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===Handoff Lahore to Porland===
 
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Revision as of 00:04, 29 January 2008

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  • Three Core Offers
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    • Email Alerts are notifications that are sent to you via email if and when any page you care about is edited. There are two ways to get email alerts.

You need an Account (need one? Sign Up)

Signed In people have the ability to get emails when pages they are watching is edited by someone other than themselves.

Turning on the Email Alerts function

(Note: These steps assume you've already created an account and are signed in. If you don't have an account please click here and to sign in click here or on the corresponding buttons at the top right.)

1. Click the My Settings link at the top right by your name and portrait.

2. Make sure your account has the correct email address and that it is confirmed.

3. Check the boxes under the email section on that you want.

  • Email me when a page I'm watching is changed -- Sends an email to your confirmed email address any time a Watched Page has been changed by someone else.
  • Email me when my talk page is changed -- Sends an automatic email when someone has edited your talk page.

4. Make sure to click the Save button when you're done.

5. Now you're all set and will receive email alerts when a page you are watching changes.

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6. To add a page to your watchlist click "more" and then "watch this page" near the top right of the page you care about.


Questions? Contact us.

What (summary)

Create a tool where a user can input a word or phrase (for example, a domain name) and the corresponding AboutUs WikiPage is automatically tagged with an inputted set of categories, as well as a badge (via a template probably). This will make it painlessly easy for visitors to AboutUs (and portal builders) to add WikiPages to portals or other aggregated pages like PortlandTech or LASIK.

The code for the button would need to be editable to specify which template to add so that the user doesn't have to input these things AND we have flexibility for different intersected sets (all we need is a new template), allowing this 'Add This Here' to work as a universal tool for a variety of Content and Community projects, as well as being something the external portal builders can use for creating their own aggregated content areas.

Example

The button would appear next to the various listings on a page, like the 'Software' heading on PortlandTech/Companies, prompting the user to enter a domain to add. On click the corresponding WikiPage would have a template added to it that includes categories PortlandTech, Company, Software and the PortlandTech badge. Once these tags are added to the page it should automatically load in the intersect set on the example page. (Might require Purgepage to purge the server's cache so that users aren't adding their URL a bunch of times because it isn't showing up immediately on the intersected list.)

Why this is important

Critical to UI of PortlandTech. Is also a large part of the "One-click Portal" (making it easy for anyone to create and edit their own portals).

DoneDone

When I can enter a page and see it added to the intersected list (via categories added to the page). What to do about bots hitting the add category special page?


Steps to get to DoneDone

  • Read out community suggestions and make appropriate changes.

Not Related to this Task

  • Fix the category casespace problem in the intersect extension.

Discussion

Badge template order

Not sure where to put this, but because the order of the badges matter (for the Google tracking and portal skinning), when the tool adds the badge, it needs to be able to add it to the bottom of the badge list, not the top, so as to not off-set previous badge tracking/skinning. (See a page like: AboutUs.org or Mentor.com for examples of what I mean). Otherwise, my preliminary tests work pretty well. -- TakKendrick | talk Comment_green.gif

  • The order has been reversed. New badges should now appear at the end of existing ones. --Ali Aslam 04:28, 8 February 2008 (PST)

Julia's thoughts (with comments by Tak)

I used the tool to add instituteofmosaicart.com. It added the template to the "badges" area with

... also, I'm not sure why the portlandtech badge was added. It put instituteofmosaicart.com in the portlandtech sphere.

  • Julia (and others), I just switched the template it's calling around so that it adds what is clearly a test badge. Obviously, the test badge was based on the PortlandTech badge and has inadvertantly included that coding. -- TakKendrick | talk Comment_green.gif 14:49, 7 February 2008 (PST)


I would like to suggest a wording change on the first screen: At the very top: Be Included in PORTALNAME / In the main box: Being included in a portal is a great way to gain industry recognition. Enter the page name below. In italics: (For Example: Foo.com). And I think the button could say: IncludeUs/ on the next page, the main title: Congratulations! and in the main box: PAGENAME has successfully been added to PORTALNAME. Needs a Button: Return to PORTALNAME.

  • I for one would also like to discuss a wording change, primarily to one that specifically says, "You'll be adding yourself to this portal: PORTALNAME". Also, this current implementation doesn't do "mass" inclusion for portals (either add a variety of pages, or add a single page to several categories in the portal) at all, but my thought was that was always a "Rev 2.0" feature anyway. What do the developers think? -- TakKendrick | talk Comment_green.gif 14:49, 7 February 2008 (PST)
  • It would be great if we could improve on the current 'Add This Here' wizard text. We'll happily change it.
  • The current implementation does not allow mass inclusion of pages in a particular portal. We'll have to do it one at a time until that improvement is rolled out. --Ali Aslam 04:36, 8 February 2008 (PST)

AddThisThere

What I mean by this is that it would be great to see some functionality for folks who are building portals (along with AddThisHere which is to be included in an existing portal).

  • ==What is InfluenceUs?==

Similar to reviews, AboutUs' InfluenceUs wizard provides a way to engage and influence companies and organizations with your feedback and suggestions.

With your InfluenceUs comment on their website's domain page you are sharing your experience with others and letting them know how they can improve and/or what they're already doing right.

For example: I am delighted that this company has taken steps to improve their support system by issuing customers a tracking system to follow up their complaints. I would like them to do the same for the suggestions area so we can be notified when they take us up on our feedback.

How can you use InfluenceUs

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InfluenceUs can be used for all companies/organizations with a website. It's very simple to use. Just go through the following steps.

  1. Visit the AboutUs page for the company you want to influence (Type the domain above and click "Find!")
  2. Click the InfluenceUs button on top of the page as shown in the picture above. (Make sure you are logged in)
  3. Click "Next" in the Dialog box
  4. Select the relevant option (Delighted or Frustrated)
  5. Type your constructive feedback and press "Submit"

Note to InfluenceUs-ers

We ask that you leave your feedback (delighted or frustrated) in a constructive manner with a view of helping the organization to move towards improvement. (AboutUs.org isn't a place to throw eggs.) So if you are happy with somebody, you would want to reinforce that by asking them to do more of it. And if you feel that something needs to change with a business, you would want to highlight that by telling them steps you would like them to take to improve.

Note to website operators

InfluenceUs is an exciting tool for customers to share their delighted or frustrated comments about companies. If you are the owner of a website or company, please edit your wiki page's description, additional information, contact, add links, upload images, but we ask that you refrain from using the InfluenceUs tool on your own wiki page(s) other than responding to feedback. Thank you.

See also:

Handoff Lahore to Porland

Handoff Portland to Lahore

  • We started on the Claims task in the live branch (all changes so far have been deployed) ... please review our work and make suggestions on the Claims page


To Consider for Next Iteration

  1. Category Advertising
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  2. Enable the watchlist alerts by default, and set the add articles I edit to my watchlist by default & We want the personal pages of new users to be on their watchlist along with their talk pages, and in the watchlist preferences all boxes marked checked by default. Obed Suhail 00:54, 10 January 2008 (PST)
  3. Uber Patrol
    1. Update UberPatrol to allow us to leave edit summaries on Roll-to (because reverts hurt).
    2. Alter UberPatrol so we never see blank edits such as: this one (alternatively, this could be done by a bot on "save page", setting the patrolled flag to yes at that time, or even not saving an edit that's blank.
    3. See the "possible adult content" flag on uber patrol just as we can see it on the main wiki pages.
  4. Interface
    1. An AboutUs home page tab next to edit.
    2. Promote the "Random Page" button to somewhere in the skin so people can find it more easily Ray
    3. Show the "Get a Badge" capability somewhere where people can easily find it (like maybe in the skin also?) - Ray | talk
      What happened to this? Wasn't it supposed to be the 4th offer? TedErnst (talk) 02:21, 14 January 2008 (PST)
  5. Add an upload a logo affordance similar to the upload portrait affordance to make it easier to add logos to company pages
  6. for email alerts task, we need list(s) (perhaps daily these are just added to the bottom of a page - and community staff removes items from the top of the lists as we do the edits - would that work for dev?)
    1. newly watched pages (both get page alerts and my watchlist) and
    2. watched pages that have been edited by non-sysops so we can provocatively edit them again
  7. Mark all edits by a particular login or ip as "patrolled"
  8. We want a list on admin wiki of pages edited last week (each week) by logged in folks where email of the editor matches domain of page; we want a link to the history of the page edited and a link to admin wiki domain page.
  9. List of pages watched by logged in folks, (If possible, show on the page itself "people watching this page")

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