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?

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