[OWW-SC] OpenWetWare User Manaagement System: User Page created for new users autmatically

[Julius B. Lucks]

Great job Bill!

A while ago Vincent and I thought about a similar feature as part of  
the outreach effort.  There was some discussion of including wiki  
tutorial information in the default user page.  I think something  
along the lines of the 'Welcome!' and 'Basic Wiki Instructions'  
sections of

http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Steering_committee/ 
Outreach_chairs/mock_home_page

would be extremely useful for new users who are also new to wikis,  
and we could easily integrate these sections into your current template.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

Julius

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On Oct 4, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Reshma Shetty wrote:

> Just a quick note that I *believe* that thanks go out to Maureen
> Hoatlin for suggesting this feature as a way to get new users more
> comfortable with editing the site.
>
> Thanks Maureen!  And Bill for implementing it!
>
> -Reshma
>
> On 10/4/07, Bill Flanagan <wjf42 at mit.edu> wrote:
>> We've recently rolled out a new OpenWetWare feature that we want  
>> to let all
>> of you know about.
>>
>> When a new user is created, an email message is sent out welcoming  
>> the user
>> to OpenWetWare.org. The email message formerly pointed to the  
>> place their
>> OpenWetWare User: page would be if it had text. They are free to  
>> edit and
>> save the page. This presents a problem for most OpenWetWare.org  
>> users:
>> without having any experience with OpenWetWare or MediaWiki  
>> editing, there's
>> little chance their
>> User: page would be populated with any information.
>>
>> The OpenWetWare User Management System (UMS) now will create a  
>> default User:
>> page for all new users. To do this, a standard User: page template  
>> has been
>> created. The information provided by users during registration  
>> drives the
>> content of this page. This page is not a standard MediaWiki  
>> template. This
>> means that future changes to the page will not change existing  
>> User: pages.
>> The information that can be displayed currently includes the new  
>> user's
>> name, email address, reason for joining OpenWetWare, and how they  
>> heard
>> about us.
>>
>> Since the content is contained in a standard OpenWetWare page, the  
>> content
>> page can be changed. Currently, the display is very basic. If  
>> anyone has any
>> ideas about how this can be enhanced, feel free to contribute.
>>
>> Look for more detains here:
>>
>> http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Software/User_management
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Bill Flanagan
>> www.OpenWetWare.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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