project categories

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I noticed that we have more and more projects and that the main project page 
starts becoming unclear. 

The idea of the projects is further that many people that don't know each other 
can work together on the same project. As it is now, users start similar 
projects, because they don't understand that they could just join an existing 
project. 

Can we, please, introduce project categories that have to be chosen by the 
author during the creation process of a new project? Perhaps we can even 
suggest to join a project when the title is similar to another project title. 
Or more simple: after choosing a category, the user will be given a list of 
existing projects in that category with the hint to first check whether they 
want to rather join an existing project. What do you think?

I suggest to categorise the existing projects:

*education
Languages in our communities
Poverty
my school
Languages in our schools
motivation
African culture
South African Quotations
The ECSPIRT Project
FU Berlin ``Kundenprojekt`` Summer 2009

*environment
The garden project
Developing a food Garden at my school.
GLOBAL WARMING

*art
out of streets by art project

*health
working to adreshiv and aids
HIV AND AIDS
Child Abuse
HIV/AIDS
Healthy Diet

*sport
world cup
Get ready for 2010!

*habitation
Testing: Papercrete
Building Methods in Grahamstown East

*safety
Helping Hand In Our Society

*religion
Stop fighting in church

Users could suggest new project categories. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by anna.wer...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2010 at 11:45

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I suggest using the tag system for this.  That way related content can be shown 
even if it's not in the projects module.  For example: say ornithology clubs at 
different schools started projects to record birds sighted at their school that 
year.  Different schools would have different projects, and blog posts, 
pictures, forum posts, etc may be related and we'd want to show them in the nav 
of the projects pages, and vice-versa.

>> "As it is now, users start similar projects, because they don't understand 
that they could just join an existing project."

Will add some text above the 'create new project' form, explaining this.  It 
could be that some users don't want to join a project, they would rather do 
something on their own, or don't want to be associated with specific people.

Original comment by dumbbuthappy@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2010 at 2:10

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Ok, go for it. We will see how that works out. 

Original comment by anna.wer...@gmail.com on 2 Jul 2010 at 9:27

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If we don't cluster the existing projects soon, we will only have more work 
later since projects will be started at a faster rate soon. Rather let the 
authors allocate their projects to a certain group themselves, I think. 

Original comment by anna.wer...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2010 at 9:20

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Along with the new project categories, can we please restructure the main 
project page a bit?

1. In the main column, instead of all projects, I would just like to see the 
project categories their related project titles.

2. In the side column, we can show the ten most active projects displayed the 
same way as the "more projects" are displayed now. 

Thank you.  

Original comment by anna.wer...@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2010 at 9:24

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To be more precise, I meant:

2. In the side column, we can show the ten most active projects displayed in 
the same way as AND INSTEAD OF the "more projects" that are displayed now.

Original comment by anna.wer...@gmail.com on 25 Aug 2010 at 9:08

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Can we start now to work on this issue? It really becomes quite critical now.

Original comment by anna.wer...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2010 at 6:59

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Underway.  Will take this feature live on the next update, tonight or tomorrow.

Original comment by dumbbuthappy@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2010 at 6:24

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Added tags feature.

Original comment by dumbbuthappy@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2010 at 3:14

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Added project categories/tags to nav, removed 'More' and replaced it with 'Most 
Active', activity will be measured from now and is ranked by the rate of 
revisions.  Will see how it goes and set a cutoff after which revisions don't 
count (say 3 months or so).

RE# 4 - showing projects by category will be a very big list, showing projects 
multiple times as they can be sorted every which way, can you confirm this is 
what you'd like?

Original comment by dumbbuthappy@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2010 at 4:09

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This is good! 

Yes, the list will become too long, you are right. So, perhaps we can show a 
list of just project categories (sorted alphabetically) with each one example 
(the largest project concerning data input for example) and then the 
possibility to click on >> more.  

The tags and the tag cloud are a great addition to get an overview of topic 
importance, followed by the overview of activity in the projects.

Original comment by anna.wer...@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2010 at 9:13

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Ok, we can leave it as it is. Thank you for your ideas, Strix.

Original comment by anna.wer...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2010 at 8:22

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