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To-do list
A few things that could be done on this wiki:


 * Books:
 * Write/check the summary of each book.
 * Add links to all the characters and the places mentioned in the summaries, or mention them if not already there.
 * Should the summaries be cut chapter per chapter?
 * Check the lists of characters for each book. Write a short description for each one?
 * Restore and upload high-res covers for the original American editions (User:Nclm: doing this). Add them to the articles as secondary covers.
 * Add a Covers section with many covers from different editions? Including non-English?
 * See what other sections can be added: Awards? Reception?
 * Add illustrations from the original books?
 * On The Borrowers (book series) article, add an history section: How did she get the idea, where did she write, how did she publish? Find interviews, articles, etc.


 * Adaptations:
 * Write/check the plot summary of each adaptation.
 * Add links to all the characters and the places mentioned in the summaries, or mention them if not already there.
 * For the series, have a short general summary and episode per episode summaries?
 * Capture and upload significant screenshots for all the adaptions.
 * Add them to the articles in a Gallery section, maybe with descriptions.
 * Find original posters/artworks for each adaptation (not newer DVD covers), and use them as a main image for each article and on the Adaptations page.
 * Add other posters/covers/promo images to a dedicated section?
 * See what other sections can be added: Awards? Reception? Production? But there is no need to be what Wikipedia already does well.
 * Add sections about adaptation in itself: What is different from the books? What is unique compared to other adaptations?


 * Characters:
 * Create the Characters page, with lists/galleries/descriptions of absolutely everyone.
 * Create pages for all the missing characters.
 * Add infoboxes to all the characters pages.
 * Find a picture in the original illustrations to use as a main image for each character.
 * Write long(er) descriptions, biographies, details for all the characters. Link all the other characters and locations mentioned.
 * Improve the The Boy page to include his variations in other adaptations.
 * Make a page for the whole Clock family?
 * Think also of pages about characters introduced only in adaptations, like Arrietty’s little brother in the 1997 film and many others.
 * Capture nice screenshots for each character in each adaptation. Add them to their page like Arrietty, Pod, and Homily have already.
 * Have nice redirections from first names only to full names, and so on.
 * Add also illustrations from the original books depicting them.
 * Create a human beans page? “Human beans are tall, very tall people (“Contrary to a normal borrower, an adult human bean can easily measure in between 150 and 190 centimetres…”)
 * Improve and complete the Borrowers page. Add customs, traditions, culture, society, etc, everything there is to know about the borrowers both as a species and as a civilisation.


 * Locations:
 * Create the Places page.
 * Improve the map? Make it clickable?
 * Create the Template:Infobox Place and the Template:Navbox Places.
 * Create a page for every location in the books and adaptions, and write about them!
 * Illustrate with images.


 * People:
 * Create pages for illustrators: Pauline Baynes and Beth and Joe Krush.
 * Create pages for actors/actresses, directors, screenwriters.


 * Other:
 * Should we have pages about everything to know about borrowing?
 * First, a Borrowing page independent from Borrowers?
 * Then informations about tools (what they are use to, what they are made from), food (where to find them, how to get them), materials…
 * Nothing made-up, everything in reference to the books and adaptations.


 * Wiki:
 * Design and set-up a theme with logo, colours, etc. (Require admin rights)
 * Also apply it to Infoboxes, Navboxes, and general in-page usages.
 * Make a nice(r) home page.
 * Invite people to participate.
 * Improve redirections, templates, categorisation, etc.

Anything missing? Add your ideas!

Sources and references
These articles or other media could help writing interesting things in the wiki:


 * https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/aug/26/how-we-made-the-borrowers-tv
 * https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/feb/29/archive-1960-mary-norton

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