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 | "Also, as @sagarpreet has noted elsewhere, we are on the extended Nov 6th deadline, so you still have a bit of time! " | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, all! Just added one more item, which I'd like to see incorporated; it should be relatively easy to add in: script to go back through posts an..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| edie_blues | "Hi @warren, good point and I agree. Thinking about it, I think it's likely that the visitors to the page will be interested in either a specific c..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "Is there anything you could think of along the lines of "join a project near you" where we might direct people to look at https://publiclab.org/peo..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "Looking great. I'll reply in more depth on Monday. We may need to do up some text for the Community Science part, but we'll see... i'll connect wit..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| funnyjokes | "Thank you for your sharing. Thanks to this article I can learn more things. Expand your knowledge and abilities. Actually the article is very pract..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| edie_blues | "Hi @warren and all, Sorry I was away for a couple of days and couldn't access the Internet. yes indeed, there is a new version available here: ht..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "Thank you, Sidharth. Folks - we're just trying to be sure you don't miss out on this! Many thanks for your interest in working with us :smiley: :ta..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| bansal_sidharth2996 | "All the participants of Outreachy are requested to submit the application before October 30 at 4pm UTC on the main Outreachy website. Failure to do..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi! Just checking if you have a new iteration of this to share? Thank you!!! " | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| bansal_sidharth2996 | "University and college students who are applying are requested to provide information about their school calendar and class credits. We will ask fo..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, just catching up after a busy Barnraising event! I jotted down some longer textual responses to some common questions at this page: https://pu..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| edie_blues | "Hi @warren and all, Following your suggestions, I've changed a couple of things. I've added headers to the "Find a cause" section. I've also add..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| edie_blues | "Thanks for the input @warren, I will work on it and come back soon with updates :smiley: " | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "I was thinking also - several people have recently approached me asking "I'm in India, how would I start a Public Lab group there, or start working..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "Just going through here to offer a bit more input on the evolving design! Do you know who I ask about the copy (the text under the images)? I thi..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "Just on a couple of Liz's comments: causes -- i like this too. Perhaps just below it, instead of a search box, we could list 8 or more additional..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, just catching up today. Thanks for your posts so far! Exciting! Let me go through and leave some concrete feedback now :-) " | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| edie_blues | "Hello again! I've added a store section as well, let me know what you think. :) @liz I've tried with the square images instead, but the circular ..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| edie_blues | "Hi @liz! Thank you very much for your response! :) It's very helpful and I was anxious to hear what you think! Yes, I think the "cause" would be..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| liz | "Hi @edie_blues! It's so energizing to see this page come to life! Thank you for pouring attention into this. You asked some numbered questions abov..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| liz | "Hi @stevie, to your comments from many months ago, we've just pulled together something that may partially begin to address your last issue, that p..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| liz | "Hi @stevie, to your comments from many months ago, we've just pulled together something that may partially begin to address your last issue, that p..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| edie_blues | "Hi @stevie! Thank you for your suggestions, let me know what you think about the current design (https://edieblu.github.io/pl-welcome.io/). Is it ..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago |