Glad to hear of this effort. There is a similar initiative underway in the
Community department to create a portal for community-facing resources, and
I wonder if the Discovery hub could be linked from there. I can think of
some interesting use cases for search features that would be of interest to
the community, such as surfacing tools that allow for easier searches of
GLAM content. Pinging Maggie and Rosemary in case either of them want to
comment.
Pine
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Christopher Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hey all,
I'm new and trying to wrap my head around how we present all the work
that's going in Discovery. I have a thought I wanted to run by folks that
(I think) will help us provide a more consistent introduction to the
various projects that are being worked on.
Right now Wikimedia Discovery
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery> is a wealth of
information, but there isn't much consistency on what each project page
contains. Some are labeled as "Wikimedia engineering activity", some don't
have a page about the project (Search links to the extension), etc.
My thought is to bring the minimum for each project to a consistent level.
For example, the page for Project A would talk about what is it, what are
we trying to to do, members involved, roadmap, current progress, where to
give feedback, etc. Each project would have it's own page with this minimum
and a consistent layout.
Related, I also have the sub-hub for the Portal marked for translation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PageTranslation> and I think it
would be wise to do the same elsewhere.
If there's any dissent, let me know otherwise full-steam ahead.
--
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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