August 2007 (MDT)
• People to tell others about HymnWiki.
• People to publish articles about HymnWiki.
• People to link to HymnWiki from their websites.
• Submission of articles to search engines (especially if they have sheet music and lyrics), and especially if the songs are lesser-known.
• Lists of the most popular hymns of each denomination and country/region. (Getting articles up for these would be nice, particularly with sheet music, as they could be linked from all sorts of places, and bring more traffic to the site.)

User Requests

• User Requests Forum
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