Spotlight Promoted Wiki Pages
Revision as of 11:52, 15 January 2008 by Mohammad Ghufran (talk | contribs) (→DoneDone: Adding the basic functionality that we expect to complete before the project is done)
What (summary)
This project is targeted to allow featured wiki pages to be displayed on AboutUs's main page as well as category and portal pages.
Why this is important
This can be a new and promising source of revenue generation for AboutUs. Wiki Page owners will buy the right to have their respective pages put under the spotlight for a particular time period and price. This will help in revamping the user interface of current category and portal pages increasing user engagement. This will lead to more traffic to the featured pages as well as to these category and portal pages.
- We may also want to link this project with PromoteMe. For example, we could offer this as an additional and a more inviting offer to people who have already elected to promote their companies at AboutUs.
DoneDone
- When we can put and change images of featured pages on the main page dynamically i.e. change the image after short time intervals.
- When we are able to embed a small section on each of the category/portal pages which has similar functionality as the main page.
Steps to get to DoneDone
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Create a branch for this project. -
Explore the code and see how the javascript on the main page worksThe main page hover functionality is not in the code base. The styling and css is imported from MediaWiki:AboutUsHome_Actions_1.0. -
Make the main page of the local wiki similar to the one on the live site.The main page now is more or less a replica of the live site. - Learn to use Web Developer tool to change the css from the console.
- Come with a workable architecture for this task.
For starters, we can brainstorm for an interface similar to one of the following sites: