{"id":2130,"date":"2006-08-16T10:16:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T18:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/2006\/08\/how-to-surface-the-best-ideas\/"},"modified":"2006-08-16T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T18:16:28","slug":"how-to-surface-the-best-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2006\/08\/how-to-surface-the-best-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Surface the Best Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One significant part of Mozilla Labs will be the <a title=\"Ideas Area\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Ideas\">Ideas Area<\/a> where we will encourages contribution of great ideas from the community. Currently, there is a moderately active newsgroup (<a title=\"mozilla.wishlist Newsgroup\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.wishlist\">mozilla.wishlist<\/a>) where ideas are flowing. For Labs, I was thinking of something a bit more structured. But how much structure?<\/p>\n<p>Two aspects that I would like feedback on:<\/p>\n<p>1) How to track and categorize the ideas?<\/p>\n<p>A forum\/newsgroup or linear list structure is hard to navigate, so I was thinking of creating browseable categories. Under each category would appear Idea items and discussion around each of those. Should the categories map identically to what&#8217;s currently on <a title=\"Add-Ons Mozilla Site\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\/extensions\/\">Add-ons<\/a> (See &#8220;All Categories&#8221;) with a few more. Should we use tags instead so that items can appear in multiple categories?<\/p>\n<p>2) How to have the best\/most popular ideas rise to the top?<\/p>\n<p>I know Mozilla is known for having a collaborative process that surfaces the best ideas. How does this work? Give me your thoughts. Shall we use voting? 1-10 rating for ideas? Use a process like digg\/bury from digg.com? Give each community member 1000 points and have them allocate their points across their favorite ideas? Simply track the level of discussion and activity around a topic area? Other?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One significant part of Mozilla Labs will be the Ideas Area where we will encourages contribution of great ideas from the community. Currently, there is a moderately active newsgroup (mozilla.wishlist) where ideas are flowing. For Labs, I was thinking of &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2006\/08\/how-to-surface-the-best-ideas\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}