{"id":40,"date":"2009-10-04T12:37:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T12:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-10-04T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T12:57:22","slug":"announcing-userbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/2009\/10\/announcing-userbase\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing #userbase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people know me through my work with UserBase<\/a> , where I’m a (the?) major contributor.\u00a0 I’ve seen myself described as the UserBase maintainer. That’s in no way an official title but today that’s the hat I’m wearing.<\/p>\n

UserBase has the potential to be a truly awesome resource, and if you look at some of the statistics it’s getting there.\u00a0 782 content pages.\u00a0 539 registered users.\u00a0 Total views 1,387,442.\u00a0 Sounds good, doesn’t it?\u00a0 But what about this statistic? – Users who have performed an action in the last 7 days 14! And when you look at the Special:ContributionScores you see that, taking out the excellent work being done by translators (Claus_chr, Yurchor, Qiii2006 and Alisha in particular) you can only conclude that there’s simply not much new content being added.\u00a0 That’s a terrible shame, considering the cumulative knowledge of 539 registered users.<\/p>\n

I’ve been worrying about this for some time, so when I saw a link to http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2009\/09\/03\/professional-team-management-tips-for-creative-folks\/ and found the heading “Know Your Team” I began to wonder just who is ‘my team’.\u00a0 In truth, I know very little about most of the 539 people who have registered, so now it’s time to find out.\u00a0 Why did you register?\u00a0 What are your hopes, your expectations?\u00a0 How can I help you become more involved?<\/p>\n

I’ve talked to a few people when they identify a problem with which they would like help, but waiting for that to start a conversation just isn’t enough, so I’ve registered a new channel, #userbase, on Freenode.\u00a0 I’ll be around most days, so I hope you’ll join me there.\u00a0 Tell me about the applications you like to use.\u00a0 Tell me your favourite features.\u00a0 Tell me what you wanted to know and couldn’t find information about.\u00a0 Tell me how we can make UserBase into a truly awesome beast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many people know me through my work with UserBase , where I’m a (the?) major contributor.\u00a0 I’ve seen myself described as the UserBase maintainer. That’s in no way an official title but today that’s the hat I’m wearing. UserBase has the potential to be a truly awesome resource, and if you look at some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,6],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde","tag-kde","tag-userbase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}