Tom H to post notes from beginning, re Related Changes, RC hacks...) Usability: rich text editors - these are essential to making engagement easier, but current ones (e.g. FCKeditor, the PBwiki one) do awful things to the wiki markup. Not sure if the latest version of FCKeditor is better. There's a new one on the way - "WYSIFTW" but not quite ready yet. Mark: Tables in MediaWiki are hard (horrible for newbies) so use templates (with named fields) as a way for people to create specific kinds of tables. A different way of doing categorization, used on WikiIndex.org: the tag template http://wikiindex.org/Template:tag - {{tag|water}} Another approach as an alternative to categories: Wikitravel has parents (shown at top of each location page, like breadcrumbs). Related pages are added (and shown in sidebar) using RDF (an extension which has been mostly replaced by Semantic MediaWiki Jani & others at Lonely Planet developed "MediaWiki-Gateway" in Ruby, which is meant to be easier than Pywikipediabot. Chris has used Pywikipediabot to offer to add wikilinks & categories to pages - he's happy to share commands used, but he's also planning to try AutoWikiBrowser and MediaWiki-Gateway and might convert the commands to use one of those. Mark: Anything that people use a lot on AboutUs, they try to templatize to make it easier. E.g. for Social media, templates like http://www.aboutus.org/Template:Flickr show a logo and link to the relevant profile page. MediaWiki Widgets extension makes embedding content easier. AutoWikiBrowser is an easier kind of "bot," which has a GUI so it's much easier - it's a Windows program (that can also run in Linux using Wine).