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This duplication from the project page is going to drive me batty. [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | This duplication from the project page is going to drive me batty. [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | ||
: Seriously, this is really bothering me. We have a tasks list on the project page, and we have similar (but different) list here. I don't get it! How to resolve? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | : Seriously, this is really bothering me. We have a tasks list on the project page, and we have similar (but different) list here. I don't get it! How to resolve? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | ||
Revision as of 22:07, 27 August 2007
ConsensusPoll:Distributed Planning Game
Discussion
This duplication from the project page is going to drive me batty. TedErnst
- Seriously, this is really bothering me. We have a tasks list on the project page, and we have similar (but different) list here. I don't get it! How to resolve? TedErnst
I think the aim of these pages (as far as I understand but I may be wrong so please feel free to correct me) is to have only the tasks that will be completed over a period of two weeks. The tasks on the project pages are more long term so a small, manageable two week chunk has been taken out of them and hence the task page. If this is not happening then we are not defining the two week chunks of work clearly or specifically enough. There shouldn't really be duplication because even the why we are doing this section should have details about why we are doing the specific tasks identified for the two week period not the whole project. Is what I have written too confusing? Do you think it could be explained better? Tanwir Shah
- Not confusing at all, Tanwir. I agree with what you write here. And, there is duplication. Why? Because the project page is alive, and thus changing all the time, and without transclusion, there's no way to keep it syncronized with this page, nor to even see that this page is here. This page isn't linked from the project page. What if we had two sections for tasks on the project page? One that's for this two weeks (staff) and is transcluded in, and the other for indefinite timeframe (everyone)? It's confusing either way. I don't really know how to solve. I assume this is a problem for all task/project pages. TedErnst
- How about if the Project Pages simply referred to the related Task pages? Example -- Project "HelpPages" might have Tasks "Make new Intro Video for home page" and "Re-write Transparency Article", etc. So on the project page, the overall idea is described and then on the task pages are specific work chunks that we can get done in a given 2 week period. - Ray | talk
- That might work, Ray, except that without tranclusion, it makes it hard to see what work I can be doing "right now" if there are multiple tasks at play. Maybe there won't be, but this list of actions I can take for WhoWeAre is duplicating the list (but not exactly, and not inclusively) on the Projects:WhoWeAre page, so I have to look in two places, and active members are likely not going to do that. I really want a single list of all actions that are actionable now. I'm fine with future actions being hidden somehow (those actions which cannot happen until one or more present actions are taken). Is there a project you feel is currently written well, with tasks broken down in the way you're hoping this goes, so I can see an example? Ted Ernst | talk
- There is also the OurWork page with its list of prioritized projects, which I quite liked because it was easy to see what had been decided and prioritized for the next two weeks. At the end of the day someone has to make a decision on priorities. They cannot be continuously changed. So who decides? Won't cross global discussions be a little difficult? The OurWork page will become another of many pages with information on it for people to consult or is the idea that that this page too will disappear. It's a pity really because Scott did spend a lot of time on it and it seemed to be working, for me at least, I cannot speak for anyone else. Tanwir Shah
- I think a fundamental issue for us is that today's wiki technology doesn't easily allow for "two sorts". The OurWork page does a nice job showing the work by person (credit to Scott for the work he did there). The DistributedPlanningGame page does a nice job showing the work by task. We tried to make a page that shows the work as a grid where the X axis shows tasks and the Y axis shows people, but the only way we got that to work was in Excel, which doesn't easily span space and time (as a wiki does). So we have to either decide to show the work by task or by person, or maintain multiple summary pages, or modify the technology to somehow do both. Thoughts? - Ray | talk
- On priorities, the idea is for everyone in the community to have the opportunity to participate in prioritization of tasks. They can change during planning phase, but once we've agree on what the priorities are for the next period, we should hold them relatively still. We could have just a few people deciding priorities, but that would move us significantly towards a top down structure. Thoughts? - Ray | talk
- Feels to me like this discussion belongs in the ConsensusPoll:Distributed Planning Game? - Ray | talk
Planning Game Overview
Whole company priorities
- WelcomeAllRegisteredContributers (Aug 16-31) (2.5) (Kristina, Asad, Obed, Tanwir, Asma, Kasey, Isabel)
- RecentChanges/Keeping Unpatrolled RC Under 1500 (August 16-31)
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(??) StrategyForKeepingUnpatrolledRecentChangesLow (Asad, Obed, Ted, Kasey)
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09-January-2008
08-January-2008
07-January-2008
02-January-2008
25-December-2007
24-December-2007
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Task | Area | Asad | Mark | Obed
|- | style="background: #ececec;" | DailyBuzz | style="background: #ececec;" | Messaging | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X
|- | style="background: #ececec;" | IRC | style="background: #ececec;" | Support | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X
|- | style="background: #ececec;" | WatchLists | style="background: #ececec;" | Quality Control/ Communication | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X
|- | style="background: #ececec;" | AboutUsBugs | style="background: #ececec;" | QualityControl | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X
|- | style="background: #ececec;" | PeerReview | style="background: #ececec;" | Community Building | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X
|- | style="background: #ececec;" | WikiCoaching | style="background: #ececec;" | Community | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X
|- | style="background: #ececec;" | Concerns Page | style="background: #ececec;" | Support | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X
|- | style="background: #ececec;" | Newsletter | style="background: #ececec;" | OneToMany | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" |
|- | style="background: #ececec;" | Weblog | style="background: #ececec;" | Communication | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" |
|- | style="background: #ececec;" | OTRS | style="background: #ececec;" | Support | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" |
|- | style="background: #ececec;" | PhoneCalls | style="background: #ececec;" | Support | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" |
|- | style="background: #ececec;" | WikiTips | style="background: #ececec;" | OneToMany/ Messaging | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | | style="background: #ececec;" align="center" | X |}
Lower Priority
| Task | Area | Asad | Mark | Obed |
| Welcoming | Communication | X | X | X |
| InterestingHappenings | WikiBoxes | X | X | X |
| ActiveEditors | ListBuilding | X | ||
| AboutUsCollaborator | ListBuilding | X | ||
| Customers | ListBuilding | X | ||
| SiteMessaging | Messaging | X | X | X |
| Support Sites | ListBuilding | X | ||
| Number of Editors | Metrics | X | ||
| Number of Edits | Metrics | X | ||
| GrowthAreaActivity | Metrics |
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| Trends&Patterns | Reporting/ Community Strategy | X | ||
| ContactUs Newsletter | Quality Control/ Communication | X | ||
| SocialMediaStrategy | Community Strategy | X | ||
| Special:Newimages | Maintenance | X | ||
| OnTheWeb | Reporting | X |
- SERVICE
- LIST BUILDING
- GROWTH AREAS
- DEV TASKS FOR COMMUNITY
- Auto patrol blank lines
- Weekly list of top editors / cumulative editors
- TELL STORIES - what is happening on the wiki
AboutUsProjects
Projects that MoveTheNeedle
- ConnectUs because of ViralEngagement
- InfluenceUs because of ViralEngagement
- PromoteUs because of ScalableRevenue
- PortalUs because of ScalableRevenue
- SiteMarketing because of Engagement and Revenue
- Domain Box
March 2008.1 (1-15 Feb)
This Week's Priorities
- Newsletter
- Moving to Real People
- Get help pages ready for CompostUs
- Screencasts
- Ted is going to keep making them
- Mark is going to head up the quality improvement effort
- TouchPoints (What is this? Obed)
- Touch Points are anywhere that we touch a customer. In this case we're thinking about logged-in folks. We have personal page, login page, logout page, email validation email and email validation confirmation screen. We need all 5 of those pages to be awesome. TedErnst (talk)
See also Adoption Map
Zero to Many
On this list is things where non-staff are making things happen. This is viral. And tasks that lead to this.
- WikiBoxes
- Portal calendars
- Badge - we need to improve the Rollout Widget task to include the messaging
- Auto-Welcome Community Task
One to Many
On this list is things where one action from us causes many people to be reached.
- We should improve overall site messaging and add video tutorials to encourage editing.
- Screencast
- HelpIndex & Help
- Projects:WeblogDevelopment
- Page Leveling - next step is to talk with Vinh to make pretty
- create great page with video showing benefits of creating a login - ScreenCast
- AboutUsNewsletter
- High Traffic
- InfluenceUsOrganizingTheProcess
- patrol all edits for spam and adult content - this is RC
One to One
On this list is things where one action from us causes one person to be reached.
- add provocative edits
- Welcoming
- get page alerts list - we have the log. Mark and Ted met with Ward and Ward will be working on this.
- talk page welcome and interactions
- We have changed the way we do welcoming to include provocative edits and inside advantage
- this also includes our watchlists - we should have preferences set to add all pages we edit to our watchlist, and we should be checking these every day
- keep up with support (emails, irc, concerns page, phone, etc) - remember InsideAdvantage!
- FeatureMe, unless we can figure out how it becomes a real community thing, then maybe it goes to one to many or even many to many
- Promote my Company
things we're thinking about
- Are we going to do this? BuildOutAboutUsWikiPage. If so, maybe it goes above?
Task pages we still need
- Community staff knows what are daily responsibilities are regarding RC, welcoming etc. We dont need busy work task pages for these, links below are task pages we may need.
Pages we need because they have the instructions
Done
see Category:CompletedCommunityTasks
Content Tasks
The following is an overview of all the ongoing projects that come under Content at AboutUs.
All of these Projects and Tasks have been moved to the the Matrix Above.
- REDIRECT DevelopmentPriorities
Undefined Projects
The following are the undefined projects:
- CommunityBuilding
- NeedsPatrollingPersonalPages
- DailyMaintenance
- HowYouCanHelp
- SocialMediaOutreach
- OutreachToWikiIndex
- StrategicPlanning
- LocalPortland
- AdultContentSplashScreen
- RedesignUploadPage
- AboutUs ActiveMembers
- WeblogDevelopment
- Projects:ArticlesToWriteHired
- ArticlestoWrite


