1042727 - Improve firehose monitoring to identify the best makes and teaching kits

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webmaker Graveyard :: Teaching Kits / Curriculum, defect)

Description

[Matt Thompson (@OpenMatt :OpenMatt)]

* We need good curation systems here

* Chris may have ideas on how Gallery Maker can help

* Kat: what's the best place to start? What "firehose dashboard" do you have available / would you use now? And how could we make the process better?

Comment 1

[Kat Braybrooke [:codekat]]

Right now, I use the MakeAPI, and different searches on Webmaker by modifying this kind of URL: https://webmaker.org/en-US/search/?type=tags&q=teach-kit,teach-activity&sortByField=likes

Improvements: 

(1) At the moment I can only search for *one* type of entity on the MakeAPI (ie, by tag, or by user name, etc) but it would be great to be able to toggle *more than one* type of search query so I can do advanced searches -- ie #makerparty things that are also "teach-kit". 
(2) I have also noticed that many Teaching Kits and Activities do not have the "teach-kit" or "teach-activity" tag attributed to them. Why might this be? Will be tough to find them without it. 
(3) The MakeAPi currently shows fields, not thumbnails -- this would be a great way to search more quickly though, as there are often many versions of the same make (but only one with a final thumbnail image!)

Just some initial ideas!

Comment 2

[Kat Braybrooke [:codekat]]

Waving to Chris (Cade) in case you have thoughts on the 3 ideas above!

Comment 3

[Chris DeCairos (:cade)]

(In reply to Kat Braybrooke [:codekat] from comment #1)
> 
> (1) At the moment I can only search for *one* type of entity on the MakeAPI
> (ie, by tag, or by user name, etc) but it would be great to be able to
> toggle *more than one* type of search query so I can do advanced searches --
> ie #makerparty things that are also "teach-kit".
I presume this refers to the /search page on webmaker.org? That page is in need of an overhaul and upgrade (there's probably already a bug out there for it). With some design work, we could build a much more robust search UI that can build complex searches. (like the advanced search function Google has)

> (2) I have also noticed that many Teaching Kits and Activities do not have
> the "teach-kit" or "teach-activity" tag attributed to them. Why might this
> be? Will be tough to find them without it. 
Not sure what's happening here - are you saying that remixes of teaching kits aren't keeping tags? if we can confirm that, definitely a bug. Otherwise people might be getting rid of the tags or starting from scratch and pasting in the template code.

> (3) The MakeAPi currently shows fields, not thumbnails -- this would be a
> great way to search more quickly though, as there are often many versions of
> the same make (but only one with a final thumbnail image!)
Are you speaking of the Make Editor tool?

Comment 4

[Kat Braybrooke [:codekat]]

Thanks Chris. 

In regards to your Q about all of the above, I'm talking about https://makeapi.webmaker.org/admin -- this is the interface I have been using because it is the most robust so far. Happy to use Webmaker.org front-end search though if more functionality was added..

Comment 5

[Matt Thompson (@OpenMatt :OpenMatt)]

* going to mark this resolved -- then push forward with back-end firehose monitoring work in other tickets.

Comment 6

[Matt Thompson (@OpenMatt :OpenMatt)]

* actually scratch that -- there's good context here
* let's figure out what next steps are here for the [sep19] train

Comment 7

[Matt Thompson (@OpenMatt :OpenMatt)]

* The [oct3] train has now left the station. So please update the whiteboard with [oct17], or whatever train you're now planning to put this on. Thanks!

Comment 8

[Matt Thompson (@OpenMatt :OpenMatt)]

* the [oct17] train has now left the station
* so please update with [oct31], [nov14], [nov28], etc.

Comment 9

[Kat Braybrooke [:codekat]]

Keeping this open as it's still going to be important for whomever does curation on Webmaker site going forward

Comment 10

[Matt Thompson (@OpenMatt :OpenMatt)]

* [nov14] is past -- please update to [nov28] train or later