Using Discourse
Starting Organizing Categories
- To start a category - in Admin, click on Categories - and upper right hamburger is Add Category. [1]
- Staring subcategories - upon creation, you can select it to nest under.
Wiki Integration
- Discourse should work closely with wiki.
- Discourse threads for different machines are embedded on wiki.
Search
- Search feature appears to be robust. You can search any topics by keywords, which integrates well with OSE infrastructure such as wiki.
- Taxonomy for versioning should be followed. Thus - machine name - 3D Printer v20.04 should be equally searchable on wiki and on forums.
Images
- Image upload should be turned off for memory management purposes.
- Images are uploaded to the wiki.
Badges
- Create custom badges for people familiar with design. Create Design Guides and Test for each design - so that we qualify able designers who use the OSE design principles. [2]
- Discourse can serve as a go-to place for certifying skills, and thus becomes a priceless source of transparent development talent. If we teach people high quality skills, then the OSE Community (Forum) becomes a critical part of OSE development infrastructure. By making skill sets transparent, we create star talent, and external audiences, ideally, start to recognize the OSE Community as a formidable source of development talent. This will help tremendously during Incentive Challenges, and would allow us to solve COVID-scale problems readily by leveraging our community.
- To grant a badge, go to Admin->Users->Badges
- Note that badges icons should have a transparent background to look good.
- Phasing it in - we can set up badges and allocate them gradually.
- Badges can show up only when clicking on the user - so we don't overfill the discussion pages with badges, but we can find out more info about a user by clicking on that user.
Embedding
- Trying to embed according to directions at https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-via-javascript/31963
I followed what they said to produce the HTML:
<html>
<div id='discourse-comments'></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
DiscourseEmbed = { discourseUrl: 'https://discourse.opensourceecology.org/',
discourseEmbedUrl: 'https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Test'};
(function() {
var d = document.createElement('script'); d.type = 'text/javascript'; d.async = true;
d.src = DiscourseEmbed.discourseUrl + 'javascripts/embed.js';
(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(d);
})();
</script>
</html>
Nothing appears. See how I set it up on Discrouse:
Can you help me do a successful embed?
