[OWW-Discuss] "Contact Us" mods

[julius.lucks]

Can we get lab contacts and protocol writers etc automatically sitting  
on the feedback list?

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On Apr 7, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu> wrote:

>
>    The message on the page already says to leave a message on the
>    talk page. It is a much lower barrier to entry to type a message
>    into a text box than getting an account and posting on a talk
>    page. The majority of messages that we have already received have
>    been for specific people/protocols. My feeling is that
>    restricting the comments to only feedback about the site will mean
>    we will get no feedback and those who really do have useful
>    feedback for labs won't give them at all.
>
>> We should also put something in the message that if they want to  
>> leave
>> a message for a particular person or lab, then they can join OWW and
>> leave a message on a talk page.
>>
>> J
>>
>> On Apr 7, 2008, at 8:47 AM, "Barry Canton" <bcanton at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>>   It'd be nice if the contact page could look at the referring page
>>>>   and based on that, "do the right thing." For example, if I'm
>>>>   looking at the Endy lab page, the contact form should send an
>>>>   email to the endy lab contact. The simplest implementation I can
>>>>   think of is to have a special tag people could put on pages for
>>>>   example, {{contact:myemail at blah}}. Labs would put it into their
>>>>   lab template, protocol writers would put it into their protocols,
>>>>   etc. The contact page extension would try to find such a tag and
>>>>   if it exists, send the comment email there. Otherwise, it sends  
>>>> to
>>>>   the generic oww feedback address.
>>>
>>> Personally, I think it makes more sense if the behavior of the
>>> "Contact OWW" button is consistent across the wiki.  I think the
>>> proposal to make the text on the contact us page better explain who
>>> the feedback is sent to will be sufficient.
>
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> Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899
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