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are fully developed (at least for the time being...)

Should we make GPS coordinates a mandatory entry on the form for adding a Dive Site? I would think this would discourage entering of new dive sites, maybe some sort of obnoxious message at the top that the site needs a GPS link? Yea, but if it doesn't have a GPS point it won't show on a map... But having an entry that needs to be completed may be worthwhile from an informational standpoint. I don't know...
Need to redo temps from avg to a summer avg and a winter avg. - Done
- Now have a summer temp and winter temp
I don't like the avg depth property anymore. At least as the only point. re: Wrecks. Need to come up with a new plan. Something like depth of shallowest attraction/deepest attraction. Want to give this more thought before making any changes. - Done
- Now have a top depth and bottom depth and changed description to Average depth range.
Need to come up with a standard template for information we want to capture on dive sites (non-queryable). A format like history, attractions, external sites, etc.
Should current be changed to current/surge, or should there be a separate data point for surge? Ocean shore diving can definitely have this. It can impact diving, making it challenging for novice divers, and is not the same as current. - Done
- Changed description to current/surge, but property is still Site_current. May change property name, undecided.

Data points for calendar items
Template for calendar items - Multi-day form has been created, a lot more work to do but it is now adding in an event on multiple days properly.

Why do queries only update when the page is refreshed? Is SMW writing its results to a table instead of being dynamic? If so, we need to get bots running that will update pages. Maps (and calendars) will display up to 10000 items from a single query (query has to be built that way). Look into caching on MediaWiki. Found a comment researching something else that lead me to that statement. Follow up later.
More user friendly method of querying
Other data points we want to capture for other subjects?
Need to install ParserFunctions extension, unless it already is.
Caching has been turned off temporarily. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ#How_do_I_completely_disable_caching.3F

I like the standard wikipedia skin, although we could look at options. Look at wikipedia and see what skins are available. If others are, then it should be assumed that users must be using them, and we'd want to offer the same abilities
Need to work up some logo concepts - I like a wireframe earth, with a dive flag in the background, and maybe a few pins showing dive sites??? Maybe a rotating earth and/or waving flag??? Don't want to get too large a file, though.
Could a flash document be inserted as the logo? Could handle the above concept with a smaller file size If at all possible I'd stay away from flash
Slogans for the site?
- The Scuba Wiki - Share Your Sport
- Other ideas?
- The Scuba Wiki - Knowledge is Power

Look at http://discoursedb.org/wiki/Special:AddData/Item/Example_item for an example of adding templates multiple times to a form.

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 ** The Scuba Wiki - Share Your Sport
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