Re: [Foundation-l] Usability Study Results (Sneak Preview)

2009-04-24 Thread Naoko Komura
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Gregory Kohs wrote: > Will the final report include a note about how "unwelcome" User:NawlinWiki > made the study participants feel when he indefinitely blocked their > accounts > for "abusing" Wikipedia? We, the usability team, with lots of help from stewards

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability Study Results (Sneak Preview)

2009-04-24 Thread Naoko Komura
> > > I know a new GUI is being worked on. For the moment I hacked the > following JavaScript suggestion: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/newbiehelp.js > > This adds a "how?" link into the "edit" tab, and launches a floating > panel with some extremely general content: > > http:

Re: [Foundation-l] Volunteer Appreciation

2009-04-24 Thread Samuel Klein
Steven, You're welcome. There's also this, which I still long to turn into a proper report with excerpts and screenshots : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Retro You are right that wikipedia has a website-product as one of its major outputs. And the focus on this important large-scale product

Re: [Foundation-l] Volunteer Appreciation

2009-04-24 Thread Steven Walling
SJ, thanks for sharing the nostalgia.wikipedia.org link. I've been a Wikimedian for four years, and not once stumbled across that. You learn something new every day... As for the "educational products" phrase, my feeling is yes, the community on-wiki doesn't tend to think of the projects *literall

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability Study Results (Sneak Preview)

2009-04-24 Thread Gregory Kohs
Will the final report include a note about how "unwelcome" User:NawlinWiki made the study participants feel when he indefinitely blocked their accounts for "abusing" Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User%3AUsability_Tester_3

Re: [Foundation-l] NPOV as common value? (was Re: Board statement regarding biographies of living people)

2009-04-24 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Andre Engels wrote: > > 1. Be accurate and comprehensive in the representation of subjects. > > Since for many pictures the subject is what happens to be represented > on the photograph, this is mostly vacuous. As an example, a journalist > going to a protest ma

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability Study Results (Sneak Preview)

2009-04-24 Thread Magnus Manske
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Parul Vora wrote: > Hi all! > > The Wikipedia Usability Initiative conducted a user research study with > SF based Bolt Peters in late March to uncover barriers new editors face. > We are in the process of completing a full report on our methodology, > process and

Re: [Foundation-l] NPOV as common value? (was Re: Board statement regarding biographies of living people)

2009-04-24 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Anthony wrote: > Here's the NPPA Code of ethics: > >   1. Be accurate and comprehensive in the representation of subjects. >   2. Resist being manipulated by staged photo opportunities. >   3. Be complete and provide context when photographing or recording >   sub

Re: [Foundation-l] Volunteer Appreciation

2009-04-24 Thread Samuel Klein
Welcome, Jennifer. The current foundation-l traffic isn't quite as vibrant an intro to the community today as it was in 2005 or so. I hope you will share your thoughts, even unformed! For a historical taste, don't forget to visit the nostalgia wiki: http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org ...and even ht

Re: [Foundation-l] Newsletter in German language: Infobrief Wiki-Welt

2009-04-24 Thread Ting Chen
Good work Ziko, thank you very much. Ting Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Hello, > > Just a few minutes ago I have sent the second edition of my "Infobrief > Wiki-Welt". It is meant for people who are interested in Wikipedia and > related subjects, but are no Wikipedians, for example journalists, > teache