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Teams: project descriptions don't show anymore
For instance, the URL for the WebmasterHelp project of the Google team was "https://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/teams/google/p/webmasterhelp" and according to the 19 Sep 2012 18:56:03 GMT Google's cache for this project, it had on top of the left column, just below the team logo:
Google Translation Team / Projects /
WebmasterHelp
This project is for Google's WebmasterHelp videos.
Moreover the project videos listed in the project pages were unfiltered yet: see attached googlecache_project_20120919_ann.jpg screenshot of the same Google's cache for the same project.
Whereas now, the URLs for the projects, as they appear in the links in the navbar of all pages of teams, have the syntax of results of a filtered search in the whole team's videos. So for the WebmasterHelp project of the Google team, this URL is now http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/teams/google/?project=webmasterhelp, and it merely corresponds to the result of the following filtering choice: "Videos in WebmasterHelp project with any subtitles sorted by time, newest" applied to all the team's videos. And that's why the project description has disappeared.
And though the former "https://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/teams/google/p/webmasterhelp" URL still works, what it effectively shows is this same result of a filtering choice as http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/teams/google/?project=webmasterhelp : without description. See the attached project_pseudo_p_subdirectory_now.jpg screenshot.
Duh. If this reduction of team projects from proper page to mere filtering results is something entailed by the future introduction of the team dashboard Dean Jansen evoked during the Amara Town Hall on Oct 23 (1), then all team participants (2) should be consulted via a poll - some may prefer proper project pages.
Update: In this staging preview, the Dashboard is on the team's main page, and the list of videos is now only in the /videos subdirectory. Both in the preview and in the current Amara, the former /p/ subdirectory that used to contain the project pages now also shows the list of videos.
(2) Or at least all team admins, as there are some very hierarchic Amara teams.
I've checked back on this, sorry for the delay in replying. Projects will indeed become a sublist of videos at least for the near future, I do like the idea of using the miro community platform as a way to structure the project, as discussed in the Captioning mailing list. Miro community also has a guide, which might help the efforts being discussed on the mailing list! http://support.mirocommunity.org/solution/categories/13505
By the way, feeds can be added to mirocommunity sites
Claude Almansi
I hope the former, because a project without a description is just a sublist of videos, and you can create that more efficiently and easily with tags in a social bookmarking web app, then link to the tags in the team description.
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