Closed Bug 743814 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

[One Mozilla] Add 'Contribute to this page' link to footer

Categories

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Product:
www.mozilla.org
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: davidwboswell, Assigned: sgarrity)

Details

Opening bug to get a link to 'Want to edit this page?' added to the One Mozilla footer.  

Purpose:

This would be a channel to introduce people who are interested in contributing to our websites to steps to how to get started and open bugs that they could work on.

Design:

This has been included in earlier designs for the new site.  See the link under the last modified information at:

http://davidwboswell.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/desktop-mockup-v3_1.png

Content:

When this is clicked, this can bring up a lightbox with the content on the following page:

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/edit-this-page

The lightbox would also include an instance of the Get Involved page form.
OS: Mac OS X → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Summary: Add 'Want to edit this page?' link to One Mozilla footer → [One Mozilla] Add 'Want to edit this page?' link to footer
Target Milestone: --- → 2.3
I've been thinking about Mike's comment that 'edit this page' sounds more like an invitation to change the text on the page than to work on the code of the page and also Jeff's thought that a similar link for localization opportunities (like 'would you like to translate this page?') would be good to have.

Considering this, I suggest generalizing this to one link that can cover any type of contribution opportunity related to a web page (coding, designing, writing, translating).

We could do this by having one 'Make this page better' link in the footer that could bring up a page that talks about how people can contribute to Mozilla's sites in general with links to specific areas, like the l10n wiki page, for people to learn more.

Considering that, I've added some new text on this etherpad:

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/edit-this-page

CC'ing Matej for his thoughts on the link wording and wording for content that comes up (also to let him know this could be a channel for reaching out to people interested in design and writing contributions).
Summary: [One Mozilla] Add 'Want to edit this page?' link to footer → [One Mozilla] Add 'Make this page better' link to footer
I'm concerned that "Make this page better" sounds like we're saying there's something wrong with it. I agree that "edit" might not be exactly right either, so here are a few other options:

Help us with this page.

Contribute to this page.

Work on this page.

Help build pages like this one.

Get involved with Mozilla websites.

I've also made some edits to the etherpad. I'll update the headline there once we land on something here.
I like "Contribute to this page", for the reasons Matej mentioned in comment #2, and because it somewhat ties in to our use of 'contribute' as a way to get involved with Mozilla in other contexts (ex. mozilla.org/contribute).
'Contribute to this page' sounds great to me.  Thanks for the word polishing Matej :)
Summary: [One Mozilla] Add 'Make this page better' link to footer → [One Mozilla] Add 'Contribute to this page' link to footer
Great! Made the appropriate changes to the etherpad as well.
Steven, 
Copy is done. Can you take a look at the requirements here and let us know if you have everything you need for implementation? My only concern is lack of designs. It's a simple lightbox but may need some mockups and graphics.
Target Milestone: 2.3 → 2.4
I wonder if just linking to a new page would make sense here. I don't see anything in the text that references "this page".
(In reply to Steven Garrity from comment #7)
> I wonder if just linking to a new page would make sense here. I don't see
> anything in the text that references "this page".

I don't have a strong preference between a lightbox and linking to a new page.
Steven, if going with a page makes the most sense, how about this for the location:

mozilla.org/contribute/page

Does making this a page vs. a lightbox help with implementing this without a design?
(In reply to David Boswell from comment #9)
> Steven, if going with a page makes the most sense, how about this for the
> location:
> mozilla.org/contribute/page

Thanks, I was wondering what URL to use.

> Does making this a page vs. a lightbox help with implementing this without a
> design?

Should - I'll drop in this content and we'll see how it looks.

CC'ign jlongster here for help with the form. James, we're going to be duplicating the content/behaviour of the form from the /contribute/ page on this /contribute/

James, I've got the basic page setup here: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/75
Assignee: nobody → steven
Commits pushed to dev at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/bc216c6bc00cb84dc4fdf2cd6ad9346a09633bfa
Setup basic page for 'Contribute to this page' link (Bug 743814)

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/da244f4367e8fbf65b6b4fc8a8227bc45153ff33
Merge pull request #75 from sgarrity/bug-743814-contribute-page

Setup basic page for 'Contribute to this page' link (Bug 743814)
The style of the page looks good to me on dev.  One small thing -- this sentence is showing up twice: "Mozilla websites are run as open projects that you can help us build and edit."
Steven, looks like the tweaks to the styles broke the form on this page: http://www-dev.allizom.org/b/en-US/contribute/
(In reply to James Long (:jlongster) from comment #15)
> Steven, looks like the tweaks to the styles broke the form on this page:
> http://www-dev.allizom.org/b/en-US/contribute/

Should be fixed now, thanks.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Keywords: qawanted
I just submitted a pull request to update the page content to point to the correct location for web development contribution opportunities.  It had been pointing to non-web coding opportunities.

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/82
(In reply to David Boswell from comment #18)
> I just submitted a pull request to update the page content to point to the
> correct location for web development contribution opportunities.  It had
> been pointing to non-web coding opportunities.
> 
> https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/82

This pull request looks to have a lot of unrelated changes in it. Is this the change you had in mind? https://github.com/davidwboswell/bedrock/commit/0cb855c35b3e7b65f35d54430fc2944933cf1480
(In reply to Steven Garrity from comment #19)
> > https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/82
> 
> This pull request looks to have a lot of unrelated changes in it. Is this
> the change you had in mind?
> https://github.com/davidwboswell/bedrock/commit/
> 0cb855c35b3e7b65f35d54430fc2944933cf1480

Steven, yes, I just wanted to make that one simple text change.  I guess I accidentally included other stuff in my pull request.
(In reply to David Boswell from comment #20)
> Steven, yes, I just wanted to make that one simple text change.  I guess I
> accidentally included other stuff in my pull request.

I've added this update.
This is ready for QA.
This has been merged to master and will go with the next push.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Keywords: qawanted
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Component: www.mozilla.org → General
Product: Websites → www.mozilla.org
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