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This is a communication log for the Content Team; a place to post any general notes, updates, or progress reports as a means of tracking our progress towards DoneDone on tasks and projects. Please use in tandem with project/task/talk pages and email as outlined here:

  • Content Log - for general content posts, updates, accounting for general work in progress
  • Project pages - for project specific items (task reports included there at the end of the period)
  • Task pages - for task specific items (day to day work included there as it is done)
  • Talk pages - for visible, one-on-one communication
  • Email - for more private communications

Keep an eye on Content Tasks to see priorities in this iteration.

April 16 2008

  • User:Saad_Saeed starting to share the role of WikiCoaching lead with Tak from Lahore side.
  • Tak proposes new name for Content team: Coaching and Portal team Sounds great to me as it reflects our updated orientation. --Sa'ad talk•email•chat 06:37, 16 April 2008 (PDT)

March 14 2008

Vancouver Tech has been done done.

Articles to write have also been updated.

For a list of individual contributions please visit Lahore Weekly Summary Mehrunnisa

3 March 2008

New Iteration Tasks

Hi all, I put up the latest iteration tasks today. Nothing much has changed, we'll be finishing up VancouverTech this iteration or the next and focus will continue to grow on WikiCoaching and the ways Content can help support the writing for WikiCoaches via the Assist WikiCoaches with Content Writing task.

The only other change is largely semantic. I've renamed HighTraffic task to: Articles to Write. The list on here is now being aggregated from a variety of articles we need written, mostly the former HighTraffic lists. (Which also means you no longer need to look at the "what links here" for HighTraffic, as I've already fed these into the list.) With these articles, continue to write them at about the level of the HighTraffic or Tech articles, unless otherwise noted.

-- TakKendrick | talk Comment_green.gif 16:37, 3 March 2008 (PST)

Friday's Weekly Summary Report by Mehr February 29, 2008

Seattle tech is Done Done!!

This iteration saw the completion of nearly 200 tech articles.Vancouver Tech saw 100 articles in the Done Done list by the end of this week.

Moreover, the team has been working on wiki clients and has made some very nice pages.

For a list of individual contributions please visit Lahore Weekly Summary Mehrunnisa

27th February 2008

Content help for WikiCoaches

Hi all,

After a meeting today to discuss the successes and places for improvement in the WikiCoaching process, we wanted to tweak the model and workflow for WikiCoaching a bit. This should help us get more clients work done faster and better.

Under the new system, there the work will be divided into:

  • WikiCoaches
  • Article writing staff (as assigned through Mehr)

WikiCoaches can continue to help with article writing as they wish and those in the Content staff (Saliha, Mehr, Tak, Steven) are welcome to continue to coach in addition to doing the writing. (If you would like to be a WikiCoach, or would like to not under the new system, please let Tak and John know.)

If a WikiCoach requires help on an article, they will contact Mehr, who will then assign a content team member to help. The content team writer will be responsible for writing the article (that day if possible) and following up with the appropriate WikiCoach when the article is completed or if you need more information from the client.

With the new iteration coming up (Monday), the completion of SeattleTech (YEAH!), and the addition of a sales person to our team in Portland (who has already been generating new work and leads) there will be a few other shifts in the tasks over the next couple of days. We'll be letting everyone know about them as they happen.

Thanks for all the hard work, and (again) congrats and YEAH! on the finishing of SeattleTech. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask me, Mehrunnisa or John.

-- TakKendrick | talk Comment_green.gif 22:12, 27 February 2008 (PST)

VancouverTech Question

These two web pages are same in my opinion.... One which is in VancouverTech--http://pacificnorth.ca/i/ and the other http://www.pacificnorth.ca/home.htm, Please correct me if I am wrong...I will be creating the AboutUsWikiPage from the other as it contains full information of the former...Asma

19 February 2008

New Tasks and Tasks Page

Today I landed on the Content Task page, trying to get it cleaned up. There were some 80+ articles marked as tasks (many of which have been done for months) all at the bottom of the page. I discovered also that a few tasks had been proposed by others (Brandon, Vartan) months ago, but never got due consideration because they were so hard to find on the massive list.

So, to clean it up, I:

  • Paired the Category:Content Task page down to only tasks that are in progress or newly created ones for us to plan out.
  • All completed tasks (as well as the iteration plans for the last couple months) are now on Category:Content Task Done.
  • Personal projects and tasks that weren't finished but have been put on indefinite hold I moved to Category:Content Task Hold so we could better track these "orphaned" tasks and consider them when we get time.
  • I also added a category: Category:Content Task New which will auto-feed on new tasks created with the form. This will (hopefully) allow us to note when new tasks are generated by others. To help with the planning, I've put proposed tasks into a little box on the Category:Content Task page as well.

-- TakKendrick | talk Comment_green.gif 16:44, 19 February 2008 (PST)

Friday's Weekly Summary Report by Mehr February 15, 2008

Seattle tech is nearing completion and will be finished by next week!Approximately 200 pages were DoneDone.The interns are already engaged in seeding articles for Vancouver Tech. Two members for the Content Team will be hired by Friday 22 and will start work from Monday 25th.

For a list of individual contributions please visit Lahore Weekly Summary Mehrunnisa

Friday's Weekly Summary Report by Mehr February 8, 2008

LahoreTech will see its completion today!!Thanks to the great effort by Ayesha LahoreTech saw rapid progress.With pairing of myself, Rohail, SAnwal and Ayesha on Lahore Tech we are working towards getting the remaining 30 articles in the Lahore Tech in progress Done Done by today.

Approximately a 100 pages were put in Done Done aswell.

All in all the Content Team worked on approximately 200 DoneDone pages.

For a list of individual contributions please visit Lahore Weekly Summary 23:17, 7 February 2008 (PST)

Old idea uncovered

Friday's Weekly Summary Report by Mehr

Portland Tech has been DoneDone and has been handed over to the community.This iteration saw a push towards the completion of Seattle Tech and Lahore Tech.With daily reviewing of pages and daily editing and adjustment to put articles on DoneDone list we achieved an incredible 294 Done Done pages for Seattle Tech and 138 DoneDone pages for Lahore Tech.

LahoreTech will be handed over to the community by next Friday and we are pushing to hand SeattleTech to the community by the end of thsi iteration.Moreover, VancouverTech will have its revival the coming iteration:)


For individual goals accomplished visit LahoreWeeklySummary

Removing Listings

Please stop taking items out of PortlandTech (ie. the category and badges). If you feel something doesn't belong in the category, then do some research as to why it was initially put in the category to begin with (and if you think it's in error, then let me know, but don't take it out). Quite frankly, I'm tired of things like BambooFunPenTablet.com being taken out when they obviously are in PortlandTech. (They make software for computer tablets and are in the Portland area, how can this not be in PortlandTech?) The frustrating thing is that I put a note in the history last time this happened on this page (yes, it's happened three times, and both previous times someone has left a note in the history on the revert). I'm getting 3 or 4 emails a week from various people in the PortlandTech community asking why their page was taken out of the listing and it's embarrassing because my only answer is, "Oops, I'm sorry, we goofed." -- Tak

I'd also like to make a pitch for the content team to use a good EditSummary when making significant changes like putting a page into or out of a portal, or when it's status changes to done-done. See the EditSummary page for more info. This is an important wiki skill! TedErnst (talk)

Wednesday 23rd January

Monday 21st January

  • Not sure right place to share PortlandTech discussion. the wikibox doesn't seem right, so point me to where? Anyway, wider conversation about portland tech calendar stuf - are we in this conversation? http://twitter.com/siliconflorist/statuses/625914172 - or is this not a content item anymore now that chris is gone? is this on me and community? TedErnst (talk) 18:19, 21 January 2008 (PST)
    • Ted, have you tried our PortlandTech/Suggestions page? Easily identifiable via our handy-dandy navigation on every PortlandTech page :) I'm watching this calendar initiative with gusto. Technically, PortlandTech is all but being handed over to Community (build out on article will stop Feb. 1, I think). The calendars are a snag we've got to discuss on the transition, because if they're just going to languish someone needs to be assigned them (right now it's StevenWalling). Nothing gets staler quicker than a calendar and if we want to keep PortlandTech lively, it's going to be a place we need consistent (if minor) effort each week. -- TakKendrick | talk Comment_green.gif 10:58, 22 January 2008 (PST)
  • Hi!Content Team!I just want to share this TechPages/NotSeattleBased page with everyone so that before anyone contributes to a page related to SeattleTech, do observe the areas which are included in this category.Please feel free to add in the list, those areas which are not Seattle Based which will help everyone to identify on which pages to work and which to exclude ...Asma

Wednesday 16 January 2008

New Content Tasks are up

Hi all, I put up new Content Tasks for the iteration, mostly a lot of the same. The big change is that we're trying out using hours for our estimates to complete a task rather than pair days (something the Ops Team has been doing to some success) so we'll see how that works.

Tasks that have been completed (YEAH!):

New tasks this iteration:

If anyone has any questions, post them here or let me know (talk page or email). -- TakKendrick | talk Comment_green.gif 19:06, 16 January 2008 (PST)

Wednesday Report

Asma's_Wednesday_Report

Group Review by Mehr

I am finally back to work after a long break.This week we experimented with how to work on Portals.MUbin and Ayesha had already been paired up for LahoreTech.Starting Monday I suggested we self review articles, whereby Ayesha reviewed Mubin's articles and vice versa for Mubin.I felt that by working on the same page over and over again created a mind block, so by reviewing each others articles they filled in on what they thought was missing in the others page.I am happy to say by the end of the week more than 80 pages have been put in the Lahore Tech DoneDone list.Great work you two!!

Myself and Rohail intended to clean up the Category:PortlandTechNeedsWork which had around 80 pages by the end of this week.Some of them were not Tech related as by the new definition and were hence removed.Some of them were DoneDone and had not been removed from the list.Again this target was achieved and the Category:PortlandTechNeedsWork has zero pages on it now.Good work again by Rohail.Next week me and Rohail intend to move on to Category:PortlandTechNeedsReview and employ the strategy of Self Review used by Ayesha and Mubin on Lahore Tech.The goal is to have at least 50 more pages on the Portland Tech DoneDone list by next week.

Sanwal and Asma have been working on Seattle Tech.Around ten articles have been put in the DoneDone list and around 70 have been put up for needs review.

All in all it has been a good week.

For a list of individual work visit LahoreWeeklySummary

General Discussion about Article Writing

Monday 7 January 2008

Ted and us had a little discussion regarding the number of articles to be completed perday as AboutUs envisions quick completion of projects. So, if 10 or 15 articles per day are to be completed, the quality of the articles would not be that attractive or constructive as compared to if we do 5-7 articles per day but if the stress is not over quality and is on the number of articles to be completed, we can always try to finish up with 10-11 perday...The question arises how do we measure the completion of an article? Should it contain a little profound information or only precise/up to the point?

Thoughts/Suggestion..?Thankyou

Asma

  • I think the goal should be right in-between those numbers (erroring on the side of better articles)... say 7 to 10 articles a day. Really the measurement of article completion isn't when they're moved to "NeedsReview" but by how many in a week are called "DoneDone". If one works on say 15 articles a day, that's 75 a week, but is only 55 of those are "DoneDone" then the next week you have to re-work those 20 remaining articles (further reducing the efficiency of the 15 a day you're doing); if initial quality were higher, to the extent where only 10 articles a day are completed (60 a week) but 55 of them are really "DoneDone," I'd say you've accomplished more simply because you have 10 less to have to rework the next week (and those 55 are probably better in this scenario). My only concern with this is that if the numbers of articles do go down (which I think is okay), the quality needs to go up. I'd rather take the quality up 10% over what we've been doing, we just can't have only 5-7 articles a day at the current quality levels. -- Tak

Monday 7 January 2008

LahoreTech Question

Would mobile phone customer service centers be a part of LahoreTech? Dimension-4.com is a Motorola service center. I am not sure if this would be a part of LahoreTech and if it is we should presumably add in all the other customer service centers for other mobiles as well.AyeshaAslam 22:13, 6 January 2008 (PST)

Thursday 3 January 2008

New Tasks

Hi all,

I've just put up the new Tasks for this iteration.

LAHORE TASKS
Generally, there isn't a big change in what Lahore is doing, but a few small shifts...

  • Since Fatima was integral in getting LahoreTech started AND because PortlandTech is winding up (YEAH!), we've moved Saliha over to LahoreTech, knowing she'd be able to help fill Fatima's shoes.
  • Ray recently sold a new portal (YEAH!YEAH!) which will be worked on entirely out of the Portland office (it's only about 60 pages). That plus the work we'll have to do in Portland on the PromoteMe offer has made us realize we might have over-extended by trying to work on the VancouverTech project too. So:
    • We're going to hold off on VancouverTech this iteration and probably until PortlandTech is "DoneDone"
    • Jehansher will switch to the SeattleTech team
    • We've "officially" listed Mehrunnisa on PortlandTech, but since that project is nearly finished, the hope is that she'll continue to be a leader in Lahore and will help with a variety of projects/portals/tasks as needed, and will (in particular) be helping us with Reviewing articles and some other leadership tasks.

Beyond these changes, the RC Patrolling, PortlandTech, LahoreTech and SeattleTech tasks and teams are essentially as they have been.

PORTLAND TASKS
Some of the tasks Portland will be working on:

In addition to the list on the Tasks page, I've updated the duties/tasks everyone is working on on the page. If anyone has any questions, feel free to leave me a talk message or send an email.

TakKendrick | talk Comment_green.gif 20:20, 3 January 2008 (PST)

Wednesday 2, January 2008

NeedsReview articles

Hi all, I started to review the Category:PortlandTechNeedsReview and am noticing a lot of the same problems coming up (which probably apply to article writing for all of the Tech projects):

  • Person pages not having a) the PortlandTech badge; b) not always do they have a link to the company's DomainPage or the person's title (where applicable). See: Frank Tycksen and Bill Funcannon for a couple of examples.
  • The articles seem a little "light". A few are still nothing more than the original bot scrape that have had a products/people sections added. In general, the articles should be AT LEAST three sentences long, and usually will be two paragraphs. There are a lot of these, but here are a few examples: IpProTech.com, MicroField.com, Mytechpdx.com.

Since the Category:PortlandTechNeedsReview list is so long right now, it'd be great if a few of you could pair today and go through the Category:PortlandTechNeedsReview and identify these that are obviously still needing work and moving them to Category:PortlandTechNeedsWork and/or back to Category:PortlandTechInProgress (or add the badge/link if it's a quick fix). I'll go through the list again tomorrow and Friday and move things to "DoneDone" that are ready.

Thanks, TakKendrick | talk Comment_green.gif 17:30, 2 January 2008 (PST)


SeattleTech questions

I Agree! Yes, the page should also redirect and there are few other as well which need to be redirected which I am doing now and there are some pages which when viewed, do not show the site due to some error, some sites are under construction.. but I have still added the badges and categories to them, if they any way seem SeattleTech related. Few pages are totally unrelated to SeattleTech so they are also ommitted.

Secondly, I have added {{SUBST:SeattleTechOtherCompany}} to those pages which are not tech related but were the result of intersections and were Seattle based....Please provide suggestions on it otherwise, I should update them as well...

I have started to remove the SeattleTechBadge from those intersections which are not Seattle based...see TechPages/NotSeattleBased

What will be the solution in case of Staenberg.com, which is a venture capital funding firm for Seattle but is in Santa Monica CA...?

Can Olympia related page be considered in SeattleTech as it seems close to Seattle for TimTyler.com and what about Tacoma, is this place also a little close to Seattle too?

Only Media section is left today, which will be done tomorrow as all of the work had been reviewed again today...

ThankYou!Asma

RESPONSES

  • Seattle-related, but in other cities -- In the case of ones like your example of Staenberg.com, if they are clearly funding SeattleTech then they should be in the appropriate category.
    • Actually, Staenberg's contact page lists them with a Seattle address now, so I changed that. Keep in mind a lot of the address we have aren't necessarily correct because they were register in WHOIS by parent companies. One thing we need to be doing when writing these articles is verifying the addresses.
  • Seattle-area -- Looking at your TechPages/NotSeattleBased list, I'd include any companies that are in Olympia, Tacoma, Spanaway, Auburn, Poulsbo, and Woodinville in SeattleTech. Ones in San Juan Island, Vashon Island, and Bellingham are probably in BOTH SeattleTech and VancouverTech.

-- Tak

Tuesday 1, January 2008

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