[curriki-devs] Editorial activities

[Joshua Marks]

We use the "Curriki translations group"
(http://currikitranslations.groups.curriki.org/) to manage localizations of
UI and Help. Content is able to be updated by volunteer language managers,
but sadly, not much has happened in this regard. 

Joshua Marks
CTO
Curriki: The Global Education and Learning Community 
jmarks at curriki.org
www.curriki.org 
US 831-685-3511



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Libbrecht [mailto:paul at activemath.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:37 PM
To: jmarks at curriki.org
Cc: curriki-devs at xwiki.org; devteam at curriki.org; 'Editorial Staff';
'Christine Loew'; 'Peter Levy'
Subject: Re: [curriki-devs] Editorial activities

One thing that spices all of these activities is the multilingual  
nature,

do you have multilingual editorial teams?
Exploiting tools can become multilingual (at least a small set of  
actions).
Some pages, but only some, are translated?
The whole of the help pages?

paul


Le 11-août-09 à 18:11, Joshua Marks a écrit :

> Paul,
>
> Good to hear from you. Yes our editorial team has done amazing  
> amounts of
> work in a number of areas to make the site of value to our users and  
> to
> promote its broad adoption. These editorial activities fall into  
> several
> categories (I am CCing the Curriki editorial staff so they might  
> also give
> you input.)
>
> 1) User interface text and translations management- Constantly  
> tuning and
> adjusting the text in the user interface to help users understand  
> how to do
> things. We recently added contextual help panels in different spaces  
> on the
> site for example.
> 2) Front page editorial content including "Featured Content" "Featured
> Members" "Featured Partners" etc. This is direct Wiki/HTML editing.
> 3) Soon to be launched is the new "Resource Browse" interface with a  
> Yahoo
> style index of the content, also direct Wiki/HTML work.
> 4) Daily File check- All contributions are in a file check queue and  
> are
> reviewed for appropriateness directly after being contributed. There  
> is an
> admin tool for this.
> 5) CRS (The Curriki Review System)- Things are nominated by users  
> and then
> reviewed by subject matter experts to produce the CRS ratings. This  
> is on a
> regular schedule and there is an admin CRS tool and interfaces in  
> view as
> well. More CRS related tools are being planned.
> 6) Weekly organizational Blogs, Twitter and regular e-mail  
> communications
> with the community and membership.
> 7) Google Ad Words Landing pages- A custom front door for users who  
> come
> from ad words clicks which we target and adjust to the ad words  
> marketing
> campaigns. We have a tool with logging and reporting for this.
> 8) Creation and updating of the Help collection (Which is getting  
> really
> large) including lots of video tutorials.
> 9) Last, and perhaps most importantly, there is an outreach effort to
> solicit or acquire a comprehensive set of "Core" resources to achieve
> critical mass from which to grow complete and comprehensive tailored
> curricula.
>
> It is really these efforts that make the tool that is the Curriki
> application have any value at all.
>
> Joshua Marks
> CTO
> Curriki: The Global Education and Learning Community
> jmarks at curriki.org
> www.curriki.org
> US 831-685-3511
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: curriki-devs-bounces at xwiki.org
[mailto:curriki-devs-bounces at xwiki.org 
> ]
> On Behalf Of Paul Libbrecht
> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 8:49 AM
> To: curriki-devs at xwiki.org
> Subject: [curriki-devs] Editorial activities
>
>
>                                                     Dear Currikiers,
>
> I am slowly realizing that more editorial activities could embellish
> i2geo.net
>  and that it could be a strength of curriki.org. What do you in
> curriki do as editorial activities?
>
> I know of FileCheck. How often do you run it?
> Are the featured members and resources only a matter of direct
> editing? I haven't seen infrastructure for it yet. At least it might
> help featured things to reach multilanguages.
>
> Do you watch the log of search results to see for an overall
> satisfaction?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
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