Difference between revisions of "InfluenceUs dev task"

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What (summary)

The InfluenceUs wizard provides highly motivated visitors to our site with a fun, easy, and effective way of engaging and influencing the organization they are delighted or frustrated with.

Why this is important

Engagement: Makes a clear call to action for motivated visitors.

BeABuilder: Encourages the kind of constructive collaboration we want where all involved parties benefit.

ValuableContent: Creates public conversations that deeply inform future visitors about how organizations relate with those they touch.

ViralSpiral: The influenced become influencers the next time they are frustrated with an organization.

DoneDone

• All DomainPages include the InfluenceUs link in the skin
• No non-DomainPage includes the InfluenceUs link
• The wizard is invoked by clicking a button "InfluenceUs" in the skin
• Final submission creates an edit to the DomainPage that when consummated looks just like any other edit (but is really transcluded from a subpage of the person's User_talk page for example User_talk:AwfulAbigail/PageSheHates).
  • Includes a nice edit summary of what it just did
• The InfluenceUs wizard feels great to use. (Perhaps uses Ajaxy techniques so that no page reloads have to occur)
• Final submission adds creates an edit that adds an entry to the InfluenceUsLog
• Vinh has made the InfluenceUs design look great.
• These pages should all be informative, visually pleasing, and closely coupled with the InfluenceUs tool
  • Delighted
  • Frustrated
  • InfluenceUs

Comments / Bugs

Please add your comments and bugs in this section.

1. I think that the newest comments should go on top.
2. I have a few comments posted on the demo site. Please view them there. Vinh Nguyen 10:47, 24 January 2008 (PST)
3. Feature request: Would it be possible to see all the "Influence Us" related comments given by a user for all the pages they have rated on one single place? A useful scenario may be that someone leaves a really good review on a page and we want to see what other comments they have made. ~~ Saad
4. I love the changes that have been made in the last day or two! I did manage to break the formatting again. Check out my comments there? TedErnst (talk) 08:59, 25 January 2008 (PST)
5. Hitting Enter in after a user logs in in InfluenceUs should work rather than his having to click sign in. Asad Butt 06:23, 31 January 2008 (PST)

Steps to get to DoneDone

• Rename the current branch influenceus as influence-stale.
• Create a new branch Influenceus.
• Host the branches on the local machine.
• Display a feedback message (eg Loading...) once the data is posted and we are waiting for the call to return
• trying to put the post call in an if condition. looking at how to do that
• Make submit button disable once it is clicked, so that same multiple clicks of a user does not result in multiple comments.
• dding emoticons on delighted or frustrated.
• Positioning the emoticon
• remove the bug that if you select "frustrated" then quit and then open again, it has frustrated selected
• Remove leading space between : and User_talk
• Turn the Brandon CS Sanders's Comments into a level 4 heading so that the edit button shows automatically
• Add on time.com to the Brandon CS Sander's Comments heading so that it makes more sense when included in other pages
• Links in the InfluenceUsLog need to be to user pages
• clean up the code ... whitespaces etc
• pull into live
• deploy
• make a post on DailyBuzz
• Fix the typos in the wizard.
• Fix the error messages styling in the wizard.
• Make emoticons unclickable.
• Check for empty text box on the client side before submitting the comment.
• Start showing a hand instead of a vertical bar on mouse over on Influence Us link in skin.
• Display a text showing "logging in" when the user clicks login in the wizard. Displaying a spinner gif
• Do a action=purge while refreshing page after influenceus comment is submitted so that no red link appears.
• See if Error logs are clean in production.
• Ask Vinh to change the InfluenceUs Logo because we are already using the same eye for watch.
• Ask Vinh to make the wizard buttons look great. They are messed up right now.
• retire the influence_us branch
• Include {{:User talk:Brandon CS Sanders/time.com}} in User:Brandon CS Sanders#Influence

Not related to InfluenceUs ... but need to be done

• Refactor our extensions so that they can be included in tests
• commit the ./ require_once fix to LocalSettings.php on live (breaks maintenance scripts)

InfluenceUs Page flow

1. A user who visits NeedsInput.com sees the big "Influence Us Wizard ... blah blah" bit
2. When they click on it they are presented with a popup describing what influenceus is all about, similar to the way the ThreeCoreOffers work.
3. On the description, they can either continue on by clicking delighted or frustrated ... or they can close the popup.
4. If the user clicks Delighted, he is presented with "What made you delighted with this company/domain?" with an emoticon
5. If the user clicks Frustrated, he is presented with "What made you frustrated with this company/domain?" with an appropriate emoticon
6. After entering the message, the user clicks submit and a series of edits are made.

Discussion

Yeah a new tool, I am excited. Not sure what stage this is in but here our some initial observations: the text is redundant; the eyecon could be confusing with watch icon. Also, InfluenceUs is written two ways, camel cased and as Influece Us. Minor stuff, the tool looks great. Kasey