{"id":4,"date":"2008-09-25T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-09-25T15:46:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T15:46:39","slug":"welcome-to-userbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/2008\/09\/welcome-to-userbase\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to UserBase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi – I’m Anne,a.k.a. annew.\u00a0 I live in Yorkshire, England, in the Pennine hills, which are very beautiful when the sun shines – which is not often enough!\u00a0 I spend all my spare time, and a lot that isn’t spare, working with KDE.\u00a0 I’ve been giving and receiving help on mailing lists since 2002, and now am devoting most of my time to helping UserBase get off the ground.<\/p>\n

So where has UserBase<\/a> got to?\u00a0 It’s hard to believe that it is only 6 days since “UserBase goes Live!” was posted.\u00a0 We now have 127 pages of content, and the number grows daily.\u00a0 We have 40 registered contributors – not bad for 1 week, but we need lots more.\u00a0 It is possible to edit without logging in, but there is one big disadvantage.\u00a0 We can’t leave messages for you.\u00a0 While Talk:UserName pages are not private and protected, they are less likely to be read by others than the Discussion pages attached to content pages.\u00a0 No-one is forcing you to create a login, but it does aid communication.<\/p>\n

What will make it more useful for users?\u00a0 At the moment the first thing that users will notice is that they can get a very<\/em> quick overview of what applications KDE offers.\u00a0 It may well be that we’ve missed some of the lesser known ones – now’s the time to add them and get them better known.<\/p>\n

Application pages generally consist of an overview of the features, with a screenshot or two, and links to the project’s home page.\u00a0 All very good, as a starter, but not good enough.\u00a0 What we really need is a FAQs, Hints and Tips section for every one of those pages.\u00a0 If every KDE user added just one tip or one helpful screenshot, can you imagine what a resource that would make?<\/p>\n

So is UserBase only to be a help to users?\u00a0 I hope not.\u00a0 UserBase is the perfect place to keep in touch with your project’s users.\u00a0 Set a Watch on the pages that you are concerned with.\u00a0 Use the Discussion pages attached to them to make suggestions.\u00a0 If users post a question on a Discussion page, you can either answer it there or add it to the FAQ section for the project.<\/p>\n

Developers – we don’t want to add any burden, so tell us how we can help you.\u00a0 Users, tell us what you need and can’t easily find. There have been 52,763 page views so far – let’s make UserBase really work for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So where has UserBase got to? What are the expectations of users and developers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[5,14,6],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde","category-uncategorized","tag-add-new-tag","tag-kde","tag-userbase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}