Thursday, June 26, 2008

Recent Contributors!

This new feature on AboutUs is so exciting for me! It makes the history of each wiki page leaps and bounds more transparent and personal by showing a Recent Contributors box to the right with portraits of the most recent editors to the page. (Contributors who have not yet uploaded a portrait are indicated by a question mark, and a page that has yet to be edited invites the person viewing the page to be the first contributor.)

Check it out! Go to any page on AboutUs and see how it looks. Then edit the page and watch yourself get added to the first slot in that page's Recent Contributors box. (If you aren't seeing your photo upload it this way.)

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Universal Edit Button

The concept is simple. It is to have one standard icon and button to indicate that a page is editable. Much like the orange RSS Feed icon that we have all grown accustomed to, there is now the same sort of icon indicating a page that you can edit (9 times out of 10 a wiki page). Moreover, clicking this "universal edit button" functions just like clicking "edit" on the page. This blog post from SiliconFlorist.com probably sums it up the best, and also see UniversalEditButton.org for more info.

So far more than 20 wikis have jumped on board and you can download the Firefox extension and visit a wiki (like AboutUs) to see what's it all about.