[HOT] Updating/changing directions on exiting Projects

Laura Green lollymay at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 20:37:36 UTC 2015


Hi Blake - In addition to your point 2 (putting a note of the updated instructions date) might it be helpful to use a 'strikethrough' style on items that have been amended? In that way, mappers who may have come back to a particular task have a clearer understanding of what has changed.
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Laura


> On 2 Jan 2015, at 16:06, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just 2 quick notes:
> 
> 1. Because the description and instructions tab used to be the same and description was at the top, I see a number of projects that really put mapping instructions in the description field.
> 
> Now that the two tabs are separated, instructions are not showing up on the instructions tab because they are in the Description field.
> 
> If you have running projects, you might want to review them to make sure the instructions are in the Instructions fields.
> 
> If anyone would like me to check their projects and make sure the instructions are showing up in the Instructions tab just let me know I am glad to get it fixed up. Just send me an email and I'll be glad to do it.
> 
> 
> 2. If you change instructions on a project after it has started, please, please put in a line that says something like: "Instructions Updated Jan. 3, 2015" or whatever date you update them.
> 
> I have seen several instances where the instructions have changed significant so that tasks validated under the old instructions would no longer be validated under the new instructions. That leads to some confusion.
> 
> But even less significant changes can lead to confusion for people trying to answer questions (ok, maybe it just confuses me ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> Blake
> 
> 
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