KM4Dev Wiki functionality

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This page collects suggestions for improvements of the KM4Dev Wiki

Open suggestions

Change "Projects" to "Activities"

I realized that the word "projects" is probably not the most appropriate for the type page that it seeks to describe. Since that page aims to showcase WHAT we do, a better word would probably be Activities. An additional advantage of this change is that Activities can also include Events, which currently doesn't appear anywhere. (by Davide Piga)

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  • Activities is still a vague term but better than Projects. (Riff Fullan)

Add "Featured Activity" box in the homepage

To make the wiki a little more lively, we could have a regularly updated box with a featured project or event. For example, this month's featured activity could be the CTLab. Graphically, I would move the boxes Projects and Advanced Search respectively under Discussions and Members. This would leave space to have a tall box for the Featured Activity on the right, with an image, a short description and the link to the activity's page. (by Davide Piga)

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  • Problem with who would update this and how often. (Riff Fullan)

Add "Recent Discussions" box in the homepage

If the Featured Activity doesn't take too much space, below it we could have an self-updating (need to verify) little box with links to the last 3 discussions that have been summarized on the wiki. (by Davide Piga)

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Notes previous to 2012 upgrade

IMPROVING THE ORGANIZATION OF THE WIKI

In a working session at Zeist, we talked in a Wiki session about how to improve the organization of the wiki and Nancy volunteered to convene a skype and/or telephone conversation this month to solicit ideas on how we might do this.

During this Skype call, we pondered on the improvements we could do in the short term. We thought the Wikis Main Page needed a rehaul and here are some suggestions for new text:

See the Minutes for the Skype meeting of 28 Aug 2012

MAKING A ROADMAP OF OUR TECHNOLOGY GOING FORWARD

At the Core group gathering, we talked a bit about what might be our technology road map. What activities do we want to support with technology beyond our email list? How do we design our community's technology? Who supports the implementation (software deployment costs, hosting, support, etc.) going forward? It might be good to have a conversation on the list or off (in case this is not of interest to the larger group) to brainstorm.

IDEA- TAGS Using tags and tag clouds may provide a good way to find stuff of interest off the home page of the wiki. "tag cloud for media wiki": see also:

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