I had no trouble adding the bookmarklet/add-on in Firefox and making a bunch of edits on different sites. In the process, I noticed the edits show up in gooseGrade's Twitter feed. However, after 30-40 edits in the last couple of weeks, I still see "Edits (0)" to my name here on gooseGrade.com.
What exactly happens when we submit a copy edit on a site that is not a gooseGrade participant (like CNN.com)? How do our suggestions leave pending status and where do they live until they do? And how, if at all, is the suggested change transmitted to the site owner?
Right now we are manually notifying the sites that they have pending edits on your behalf. In the next week or so we are going to start creating Pingbacks and use DNS whois info to notify publishers on your behalf.
We are also working on getting your edits indexed in google so that publishers with google alerts set for their domain will find them.
What are your ideas for getting the edit data to the publisher?
I'm pleased to know you are working on actively notifying site owners when they get GooseGrade edits via the Bookmarklet.
I would appreciate anything that could be done to attract site owners to the profiles of the users who submitted edits. Facilitating communication between editors and site owners would be good for everyone involved.
The site owners might also be interested in knowing whether a given editor is for hire or is just being a good netizen.
Toward that end, I'd like to see two yes/no fields added to the profile page: "Site owners may contact me about my edits" and "I am interested in providing editing services for a fee (or other consideration)." You may want to add a disclaimer to this effect: "GooseGrade does not employ editors or act as a business intermediary between editors and site owners."
Thanks very much, and keep up the good work!
Dave,
We have begun sending pingbacks to sites that will accept them. We are putting a thank you system in place so that authors can send thanks to the editors.
How do you recommend attracting site owners to profiles?
We are working on a messaging and friending system...so hopefully that will cover what you are talking about. ;)
Thanks for the awesome feedback.
What you're describing is good for helping people contact each other. But I think site owners also need help figuring out which editors are worth contacting, and they may appreciate being able to isolate the contributions of a particular editor.
A separate problem: Site owners who get a high volume of edits may be overwhelmed by similar or redundant edits from different editors.
Having a sorting, filtering or searching capability on the edits page would solve both problems.
Sort or filter by: username, type of edit, date.
Filter or search by: a string of original text (this will enable a site owner to compare all edits of a particular string, choose and accept one, and decline the rest).
In addition to sorting users (editors) alphabetically by name, site owners need to be able to sort users (editors) by the number of contributions they have made to the logged-in user. Maybe by other statistics, too (I just don't understand what the statistics are or how they work).
Thanks much!
RE: my comment on redundant edits, I now understand that the UI makes all previous edits visible, so maybe that is less of an issue than I first thought -- but some editors will want to provide different edits of things that have already been edited.
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