User talk:Tanja/UserPortalTest

Further intentions and open issues for the planned user portal: =user categories=
 * idea of establishing user categories to tag the people with
 * user categories could follow a system of
 * qualifying users in categories like Category:User_Metadata
 * qualifying users as experts like Category:Expert_Metadata
 * grouping users like Category:Group_Metadata (integration of user groups?)

references:
 * the user categories should not be mixed up with the other categories
 * can categories be prevented from being displayed at Special:Categories? (the magic word __HIDDENCAT__ put on a category page prevents this category from being displayed on the categorized pages - is there a functionality behind it that may be of use? heads up: the magic word works from 1.13 upwards!)
 * is there a possibility of "meta-organizing" categories anyway? would it be possible to create another category namespace (UserCategory)? would the functionalities be the same? would that allow to tag a user page like UserCategory:Metadata ?

=how to promote experts?= (in particular of relevance for the twr expert data base)
 * one approach might be the people tagging (see above)
 * technical implementations: Would it be possible to automatically
 * visualize the articles that a certain user contributed to in a preselected way (for example only those made in a chosen namespace) on a user related page?
 * or alternatively generate a special page where all users are listed with this information on their contribution?
 * and to add the creator and contributors (each one once!) on a chosen article page (maybe also dependent to a namespace or whatever)?

=integrating user groups= already created content:
 * category
 * overviewing article

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