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Jason Young replied on December 02, 2009 20:31 to the question "Can I get an Events feed?" in eXtension:

There is a feed for all horticulture events though that may be useful for at least getting started:

http://www.extension.org/feeds/events...

(actually, that might not be very useful, it's ordered earliest first :-( - and I'm not sure that can be overridden. That's why I was mentioning that our filtering code is "less than robust" :-) )

Jason Young replied on December 02, 2009 20:25 to the question "Can I get an Events feed?" in eXtension:

Hi Karen,

Not from the events application, but probably from the published events in the www.extension.org application. (Events, like FAQ, and the CoP wiki is a content creation tool for content to feed into the www.extension.org - which is designed for higher traffic situations).

Working on the ability to have better and cleaner filtering for the feeds is something we realized that we really need to work on for the 1Q as we talked yesterday about other requests for feeds by various criteria. Our filtering code in our various feeds is "less than robust" right now.

So the short answer is "Yes, hopefully in the near future, along with other published content from www.extension.org"

Jason Young replied on November 23, 2009 16:16 to the idea "time zones" in eXtension:

Well, the problem with showing the current time is the following: If you show the time on the server-side as a print out of static text from when the page was loaded, the current time is completely invalid 30 minutes later when you walked away from your desk and came back to the browser (or came back to the tab). You could show a javascript clock, but you have to make sure that's done in UTC, because the default is likely the timezone of the browser.

We'll just do everything in swatch time, how about that?

Jason Young replied on November 23, 2009 16:05 to the idea "time zones" in eXtension:

So, we need a sentence on the page that says "these times are in UTC" - sure.

Jason Young replied on November 23, 2009 15:57 to the idea "time zones" in eXtension:

Hi John,

I don't understand what you are asking. The current time of what? The current time is dependent on the observer's time zone.

Jason Young set one of Jason Young's replies as an official response to "AaE clock is off by 5 hours" in eXtension

Jason Young replied on November 23, 2009 12:49 to the question "AaE clock is off by 5 hours" in eXtension:

Hi Ann,

It's not, the times are in UTC for all of the areas of the application (AaE, times for the Public site, and People). We don't have per-user TimeZone support in the application, which we'd need to most accurately display times for folks. It's a known need to implement at some point.

Jason Young replied on November 10, 2009 22:48 to the question "Who is included in the interested, joined, and leadership listserves?" in eXtension:

Great. Yes, all community mailing lists include the leaders of the community (and those for "institutions" will include the institutional team members)

Jason Young replied on November 10, 2009 19:56 to the question "Who is included in the interested, joined, and leadership listserves?" in eXtension:

Hi Karen, It's listed on the page for the lists themselves:

(e.g. for Consumer Horticulture, it's at https://www.extension.org/people/comm... )

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About Mailing Lists

Every Community can have up to three mailing lists:

• A mailing list for the Leaders in the community

• A mailing list for those that have a "Joined" (leaders+members) connection with the community

• A mailing list for those that have a "Interested" (leaders+wants to join+interest) connection with the community

As colleagues create or delete connections with the community they will automatically be added or removed from the appropriate mailing lists associated with the community.

Lists are hosted on the mailing lists server "lists.extension.org" - subscribers can post to the list by sendmail email to list-name@lists.extension.org

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There's no single list that encompasses leaders+members+interest+wants to join.

Jason Young replied on October 14, 2009 19:44 to the question "Interests not showing up on public profile?" in eXtension:

Yes I know. The option is there, but the display code is not. You can get at them via JSON, but that's not very helpful. It's a known intentional deficiency.

Jason Young replied on October 14, 2009 19:27 to the problem "Expertise tags showing up and I can't delete them" in eXtension:

This should now be fixed. Tags added to your People areas of expertise that come from indicating AaE handling prefs are now editable.

Jason Young replied on October 14, 2009 17:53 to the problem "Expertise tags showing up and I can't delete them" in eXtension:

Thanks for the report John, I'm pretty sure that these are coming from AaE - if you add AaE preferences for specfic areas, they'll update your people areas of expertise (one way update, it's meant to form a foundation for having AaE deal in tags and not categories). They are added as a specific type, when the edit form is looking for another type.

I hope to have a fix out later today for it. The problem has a specific entry in our issue tracker as Issue #858

Jason Young replied on October 08, 2009 19:02 to the question "Graphed reports of community activity?" in eXtension:

Yes, if you look at a list of leaders or members or interest for any community you'll see a link to download a CSV file of the list of colleagues you are looking at.

It's accessible for all.

Jason Young replied on October 08, 2009 18:37 to the question "Graphed reports of community activity?" in eXtension:

Hi Karen,

There is Google Analytics running, but I don't think it would be able to accurately reflect this. (GA can only track requested pages/links, and it might be possible to tease this out of GA, but since there's not a real clean single link/page that represents joined or interest, I don't know how good it would be)

On the graphing part - not in the application, there's some code in there to do things like this, but that particular metric is not available in a timeline at the moment, nor hooked up to the graphing code.

What there is though is probably even better from an analysis perspective, there are CSV downloads for the community members and interest list, that have timestamps in them. One is "connection created" - that's when a person made some kind of connection to the community "I want to join" or "I am interested" - and connetion updated, a timestamp reflecting when the connection may have changed (e.g. going from "I want to join" to "member")

You could import those into excel, or your favorite data analysis software and cross-tab and histogram on the date columns and get probably better analysis of the raw data than anything we could produce in-app.

Jason Young marked one of John Dorner's replies in eXtension as useful. John Dorner replied to the question "Error message when opening many AaE pages".

Jason Young replied on September 05, 2009 01:23 to the question "Error message when opening many AaE pages" in eXtension:

Good.

Jason Young replied on August 31, 2009 21:01 to the question "Why can't I get to the certification reports from a Word document?" in eXtension:

Hi Deb,

One addition to what Beth said, this will likely never work properly with the CoP wiki. It appears from previous experiences with this in 2007 and earlier this year, that Microsoft Word initiates some kind of custom internet connection from within Word itself when opening a link. Even if the link appears to open as you would expect in either Internet Explorer or Firefox, the way that Word initiates the connection, it ignores all previous saved cookie information.

Essentially this means no matter whether you are authenticated or not already, a Microsoft Word-initiated connection will not utilize that authentication.

The solution is to either open up the Community of Practice wiki to not require authentication to read documents, or to not use links within Word, and instead author the Word document within Google Docs, another Wiki, or within the CoP wiki itself. Or perhaps Microsoft will change this behavior in Word in the future.

Jason Young replied on August 26, 2009 18:27 to the question "Co-Producing Content with multi CoPs - What CoP template does the page go to on the Live Site?" in eXtension:

Hi Sue,

The logic described above was deployed as part of the merged release on August 12, 2009.

Jason Young replied on August 26, 2009 18:12 to the question "Why doesn't the "related FAQ" link show up on the Public Side?" in eXtension:

Hi Amy, Shane,

This has now been fixed, and released. You can see an example at http://www.extension.org/faq/29926 (the first one I picked that had related answers).

Jason Young replied on August 24, 2009 18:00 to the problem "bad link" in eXtension:

Hey John,

Thanks for the report, we've asked the content provider to rename the page. And we have marked it as a bug - but it's going to be a bit before we can really sit down and address it.

It has to do with the hoops that we have to jump through with mediawiki articles being named with titles that include a '?' character in them. MediaWiki itself will use the title as as the text in the URL (which is great because it's better for search engines) - but unfortunately has you start to take that and pipe it through other applications (such as our public site), it gets a bit challenging to maintain. Questions as titles are very important to the content providers, the URL less so, but the URL is very important to maintain for links and search - so we are going to have to rethink the problem again and figure out some way to deal with MediaWiki's design as a endpoint for the content that we are just using it as a source system for another application doing published content display.