OpenGeofiction
This is just a short announcement. Last week I made a new “Power User’s Dashboard” on the wiki. I was trying to create an alternative homepage for “experienced users.” I have been very pleased with it. It’s now my home landing page for OGF when I log on.
Give it a try.
http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/OGF:Dashboard
Let me know what you think. Is it useful? Any suggestions for additions or changes (keeping in mind what’s technically feasible)?
Discussion
Comment from Ūdilugbulgidħū on 8 June 2016 at 00:00
Very useful - in fact more useful than the ‘recent changes’ tab link in the wiki page border. If you can get it there instead/additional to that, even better. At the same time, I appreciate being an ‘experimental user’ every time I click the link ;)
Comment from wangi on 8 June 2016 at 01:13
It’s good. I’d remove user ID from the map changesets and try and get in some of the edit summary?
Comment from wangi on 8 June 2016 at 01:25
Because anything to encourage a decent edit summary is a good ting ;)
Comment from Luciano on 8 June 2016 at 02:36
@wangi - thanks for the comment.
For edit summaries… there’s going to have to be some kind of XML parse written using mediawiki template extension language, to extract the edit summary - can you do that? I don’t have the skillset necessary, although I’ve been … trying.
As far user ID - in fact, I have been using this quite a bit, because in combination with the sortable column setting, it can conveniently put the “newbies” at the top, which is interesting and useful information from an admin standpoint.
Comment from tparigo on 8 June 2016 at 09:34
Excellent idea and very usefull. Thanks for this development !
Comment from Leowezy on 8 June 2016 at 09:43
I use the page quite often, I have it bookmarked :) I would like a link to some kind of OSM:article_name category page, and maybe a link to the world map itself (although I usually just use the bookmarks to my cities to go there). But besides that I think it’s perfect!
Comment from Luciano on 9 June 2016 at 12:32
@Leowezy - I’ll add a world-map link next time I update. I’m not sure what you mean by “OSM:article_name category page” but if I could understand probably it could be added at the top too.
Comment from Leowezy on 10 June 2016 at 14:50
@Luciano, sorry for my weird expression; I just meant a list of all articles starting with “OGF:”; they tend to be tutorials or important discussions of some sort, and sometimes I cant remember the name of one of these pages and have a hard time finding it :)
Comment from Luciano on 11 June 2016 at 08:42
I made some additions to the header “useful links.”
I am open to any further suggestions, too - I will add any pages that anyone frequently uses while mapping.