Hi, Patrick - I'm not sure what you, @liz, and @donblair are up to on this, but I was adding some helpful tags so many projects show up with listed activities and upgrades on https://publiclab.org/tools -- and saw all the riffle-related posts over the past months. I tagged a variety of them with activity:riffle and they now show up on the /tools page.

Just a thought -- on that page, i wonder if a lead image like this one would display better:

Oh and that image is from @cfastie's Frozen Riffle post.

Now that those are tagged (and there are plenty of ways to change/improve that tagging, surely), you could put an activity grid on the Riffle page just by adding [activities:riffle] in the wiki page body somewhere.

I think that image is great

So do I! I'll go ahead and update the image. I'd also love to find a place to have this cool old doodle/sketch

Just added the "how to get a riffle" section to the wiki. Check it out: https://i.publiclab.org/wiki/riffle

Hey @pdhixenbaugh, the new lead image looks great! I wanted to invite you and anyone else following along to join us this coming Tuesday at 3pm ET for the weekly "open research call' so we can get into all these ideas. It will be on a web calling service called Uber Conference, just click https://www.uberconference.com/publiclab and you'll be in there with us.

I love that doodle too - maybe it could be used lower down on the page, or in an activity. It might read better horizontally, though, in a web page.

I was thinking that, once we have pagination for non-activity grids (like just showing a collection of tagged notes with the inline tag [notes:riffle]) we could have a section in any wiki page to collect the most recent updates in a table. Like a "Recent updates" section.

The "entry points" question you had above caught my eye -- I've been using that phrase to think about the sequence of how people first enter the site, and first get to a page like the Riffle page, and what they see first. I think having clear activities which people can do -- starting points -- will make any project page more engaging than just one which lists what's the latest stuff going on, so this makes me think Activities might appear above latest research. (@stevie, this might be relevant for your ongoing discussion with @sarasage about project pages in general, too!)

I'm also starting to help out in organizing the Aerial Photography page, which is going to have a lot of content, and I'm thinking that although it's a top-level page, the sheer quantity -- from pole mapping to kite mapping to kite building to balloon mapping, to soda bottle enclosures for cameras... it's intimidating.

An activity grid on that topic would have dozens -- or HUNDREDS -- of entries. Maybe for a big area like that, we need to actually break it down into different sub-pages before showing a whole activity grid. Or we could show only a few introductory activities for each sub-category on the main page, and the more in-depth activities broken out across sub-pages.

Ah great topics. Is everyone able to join tomorrow's 3pm ET call?