"description" field

[kaerumy]

It's hard for list maintainers to figure out what some of the test urls are as well as when writing reports manually or generated.

A one line description field would be helpful for maintainers and users of the list (human or machine) to able to to know what the site is about especially if it's in global list or for another country unfamiliar to the maintainer

eg.

• "The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Canada."
• "The Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections or Bersih is a coalition of non-governmental organisations which seeks to reform the current electoral system in Malaysia to ensure free, clean and fair elections."

We might want to have a title field also.

[jakubd]

I am open to supporting this but but can you clarify how this would differ than the current notes field? From my understanding that is meant as a text field where people can explain the URL contents. Despite this I think that the notes column is currently very unevenly used. As a result I wonder if the same outcome can be achieved by simply using the existing notes field more?

Would be happy to hear yours and others thoughts.

[kaerumy]

One line description of the site or page.

Unlike Notes, which although @agrabeli has some guidance here https://ooni.org/get-involved/contribute-test-lists/ is open to interpretation.

The site or url description, should always be just what the site or url is, but not additional context such as why it was added.

Description: "The Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections or Bersih is a coalition of non-governmental organisations which seeks to reform the current electoral system in Malaysia"

Notes: "Reportedly blocked in media prior to Malaysian 14th General Elections. Added as part of Project X"

Description: "A Personal Blog on 1MDB"
Notes: "Added as one of several sites reportedly blocked in Malaysia related to criticism of 1MDB"

Description: "Malaysian Insider is an independent news portal"
Notes: "Added as one of several sites reportedly blocked in Malaysia related to criticism of 1MDB"

[jakubd]

Thanks for clarifying, that makes sense to me, and I +1 this suggestion as described if the field is marked optional (Since I believe it would be laborious, though possible, to retroactively tag all current ~25k distinct URLs)