Hi Leigh --- I agree! I wonder if Chris @ SuperUser has a little time on his hands to help out over at WE?
Chris -- the work you're doing on SuperUser is pretty inspiring - would love to have you on our team .... Cheers Wayne On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 13:38 +1300, Leigh Blackall wrote: > Wow Chris! SuperUser is looking great! All MediaWiki too! Give this > man a job... he is at where I hope Wikied will be at some day... > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Chris Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > There's also a tag and tag cloud extension, you can see it in > use on my wiki on the mainpage > > http://superuser.com.au/Main_Page > > If you look on the following page you can see down the bottom > to "add tag" which is sort of the same as categories. > > http://superuser.com.au/News_aggregator_lesson > > Warm Regards > Chris > http://chris.superuser.com.au/ > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Brent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Categories are kind of like tags but categorizing > something as [[Category:Valierieslist]] probably isn't > that helpful to anyone besides Valerie :-) .. thats > what the watchlist function is for. The De.licio.us > tip is a good one, and as Leigh has suggested you can > then embed the RSS from any del.icio.us tag back into > a page off of your user page say as a way to keep > track of pages you've "tagged/bookmarked" like this. > It is also worth exploring the > http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:RecentChanges page > a bit. There is functionality in there to limit recent > changes to just certain categories as well. I had been > working somewhat on these as well: > http://www.wikieducator.org/Portal:Primary but they > still need quite a bit of work/content to be useful. > > brent. > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Leigh Blackall > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regarding Valerie's suggestion for a way to > browse, and Maria's example of Flickr and > tagging: > > Valarie - I agree, it would be nice, > especially for when introducing the wiki to > people. > Maria - Welcome (nice to have another > experienced social media user with us) good > suggestions - I think the category feature in > the wiki can be used as a kind of tagging > system. > > When you come across a page that you think > should be added to the browse list, simply > click edit and type [[category:browselist]] or > some other tag word. > If it is useful to you for something else, add > perhaps add [[category:valerieslist]]. > These category tags will be added as links to > the bottom of the page. When you click those > links, you'll be taken to an index page where > all the tagged pages are listed in > alphabetical order. Now, at the techtonic > shift way back, I asked the tech madician > behind Wikied if we could apply a tag cloud > look to the category feature which would give > us a clearer idea of what category tags where > popular. > > An alternative way to achieve this is to use > Del.icio.us. Use it to bookmark and tag a > wikieducator page. Go to Del.icio.us to view > your list. When viewing your list, look for > the RSS feed for that list. Take the URL for > that RSS feed, and create a page on > Wikieducator called "Browse List". Add that > RSS feed to that page. After that RSS feed URL > has had a few bits of wiki syntax added to it > by me or anyone who knows how, then the page > will display the Del.icio.us list right there > on the page. This method is a type of third > party media embed and can be done for video > and audio as well. > > Personally, I think both methods are good - > but I have a preference for Del.icio.us > because it decentralises content a little. I > am quite nervous about putting everything into > the wiki and prefer to distribute across > services as a type of backup plan - as well as > broader range of digital literacy development. > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Patricia > Schlicht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Valerie, > > Those are great thoughts, Valerie. Why > don't you add them to the Community > Portal for WikiEducator under the > appropriate to-do list. > > > http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Community_Portal > > Thank you. > Warm regards, > Patricia > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of valerie > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 8:14 AM > To: WikiEducator > Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: > WIkiEducator 3.0 -- Asking the right > questions > > > I don't know if this is something new > that is needed or something that > already exists. > > What I would really like to do is > "browse" or "graze" through > WikiEducator - like flipping through a > magazine or a journal. I'm sure > there is lots of great stuff, but I > have yet to find a good way to see > the broad spectrum and stumble upon > stuff. > > Search isn't the answer, because I > don't know what I'm looking for but > I'll know it when I see it. > > What would be even better would be > some over layer / meta data layer - > sort of like social bookmarking but > just for WE content (at least for > now). I would like to hop > "sequentially" through all the WE > content - > start anywhere - see the high level > pages or a map that showed number > of links, child pages, last update, > creation date, tags, categories. > > I want to just scroll or click through > the list in some orderly but > quick way - browse! Like scanning the > Sunday New York Times. If I see > something of interest, I'd like to > note and tag it against my criteria > - my subject/ classification, > remember to revisit, and some general > site wide criteria - completeness, > readability. > > There are a couple of frustrations > with WE now, as I see it. I'm not > aware of any good, quick way to see > everything that is out there. > Finding the "good stuff" that is > complete enough for consideration as > an OER or Learning object is way too > hard. > > There are also some general WE > housekeeping issues - I know, I'm part > of the problem. Personal notes, brain > dumps, kernels of future > projects or topics of interest, or > worse - tried it and abandoned > pages. This is all interspersed with > fine materials that really should > be seen and promoted, both within WE > and the WE community and to a > global audience. > > It would be nice if this were easy. I > hope there are tools available > or forthcoming to address some of > these needs. Some of us see > ourselves as noders and linkers - > reviewing and classifying entries in > this great WE resource but lack the > tools to be effective. > > Are there tools available now? I did > review the WE 3.0 page, but I > didn't come away with too much on > questions like this - too process > oriented? Too far down the hierarchy > of issues? Are they part of the > plan? > > ..Valerie > > On Oct 11, 4:01 pm, Wayne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > In a socially connected world it is > more beneficial to have the right > > questions than the right answers to > the wrong questions. > > > > I've been working on a WikiEducator > 3.0 draft node. Please read through > > the summary provided on this page to > familiarise yourself with our > > current context: > > > > > > http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:WikiEducator_3.0 > > > > WE are inviting the community to > help us in brainstorming a list of the > > "right" questions for the third > phase of our strategic plan. Once > we've > > generated a reasonable list of > questions we will engage in discussion > > and reflection on whether we have > listed the right questions -- before > > we attempt to answer them :-). These > discussions will form the > > foundation of our operational plan > for Phase 3 of our strategic plan. > > > > Cheers > > Wayne > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- > Leigh Blackall > +64(0)21736539 > skype - leigh_blackall > SL - Leroy Goalpost > http://learnonline.wordpress.com > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > Leigh Blackall > +64(0)21736539 > skype - leigh_blackall > SL - Leroy Goalpost > http://learnonline.wordpress.com > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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