Forum:MyHome and Wikia's Privacy Policy

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to give those of you who don't watch the blogs a quick heads-up regarding two new blog posts today: If you have any questions about either, please either reply in the appropriate comments section, or add a note below:
 * 1) My Home -- new feature launches on Wednesday: We are going to be releasing MyHome throughout Wikia tomorrow, and
 * 2) Changes to Wikia's Privacy Policy: We're making some changes to Wikia's privacy policy to clarify some of the practices that our ad networks use and provide our users with an opportunity to opt-out of behavioral advertising.

MyHome
Put comments and bug reports here.

Possible to customize the activity list?
The my home thing is nice. I was thinking that for high traffic wikis it might be even more relevant to some users to have the option of seeing activity filtered by direct membership in a category or categories. 16:51, September 23, 2009 (UTC) (moved from separate forum page)

Community corner
This a handy area for displaying messages targeted at users who have already created an account. I just finished tweaking w:c:vsk:MediaWiki:Community-corner to feature page create buttons for various types of page that are needed to grow that wiki. It also proves a useful place for showcasing certain widgets that have been tailored to the community. (e.g Tips and Wiki Page)

Compared to the screen space dedicated to the Recent Activty/Watchlist area the Community corner is a little narrow. --najevi 04:38, September 24, 2009 (UTC)

Recent activity
This feedback is from somebody already very familiar/comfortable with Special:RecentChanges so keep that bias in mind.


 * Basically I think that too much white space is wasted with the Recent activity section of the My Home page
 * I am a little concerned that the My Home page might eventually make redundant such pages as: Project:Community portal, Special:RecentChanges, sub-menus under the Top content navbar link, Special:Contributions/USERNAME and to a lesser degree the main page of the wiki .. to name the few that I have noticed on first look.

I wonder if enhanced Show/Hide style buttons might be incorporated to allow:
 * 1) More than one type of information to be displayed in that left hand column. e.g. transcluding the content from already existing community-oriented pages such as"
 * 2) * Recent activity (already there)
 * 3) * Watchlist (already there as an alternative to RA)
 * 4) * Top content sub menus
 * 5) * Contributions (already on page in RH column)
 * 6) * Forum index
 * 7) * Community portal (not quite the same as Community corner)
 * 8) * Community news (really just a section from the main page)
 * 9) * Featured article (ditto)
 * 10) Each user to show/hide those sections that are of interest to them.
 * 11) The enhanced aspect of the expand/collapse links for this idea would be that each user get's to save in a browser cookie exactly which sections of the My Home page appear expanded by default.
 * 12) * This way those of use who want to keep tabs on Recent changes can be taken to a page that looks much like the existing My Home page while those of us who would rather focus on Community portal or Forum content are free to do so. (e.g. For users who are new to a wiki I would prefer to see their My Home focus on Community portal content and perhaps Featured article content whereas long-time contributors are free to customize that page to focus on whatever tickles their fancy.)

Now if existing content from already existing pages is transcluded into the above named collapsible sections on each Special:My Home page then the good work that has been invested in those existing pages can be leveraged rather than being partially duplicated or otherwise made redundant. --najevi 04:38, September 24, 2009 (UTC)

Privacy Policy
 Put questions here.