Public Lab Wiki documentation



How to use and improve this website

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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 guide community interactions according to our Code of 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 like water-quality or 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, 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.

Key features

Subtopics

Title Updated Version Views Likes
Power Tags over 1 year ago by laurel_mire 75 3,460 11
Authoring Help over 1 year ago by laurel_mire 59 6,229 5
Website Basics over 1 year ago by laurel_mire 15 842 3
About Tags almost 2 years ago by bhamster 2 311 2
Write an Issue Brief almost 2 years ago by liz 33 5,241 3
User interface design over 3 years ago by liz 26 1,421 4
Sitemap almost 4 years ago by liz 10 6,364 0
Contributors almost 4 years ago by liz 2 2,512 0
Topic Pages almost 4 years ago by liz 5 332 2
New Projects almost 4 years ago by stevie 20 1,067 15
Wiki Templates over 4 years ago by warren 23 6,421 3
Issues about 5 years ago by gauravano 23 8,379 11
Web Working Group almost 6 years ago by Bronwen 6 773 2
Summer of Code over 6 years ago by warren 2 455 0

Authoring

These pages provide documentation on creating content on this website:

Title Updated Version Views Likes
Authoring Help over 1 year ago by laurel_mire 59 6,229 5

Utility pages

Title Updated Version Views Likes
Chat about 2 years ago by warren 55 389 12
Location privacy over 2 years ago by warren 16 3,761 4
Locked pages over 2 years ago by warren 5 1,217 0
API about 3 years ago by warren 2 505 0
Features about 3 years ago by warren 21 329 0
Region almost 4 years ago by liz 17 516 1
Issues about 5 years ago by gauravano 23 8,379 11

Questions



Activities

Add an activity or request an activity guide you don't see listed


More pages related to the website

Title Updated Version Views Likes
Welcome to Public Lab over 1 year ago by bhamster 40 15,576 2
Website Basics over 1 year ago by laurel_mire 15 842 3
How to use and improve this website over 1 year ago by laurel_mire 21 11,063 2
About Tags almost 2 years ago by bhamster 2 311 2
Topics over 2 years ago by bhamster 22 17,640 3
Translation over 2 years ago by warren 21 4,567 4
Location privacy over 2 years ago by warren 16 3,761 4
Locked pages over 2 years ago by warren 5 1,217 0
community development almost 3 years ago by liz 98 1,094 2
API about 3 years ago by warren 2 505 0
Features about 3 years ago by warren 21 329 0
User interface design over 3 years ago by liz 26 1,421 4
Sitemap almost 4 years ago by liz 10 6,364 0
Website projects almost 5 years ago by warren 12 466 1
Issues about 5 years ago by gauravano 23 8,379 11
Requesting responses over 5 years ago by warren 4 476 1
Web Working Group almost 6 years ago by Bronwen 6 773 2
Summer of Code over 6 years ago by warren 2 455 0
Streak almost 8 years ago by warren 3 468 1
plots2: the Public Lab 2.0 website almost 10 years ago by warren 20 483 1
New Comer Landing Page about 10 years ago by liz 12 232 0
plots2 Alpha almost 11 years ago by warren 9 307 0
Public Lab helps people create great Data almost 11 years ago by liz 6 573 0
Notes for new Get Involved sequence about 11 years ago by liz 24 222 2