Valerie, Some good ideas. I do see how the "help wanted" aspect of a project could be part of the main info box (I've been using the contentinfobox for projects). Here's my simplistic view of the process: a person connected with a particular project specifies what help is needed in fields in a box on the project page. The request automatically show up on help wanted list(s). WE members interested in helping leave a note on the contact's talk page (or maybe on the project talk page, not sure). Volunteer is brought up to speed on the work needed and works to get it done. Later in the development work, different help is needed, so the infobox is revised to specify new help wanted request. Request goes out and new helpers arrive and do work.
For "Title of Resource" I mean the name of the project, in my case: Working with Spreadsheets using OpenOffice.org Calc. Your draft infobox has a "name" field, this takes care of it. "Needed expertise" might include: basic wiki editing skills; never used a spreadsheet application/willing to tryout tutorial and offer feedback; English to Spanish translation... Agree that box should include "date needed by." I see that you've included a field called "activity" where the project leader would put in a brief summary of what work is needed. That works for me. I think an effort such as this could really help the community. Alison On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM, valerie <vtay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Alison > > I have been morphing some other templates into a general HelpWanted > and a project Infobox > > examples of both > http://wikieducator.org/Community_projects > http://wikieducator.org/Community_projects#Bilingual_math_activities > > They need work, but they are a start. I'm considering combining the > two but I'm open to suggestions. > > Your OpenOffice project is a good example. For your OpenOffice > project, what would you like to display? What would you enter for > Title of Resource: > Needed expertise: > > How about "date needed by" or something similar? > > I'm thinking ahead a bit here. It would be nice to be able to find > these projects anywhere in WE and locate ones that need help now that > match my interest and expertise. > > I'm assuming that there a lots of folks out there who want contribute, > but don't know where or how. It works for Wikipedia, so it should work > for WikiEducator too. > > ..Valerie > > > On Jun 8, 2:29 pm, Alison Snieckus <alison.sniec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Valerie, > > I really like this idea of a help-wanted template to add to a page. I see > us > > all using it -- both to request help and to offer help. To the template, > I'd > > suggest adding "title of resource" and "needed expertise." > > > > I have a project that may be ready for review in late July -- an intro > > tutorial for OpenOffice.org Calc. Would be great to have someone not very > > versed in Ubuntu or spreadsheets to try it out. I'll see how it goes in > the > > next few weeks. If it looks like it'll be ready...enough, I'll add it to > > your list. > > > > Thanks for asking, > > Alisonhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
