SwissBlogs Needs Your Help

[fr]

Je cherche à monter une équipe de personnes motivées pour faire vivre SwissBlogs, un des répertoires de blogs suisses les plus en vue. Au programme, entre autres:

  1. amélioration générale de l'interface (formulaire qui se pré-remplit avec les informations meta du weblog, possibilité d'éditer ses infos)
  2. intégration avec blog.ch
  3. version italienne
  4. processus de modération plus efficace

Si vous voulez faire partie de l'équipe, contactez-moi! Je cherche aussi des modérateurs, pour approuver les nouveaux sites ajoutés à la liste. Le site est en PHP/MySQL pas trop propre :-)

[en]

SwissBlogs, one of the best-known Swiss blog directories, has become too much for one person (me) to maintain, even with a little help (Matt). Plus, you all know by now, that if I’m pretty good at having ideas and launching stuff, I’m much less good at keeping them going. I guess that’s just who I am.

I am therefore looking for motivated (and multilingual!) people to help me keep this directory going, and improve it (it has hardly changed since I quickly threw a few lines of dirty code together over 18 months ago).

I would like to put together a team of 5-6 people. Here is a quick list of what I’m thinking about for the coming developments of the directory:

  1. provide italian translation of interface
  2. allow people to edit their own data (add username/password functionality)
  3. automatically fill-in the form with as much data as possible pulled from the blog page meta tags (like ViaBloga does with their blogrolling system)
  4. more integration with blog.ch: it initially used the SwissBlogs list, but now the two lists have grown separately — people sign up on blog.ch but not on SwissBlogs, and vice-versa
  5. in particular, blog.ch information can be used to determine if a blog is still active or not
  6. add screenshots of blogs
  7. improve moderation process
  8. better sorting and filing of blogs (add tags?)
  9. improve general usability of form/site, and redesign…

Of course, we also need moderators — people who will check new blogs before inclusion in the directory.

Please get in touch if you would like to be on the team, or be a moderator.

Have I posted about this already? It rings familiar but my memory and site search are failing me.

5 Comments

  1. Posted 3/25/2005 at 1:41 pm | Permalink

    Salut Stefanie.
    I would like to help you, if moderation or technical consulting/coding i dont’t care. Please contact me via email.
    Oh, my language skills: german,english,low-french,almost no italian… :) regards sandro

  2. Stephanie
    Posted 3/25/2005 at 1:46 pm | Permalink

    I’ve set up a mailing list for coordination. Let me know if you want to join it.

  3. Posted 3/29/2005 at 9:35 pm | Permalink

    Hi
    I am interested in checking and approving incoming webblogs.
    I would like to see more Expat Blogs on Swissblogs.Il est aussi évident qu’il y a pas de PodCast sur le site….Peut-etre une opportunité!
    Envoit moi un email pour en discuté.

  4. Posted 3/30/2005 at 3:32 pm | Permalink

    salut stephanie

    je voudrais aussi vous aider! je ne peux pas aider beaucoup concernant la technique, mais peut-être faire la moderation et aussi aider concernant la traduction italienne. mon italien n’est pas parfait mais pour des traductions simples ca devrait suffire. je parle/écris allemande, anglais, français (comme tu vois aussi pas parfaitement..), italien.

  5. Posted 5/30/2007 at 8:42 am | Permalink

    Salut Stéphanie,

    Si jamais je peux t’être utile je suis volontiers à ta disposition.
    Peut-être un peu du côté technique et graphisme et pourquoi pas de la modération… ;)

    Je parle/écris le français, l’allemand et un peu l’anglais.

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