YourHistoryHere - mySociety Wiki

This is the to do and bug list for YourHistoryHere. and Placeopedia. If you can code, do feel free to help us hack these, see [MappingSiteSetup] to get started,

Let people tag articles from other non english language wikipedia e.g. http://sv.wikipedia.org and http://de.wikipedia.org
Clearer, more dramatic, indications when doing XMLHTTP submissions
Add a message which says "Map only shows 15 most recent entries" to make people realise that there are more than just a tiny handful of places in the whole system!
- - put back the older entries links (on Placeopedia)? Well, seeing as it never worked, that would be a bit pointless. (It's there and working on YHH.) I don't think it's a very good method of navigating. But some method of adding more points to the page, perhaps.
Better explanatory text about syndication
Any demo apps showing how the syndicatable data is useful
New front end where friends can create their own places on private, passworded layers.
Work out how to add/query places via SMS/MMS.
Multiple additions confirmed in only one email
Let people link to Flikr pics (why not non-Flickr pictures?)
When a search returns more than one match, the background should be highlighted. Your eye searches round the page looking for what has changed, especially as there is no postback.

An XML to SQL importer for a recent full dump of Wikipedia (for full articles, if we choose to use them, and to ignore redirected article titles). See: Palceopedia Redirects
bonus points: when you find the definition, could you display it on the page so I can confirm there and then that I'm tagging the correct entry? perhaps a legitimate use for a pop-out? Question: What doesn this mean that you want the wikipedia article to load?
here's an idea: could you apply some sort of weak heuristic to the wikipedia titles db to 'guess' likely matches and balloon them in a different colour. I just tagged 'hoxton' - it would have been fairly easy to give me some suggestions.
League table for Placeopedia, to show who has added most places (and perhaps button to dock score for placing pins in the wrong place)

It's not clear what you're searching on the main page search box.
Why not just use a wiki for storing the information most of these suggestions are very easy to do if you have mediawiki to handle the texts.
Prevent submissions whilst in the middle of one
Wiki-like changing for the original text of the place. "Show the title/body in an editable form. When someone submits the form, the edits go to a staging table while email validation happens. Upon validation of email, the edited version copies the current title/body/editor to an archive table, and replaces the new title/body/editor in the posts table." Would be lovely to use magic textareas appearing and XML submission of changes à la Flickr.
Get rid of one-paragraph summary in YourHistoryHere, it's just confusing. Instead dynamically generate extract of start of full text for display where summary currently is.
Recognise links in comments. People are leaving usefull links local history websites etc.
A way of reporting/flaging incorrect locations.
Tagging - Allows tagging simlar to del.icio.us to help organize layers and topics of information
Flickr links - Allow links to photos related to individual entries - and cross link to those photos' tags on Flickr.

Incorporate some sort of geographic search to find locations quicker
Cookie to remember user's name & email so they don't have to repeatedly re-enter details when adding multiple points - well, it doesn't reload the page, so the browser should remember the entered details. Might still want to use a cookie at some point though, can use JavaScript, I guess.
When you hit 'add a new point' the map zoom and location coords should remain the same on the point adding map so that you don't have to start navigating from the national map (I still do this even though I know how the site works)
The adding mode should add a pin at the place you're about to add a place
YHH should remember the map view you were on between the exploring and adding modes - or the process of adding could be simplified by using only 1 page using a bit of DHTML.
Wikipedia database is out of date. Need to get most recent dump (they're now in XML, not SQL, so need an importer too), and probably do a live site lookup to check for an article. - Live lookup is done, and we have a recent titles dump (this does include redirects, though).
a bit more haldholding on the main page: