[OWW-SC] OWW User Feedback

[Bill F]

On Jan 15, 2008 1:49 PM, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:
Take a look at this page:

http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Feedback

I can add this to the toolbox when it does the right thing and looks right.



On Jan 15, 2008 1:42 PM, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> We can just create a page that has the tag in it and put a reference to
> the page in the toolbox for "Feedback".
>
> Anyone who wants to can put the Talk page in your Watchlist and receive
> email notifications when they are created.
>
> Again, it's "*<comments />" *and not *<comment />*.
>
> The syntax looks odd but it's XHTML compliant: the training  " />" saves
> you from creating an open and closing tag like this: <comments></comments>.
>
> Let me put a demo page together and send a link. You can put anything you
> want into the rest of the page you want to deliver.
>
> B.
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2008 1:37 PM, Julius B. Lucks < julius at younglucks.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey Bill,
> > Would it be hard to make a link in the navigation bar that inserted the
> > <comment/> tag into the page that the user was viewing?
> >
> > Julius
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Please Reply to My Permanent Address: julius at younglucks.com
> > http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/User:Julius_B._Lucks
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 15, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Bill F 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
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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