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ADMIN - Wish + Skip Lists, Marking Revies
Hey guys,
This week I wanted to talk about three things our website does, that helps you manage the lists of reviews and nominations. But first, two quick reminders:
1. You can read reviews posted to our website by email if you prefer. Annmarwalk posts them to the Yahoo group [mefa-reviews] and the LJ community mefas. Join either group if you want to read reviews by email or on your LJ friends list.
2. You can set a reviewing target if you like by visiting our website. Make sure you enter your goal by August 15 if you plan on using this feature.
Now, on to keeping rack of nominations and reviews. There are currently 606 nominations in the awards, and 844 reviews that are currently visible. That can seem overwhelming if you want to read either all the stories or all the reviews. And it *is* a bit overwhelming - so much so that you could not get involved at all because you don't know where to start. The MEFA site offers three tools to help you deal with this.
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WISH AND SKIP LISTS FOR NOMINATIONS
You can add stories to your wish and skip lists easily enough. Just
--- Log in to www.mefawards.net/MEFA2010/
--- Click on the "Stories" link at the top of the page.
--- Find the story you want to add to your wish or skip.
--- Click the "Wish" or "Skip" link on the right side of the page.
Stories on your skip list are not shown to you again, unless you ask the website specifically to see skipped stories. (See below.) "Wish list" stories show up with all the other stories, but you can also tell the website to display your wish or skip list specifically. This is a great way to keep track of stories you want to read, but that you don't have time to read at the moment. (It an also be used if the site where a story is hosted is down temporarily.)
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PULLING UP YOUR WISH/SKIP LIST
If you want to see the stories you have added to your skip lists, then
--- Log in to www.mefawards.net/MEFA2010/
--- Click on the "Stories" link at the top of the page.
--- Click the "Show Filter" link.
--- Make sure none of the filters have anything selected. Click "Clear All Filters" if necessary."[*]
--- Select "Skip" from the "Review Status" option.
--- Click "Display selected nominations."
This will bring up those stories previously put on your "Skip" list. You can bring up your "Wish" list the same way, by selecting "Wish" instead of "Skip" on the next-to-last step.
([*] This step is important whenever using the filters. If you select options from more than one filter, the website only shows you stories that meet both criteria. It also "remembers" your choices since you've been logged in. To make sure you are seeing all pertinent nominations, I recommend you click the "Clear All Filters" button if you have used the filters before since logging in to the website.)
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REMOVING A NOMINATION FROM YOUR SKIP/WISH LIST
When you enter a review, it automatically removes a story from your skip list. However, you may decide you want to read a story after all, or that you don't want it showing up on your wish list. If so, just pull up the wish or skip list as described above. Once that's pulled up, click the link on the "Remove from Skip/Wish List" on the far right side of the page. This will make it like you had never clicked "Sip" or "Wish" in the first place.
Don't worry - your wish and skip lists are only visible to yourself and other top-level volunteers like myself. And we won't look at them without a good reason. So you can add a story to your wish or skip list without worry of offending the authors.
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MANAGING REVIEWS - THE MARKING FEATURE
The wish and skip lists help you find nominations you want to read (or don't want to read). But what about reviews. There are 800+ reviews now, and that number will be growing. And the website displays the oldest reviews last. Luckily, there are ways to help you find your unread reviews more easily.
The most useful of these is the "Marking" feature. Reviews are displayed twenty-five to a page. At the bottom of each page, you will see a link to "Mark these reviews as read and load the next page." If you click that, the website will "Mark" those reviews for you. Then the next time you come to the webpage, the first reviews you see will be the oldest ones *you haven't marked*.
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READING MARKED REVIEWS
Did you mark some reviews that you now want to see again? The marking feature works kind of like the "skip" feature for reviews: they aren't shown to you when the website first loads, but they are still there so you can pull them up if you want to. To do this, go to the reviews section of the website and click the "Show Marked Reviews" link. This will show all the reviews, oldlest first, whether they are marked or not. Marked reviews will be on a pinkish/reddish background, while unmarked reviews will have a blue background.
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P.S. - New this year, you can add stories to your wish or skip list directly from the reviews section. If you're reading reviews and someone's review intrigues you, so you want to read the nomination and maybe vote for it yourself, just click the "Add to Wish List" or "Skip" link into the review header. You will then find them by using your wish or skip list in the Stories section.
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Read more:
--- How do I find a story to vote for?
http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2010/index.php?page=FAQvoting#vot_15
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Marta
(MEFA Admin.)
This week I wanted to talk about three things our website does, that helps you manage the lists of reviews and nominations. But first, two quick reminders:
1. You can read reviews posted to our website by email if you prefer. Annmarwalk posts them to the Yahoo group [mefa-reviews] and the LJ community mefas. Join either group if you want to read reviews by email or on your LJ friends list.
2. You can set a reviewing target if you like by visiting our website. Make sure you enter your goal by August 15 if you plan on using this feature.
Now, on to keeping rack of nominations and reviews. There are currently 606 nominations in the awards, and 844 reviews that are currently visible. That can seem overwhelming if you want to read either all the stories or all the reviews. And it *is* a bit overwhelming - so much so that you could not get involved at all because you don't know where to start. The MEFA site offers three tools to help you deal with this.
*****************************
WISH AND SKIP LISTS FOR NOMINATIONS
You can add stories to your wish and skip lists easily enough. Just
--- Log in to www.mefawards.net/MEFA2010/
--- Click on the "Stories" link at the top of the page.
--- Find the story you want to add to your wish or skip.
--- Click the "Wish" or "Skip" link on the right side of the page.
Stories on your skip list are not shown to you again, unless you ask the website specifically to see skipped stories. (See below.) "Wish list" stories show up with all the other stories, but you can also tell the website to display your wish or skip list specifically. This is a great way to keep track of stories you want to read, but that you don't have time to read at the moment. (It an also be used if the site where a story is hosted is down temporarily.)
******************************
PULLING UP YOUR WISH/SKIP LIST
If you want to see the stories you have added to your skip lists, then
--- Log in to www.mefawards.net/MEFA2010/
--- Click on the "Stories" link at the top of the page.
--- Click the "Show Filter" link.
--- Make sure none of the filters have anything selected. Click "Clear All Filters" if necessary."[*]
--- Select "Skip" from the "Review Status" option.
--- Click "Display selected nominations."
This will bring up those stories previously put on your "Skip" list. You can bring up your "Wish" list the same way, by selecting "Wish" instead of "Skip" on the next-to-last step.
([*] This step is important whenever using the filters. If you select options from more than one filter, the website only shows you stories that meet both criteria. It also "remembers" your choices since you've been logged in. To make sure you are seeing all pertinent nominations, I recommend you click the "Clear All Filters" button if you have used the filters before since logging in to the website.)
*******************************
REMOVING A NOMINATION FROM YOUR SKIP/WISH LIST
When you enter a review, it automatically removes a story from your skip list. However, you may decide you want to read a story after all, or that you don't want it showing up on your wish list. If so, just pull up the wish or skip list as described above. Once that's pulled up, click the link on the "Remove from Skip/Wish List" on the far right side of the page. This will make it like you had never clicked "Sip" or "Wish" in the first place.
Don't worry - your wish and skip lists are only visible to yourself and other top-level volunteers like myself. And we won't look at them without a good reason. So you can add a story to your wish or skip list without worry of offending the authors.
********************************
MANAGING REVIEWS - THE MARKING FEATURE
The wish and skip lists help you find nominations you want to read (or don't want to read). But what about reviews. There are 800+ reviews now, and that number will be growing. And the website displays the oldest reviews last. Luckily, there are ways to help you find your unread reviews more easily.
The most useful of these is the "Marking" feature. Reviews are displayed twenty-five to a page. At the bottom of each page, you will see a link to "Mark these reviews as read and load the next page." If you click that, the website will "Mark" those reviews for you. Then the next time you come to the webpage, the first reviews you see will be the oldest ones *you haven't marked*.
********************************
READING MARKED REVIEWS
Did you mark some reviews that you now want to see again? The marking feature works kind of like the "skip" feature for reviews: they aren't shown to you when the website first loads, but they are still there so you can pull them up if you want to. To do this, go to the reviews section of the website and click the "Show Marked Reviews" link. This will show all the reviews, oldlest first, whether they are marked or not. Marked reviews will be on a pinkish/reddish background, while unmarked reviews will have a blue background.
*********************************
P.S. - New this year, you can add stories to your wish or skip list directly from the reviews section. If you're reading reviews and someone's review intrigues you, so you want to read the nomination and maybe vote for it yourself, just click the "Add to Wish List" or "Skip" link into the review header. You will then find them by using your wish or skip list in the Stories section.
*********************************
Read more:
--- How do I find a story to vote for?
http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2010/index.php?page=FAQvoting#vot_15
**********************************
Marta
(MEFA Admin.)