[OWW-SC] OWW User Feedback

[Bill F]

That's <comments />

Sorry!

I tested it. The comment goes onto the talk page.


On Jan 15, 2008 1:33 PM, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just downloaded and installed a comment tag that may be of use.
>
> To try it add the following tag to any OWW page:
>
> <comment />
>
> See what you think.
>
> This is a starting point. Ican change the code to either send an email
> message to a specific address or to add the comment to another page besides
> the one the tag is located upon.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> B.
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2008 12:16 PM, Julius B. Lucks <julius at younglucks.com> wrote:
>
> >  Hey Mike,
> > Good points. An email comment/suggestion box would already be a huge
> > step forward, and might be the simplest thing to start off with.  We can
> > always reply to individual emails, and we can gradually evolve the system
> > into an email-based discussion board/list in the future.
> >
> > We can also start a wiki-based page, but given how unwieldily long
> > discussions are on the wiki, this might not be the best, especially for a
> > new user who is hesitant to edit the wiki.
> >
> > Of course, in the presence of no user-feedback on which one is best, we
> > should do both!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Julius
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Please Reply to My Permanent Address: julius at younglucks.com
> > http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/User:Julius_B._Lucks
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:06 AM, M. Yee wrote:
> >
> >
> > This is a great idea, but how we implement feedback should depend on
> > what
> > we expect out of it. Email might be the easiest way to go, but
> > submitters
> > would not necessarily be expecting a response--more of a comment or
> > suggestion box in that case. If we're looking to start a discussion with
> > the user, perhaps a thread similar to the "Help" page would be useful.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Julius B. Lucks wrote:
> >
> > Hi SC,
> >
> > We really need some way for an average user to give feedback to the SC
> > about
> > how to make OWW better, how they currently use it, etc.  Outside of the
> > survey, or someone finding the steering committee page on their own,
> > there is
> > really no mechanism to get general community feedback on how we are
> > doing, and
> > which direction we should take next.   I am hoping that as the SC blog
> > is used
> > more regularly, there will be useful comments on the posts, but I don't
> > think
> > that is enough.
> >
> > How about some sort of 'Feedback' link in the navigation bar?  That way
> > it can
> > be seen on every page so that people reaching OWW from Google for
> > example can
> > still give feedback.  The link ideally would point to some sort of
> > discussion
> > forum with topic threads etc., but for now should just bring up some
> > page that
> > a user could fill in to email feedback at openwetware.org for example
> > (email
> > being simpler for newer users than editing the wiki).
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Julius
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Please Reply to My Permanent Address: julius at younglucks.com
> > http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/User:Julius_B._Lucks
> >
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> >
> >
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