Create requests hub of activity

[garethrees]

/list/successful / /list/all is one of the main starting points from the navigation, and it feels quite intimidating and unstructured. This issue proposes a new hub of activity at /requests.

Could incorporate:

• Import case studies from blog #6589
• Promote and encourage use of the categorisation game better #1513
• Help users find delivery errors and submit request_email updates #6871
• Public lists of new citations #6701
• Surfacing requests with lots of followers #7166
• Help the community find requests that need help #3522
• Public list of new annotations #6939
• A starting point for searching and browsing requests that goes to the existing /list/all
• Pages showing threads which have recently become delayed and overdue #7440

It's also a good place to show that volunteers are actively supporting the site (#1198).

[RichardTaylor]

I like the proposal here because I want to see great uses of the service promoted, as a way of encouraging more great use of the service.

I also think it would be great in terms of operating transparently to make the list of latest citations public. Publicising the latest citations list could also help reduce WhatDoTheyKnow's internal bureaucracy as currently as I understand it a developer obtains the list manually and shares it internally manually.

If the aim is to promote great use of the service I think we should be using the front page of the site, the front page is the page with greatest prominence, and the page search engines will give most weight to. I'd hope this ticket was a step towards getting more content on the front page.

We know much of the site traffic is actually distributed over large numbers of requests. If we've got a couple of things we want to promote a great way to promote them would be to show them on all site pages.

I don't think we have sufficient content to justify it yet, but in the future we might want to show citations, case studies, and requests for help relating to a specific body on requests to a particular body on that body's page, and on the pages for requests to that body.

I like what's being proposed here, but primarily as a step towards getting the content to where we already have viewers/readers - on request pages, body pages and on the front page, and as a page from which content like lists of newly cited requests, and requests on which assistance is requested, can be linked.

[RichardTaylor]

This proposed page could incorporate the site's twitter feed too, if it has one.