Hi Erik, Thanks --- that's valuable feedback.
See also In text below ... On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 03:29 -0700, ericdeeson wrote: > I agree that your idea has merit, Sanjaya, but believe that people > should use such a system only for finished products (like published > books and city centre hotels). For an unfinished product (as, almost > by definition, all wiki pages are), we need an information box with > more detail - to guide potential users, editors and other visitors. > > Here's what I suspect such a box would best contain ... at least: > * code for type of resource and domain/sub-domain > * if for use with learners, codes for subject/topic and level of main > learners > * page start date (and access to author's name if that is felt > appropriate - maybe authors could have a rating as do sellers on > Amazon to help with Sanjaya's concern) > * last edit date (and access to edit history and all editors' names as > with the initial author) > * summary of further work needed if any (like the Wiki's editorial > notes) (and access to full details) Brent Simpson has done his usual magic. Brent has created a ContentInfobox which enables us to implement your suggestions We've not had a chance to publicisze this properly or finish the tutorial on how to use the feature, but you can see an example of our work in progress here: http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Developing_a_teaching_resource/Inserting_an_Infobox Its a pretty powerful template because it automatically categorises stuff. There are some instructions on how to use the template here: See: www.wikieducator.org/template:ContentInfobox The history page keeps track of all the details relating to editors' names, dates etc. but we've included the option for the originating author to specify their name and the starting date of the project. Take a look -- be keen to hear what you think. Cheers Wayne > > Users could gain a view of the likely value to them of the page within > a few seconds and also be encouraged to add to it. > > Best wishes, all - Eric ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
