Difference between revisions of "Granular Recent Changes"

OurWork Granular Recent Changes (TakKendrick, ChrisBabson, JohnStanton, MarkDilley)

What (summary)

Filtered RC for a specific category tag or by badge.

Example PortlandTech

Create a page (PortlandTech/RecentChanges) where all changes to any page tagged Category:PortlandTech are listed.

Why this is important

Critical to development and sustainability of communities on AboutUs. This is something that is being championed as a benefit to both the Content and Community teams as we try to build communities around aggregated content (like PortlandTech, or LASIK). It is also believed to be a boon to the Operations team as they can track changes to efforts like Venture Northwest 2007, both for internal reference and (potentially) as "needle moving" metrics in VC pitches.

DoneDone

1. When all recent changes to any page tagged Category:PortlandTech are displayed and automatically updated on PortlandTech/RecentChanges, the Content Team will be happy.
2. When a similar test has been constructed and approved by the Community Team.

Steps to get to DoneDone

Discussion

• Is this idea here to dynamically generate the page every time? So if a page gets added to the category after 10 days of edits, then I check PortlandTech/RecentChanges, will I see those edits in the past? TedErnst (talk) 16:36, 4 December 2007 (PST)
  • Not sure. I think that would be valuable, but if it's a gating factor, not wholly necessary to get this off the ground from a Content team perspective. That said, the deeper this implementation, the better. Is this a feature that the Community team would like/need/require? -- TakKendrick 16:46, 4 December 2007 (PST)
    • The Community does NOT require it to go backwards, but if it was easier to build that way, that's fine too. TedErnst (talk) 16:49, 4 December 2007 (PST)
  • Ted, I'm happy to report that the way (see my note to Jason below) that Brandon and Stephen discovered today does appear to do this. I made a change to a page only to discover it wasn't listed in the Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:PortlandTech because it didn't have the correct category tag (oops). I then added the category and both edits appeared on the list, even though the other one came before it was in the category. Not a 100% perfect test, but pretty encouraging. -- TakKendrick

• I love the idea of portlandtech.aboutus.org being the place for dynamic recent changes. portlandtech.bowling.leaves.aboutus.org as the place for those keywords recent changes. Because I worry about taking the space PortlandTech/RecentChanges - but maybe that space is just occupied for recent changes. ~~ MarkDilley
  • I agree with Mark, this sounds like it should be a special page. I nominate Special:CategoryRecentChanges/PortlandTech Jason Parmer 13:40, 6 December 2007 (PST)
  • Looks like Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:PortlandTech is actually available in the software. Need to figure out how big of a resource draw it is and if we can turn on RSS for it. ~~ MarkDilley
  • Jason: After investigating a bit today, Brandon and Stephen determined that [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Foo]] pulls pretty close to what we're looking for based on any category. As Mark points out, we're not sure how much of a drag this will be on the system, but we're hopeful thus far with it. This might allow us to close out or greatly reduce this task after a couple days of playing with it. -- TakKendrick

We are not done with Granular Recent Changes - we are done with SpecificRecentChanges - which is good enough for now. If we can prove that this is a good thing for community growth, then we will want to address granular again. ~~ MarkDilley

• Here is an extension that does some of the things we want: http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Austin_J._Che/Extensions/Recentchangesfilter ~~ MarkDilley