Projects:People Pages
DistributedPlanningGame / People Pages (Scott)
Contents
Why?
To have good and useful personal pages for all users
Done When
- We've conceptualized how people pages on AboutUs should look and function
- We've created well spec'd dev cards and inserted them into the planning game
How can I help?
- Meeting Monday Aug. 20 at 11am PST
- Print out user page examples for meeting
Useful Links
Previous AboutUs Discussion on the topic
User pages from other wikis
User pages from other sites
Discussion
- One thing wiki is about is working together. People pages should help facilitate that process.
- Where should people pages reside on AboutUs? (e.g. aboutus.org/RealName, aboutus.org/User:RealName) We should pick one, and only one place.
- Yes, please choose one only. It can be hard to find someone's people page. This is also a problem with Talk. Some People pages don't have a link to Talk or have a link that only allows New Talk. I prefer to read previous talk to see if my topic has been covered and sometimes I prefer to add to a talk topic rather than start a new one User:Di | talk
- Should an IRC Chat button be added ?
- I'm not sure a link to an IRC channel about AboutUs is relevant to individual people pages. Can you explain why you think it'd be a good idea?
Little idea
- I thought of adding it to the AboutUs Community or AboutUsStaff (User Pages) but I accidentally mentioned here.Sorry! :)
Ways people pages could work
- a) Fully editable standard wiki page
- b) Partially editable page, with some non-wiki markup editable content
- c) Non-wiki markup, but fully editable user pages
Possible functionality
- Bookmarks - There could be a bookmark button on each page that would add a link to your bookmarks. The bookmarks on your page would link to the wiki page with an additional link to the site.
- Friends - There could be a way to add friends and see them from your personal page
- Prominently displayed contributions - Could be a top 10 list of pages they've edited with a link to their full contributions
- Blog - There could be a blog on pages only the owner could edit.
- Talk pages that actually work, and work well.
- Private messages - a way to communicate privately over the wiki
- Pictures - An area where users can upload their own pictures that are connected to their account
- E-mail option
- Biography of that person
- Online Status - showing whether a user is online or not
- Prominently displayed watch list - Make the user watch list a more visible and important part of the personal page
- Avatar - an easy way to (like drag and drop or big button) so that people can upload an avatar which can be used in various modes of internal communication.
- Some people pictures as 'icons or their reviews' can also reside on AboutUs Front Screen Page.
- Invitations - an easy way to invite your friends to join AboutUs
- Member Since - Shows when the user registered
One Vote for Non-Wiki Markup
After looking at the personal pages linked above, I am in favor of non-wiki markup but fully editable personal pages. The advantage of wiki-markup is that the personal page can become a training ground for wiki, however the disadvantage is that by doing so we institute a technological litmus test in order to use a personal page and become a part of the community. None of our competitors demand that their users know how to write wikitext in order to have a beautiful, functional personal page, why should we? Blake Hinckley 10:40, 13 August 2007 (PDT)
- What would it be, if not wiki markup? TedErnst
- Input boxes would be one option. - Scott Keeler
- Input boxes would be one option. - Scott Keeler
Discussion
- We might add 'Area of Interest' or 'Personal Interest' or 'What I like?' which would reflect likings of a persons e.g Photography...
- Date and Time can be added at the corner of the page
- A link of AboutUs 'About AboutUs' may reside on the upper corners of people pages
