[WikiToLearn] [Feature] New User Journey

Alessandro Tundo aletundo at wikitolearn.org
Sun May 29 19:02:56 UTC 2016


> "There is an extension for that" [semicit.]

> The other day I found this one:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour Do you mean
> something like that or a more advanced driven process?

It could be a good starting point or could be even useful to develop!

>From Gianluca Rigoletti:
> I would take the act of publishing as simple a clicking a button on
> the user's page. So the topic (beware that we deprecate the term
> " course") written by the user would be seen by its tutors or admins
> and if everything is ok the topic will be moved into the main page.

>From Riccardo Iaconelli:
> It makes sense: only one point - this has the problem that it's not possible
> for common users to rename pages within the global namespace, so you need to
> make sure they are correct since moment #1. If it's too easy to create
> courses, you could end up with "test" courses created "just to try".
>
> So either we give at least some moving/delete privileges to everyone (but then
> we need to make sure one cannot overwrite existing pages), or we have to come
> back to user namespace...

I quoted together because the answer is the same. We could mix our
ideas, and the result will be: a whole driven process in the UserPage
and the publish button will do what Gianluca suggested, so no more
namespaces problems.

Is it clear?

Bye,

Alessandro


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