WiserEarth Suggestions
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Created: Feb 11, 2008
Updated: Nov 24, 2009
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Updated: about 1 year ago
I believe that we must make invite others into WE seamless and easy, even elegant, enabling people to bring their networks into the fold. This should take the form of a link on my page and within ...
Updated: 6 months ago
wen2li3: It would be nice not to have to search for the same term in multiple
categories when one could search all and get the results needed.
This is in...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem:
Just encountered the need for this as one of the group member misedit the "About" tab's "About" section.
Solution:
If we have the "Show History" link and can revert to previous revision...
Updated: 7 months ago
add categories to Solutions
Before adding new solution, make sure if there is no existing similar solution can be further developed > Pop-up massage should re-direct the user to Solution list...
Updated: 4 months ago
Open 24/7- WiserEarth a worldwide conference for the Earth, where you can be a participant, a presenter, an organizer, where you or your organization can expand your relationships with the world.
Updated: 6 months ago
After beginning some experiments on how best to steward areas of focus portals (pages that aggregate information on respective area of focus), we concluded that it's best to use the group feature t...
Updated: about 1 year ago
This suggestion was made by Frankpatton - there currently is no functionality supporting petitions, but it would be a great asset if WiserEarth had one - Camilla:I would like to start a petition to...
Updated: about 1 year ago
Problem: Can't forward WEmail to anyone (only reply or delete)
Solution: Provide forward option that opens dialog box to select WE users. Could be nice to be able to add external email addresses ...
Updated: about 1 year ago
Problem: The purpose / content of a topic in a forum may change over time but there is no way to rename the title of a topic
Solution: Allow Group Admins the ability to rename Topics using Manage ...
Updated: 2 months ago
WiserEarth seeks your feedback
(Skip the explanation and jump straight to downloading the new design)
One of the most often heard requests we've received has been...
Updated: 7 months ago
Problem:
WiserEarth is more about networking, discussion and content at the moment, which is fine by itself. However, there is an impression that WE lacks the kind of dynamism that should be borne ...
Updated: 7 months ago
This is a small one.
I just wanted to be able to add a film suggestion to the Paris WiserEarth group, but noticed there was no option under resources for a 'Film/movie'. Could this be added?
O...
Updated: 7 months ago
Suggestion
There is a NGO organization we are working with 21 Acres. They are building an agricultural and environmental learning center and agric-urban park. When I went to add the center they ...
Updated: 7 months ago
Problem:
It is very difficult for a user to see how a piece of information such as a resource, event (also called entities) are linked to groups on WiserEarth. Right now, one needs to go to "Add to...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem
There is no robust group check requirement/mechanism on the add-a-group page, so duplicate groups could easily be created.
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Updated: about 1 year ago
Many YahooGroups feature a user generated links page.
I've put links to WiserEarth onto the YahooGroups that I belong to, using this text copied from WE homepage
"WiserEarth . . .
serves the pe...
Updated: 7 months ago
Problem: I'm probably not the only one who has slipped or will slip a mouse click on a "Flag comment for removal" link.
Solution: Have the ability to undo, at least within 5 minutes or so, a "Flag ...
Updated: 7 months ago
Problem: No blog functionality on Wiserearth
Solution: It would be much more useful for group members and those who update
groups if each one had a blog. All I might want to post is a video,
pictu...
Updated: 21 days ago
Problem: WE does not provide a way to search the text of comments.
Solution: Provide ...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem
It is difficult for a user to readily find related materials on WE that she/he would be interested in.
Solution
More than [a] simple "ratings" however, is my favourite feature called"Cus...
Updated: 4 months ago
Problem: Most of the time, I see that people belonging to the same group are not connected to one another.
Solution: Add group connections to the "People you may know" module in dashboard. This w...
Updated: 7 months ago
Problem:
When I visit a group I find it helpful to view the "Activity Log" to see what has been happening since I last dropped by. It is very helpful that each entry state Who. When, and What Chang...
Updated: 7 months ago
Sometimes a user need to refer to a specific comment he/she/other user made in the past. The comment can be in a page's comment section, or in a discussion thread.
At the moment, the only way to ...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem:
There's no legend on our network visualization. Hinders proper understanding of the network connections.
Solution:
Add it in the visualization, or add a link to a page with the legend.
...
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem/Opportunity:
This suggestion addresses ones interest in strengthening their participation in a group. Recent enhancements
to the WiserEarth watchlist alert email was a big step forward i...
Updated: 6 months ago
I suggest adding the following sort options for discussion posts as well as for all
Updated: 6 months ago
Problem:
When in a discussion forum or in the comment section of a page, I find myself having to go to a user's profile just to know what his/her real names are, to then guess how I should call him...
Updated: about 1 year ago
Would be helpful if the basic profile information / log-in password could be shared with Open ID, and Yahoo ID or others with a large user base. I for one am fed-up with having to enter all this in...
Updated: 6 months ago
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I would like to have the ability to add photo titles/captions? Any input on this? Thanks!by Meghan ...
Updated: 11 months ago
Problem: Projects are neither Organizations, nor Solutions, nor Events, but are generally a good way to link those together. They are more than simple Resources
Example : I wanted to add to WE th...
Updated: 7 months ago
As I have begun to upload resources, I often find that there is not a satisfactory resource type available, and if I select Other, I am not able to specify what the other is - e.g. digital library,...
Updated: 6 days ago
Currently : When I am on a given page, I see the title of an article or a wikipage but I don't know where I am, is it a suggestion, a discussion, on what ? This suggestion article is an example.
E...
Updated: 7 months ago
Updated: 5 months ago
As suggested in this article, it would be cool to be able to sort pages, such
as all wikipages and most the items in...
Updated: 7 months ago
It would be nice to be able to remove your rating of something (such as an article).
Updated: 9 months ago
Problem: I am currently administrator of the Wiser Earth Paris group. The time that appears when an article or a chat is entered is a time from another time zone (I don't know which, but not Paris,...
Updated: about 22 hours ago
HOW TO BETTER UTILIZE WISEREARTH
Janine's observations after 17 months on WE
ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURE UNDERUTILIZED
The most powerful aspect of WE is its multilingual search
engine. Do we have m...
Updated: 7 months ago
Alongside current discussion about messages to organizations, here is a proposal for a message to all WE individual ...
Updated: about 1 year ago
Problem: No way to add an attachment to a WEMail (internal WE email)
Solution: Add ability to add attachments - this is really more relevant for users who are getting their WEMails forwarded to a...
Updated: about 1 year ago
Problem: Sometimes a user accidentally start a discussion (for testing purposes, etc.) or purposefuly do so, with the end result that no one else is participating in the discussion. This add clutte...
Updated: about 1 year ago
Problem: At the moment there is no field for language on resources or
groups, and an open field (I speak / We speak) on the user profile and org profile. I'm worried that
without a structured field...
Updated: about 1 year ago
Wiser has a great deal of social graph imbedded in the content - i.e. who created a resource, who belongs to a group, who commented on some content. It would be great to be able to search using thi...
Updated: 7 months ago
Erik (erik33) suggested this in the public forum discussion:
"I think it would be cool for individuals to be able to
easily write blog / journal type post...
Updated: 7 months ago
To make it easier to determine, bold the text of the sort option being used, for example:
Sort by: Newest | Oldest
PS: This suggestion might apply to other WE areas than just ...
Updated: about 1 year ago
Issue/Missed Opportunity:
I am thinking about ways of getting more value out of my time on WiserEarth. I think I have not fully realized/utilized the potential value of groups. Up until now I hav...
Updated: 6 months ago
Allow browsing of suggestion by category. I can search by "Events" but I can't view everything labeled as Events.
Maybe this is already possible, but I couldn't find it - in which case this is a su...
Updated: about 1 year ago
Very Simple, basic advertising.Can WE provide a file that prints a strip of 2 or 3 banners onto a standard page, called A4 in UK ?
Updated: about 1 year ago
Updated: about 1 year ago
In adding my worker-owned cooperative in as an organization just now I'd like to request that there are options available for orgs to identify as worker-owned or consumer-owned cooperatives.
Furt...
Updated: 8 days ago
Currently : you can see at what time a chat has been posted but not at which day so it is not very interesting to know if the information is recent or old
Proposed : in the Chatterbox - to add th...