Wikiversity talk:Guided tour/Community Portal

Community Portal Not Displayed
Currently, the Community Portal doesn't show. I spent a long time trying to figure out why the transclude tag doesn't work, eventually realising that it does, but nothing shows because of a noinclude tag (incidentally, the tag is not closed) on the Community Portal. I don't know the purpose of the noinclude (perhaps to avoid undue use of server resources with nested transcludes?) so I'm not game to mess with it, except to verify in my sandbox that it is the cause of the failure of this page.--Alkhowarizmi (discuss • contribs) 07:23, 25 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I removed the noinclude tag. It didn't appear to serve any purpose. Do you find either the guided tour or the community portal to be useful? The guided tour receives very few visitors. The community portal does receive visitors, but so far is rarely updated. What changes could be made to make these resources more useful? -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:31, 26 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I'll delay detailed response and probably merge it into "first impressions" when I manage to collate them. For the short version, I didn't get a lot from either, but I wouldn't write them off. Somewhere I read the apt comment that it's not feasible to recommend a path for a newcomer as we are so diverse in background, purpose, and method. I have had difficulty finding the path for me. I certainly saw a link to "Browse" very early, and merely thought "isn't that what I'm doing?", imagining a page of advice to someone new to browsing wikis or large sites or even the web. I looked at the Guided Tour, expecting information specific to Wikiversity, and that's what I got, mostly. Not a lot of it, but by giving me a sequence to follow instead of a bunch of links to pick from, it took me to the "Browse" page which I otherwise could have missed for a long time. That was valuable. If the Guided Tour took the newcomer in sequence through a few more key pages, perhaps one could follow the tour and be assured of not missing any of the divers paths.


 * I probably would have gone to the "Browse" page in my first session on Wikiversity if it were named something such as "Index" more descriptive of the contents.--Alkhowarizmi (discuss • contribs) 09:50, 27 March 2016 (UTC)