Administrivia: So ... what next?

So now that the dust has more or less settled on the WIST redesign comes the question, "what next?"

In particular, options include:

1. Continue to add more quotes.
2. Revisit existing quotes without decent citation and work on cleaning those up.
3. Improve the search speed.
4. Try to figure out a "quote of the day" functionality.
5. Come up with a good resources page with the current places I get or research quotes from.

Anything else you can think of? This site is for your use, after all.

Two previously-requested options are not likely:

1. Allow users to add quotes: Sorry, this isn't Wikiquote (which is, in fact, a wonderful site). I'd rather not open things up to the world to break/spam the site. Though, that said, if you have a quote you want to see in here, leave it in a comment in some post (I'll see it) or contact me by e-mail, and I'll see what I can do. (If I don't care for the quotation, I won't use it, but there's no accounting for my tastes).

2. Tag/categorize quotes: Not only would this be a massive task with the existing 5K-odd quotes at the moment, but I've always found such schemes and taxonomies to be somewhat arbitrary and rarely complete. Honestly, I find word searches a better way to find what one's looking for. There may be ways of opening that up to the public -- but that runs smack-dab into the spamming thing again.

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