[OWW-Discuss] "Contact Us" mods

[Ricardo Vidal]

If there is so much discussion really going on, I'd think it be best to have
a discussion board and not a blackhole email discussion mailinglist. You
know, so that previous questions/answers can be found.

But obviously a discussion board is a whole new matter. So I apologize going
a bit off topic.

~R

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:54 PM, julius.lucks <julius.lucks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then let's forward the feedback list to duscuss so more people see these
> messages and can respond.
>
> J
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 7, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> >    Getting all contacts to be on the feedback list seems
> >    impractical. For example, recently on the feedback list:
> >    "Hi I was wondering were you purchased or harvested the algea that
> >    you used in the bio reator."
> >    It's impossible to determine who should even be on the feedback
> >    list to answer this question. And I really don't think someone who
> >    just wants to put up a protocol about algae wants to be on a list
> >    that receives questions about every topic under the sun. However,
> >    they probably are interested in questions related to algae
> >    protocols so some way of directing those questions to them is
> > useful.
> >
> >> Can we get lab contacts and protocol writers etc automatically
> >> sitting
> >> on the feedback list?
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899
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