User's guide for communities

The two main sections where you can contribute are communities and forums.

When doing so, please abide by the code of conduct of the Knowledge Centre on Translation and Interpretation.

On those pages where a box appears with “Help us to complete this information”, click on it and it will take you to a form which you can fill in and send to us via e-mail.

Communities

Communities are places where you can discuss one specific topic with other members of the platform. The communities you are part of will appear under the “Collaborative spaces” section in your profile.

Create a community

• When you enter the "Communities" section (under "Collaborative Spaces" in the homepage), you can create a new community for a given topic:

• When creating a community, you can use the functionalities on the first three tabs on the left to add content. For the "General" tab, this is the information you can include:
  
  1. Language of the community: you have to select English (more languages available soon)
  2. Title
  3. Headline: brief explanation of the topic
  4. Caption: this field cannot be edited by users
  5. Body: a longer explanation or questions about the topic

• Under the "Categorization" tab, you can select the following:
  
  1. Classification: the main topic of the community (conference interpreting, public service interpreting, legal interpreting or innovation).
  2. Keywords: select all the relevant keywords for the community. These can later be used to search a community.
  3. Group visibility: if the group is public, it will be displayed in the Community list and anyone will be able to join. If it is private, it will be hidden from the list and only users added by the creator of the Community will be able to participate in it.

• Under the "Multimedia" tab, you can add the following content:
  
  1. Featured media: you can upload an image here, which will be displayed at the banner of the page. If you add an image, instead of having a purely blue banner, you will be able to see the image you uploaded with a blue hue. See below.
  2. Functionality's description.
  3. Attach media: files can be uploaded here.

When you’ve included all these details, you can simply click "Save" on the bottom left corner of the screen, and your Community will be created.

Add or delete members

You can click on the "Group" tab of a community to add or delete members.

Once inside, you can click on:

1. Add people: write their name under User name (1), give them a role as Administrative member (2) if you’d like them to have the same rights as you as the community creator, and write a request message (3) if you so wish. The user will receive a notification via the e-mail address they used to create their EU Login account.

     b. Manage the group members: see who is part of the community, delete them from the group or       change their roles.

Edit a community

You will only be able to edit a community if you created it, or if its creator gave you an administrator role.

To do that, enter the community you’d like to add and click on the "Edit" tab:

You will then be able to modify all the fields you filled in when creating the community.

Manage comments, "thanks" and reports

As the creator, and therefore moderator, of the community, it is your responsibility to keep track of reported comments and delete them if necessary.

You can click on the "Comments" tab of a community to see the comments that have been reported, or to see the comment ranking (those which have received “thanks”).

In the “Comments reports” section (see below), you can see a list of comments in your community that users have reported.

In the “Comments ranking” section (see below), you can see a list of comments in your community that users have “thanked”.

Join an existing community

You can search for a community that already exists using the filter on the left side of the Communities main page. You can filter them by topic, keywords and language (see below). If you click on the yellow "Access my communities" button, you will be taken to a list which shows all the communities you are part of. You can also see this list in the "Collaborative spaces" section of your user profile.

When you find a community that you are interested in, simply click on the "Join" button on the bottom right corner of the community.

Draft a wikidoc

Once inside a community, the group might think that it would be useful to draft a document with the main conclusions of the discussion or with some content that you think would be useful to add to the Knowledge Centre on Interpretation. You can use wikidocs for this.

Once you select "Wiki docs" on the left menu, you will see an orange button to create a wiki. Click on it, and you will land on an edition page where you can start drafting a document with all the other members of the community. Simply add a title, select English as the language (other languages will also be available soon), and write the text in the Body section.