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New navigation on Praja

21 March 2010 - 5:17pm — tech

 We at the tech team are happy to announce a new and improved navigation on Praja which will be launched today. We hope that these changes make it easier for our users to find, read and create relevant content on the site. Read on to know more about the new navigation.

Changed front page

The homepage of Praja (http://praja.in) now has a simplified look when you are not logged in. It has a small slideshow to tell what Praja is about and leads to creating or finding discussions. (We are currently working on improving the looks of the graphics and buttons on this page). This design is done keeping in mind the new users to the Praja community who want to understand what Praja is about.

When the users login, the front page will automatically change to a more personal version. This page is the centre of all the action on Praja for all the users.

New features at Praja!

5 February 2010 - 3:11pm — tech

We at the Tech team are happy to announce another set of new features on Praja. Starting today, all registered users will have access to these new features.

1. The stream microblog with Twitter Integration

For those of us who are familiar with Twitter, we now have an analogous feature built within Praja. How is ChikkaChokka to name it? Suggest better if you have one. The idea is for you to share your status or broadcast those pithy one liners to all Praja users (and especially those who follow you, see below).

  • To start posting, just head to 'My account' and type in the 'Stream' box.
  • What more, you can link one or more of your Twitter accounts to your praja accounts. If you link your Twitter account, a tweet will be posted to your Twitter account when you make a post on Praja.

To link your Twitter account:

  • go to 'My account',
  • choose 'edit' and click on 'Twitter Accounts' tab.
  • Fill in your Twitter id and Twitter password. We need your Twitter password to make posts on your behalf.
  • Rest assured that the passwords will be stored securely and are not accessible to any users, including the admins.

Spam Control Feature

13 January 2010 - 1:09pm — tech

Lately Praja has been flooded with spam posts from people promoting irrelevant products and services. There have been times when the admins/moderators have had to clean up as many as 10 posts in a day. In view of this we have put together a filtration feature.

Site Notice - tech work during December

28 November 2009 - 1:30am — tech

This isn't to scare anyone. Website will stay operational, with minimal impact, but just wanted to announce that we plan to work on some long pending tech issues (navigation, projects, gyan etc) during December.

New feature - search Bengaluru related sarkaari websites

16 September 2009 - 9:12pm — tech

No big deal this, but we have put up a new feature wherein you can search through all well known Bengaluru related public websites. Its essentially a list of all sarkaari websites pointed out by the geeks of Praja.in put inside a "custom search" widget that will search only this universe of 25-30 websites.

Gyan part of Praja

30 August 2009 - 12:37pm — n

Been meaning to write this for a looong time - not intended to be personal.  Posting it here as there are (I assume) multiple admins who can all see this post.

Moderation launched on Praja

6 August 2009 - 2:58pm — tech

We had recently solicited ideas for introducing moderation on Praja for Posts and Comments. We thought it was essential to have a moderation system to retain the no-nonsense flavour of Praja as we grow. We are thankful to all those who responded and are happy to announce the launch of moderation system on Praja.

There are four facets to moderation on Praja.

  1. To remove content that is deemed to be unfit for publishing on Praja by its members. This include posts that contain spam, hate speech, rumours etc.
  2. To 'review' posts for their links, tagging, formatting and other cosmetic/functional aspects.
  3. To make top quality content more easily accessible to users
  4. To provide a way for all users to bring objectionably content to admins' notice


Principles of moderation on Praja
Keeping with the democratic principle of Praja, the moderation is also democratic
and as transparent and objective as it could be. In summary, to meet the above objectives we have worked with following principles

  1. Most active Praja members become 'moderators' who can 'flag' content for unpublishing. If enough moderators flag a post or comment for unpublishing, it will be automatically unpublished.
  2. All posts published will be reviewed by one of the administrators 'only' for their technical consistency (formatting, tagging, links etc). Admins will NOT unpublish the posts during this review.
  3. All users can vote posts up or down and the posts with highest votes will be predominantly displayed on the front page.
  4. All users should have a facility to bring objectionable content to admins' notice

 

Praja also in Kannada!

31 July 2009 - 10:59pm — shas3n

We are glad to announce availaibility of Praja also in Kannada. Although users could create posts and comments in Kananda since the beginning, starting today users will be able to see a lot of the interface elements in Kannada as well.

Moreover, members could now also translate useful posts from English to Kannada or vice-versa allowing more members to access useful content in a language of their choice. Members interested in translating the content can mail tech at praja.in and they will be given suitable rights to acces translation interface.

You can see praja in Kannada here. If you have difficulty reading Kannada text or writing in Kannada, look at these pages for some help.

ಪ್ರಜಾ ಇನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೂಡ!

31 July 2009 - 10:31pm — shas3n

ಕನ್ನಡ ಬಲ್ಲ ಪ್ರಜಾ ಸದಸ್ಯರಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ಸಂತಸದ ಸುದ್ದಿ. ಇಂದಿನಿಂದ ಪ್ರಜಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ಇಂಟರ್ ಫೇಸ್ ಅನ್ನು ಪ್ರಾಯೋಗಿಕವಾಗಿ ಒದಗಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇವೆ. ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆಯುವ ಸೌಲಭ್ಯ ಪ್ರಜಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೊದಲಿನಿಂದಲೇ ಇದ್ದರೂ, ಇಂದಿನಿಂದ ಸದಸ್ಯರು ಹಲವಾರು ಲಿಂಕ್ ಗಳನ್ನೂ, ಆಯ್ಕೆಗಳನ್ನೂ ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ನೋಡಬಹುದು.

ಇದಲ್ಲದೇ, ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ (ಅಥವಾ ಕನ್ನಡದಿಂದ ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷಿಗೆ) ಭಾಶಾಂತರ ಕೂಡ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು. ಭಾಶಾಂತರ ಮಾಡಲು ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಇರುವ ಸದಸ್ಯರು tech 'at' praja.in ಗೆ ಮೈಲ್ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಸೂಕ್ತ ಅನುಮತಿಯನ್ನು ಕೊಡಲಾಗುವುದು.

ಪ್ರಜಾವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಹೋಗಬಹುದು.

New look Praja!

28 July 2009 - 5:19pm — tech

Yes, we have changed cloths! Based on feedback from users, we are happy to introduce a new look-and-feel to Praja website.

Our aim has been to make the site a little less-cluttered, provide more whitespace and make the text more readable.

We hope you like the new look. Of course, like always, we will keep working on further improvements so do let us know if you particularly don't like something.

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