What is a Workspace?

A workspace is a collaborative space that allows any member of the group to change the content on any page. The latest version of the workspace is always displayed, no matter how many times it has been edited.

A revision history is kept, so content is never lost, it's just moved to the revisions list.

What do all the links on the Workspace lead to?

Explanation of the items in the shaded part of the bar from left to right.

• edit -- Reveals the source text of the current page for editing.
• revisions -- List of the revisions to the current page, most recent on top, including:

• revision number (most recent on top)
• compare to any previous revision (what changed between revisions)
• author of the particular revision
• date stamp of the revision

• backlinks -- List of workspaces referring to the page currently viewed.
• page -- A drop down menu of the following items:

• plain text -- The rip, mix and burn feature of omidyar.net. Reveals the raw punctuation what made the page look so pretty.
• check formatting -- On-screen punctuation error assistant. Any problems interpreting the format of the page are displayed on the page at the point of the error for trouble-shooting by the author.
• printer-friendly -- A version of the current page that does not include any of the navigational elements and is therefore more useful when wanting to print just the content.

• workspace -- A drop down menu of the following items:

• new page -- Creates a new workspace by asking for the title of the workspace to be created. If the title already exists, the existing page will be opened.
• Tools -- The Tools page provides access to the following features:

• Highest rated pages -- Workspaces with most feedback points given them.
• Orphaned pages -- Workspaces that have been created but not linked to from any existing page.
• Create a snapshot -- Creates an archive of the entire workspace and puts it in the Group's File section.

• recent changes -- a list of the most recently changed workspaces in the group.

What can you do with a Workspace?

Use workspaces to post content that you want other people's comments/edits/enhancements on.

Workspaces can be used for:

• Meeting Agendas
• Meeting Notes
• To Do lists
• Communications drafting
• Profiles
• Schedules
• anything else you can think of!

What are Tags?

Tagging is a way to apply words, or “tags”, to items like workspaces to make it easier to return to them later. You tag an item by typing a word in the "My Tags" box at the bottom of the page. All the tags you apply to all items on omidyar.net will appear in a list under the "tags" tab on your profile and at “my omidyar.net”/”my tags”. Clicking on a tag will show a list of all the items that you tagged with that word and let you link directly to them.

You can also find interesting content by clicking on the tags that others have used. Click on a tag, i.e. "Sudan", and you will see a list of items that have been tagged with that word. You can see other members' tags in the following places:

• On the home page, there is a tag cloud that lets you see what people have tagged site-wide.
• In a group's home page, you can see tags that have been applied to items in the group.
• For each item that can be tagged (comment, workspace, discussion), you can see tags that have been used on the item.

Workspace statistics

At the bottom of each workspace, you can find the following statistics.

What's this feedback stuff I see?

A workspaces's feedback score is generally seen in two places: in a list of page titles, it is shown in parentheses after the title of the page, and it is shown in the statistics section of each page, below the content.

How can you change the feedback score of a workspace?

At the bottom of the page, where the page statistics info is listed, click the "+/-" link next to the feedback score.

If you feel the workspace is one of importance to the rest of the group, you can assign it positive feedback, and the workspace will appear higher in the "highest rated pages" list for your group.

Conversely, if you feel the page is off-topic or inappropriate for your group, you can assign negative feedback and that will push the page down on the list.

For more information about feedback, please see the feedback help page.