View source for Case Studies/Cleanup

== Adding new Case Study ==
===Timing out=== 
<strike>When putting together a long article, if you forget to push "Save changes" religiously, you can lose a lot of material from timing out. Can we extend people's logged in time? 
* Tech: Very possible to change. NK looking into.</strike>
Fixed, I believe.  The timeout shoule now be more than 12 hours. [[User:Nkinkade|nkinkade]] 16:59, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

=== Duplicate Wiki pages===
Adding a Case Study for a project that already has an entry in the wiki is problematic (see: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Valkaama) These are entries from Content Directories. Maybe case studies should have the folder /Case_Studies before them?
** Meta: Ask Mike. Moving content and/or setting up redirects affects content. 
* Brings up an interesting point: we could have the Content Directory form autofill based on the case study form. No need to duplicate some of this info, right?
===Show Preview===
<strike>This function is buggy for me. After pressing Preview, I see multiple boxes like this: "Facts about Case_Studies/Cleanup RDF feed Revision time 	23 March 2009 15:33  + Revision user 	Michelle Thorne  +"</strike>
* Tech: known bug. NK has ticket for. http://code.creativecommons.org/issues/issue110

== Case Study Form==
===Spilling over===
<strike>Form fields spill under the right sidebar.</strike> 
Fixed. [[User:Nkinkade|nkinkade]] 17:01, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

===Images===
Have link to CC wiki's "Upload File"? Or other way to integrate file upload within form.
** Tech: possible. Just copy the link Special Page>>Upload File.
===Pull Quote===
Should not be enclosed by quotes, this is done automatically. 
===Author/Organisation===
Is slightly confusing. Does it mean the author of the case study? Or the author of the content?
* Meta
** Agree, this should be clarified that it is the focus of the case study.  (Greg, 4/9)
===User Status===
Ok, this refers to the subject of the case study. Should the terms be the same (i.e. "author/organization") like in above section? 
* Meta
** Yes (Greg, 4/9)
===Tags===
Is it possible to add some pre-existing tags? Of course people should be able to add new ones, but it's helpful to see naming conventions and existing tags.
* Tech: Probably possible to add list box. Might be best to have small pop-up window or drop-down because might be too many tags. 
* Meta: (Greg/Jon?) How are the CS tags stored? At least we should have short text explaining example tags and naming conventions. 
** They are stored in the page as part of the <nowiki>{{Case Study}}</nowiki> form.  (Greg, 4/9)
** Greg: looking into incomplete from teamspace. maybe can be implemented here?

===License URL===
We should mention that multiple license URLs should be separated by a comma.
* Meta: add info to template
===Country===
We should also note that multiple countries should be divided by comma.
* Meta: add info to template
Also, I noticed differing conventions of "global", "worldwide", etc.
* Meta: someone could go back and unify the term, but that won't stop people in the future from picking one over the other.

==Case Study Main Body==
===Formatting toolbar===
When editing with form, there's no wiki formatting toolbar for the main text, just a link to a help page.
* Tech: possible. NK looking into.

Because this form is created by Semantic Forms, about the only way I could find to get a WYSIWYG editor onto the textarea is with an extension called FCKeditor:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms#The_free_text_input
It may not be worth it?? [[User:Nkinkade|nkinkade]] 19:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Another, less tech-inclined user just made this same suggestion again. Maybe we should reconsider installing the extension? I think it would overall help the formatting quality of the studies, and elsewhere on the wiki. --[[User:Michelle Thorne|Michelle Thorne]] 09:19, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

<strike>Ok, good to know. I think this boils down to a question of benefit vs. time required to install it. I'm not sure how much work is needed to set up the extension, but I won't call this a high priority bug. So, if it's too intensive, we should just leave it out. --[[User:Michelle Thorne|Michelle Thorne]] 16:48, 9 April 2009 (UTC)</strike>

===Media===
This subheading still confuses people; it could be explained better in the default text, perhaps. Do we want links to outside references, for example a newspaper article discussing the project, or do we want links to further media/content from the work itself?
* Meta: explain better in template.

== Landing Page ==
See mock-up: [[User:Michelle_Thorne/DevCasestudies]]

<strike>* Meta: work with Greg to redesign. lots of mediawiki tweaking.
** What kinds of changes are you thinking of? [[User:Greg.grossmeier|greg.grossmeier]] 20:13, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 
=== CCau Book Design===
The book jacket cover should be prominent and link to the whole PDF or new booklets. @Jess any further design elements we can include from the book?
===Featured Cases===
Move the featured cases more to the top
* Agree! - Greg
===Intro Text===
Cut down on intro text. Less is more, and icons are best! 
* Agree! - Greg
===Banner===
We should have one -- reflecting new title "CC Stories". Also, see above! 
===Navigation Boxes===
Make the navigation/sort boxes (the orange ones) smaller
* Tech: possible. May also involve overriding CSS stylesheets.
===View Case Studies Box=== 
Can this pull or link to example/featured cases from each category? Might catch eyes better.</strike>

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