Suggestions with regards to ReCom Wiki

[Cadence_hope]

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This is a thread for everyone to post their suggestion or ideas with regards to ReCom Wiki, not only mine. So, feel free to voice out your opinion.

Here is my idea on the scholarship portal (I'd moved this from the thread 'Introducing ReCom Wiki' to here because it seems inappropriate to post this under the section 'Rules, News and Info Kiosk').

When I'm seeking for info in recom for scholarships, I found that some of the pre-universities, undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships are all mixed up although they are under the same sponsor. For example Bank Negara provides different scholarship programs. So different scholarship seekers might have to use more time to flip through other info seem unrelated to them.

I suggest that we should further divide the scholarship portal into some subtopics to make ReCom Wiki more systematic, well-organized and to ease the search of information for different stages of scholarships seekers.

Scholarships

1. International scholarships

2. Local scholarships
I suggest to divide it based on the type of programme sponsored. So it can be divided into 3 subtopics, which are:

* Scholarships for Pre-University Study (STPM, A-Level, Australian Matriculation etc.)

* Scholarships for Undergraduate/first degree courses

* Scholarships for Postgraduate Study

Notes:
1. If there are several scholarship program under a same sponsor, for instance Bank Negara, then the title 'Bank Negara' will appear in all three categories. For the link 'bank negara' under pre-university category, there will be only infomation about the pre-university scholarship program, while only info about first degree scholarship program by bank negara under the subtopic 'undergraduate scholarship'. And so on.

2. There might be some vague boundary lines between different categories. For instance some scholarships cover the fees from pre-university study to degree course, such as JPA, Petronas, UEM and many others. So which category should we put them? Or we just list it under the title of 'Others' or 'General'?

These are just some rough, brief ideas of mine.
Are those suggestions applicable and useful? Or they sound funny and unnecessary? Any comments? Do correct me if there is any mistakes.

[vseehua]

It's a sound suggestion. Will get to work on it tonight when I am more free ;)

[Boyz_Zoo]

The portal Scholarships has received a lot of changes as you all allowed us to edit. Thus, allow the users to edit the portals like Life in College, Studying overseas, entrepreneurship, career and especially studying tips. How do expect the users to contribute to the Recom Wiki if you don't allow us to edit those.

[vseehua]

Originally Posted by Boyz_Zoo

The portal Scholarships has received a lot of changes as you all allowed us to edit. Thus, allow the users to edit the portals like Life in College, Studying overseas, entrepreneurship, career and especially studying tips. How do expect the users to contribute to the Recom Wiki if you don't allow us to edit those.

The Portals namespace are locked by default from being edited by non-administrator users. If you need anything to be put in do pm one of the mods, and they will do it for you

[youngyew]

Unfortunately I think the portal being limited to admin is a default setting in wiki system, and I don't know whether it's editable. We might need to ask our site wizard Luke.

[vseehua]

Originally Posted by youngyew

Unfortunately I think the portal being limited to admin is a default setting in wiki system, and I don't know whether it's editable. We might need to ask our site wizard Luke.

yeap. It is set up to be like that...

Regarding to the pm sent to me about the scholarships portal being editable, I have checked the codes and realized that the page is showing the contents of another page entirely, hence making it editable to the normal users

[vseehua]

I have created a few more templates within the scholarships portal. Now I require help in moving the scholarships in the "uncategorised" category to the correct subsection.

The main template for the scholarships portal is:
http://www.recom.org/w/index.php?tit...ia&action=edit

To edit the separate sub-templates, just scroll to the bottom of the page and click on one of the "templates" link

[Boyz_Zoo]

Originally Posted by vseehua

I have created a few more templates within the scholarships portal. Now I require help in moving the scholarships in the "uncategorised" category to the correct subsection.

The main template for the scholarships portal is:
http://www.recom.org/w/index.php?tit...ia&action=edit

To edit the separate sub-templates, just scroll to the bottom of the page and click on one of the "templates" link

consider it done.

[vseehua]

Originally Posted by Boyz_Zoo

consider it done.

Thank you.

Now we will divide each section into even smaller portals, so that the main page won't show a veery long of every single scholarship that exists in the world

[Cadence_hope]

Another two suggestions of mine:

1. Add information about some language tests such as TOEFL, IELTS and ELTS, perhaps under the portal 'Public Examinations'.

2. For the scholarships portal, display only 5 to 10 scholarships under each subcategory (pre-u, undergrad and postgrad) in the main page. Those scholarships which are displayed are those 'popular' one (I suggest to look at the number of clicks on the link if the system can detect this ).

P/S: Xon, sorry for 'pirating' your big bold italic orange in my first post here. Didn't realize that it is your moderating color..