Wikigogy is C L O S E D Wikigogy saw little action. So I closed it. It had been an interesting two years with some spurts of generous content writing from a handful of people. However, most months had seen no activity except spam bot fighting. Wikigogy -- Closed as of August, 2008 -- was a networking Web site for teachers of English as a second or foreign language. Site may be removed soon. For now to fight spam efficiently Wikigogy will periodically be reverted to its August, 2008 state. Comments about the site closure are welcome on the Main page. --Roger 14:47, 24 August 2008 (CDT)

From Wikigogy

B, Welcome! Please make Wikigogy yours. It very much needs feedback and new pages from people like you. And of course, if you see anything that you can improve, click edit and make it so. Community portal is under the teapot in the left sidebar. Welcome! :-) Roger 16:57, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

A teapot - is that what that is... I see it now.. :-D - B

B, thanks for contributing to Wikigogy; keep up the good work! :-) I put [[Category:Thailand]] at the bottom of your new Thailand page. That's how we get a page listed in a category. [[:Category:Thailand]] with the leading colon is how we put a link to a category within a page's text but to list the page in the category we put [[Category:Thailand]], without the leading colon, at page bottom. Let me know on my talk page if I can help with anything. I hope to see more of you around here. Please tell your teacher friends, too! Wikigogy needs word of mouth to get us going. Thanks! :-) Roger 18:20, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

No wuckers (Ozzy slang). Adding bits when I can/think of something useful. Thanks for that, just copied from another page 'China'. I wish there was a 'duplicate this page' function - would be really handy for categories and the like.

I was thinking about the word of mouth problem, maybe Google can help out too. (I'm from a computer science background so I can't help being a nerd) :) My subconscious is still mulling over this one, there's a few ideas to research, then I'll get back to you. Cheers. :) B 19:38, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

I got us a https://adwords.google.com account for advertising Wikigogy through Google and its affiliate sites 64 days ago. So far that has provided 369 click-throughs at an average cost of $0.18/click-through ($64.81 total cost so far). I've set the campain to spend no more than 1$/day. I think 0 content contributions have come from the 369 click-throughs. Disappointing. I will leave the account set to spend $1 US/day for now but I think word of mouth will find people who want to participate more effectively. Say, how did you find Wikigogy? --Roger 06:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Technical 1.1 Search engine compatibility 2 I went shopping 3 Email

[edit] Technical

Belinda, I'm pleased to hear you have a computer science background! I wish I was better at computers. I'm simply no good at it unfortunately. I'll do my best though.

[edit] Search engine compatibility

Things I have done to try to optimize Wikigogy for search engines

• HTML title tag for all Wikigogy pages includes the page's name + free TEFL & TESL resources
• instead of a logo image at top left of every page is the plain text, free resources for teachers of English as a second or foreign language (an alt attribute in a logo image might do as well but I don't know and I like simple plain text anyway)
• http://wikigogy.org/robots.txt attempts to steer robots away from non-content pages. Specifically I added this rule:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /index.php

• our Wikigogy keyword labelling of pages may help search engines some but is designed to help humans

Have I left anything obvious and simple to do out? --Roger 06:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

An honest and all out, "come write lesson plans with us!" word of mouth and word of blog link campain is needed. Wikigogy evangelist needed! (I recuse myself from the evangelist roll because as site founder it can look like spam coming from me.) But we do need Wikigogy open educational resource evangelists. Ideas? :-) Roger 06:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I went shopping

Belinda, Thanks for adding the I went shopping lesson. Great start! I don't understand part of... Roger 19:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

It looks great now. Thanks! --Roger 02:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Email

Hey there Roger. I can't get the system to mail me a confirmation code. Is mailing working? Curious...

B, yes email is working -- put your email address in your Wikigogy Preferences E-mail field and click Save. Wikigogy will then send you an email, from roger  rogerchrisman.com, with a link in it that you can click to validate your email address. Maybe look in your bulk mail folder for that. If it does not work, please email me, at roger  rogerchrisman.com from the address you are trying to validate, explain and I will look for clues. (moved here from my talk page so you will find it) -- Roger 00:00, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

The oldest trick in the book, the bulk folder. Musta been having an off day :( Ta for your patience, found it and confirmed :)

You may have responded to an expired validation request. They expire after seven days. If your email has been validated successfully it will say so under your E-mail prefs in your Wikigogy Preferences. So you can check that there and re-submit your email address if necessary to receive a fresh validation email. Perhaps tell your system that mail from roger@rogerchrisman.com or containing the work Wikigogy anywhere is to go into your In-box. Or you may simply need to check the [x] Enable e-mail from other users box in your Wikigogy Preferences. Currently I get the following error message when I try to email you through Wikigogy: This user has not specified a valid e-mail address, or has chosen not to receive e-mail from other users. :-) Roger 04:34, 19 October 2006 (UTC)