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User experience, sometimes called UX, is important to make Appropedia a usable and enjoyable site for visitors. | |||
Note: work on the tech side of user experience is being managed in [https://secure.bettermeans.com/projects/181/dashboard this BetterMeans workstream] which lets us track tasks. Please sign up there if you'd like to help out. | |||
== New skin == | == New skin == | ||
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==== In principle... | == Web ring == | ||
=== In principle... === | |||
In conversations with [[User:Peter Campbell|Peter Campbell]], we've discussed having a web ring for relevant green/dev sites - especially wikis, but possibly other useful and/or collaborative websites as well. Chief contenders: | In conversations with [[User:Peter Campbell|Peter Campbell]], we've discussed having a web ring for relevant green/dev sites - especially wikis, but possibly other useful and/or collaborative websites as well. Chief contenders: | ||
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* Are they providing similar links back to us? | * Are they providing similar links back to us? | ||
=== Implementation === | |||
* A template on the main page, at the bottom. Simple, quick to do. | * A template on the main page, at the bottom. Simple, quick to do. | ||
* [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/ en.battlestarwiki.org] has a row of links to related sites as part of the skin, at the top of every page. | * [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/ en.battlestarwiki.org] has a row of links to related sites as part of the skin, at the top of every page. | ||
== Url bar buttons == | |||
The recent changes feed is not much use except to the hardest of hardcore wiki geeks, so AboutUs puts their blog feed in their header: <tt><nowiki><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AboutUsWikiWeblog" /></nowiki></tt> We can do this for [http://blogs.appropedia.org/ our blog], but it would be even cooler if we had a community wiki blog (like the [http://www.estigmergia.net/en/w/index.php?title=Wlog Estigmergia] wlog). | |||
The [http://universaleditbutton.org Universal Edit Button] also goes in the url bar. | |||
== Information architecture == | == Information architecture == | ||
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* {{User|Chriswaterguy}} - {{email|chriswaterguy|appropedia|org}} | * {{User|Chriswaterguy}} - {{email|chriswaterguy|appropedia|org}} | ||
* {{User|Lonny}} | * {{User|Lonny}} | ||
== Subpages of this project == | |||
{{list subpages}} | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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* [http://www.packtpub.com/article/integrating-twitter-and-youtube-with-mediawiki Integrating Twitter and YouTube with MediaWiki] | * [http://www.packtpub.com/article/integrating-twitter-and-youtube-with-mediawiki Integrating Twitter and YouTube with MediaWiki] | ||
* [http://www.liquidben.com/wiki/index.php?title=Public:MediaWiki_CSS_reference MediaWiki CSS reference - LiquidWiki] | * [http://www.liquidben.com/wiki/index.php?title=Public:MediaWiki_CSS_reference MediaWiki CSS reference - LiquidWiki] | ||
[[Category:Appropedia site development | [[Category:Appropedia site development]] | ||
Revision as of 03:10, 21 February 2013
User experience, sometimes called UX, is important to make Appropedia a usable and enjoyable site for visitors.
Note: work on the tech side of user experience is being managed in this BetterMeans workstream which lets us track tasks. Please sign up there if you'd like to help out.
New skin
See Appropedia:User experience/New skin
Web ring
In principle...
In conversations with Peter Campbell, we've discussed having a web ring for relevant green/dev sites - especially wikis, but possibly other useful and/or collaborative websites as well. Chief contenders:
- Greenlivingpedia:
- Envirowiki:
- Howtopedia:
- The relevant Wikia sites
The important questions are:
- Is this adding value for users?
- Are they providing similar links back to us?
Implementation
- A template on the main page, at the bottom. Simple, quick to do.
- en.battlestarwiki.org has a row of links to related sites as part of the skin, at the top of every page.
Url bar buttons
The recent changes feed is not much use except to the hardest of hardcore wiki geeks, so AboutUs puts their blog feed in their header: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AboutUsWikiWeblog" /> We can do this for our blog, but it would be even cooler if we had a community wiki blog (like the Estigmergia wlog).
The Universal Edit Button also goes in the url bar.
Information architecture
Some aspects of IA (Information Architecture) are hard to separate out from UX, especially:
- Left navbar links - do an initial carding exercise ASAP? (With students? When giving a talk?)
- The Topic categories issue.
Subcommittee members
Subpages of this project
See also
- Appropedia:Landing pages
- {{Makeover}} - use where help is needed from a Wikifairy, to make things pretty and/or user-friendly.