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Community Feedback
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Can't connect myself to my resource
"I tried it the other way around just then, going to my profile and asking to connect to the resource. It gave the same error message. Curious.
Any ideas very welcome."
blindspotter commented 2 days ago
Edit new comment and lose previous rating
"Interesting bug - I'm pretty sure in the past, ratings were retained after a comment was edited. Must be something clearing out the rating upon an edit. I'll put it on the bug list. " ...more
Honore commented about 1 month ago
Suggestion searching is not showing all matches
"Very good. Suggestion made."
sicjedi commented about 1 month ago
Requesting many search results results in blank page
"Yup, this is a bug, thanks for reporting this - we'll put it on our known bugs list and get to it promptly."
Honore commented about 1 month ago
Integrating organization and group pages
"Hello Kat,
Thanks for stopping by. You made an interesting statement there:
"I'm using a bunch of other tools which I like at the moment, but
they're not joined up, so I'd like to see i" ...more
bowo commented about 1 month ago
Problem Resetting the Avatar for Group
"You sometimes simply need to reload the page for it to show up right away."
angusparker commented about 1 month ago
No "Add to your watchlist" link for an article page?
"Yes. That'll be cool indeed. I think there's no suggestion of such kind so far... fire away!
Bowo"
bowo commented about 1 month ago
Areas of Focus
"Whoops. Thanks for that Bret!
This one yes --> http://www.wiserearth.org/article/f8516e873bf4ae7e016576286c3768dd"" ...more
bowo commented 2 months ago
HTML Editing of Profile
"Yes, an error message with explanations on why seems appropriate. Let me send this over to the tech team."
bowo commented 2 months ago
Principles link in "More on General Help" page takes me to a page I...
"Fix verified!"
sicjedi commented 2 months ago
Wrong link for "Spread the WiserEarth word!" on "More on Gener...
"Fix verified! (and I stopped replying to myself, yea!)"
sicjedi commented 2 months ago
That's an interesting "issues" page
"Thanks Bowo, I was definitely having "issues" with that one...
Now, with your magical resurrection powers, the Wiser Earth appears to me as a much fuller and happier place. :)
Fix verif" ...more
sicjedi commented 2 months ago
Community Suggestions
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Simplify AOF Categories +8
Problem: AOFs are too complicated (379 categories rolled into 46 top levels) for users, hinder globalization (too much to translate), and are not very scientific (i.e. not exhaustive and mutually excl ...more
List of Implemented Community Suggestions
This page is part of the WiserEarth Suggestions group. Below is a list of suggestions from WiserEarth community in the group that received enough support and implemented as standard features.
T ...more
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Promote OpenWiser via WiserEarth
Problem: From time to time something comes along that would really benefit eveyone involved with WiserEarth. Here is a great example www.openwiser.org This is a campaign to raise the ...more
| edited by gregoryhe... about 8 hours ago |
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Are we making the best use of WiserEarth?
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 ...more
| edited by blindspotter 7 days ago |
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Using WE Networks to Best Advantage
OK - so it's late and my head isn't as clear as I'd like - but I've got a voice urging me to 'Just Start'. So here's a start...
I'm opening this wiki page because I want to exchange ideas ...more
Keep WE header and search bar at the top of every WE page
Problem
It's a bit disorienting and disappointing to have the basic WE navigation and search functionality missing from certain WE pages/circumstances. My original concern came about from the m ...more
Synergize Google Calendar into WiserEarth
Problems
The development and use of the
WE event system will be developer and computer intensive.
(Besides the development time required to create and maintain a mature event/calendar system, ...more
Allow page sort by # of visits
As suggested in this article, it would be cool to be able to sort pages, such
as all wikipages and most the items in the Explore menu, based on page visits (like "Unique Visits" and "Total Visits"). ...more
Feeding WE activities into twitterfeed
What about to feed WE activity + aggregator into twitterfeed? Any one knows how to do thats?
This way each one of us can follow all WE activities on twitter, even own activites can be pushed th ...more
More than one Organization Module in a Group
Problem -- I just set up a new group - ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia. These folks want to include two sets of organizations. There are organizations that are m ...more
| edited by Honore 21 days ago |
anne mareck
It would help publicity if it were possible for Facebook users to become a Fan of WiserEarth. Can you make a FB Fan page?
| edited by Camilla 23 days ago |
Filling up the event database
The Event database is pretty empty so far - e.g. currently it has nothing in Taiwan :-(. WiserEarth's organization database started by importing another database or databases - I wonder what the equiv ...more
| edited by angusparker 23 days ago |
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Highlight Comments Page
Unless I have a pressing need or desire to visit or manage a certain group - the WiserEarth Comments page is the first place I go to when I visit WiserEarth. It might as well be my hom ...more
Browsing by category - e.g. in "suggestions
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 sugge ...more
| edited by bowo 25 days ago |
Sharing WE Content
Problem:
When you are done adding
some new content to WiserEarth it would be great to let people know about it.
For example today I added
this The Fourth Way Guiding Principles. There is no way to sh ...more
| edited by angusparker about 1 month ago |
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