On 19 April 2011 11:59, Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email > > from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code. > > > > The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted > > emails with some more information (for example, I would like to see diff > > inside of my email when I get notification about changing my talk page). > > > > But, then I've realized that we don't have a designer. By "designer" I > > mean a person who is employed by WMF and who is constantly working on > > improving MediaWiki look and feel. > > > > While a lot of us may be completely fine with reading Wikipedia articles > > through links, there are people who care about look and feel. > > > Indeed. As the rest of the web gets prettier and prettier, MediaWiki risks > starting to look like an ugly duckling... > This, and more general external trends, is what the WMF's "product whitepaper" talks about here: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Product_Whitepaper#External_Trends which concludes: "We can hypothesize that users who started editing Wikipedia during the 2001-2006 time period were accustomed to a very different web environment than users who start to edit Wikipedia today. There simply weren’t easy, yet powerful, WYSIWYG editors to enable the types of publishing that are present today, and in general, web applications were less intuitive, less social, and less responsive.... Today's Internet users have many more ways to contribute and interact on the web than they did 5 and 10 years ago. A deeper understanding of how Wikimedia sits within this "competitive" environment is likely an important step in understanding editor trends." -Liam _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l