To do (Jan 2005)
Summary of old to-do list:
- Chennai Corporation's history page describes several things upto about 1792 in detail, including the origin of the city's name. This needs to be incorporated into the current article. It is too specific (pre-1792 only) to be a separate article.
- We could use some satellite photos or aerial photos of the city. Digitalglobe has a few low-res photos showing a large area, but Spaceimaging has better photos, like these. If you see any decent photos like these, please list them here.
New tasks:
- Need to reduce the length of the article. Has crossed 32 KB. --Brhaspati 07:59, 2005 Jan 10 (UTC)
- I think, list of Software companies, educational institutions, places of worship, hotels etc be moved to separate articles and only "notable" members of each of these groups be mentioned in the main article. For others 'See also' links can be given. -- Sundar 08:44, Jan 10, 2005 (UTC)
- As a trial move, I have moved all the lists to a separate article. I'll see how I can rephrase the sections in the current article to compensate. If the old version feels better, we can revert all the list-move changes. --Brhaspati 06:28, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)
- I think, list of Software companies, educational institutions, places of worship, hotels etc be moved to separate articles and only "notable" members of each of these groups be mentioned in the main article. For others 'See also' links can be given. -- Sundar 08:44, Jan 10, 2005 (UTC)
- We need photos! Most of the photos online aren't high quality, or they are copyrighted. People in Chennai, if possible please try to take some of these photos and upload them yourselves - that will make it completely free of copyright issues. As of now, I've identified the following photo subjects. Please add others you feel necessary. -- Brhaspati 10:33, 2005 Jan 14 (UTC)
- Any two of (Fort St George, Ripon Building, Central Station, High Court).
- One of (MA Chidambaram Stadium, Nehru Stadium).
- One of Adyar river, preferably showing some boats (this happens on the downstream side of the Kotturpuram bridge).
- One of Chennai port/container area floodlit at night. This is best taken from the top of the Royapuram bridge, coming south towards Parry's.
- One of (Ranganathan Street, South Usman Road), showing the pedestrian crowd if possible. (Update: Found a good image of Ranganathan Street. Have contacted image owner for permission. Will update status when I get a response - Brhaspati 10:57, 2005 Jan 14 (UTC)).
- One of (East Coast Road, Outer Ring Road).
- One satellite image of the city & surrounding areas. I have found one suitable image at nationalgeographic.com, original data from ESRI, which I believe may be allowed under Fair Use.
- Photos can be taken from the German wikipedia!