This page collects tips, guides, and documentation about using the Public Lab website. As a collaborative community, we are always refining our collaboration infrastructure. Please read on to learn how, and leave a comment if you'd like to help out -- thank you! ### Basic workflows * On this website, people can browse, sign up, follow some topics, write a post, leave a comment. * More experienced users can create new topics, host discussions and knowledge bases around them, post activities, tutorials and events, and create Q&As. * Public Lab's [Moderators](/wiki/moderation) guide community interactions according to our [Code of Conduct](/conduct). ### Overview PublicLab.org is a content management system for the Public Lab research community. The website hosts a collection of forum-like groups of people, posts, and wiki pages, each focused on a [topic](/topics) like [water-quality](/tag/water-quality) or [disaster-response](/tag/disaster-response). It includes a variety of features that help the Public Lab community collaborate on environmental activism, research, technology design and documentation, and community organizing. ### Audience & accessibility The website's code is organized and structured around [inclusive and welcoming community values](https://github.com/publiclab/plots2#what-makes-this-project-different), as part of our efforts to ensure that historically excluded groups are centered and supported in the crafting of this software project. Designed for a general audience with no particular familiarity with web conventions, priority is given to very low barrier interaction — [low floor and wide walls over high ceiling](http://www.hightechinthehub.com/2011/02/scratching-the-surface-with-mitchel-resnick/). ### Key features * [Rich text authoring environment](https://publiclab.org/post) with image upload for creating posts and wiki pages * [Subscriptions](/subscriptions) and [notifications](/notifications) for followed content * Dynamic inline collections, maps, and tables using short-code-style [inline power tags](/wiki/power-tags#Inline+power+tags) * Embeddable interactive listings of activities, posts, and questions on external sites * Geographic tagging of posts and profiles for place-based organizing, with [location privacy](/location-privacy) * A [Q&A portal](/questions) for peer-based problem solving * [Content moderation systems](/spam2) and dashboard of comments and posts for logged in moderators * Print, screen reader, and mobile display accessibility * [Usage statistics system](/stats) with graphing per-timeframe analytics * Threaded comments, emoji reactions, and reply-by-email * OAuth-based login with Twitter, Facebook, GitHub and Google accounts, and OpenID-based unified Single-Sign-On (SSO) for MapKnitter and Spectral Workbench * Customizable profile pages, posting [templates](http://publiclab.org/templates), [internationalization](https://github.com/publiclab/plots2#internationalization), [translation into 10+ languages](/translation), standard API ## Subtopics [wikis:parent:website] ### Authoring These pages provide documentation on creating content on this website: [wikis:authoring] ### Utility pages [wikis:website-utilities] ## Questions [questions:website-structure] **** ## Activities [nodes:activity:website] Add an activity or request an activity guide you don't see listed **** ## More pages related to the website [wikis:website]...
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warren | "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..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
warren | "Yes! I believe it's documented pretty deep in Ananyo's post: https://publiclab.org/notes/ananyo2012/08-20-2016/gsoc-2016-final-work-product-of-expa..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
pdhixenbaugh | "You can change any research note into a question post by adding the tag question:subject, replacing "subject" with the tag the question relates to...." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
pdhixenbaugh | "I can't seem to answer my own question even after following the tags "question" and "question:question". EDIT: the top of the page still reads "sub..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
pdhixenbaugh | "Changed this into a question by adding the tag "question:question" " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
pdhixenbaugh | "I think I might have answered my own question (and found a bug? calling @warren) I made this post by clicking the "Ask a question" button, but it ..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
gretchengehrke | "Interesting. I was envisioning the Header with collapsable paragraphs below, but both could be cool. " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
warren | "I wonder if we could think about it more developed out as a feature, like perhaps it'd show up like an inset text box: http://getbootstrap.com/comp..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
gretchengehrke | "@warren, I think it could be useful -- it could be more visually appealing than just having a Table of Contents at the top and then straight text f..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
warren | "Yep! It's a little convoluted to write the HTML, though; if you think it'd be a common feature, we could make an inline powertag for it, maybe? " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
gretchengehrke | "@warren, This is neat! Would this work for wikis too? " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
liz | "Wow a real milestone! " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
warren | "A couple updates for the Rich Editor too: a prototype (not fully working) autocompletion for @callouts an autocomplete tagging system, based on h..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
ananyo2012 | "Here is my Progress on the Expanded Q & A System Project As mentioned in the plots2 pull request #550 I have written controller actions and vi..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
liz | "Muki's recent post on the European Citizen Science Association workshop explores web tools for collaborative science writing, references Public Lab..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
ecta64 | "I think this is a fantastic way to alleviate the problem of spam. " | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
btbonval | "@ajawitz I'm not sure if you have seen the (lengthy) discussion on Markdown in various places, but I can link to at least one part of the longer co..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
ajawitz | " User-documentation issues have been THE most challenging problem for just about every grassroots organization I've ever worked with. For project..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
pswigert | "When the team I worked with at the Berkeley School of Information was working on our thesis project we looked a lot at how to build intrfacws that ..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
klie | "This was brought up several times during the Barnraising also. There were so many awesome people there with great ideas and lots to say, yet I hav..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
liz | "I am also interested in a plain text question posting option. Would be good to be able to include pictures though, with an upload method that peopl..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
DavidMack | "Kudos all around for a great site! I love the Notes and feel guilty I'm in the 80th percentile of lurkers--will have to post something. Wiki page..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
warren | "It's absolutely a priority -- so much so, that throughout this note, I've treated it as a given that we're implementing it. Am I misreading that? ..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
mathew | "I don't misunderstand this note, Jeff. It has two sections: a diagnosis of the problem of research note posting, and a proposed remedy-- working on..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago |