Latest revision as of 15:52, 27 April 2017

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Community portal

Welcome to the community portal. This is the place to find out what is happening on BoroondaraWiki. Discuss its operations, policies, design, and areas for improvement within the site.

If you were looking for...

Past discussions: see the archives.
Help: see Help:Contents.
A place to ask a specific user something: please use the appropriate user's talk page.
A list of BoroondaraWiki's Staff: see BoroondaraWiki:Staff.
A Sandbox: see the BoroondaraWiki Sandbox.
Information on when to nominate something for deletion: see the deletion policy.
A place to request something of an administrator: use the administrator's talk page.
Somewhere to see the wiki's ongoing development and tasks: see the Trello board

Introduction

BoroondaraWiki is a growing wiki on topics related to Boroondara, with a total of 644 pages. However, many articles are stubs, or otherwise need attention and need your help!

Cleanup projects

Things to do

Patrol new pages and new images.
Expand short pages.
Change links to disambiguation pages
Respond to talk page comments and deletion candidates giving your opinion.
Create wanted pages, files, categories and templates.

Discussion

Please start new threads under a level-2 heading, using double equals-signs and an informative title: ==Informative title==. If a thread is related to an ongoing discussion, consider instead placing it under a level-3 heading within that discussion.
When posting, please sign and date all contributions, using four tilde characters "~~~~", which is translated into a signature and a time stamp automatically.
If discussion is already ongoing at another page, or there is another page which is a more natural location for a discussion, please continue the discussion there, and only put a short note of the issue, and a link to the relevant location, on this page.

Related resources

Telling Tales –	Official local history wiki of the City of Boroondara Library Service containing some limited information
Balwyn Historical Society –	Local historical society for Balwyn and its surroundings.
Camberwell Historical Society –	Local historical society for Camberwell and its surroundings.
Canterbury History Group –	Local historical society for Canterbury and its surroundings.
Hawthorn Historical Society –	Local historical society for Hawthorn and its surroundings.
Kew Historical Society –	Local historical society for Kew and its surroundings.
Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre history collection –	A collection of historical images, materials and other information about Surrey Hills.
Boroondara Council history resources –	A part of Boroondara Council's website dedicated to information on selected parts of the city.

Click here to start a new discussion thread

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 * Past discussions: ''see the '''[[BoroondaraWiki:Community portal/Archives|archives]]'''.''
+* Help: ''see '''[[Help:Contents]]'''.
 * A place to ask a specific user something: ''please use the appropriate user's '''talk page'''.''
 * A list of BoroondaraWiki's Staff: ''see '''[[BoroondaraWiki:Staff]]'''.''
 * A Sandbox: ''see the '''[[BoroondaraWiki:Sandbox|BoroondaraWiki Sandbox]]'''.''
 * Information on when to nominate something for deletion: ''see the '''[[BoroondaraWiki:Deletion policy|deletion policy]]'''.''
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+* A place to request something of an administrator: ''use the '''[[:Category:Administrators|administrator]]'s talk page'''.''
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