925106 - Outdated and broken links on "Get Involved" page (!)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webmaker Graveyard :: webmaker.org, defect)

Description

[Jacob [:Jacob]]

The get involved page has a lot of bad links that need to be fixed ASAP - https://webmaker.org/getinvolved

"Join a Party" is confusing. Shouldn't it say "Make Something"? We should also add a link to the Starter Makes and incorporate the #webmaker hashtag.

* Proposed revision: Making is the basis of everything we do. Try remixing one of our starter makes [http://webmaker.org/starter-makes], or make something from scratch using X-Ray Goggles, Thimble, or Popcorn Maker. Then share it with the world using hashtag #webmaker

The links below to X-Ray Goggles, Thimble, and Popcorn Maker all have exposed code that's supposed to detect the locale and are completely broken. They deliver "Cannot GET" errors and look like this at the moment
- https://goggles.webmaker.org/{{localeInfo.lang}}
- https://thimble.webmaker.org/{{localeInfo.lang}}
- https://popcorn.webmaker.org/{{localeInfo.lang}}

For the "Teach the Web" paragraph, we should add a link to the teach templates. 

* Proposed revision: You don’t need to be a wizard to teach the web. We've created hackable guides for teaching digital literacy, webmaking, online storytelling and more. Want to create your own lesson plan? We have great templates [http://webmaker.org/teach-templates] for that"

"Contribute a Guide or Resource" links to a very outdated wiki page from the 1.0 site. Anyone who follows those instructions will be extremely disappointed. 
* Please change the link from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Submit_your_project => to this https://support.mozilla.org/kb/top-tips-creating-great-teaching-kits

"Help with beta-testing & quality assurance" links to a very outdated wiki page that is also full of old links. Until we have a SUMO article for this, I suggest linking to the Feedback page instead. 
* Please change the link from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Testing => to this http://webmaker.org/feedback

The "Contribute Code" page links to a lot of outdated Wiki information. 
* Please change the link from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Code => to https://support.mozilla.org/kb/contribute-webmaker-code

The "Webmaker Newsgroup" has a dead link to the email list.
* Please change the link from https://mzl.la/Webmaker_Newsgroup => to this https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/webmaker
I'm curious if the error is caused by our mzl.la URL shortener, which makes me question the other shortened URLs we have on the site.

Our YouTube channel is missing on the "connect through social media" section - http://www.youtube.com/mozillawebmakers

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Also in general, I propose we get rid of uses of en-US in the URLs as it is not locale friendly. Although browsers in other languages should resolve to the correct language, there's no guarantee. Also, it's less clean and appears US centric. "en-US" is littered in many of the URLs on this page and should be removed IMHO.

I've also heard from Doug that the term "digital literacy" is frequent misnomer and is not the same as "web literacy" so I'm proposing that we change all instances of "digital literacy" on this page and the site to "web literacy"

Comment 1

[Erica Sackin]

Thanks Jacob -- good catch. It mightbe worth doing a one-pass audit on the site before launching at MozFest for all other language mixups. 

My question for Brett: this page still needs to have a bug filed on changing the language, yes? If so, we can have Drushka/Matt update with the most current messaging and fix the errors, and then file a bug to change it.

Comment 2

[Brett Gaylor [:brett]]

What do you mean by "changing the language"?

Taking another pass for the right words/copy sounds good, but then this needs to happen by Friday as we are doing a string/content freeze to allow for localization.

I'd like to ask that we avoid large rewrites of things like our about page, as this will force all of our localizers to redo much of their work.

Comment 3

[Erika Drushka]

From what I can tell, most of Jacob's suggestions involve changing links.

Here's my take on the four copy changes (TLDR: I agree to all)

1. "Join a Party" is confusing. Shouldn't it say "Make Something"? -- YES

2.  We should also add a link to the Starter Makes and incorporate the #webmaker hashtag. 
Proposed revision: Making is the basis of everything we do. Try remixing one of our starter makes [http://webmaker.org/starter-makes], or make something from scratch using X-Ray Goggles, Thimble, or Popcorn Maker. Then share it with the world using the #webmaker hashtag -- YES

3. For the "Teach the Web" paragraph, we should add a link to the teach templates. 
Proposed revision: You don’t need to be a wizard to teach the web. We've created hackable guides for teaching digital literacy, webmaking, online storytelling and more. Want to create your own lesson plan? We have great templates [http://webmaker.org/teach-templates] for that. -- YES

4.  I've also heard from Doug that the term "digital literacy" is frequent misnomer and is not the same as "web literacy" so I'm proposing that we change all instances of "digital literacy" on this page and the site to "web literacy"  -- YES

Comment 4

[Erica Sackin]

works for me!

Comment 5

[Dale Karp (:daleee)]

Attachment: Code Review

https://github.com/mozilla/webmaker.org/pull/418

Comment 6

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/webmaker.org

https://github.com/mozilla/webmaker.org/commit/a3ab353c7f70a931e09e8d507e2d27b9d881777d
[bug 925106] Update copy and links on /getinvolved

https://github.com/mozilla/webmaker.org/commit/f91e628fa50f86e32eb2d18659706f68c6c59381
Merge pull request #418 from daleee/925106-getinvolved-outdated-broken-links

[bug 925106] Update copy and links on /getinvolved