Yesterday, a number of volunteers (both new and repeat offenders…) came together to continue building out the Badge Wiki), a new knowledge repository for the Open Badges community.

Audio Recording: https://archive.org/details/BadgeWikiBarnraising1November2017

Etherpad: http://etherpad.openrecognition.org/p/BarnRaising_1_November_2017

Thanks to all who gave their time and took part!

So then, what’s in here?

At our previous get together, we discussed the helpfulness of having a mental model of the information contained in the wiki, which would help and encourage those arriving at the home page for the first time. I took on the task of taking the communities suggestions and creating a visual entry point in the form of an image map. Here’s what the initial version looks like:

After putting this to the group, there’s now a whole bunch of suggestions to take it to the next level:

  • Put “open badges” in the middle
  • Combine Badge Examples and Badge Programmes as just Examples
  • Add an FAQ link
  • Change clickable links to: Why Badges?, What are Badges?, Research, Getting Started, Examples, FAQ

During the call, we also:

  • compared the friendliness off creating forms vs tables
  • invited contributors to test and report back on the newly installed multi-lingual tools.
  • looked individually at what we could gather up and put in (informally known as the low-hanging fruit)

Until next time…

Our next gathering, during which we hope to tidy things up before a soft launch, details to follow in the Badge Wiki discussion group.

Please do join the Badge Wiki discussion group to find out more!

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