Feedback Learning Center Cleanup?

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Much more time consuming for me on phones and tablets.

glad it's not just me....
Unfortunately it's my only option..

 

[Kiki]

glad it's not just me....
Unfortunately it's my only option..

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Doesn't help that I'm technologically challenged as well..

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Wow, what a fantastic thread!!

Now that the dust has mostly settled on the conversion, we're turning a lot of our attention to the Articles section of BYC. This includes 2 high level objectives:

1. Create clear organization and hierarchy
2. Curate and promote the best (and most accurate) content / articles.

These are both very important, but also very challenging goals, and we're going to rely a lot on our community to help us create a perfected Learning Center!

So, let's keep the ideas and feedback coming that will help us reach those goals... and if you want to help / volunteer to apply some of the suggestions, let us know, we're always looking for helpers / volunteers!

Ok, imma gonna dive into a few of the items posted in this thread:

the Learning Center was a place that articles containing good, correct information about keeping chickens were found. Staff would select the articles that they found worthy of being in there and move them over, and new members with questions could be directed there to read and learn.

YES! We're definitely open to cleaning up the Learning Center and making sure it's meeting the goals above. We originally thought that having the "best" articles show up in the top of each section would be a good way to demarcate the various quality of articles. That said, we're talking about adjusting our process to be more similar to what it was before. It's just tricky to know where to draw the line for content submitted into the LC.

I took a look through just the Hatching Eggs and Raising Chickens section, and it's a little cluttered in there. For instance, in just a quick browse, I found that information regarding how to incubate or raise chicks has been buried by tons of posts about how to build various brooders and incubators.

Ok, so let me make sure I understand:

when going here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/hatching-eggs-raising-chickens.22/

... there's no way to ONLY show hatching / raising articles WITHOUT seeing Incubators & Brooders ?

That's a valid issue and we can change the hierarchy of that section so topic articles are separate from build articles.

This same issue probably applies to other categories too, like Housing & Feeding Your Flock, no?

So would there be a way to go back to the system where all new articles are posted as member pages, and staff can move the ones they feel are a good fit into the Learning Center? And would it be possible to maybe clean it up a little and remove the things that are already in there that don't really belong?

Yes and Yes! We just need to make sure we're making it very easy for peeps to create great articles and get those articles placed into the correct sections properly. We were trying to reduce the # of amazing articles that were buried and lost in the Member Pages section.

would it be possible to get a separate section for all the incubator and brooder DIYs?

Yup, we should definitely figure this out for this section and the others! In the past, homemade incubators, brooders, waterers, feeders, etc. were all under the coops section. We'll need to figure out how to organize this stuff in a way that articles aren't buried under build articles.

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Again, thanks for all the great feedback! Let's all work together to get the BYC Learning Center perfected before the next Spring rush!!!!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Wow, what a fantastic thread!!

Now that the dust has mostly settled on the conversion, we're turning a lot of our attention to the Articles section of BYC. This includes 2 high level objectives:

1. Create clear organization and hierarchy
2. Curate and promote the best (and most accurate) content / articles.

These are both very important, but also very challenging goals, and we're going to rely a lot on our community to help us create a perfected Learning Center!

So, let's keep the ideas and feedback coming that will help us reach those goals... and if you want to help / volunteer to apply some of the suggestions, let us know, we're always looking for helpers / volunteers!

Ok, imma gonna dive into a few of the items posted in this thread:

YES! We're definitely open to cleaning up the Learning Center and making sure it's meeting the goals above. We originally thought that having the "best" articles show up in the top of each section would be a good way to demarcate the various quality of articles. That said, we're talking about adjusting our process to be more similar to what it was before. It's just tricky to know where to draw the line for content submitted into the LC.


Ok, so let me make sure I understand:

when going here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/hatching-eggs-raising-chickens.22/

... there's no way to ONLY show hatching / raising articles WITHOUT seeing Incubators & Brooders ?

That's a valid issue and we can change the hierarchy of that section so topic articles are separate from build articles.

This same issue probably applies to other categories too, like Housing & Feeding Your Flock, no?



Yes and Yes! We just need to make sure we're making it very easy for peeps to create great articles and get those articles placed into the correct sections properly. We were trying to reduce the # of amazing articles that were buried and lost in the Member Pages section.


Yup, we should definitely figure this out for this section and the others! In the past, homemade incubators, brooders, waterers, feeders, etc. were all under the coops section. We'll need to figure out how to organize this stuff in a way that articles aren't buried under build articles.

---

Again, thanks for all the great feedback! Let's all work together to get the BYC Learning Center perfected before the next Spring rush!!!!

Thank you so much for looking into this. I'd be more than happy to help, just keep in mind my lack of technology skills...lol

 

[Pyxis]

Wow, what a fantastic thread!!

Now that the dust has mostly settled on the conversion, we're turning a lot of our attention to the Articles section of BYC. This includes 2 high level objectives:

1. Create clear organization and hierarchy
2. Curate and promote the best (and most accurate) content / articles.

These are both very important, but also very challenging goals, and we're going to rely a lot on our community to help us create a perfected Learning Center!

So, let's keep the ideas and feedback coming that will help us reach those goals... and if you want to help / volunteer to apply some of the suggestions, let us know, we're always looking for helpers / volunteers!

Ok, imma gonna dive into a few of the items posted in this thread:

YES! We're definitely open to cleaning up the Learning Center and making sure it's meeting the goals above. We originally thought that having the "best" articles show up in the top of each section would be a good way to demarcate the various quality of articles. That said, we're talking about adjusting our process to be more similar to what it was before. It's just tricky to know where to draw the line for content submitted into the LC.


Ok, so let me make sure I understand:

when going here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/hatching-eggs-raising-chickens.22/

... there's no way to ONLY show hatching / raising articles WITHOUT seeing Incubators & Brooders ?

That's a valid issue and we can change the hierarchy of that section so topic articles are separate from build articles.

This same issue probably applies to other categories too, like Housing & Feeding Your Flock, no?



Yes and Yes! We just need to make sure we're making it very easy for peeps to create great articles and get those articles placed into the correct sections properly. We were trying to reduce the # of amazing articles that were buried and lost in the Member Pages section.


Yup, we should definitely figure this out for this section and the others! In the past, homemade incubators, brooders, waterers, feeders, etc. were all under the coops section. We'll need to figure out how to organize this stuff in a way that articles aren't buried under build articles.

---

Again, thanks for all the great feedback! Let's all work together to get the BYC Learning Center perfected before the next Spring rush!!!!

Thank you! It sounds like things will be great in the end And I would absolutely be willing to help with this if help is needed

Ok, so let me make sure I understand:

when going here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/hatching-eggs-raising-chickens.22/

... there's no way to ONLY show hatching / raising articles WITHOUT seeing Incubators & Brooders ?

That's a valid issue and we can change the hierarchy of that section so topic articles are separate from build articles.

This same issue probably applies to other categories too, like Housing & Feeding Your Flock, no?

Yep, that's correct, there's no way to see just the stuff about incubating and raising chicks without having to wade through all the incubator and brooder DIY articles. And the same thing does seem to be happening in Housing and Feeding Your Flock - lots of feeder and waterer DIYs and even some Coop pages are in there that should probably be in the Coops section instead.

 

[WVduckchick]

I'm willing to help also, if there's anything i can do.

 

[aart]

@Pyxis thanks for starting this thread!

articles aren't getting fact checked

I didn't think any articles were ever 'fact checked'.

fwiw you are able to sort the articles by these categories:
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'Likes' are not a viable metric.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Regarding quality control / review: We're working on a few ideas for this and will keep y'all posted!

Regarding organization. Here's the current category hierarchy of our Articles:

As was pointed out, "incubator & brooders" and "feeders & waterers" are all sub-categories of the main sections. Unfortunately, if someone is trying to ONLY look at articles within the parent sections, there isn't a way to do this.

Proposed Solution: Move "incubator & brooders" and "feeders & waterers" to be "siblings" of the other categories and not children of them. This is by far the easiest / quickest solution.

This is also in-line with an idea @sumi @KikisGirls, and @casportpony have been discussing around increasing the # of categories to break-out the Learning Center a bit more (e.g., splitting "Maintaining a healthy flock" into a few different categories).

Thoughts?

 

[perchie.girl]

Proposed Solution: Move "incubator & brooders" and "feeders & waterers" to be "siblings" of the other categories and not children of them. This is by far the easiest / quickest solution.

Eggcellent....

By the way the selective quote is by far my favorite feature of the new platform.