🖌️ Build page view for undefined words

[tatianamac]

Current Situation

Undefined words render .md files but are not displayed, toggled by the defined: no front matter.

Desired Situation

Page instead shows a template that tells the user that the term is not yet defined and invites them ways to define via issues, PRs, etc. (In the future, the Open Authoring will be possible as well.)

Needs

• Write page content
• Design page
• Develop page

[codeAbul]

Hi @tatianamac , hope you are well. I would like to start contributing to the project again. If no one else is working on this, I would like to take this up. Thank you!

[tatianamac]

@codeAbul So happy to have you back! I hope you've been taking care. I'd love if you could partner with a designer to make this happen.

Also, since you've been gone (sung to the tune of Kelly Clarkson), we have a Slack community!

[codeAbul]

@tatianamac Thank you for being welcoming as usual! I am glad to know there is a slack community ! I would love to partner up with a designer to take this issue forward!

[tatianamac]

Awesome! @codeAbul Should I mark this as In Progress yet?

[codeAbul]

@tatianamac I am yet to start work on this. Is there any designer in our community you suggest I pair up with for this task? Thank you

[ovlb]

I’ve been thinking about this feature recently and was wondering if it might be too early to implement it. We currently show some 300 terms on the homepage, out of which ~70 are defined. Now, by browsing the page you would inevitably come across a whole host of undefined terms, for which you only see the remark. I wonder if this might deter people from using the dictionary, as it’s kinda hard to find «real» content?

Maybe we can devise another way to encourage defining terms? Instead of linking to its own page, we could add an icon to the undefined terms, which links to a general contributing page?
I think it would also make sense to revive the open authoring and web form efforts to make contributions easier, as our audience is bound to become less technical over time and an invitation to contribute should include a less-technical way. I’m happy to dedicate some time to this over the next weeks.

That said, once the ratio of defined/undefined terms is different, I can totally see this as a cool way to fill in the gaps.

[tatianamac]

Sure, I see your point, @ovlb . In my mind the homepage should be redesigned anyway, as in its current iteration it's not sustainable.

I personally see that as the determing factor as to when this should be implemented, not a number of terms.

I'm hesitant to adding yet even more icons when the current page is already flooded with icons.

I think our attention is best focused on making the homepage better and improving the search function, then implementing this page.

🧱 Block: Homepage redesign with search feature

[ovlb]

I'm hesitant to adding yet even more icons when the current page is already flooded with icons.

That’s definitely correct.

Also agree that a redesign of the homepage makes sense as a determining factor. The number of terms consideration was based on the status quo, but if it changes, that’s a moot point.

I’ll nonetheless revive our less-technical contribution processes asap :)