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Community Feedback
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Showing that our community is changing all the time - Regularly updating the ...
"I like it when there are new groups and people that appear on the WiserEarth home page as it shows that the community is changing all the time. Is there any way to make these updates more frequent?"
Camilla commented 4 days ago
Ability to link straight to the group from the Admin Email Saying you're...
"As an administrator of several groups, it's great to get an email saying when a new member joins the group. But I always want to welcome members to the group whenever I get this message. To date, the" ...more
Camilla commented 4 days ago
Inviting someone to a group....and then another person
"I am trying to invite a number of people to join the WiserWestAfrica group from within the group itself.
Once I have done a search for the people who are on WiserEarth from the link (Invite member" ...more
Camilla commented 4 days ago
Trouble adding Areas of Focus
"Hello Honore,
I get this from my profile page, http://www.wiserearth.org/user/Maynard/section/main
editing "Areas of Focus" attempting to add one.by directing it from left box to right, and pressin" ...more
Maynard commented 5 days ago
the add connection button doesn't appear
"well i had the problem previously but after changing the browser it was sorted out.thanks"
bathrobes commented 27 days ago
Is there a 'signing out' elf?
"Cool - I hope that does solve so me issues! Would hate to do all that work and not get much out of it, but do let me know if it worked or not. Sometimes that's all you can do when trouble-shooting " ...more
Honore commented about 1 month ago
Sharelinks
"Can we just include a "ShareThis" link (minus icon) at the end of the short description (with/without the "...learn more" link) on the group banner? I think the idea is to enable easy-sharing with pe" ...more
bowo commented about 1 month ago
Share your thoughts about the new search results
"In the old search results we ranked all results by relevance (to the keywords you entered for the search). Ratings etc were only every used to sort browse views (not search results). So nothing has c" ...more
angusparker commented about 1 month ago
Researcher looking for organizations in peru that deal with bilingual educati...
"You might want to check out this search and this search. Also give a call to the Pachamama Alliance - the are in Ecuador but would probably know people."" ...more
angusparker commented about 1 month ago
Personal Dashboard - Thoughts, comments, and feedback welcome!
"Hi EcoWarrior100 -
I've updated your profile manually to have your email address confirmed. Not sure why you haven't been getting the confirmation email, but it's something we'll look into. Let " ...more
Honore commented about 1 month ago
How are resources rated and ranked please?
"It could be fixed by the switch over. Let's wait and see."
angusparker commented 3 months ago
can't find my group in "insert link WE content"
"I thought there might be a delay but wanted to inform you just in case. I've used the 'insert external Link', thanks"
KamilPach... commented 3 months ago
filtering and sorting incoming information
"@Kamil: Thanks for the idea. We're likely going to be splitting your existing email watchlist alert into separate digests for every group that you are a part of plus one of your contact/network's act" ...more
angusparker commented 3 months ago
Core Code Showing Up in Bulletin Boards
"Just tested with Safari 4 on Windows. Seems that there's some trouble with it. Safari 3 is doing ok though... and also Firefox 3.5."
bowo commented 4 months ago
Chatterbox - the scroll on the right goes back down automatically
"Hi Jean-Paul,
You're right! I didn't realized that it's visible only to group admins...
So there's no other way than to fix this then.
Thanks!
Bowo"" ...more
bowo commented 4 months ago
Community Suggestions
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Simplify AOF Categories +9
Problem: AOFs are too complicated (379 categories rolled into 46 top levels) for users, hinder globalization (too much to translate), and are not very scientific (i.e. not exhaustive and mutually excl ...more
MyHome and Profile designs - community feedback welcome
WiserEarth wants your feedback
MyHome and Profile pages
For these pages, we've worked on improving the personal dashboard and personal profile pages.
The dashboard has been renamed "MyHome" pa ...more
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Contacts/Network new designs - seeking community feedback
WiserEarth seeks your feedback
(skip straight to downloading previews of the new designs)
Contacts/network designs
In our surveys,
phone call follow-ups and in-person user testing, one common issue ...more
| edited by WiserTimonie 2 months ago |
Account/Privacy settings design - seeking community feedback
WiserEarth seeks your feedback
(Skip the explanation and jump straight to downloading the new design)
One of the most often heard requests we've received has been around privacy. Community membe ...more
| edited by WiserTimonie 2 months ago |
New email designs - please send us your feedback
WiserEarth seeks your feedback
As part of our redesign of the site, we're re-designing the look of our emails. In the past, we stuck with a very vanilla, very plain-text format to ensure the gre ...more
| edited by WiserTimonie 3 months ago |
List of Implemented Community Suggestions
This page is part of the WiserEarth Suggestions group. Below is a list of suggestions from WiserEarth community in the group that received enough support and implemented as standard features.
This i ...more
| edited by sicjedi 7 months ago |
All Pages - Add above the title where we are
Currently : When I am on a given page, I see the title of an article or a wikipage but I don't know where I am, is it a suggestion, a discussion, on what ? This suggestion article is an example.
Expe ...more
| edited by JPGrange 3 days ago |
Implemented - Add 'Intern' as a category for Jo...
Problem: Internships are a sizable part of job listings - 12% currently but don't have a category under type. Community members have been asking for that category.
Solution: Add 'Intern' type to Jobs. ...more
Implemented - Fixing editing quirks in WE's WYSIWYG ...
Problem: There are some annoying quirks when editing content in WiserEarth using the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor as reported below by Bowo (bowo) and Ben (benbrangwyn). If you experience other kind of edit ...more
| edited by Honore 4 days ago |
Implemented - Offer a Web Service API +3
Update: The work on the API is underway! Thanks to an effort spearheaded by Leif Utne and Jon Warnow, there is a collaborative effort to raise funds for the API - please check out www.openwiser.org f ...more
| edited by Honore 5 days ago |
Implemented - FB Fan page for WiserEarth
It would help publicity if it were possible for Facebook users to become a Fan of WiserEarth. Can you make a FB Fan page?
| edited by Honore 5 days ago |
Chatterbox - To keep the scrolling where we put it
Currently : when I want to read a message that is not recent I scroll the messages up to the one I want. After some seconds the system scroll down so I cannot finish reading the message.
Proposed : ...more
Chatterbox - To add the day in addition to the time
Currently : you can see at what time a chat has been posted but not at which day so it is not very interesting to know if the information is recent or old
Proposed : in the Chatterbox - to add the d ...more
Are we making the best use of WiserEarth?
HOW TO BETTER UTILIZE WISEREARTH
Janine's observations after 17 months on WE
ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURE UNDERUTILIZED
The most powerful aspect of WE is its multilingual search
engine. Do we have metr ...more
Should Solutions be renamed? Toolkits? Projects?
Problem: No one really understands what a Solution is and how it is different from ResourcesSolution: Rename Solutions to Toolkits to get across that these are practices that can be shared and somewha ...more
| edited by MichelSwoord 12 days ago |

