Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

[Harald Krichel]

Peter Gervai schrieb:
 On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 01:32, John at Darkstarvac...@jeb.no wrote:
   
 Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site
 would be
 
 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/;

 That is 96 chars, with spaces, of 140 bytes available in a SMS. For some
 languages the attribution will take more than one message. Ooops...
 

 Tinyurl and like? It's, well, tiny.
   
Shouldn't we set up our own URL-aliasing service?
This would also have the advantage that you could be sure that the
wikimedia shortened urls only lead to wikimedia domains.

eg.:
http://wp.cx/3tT5u7Z 
redirects to
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=302589573

http://wp.cx/c
redirects to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License

Harald



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Re: [Foundation-l] Moving towards a more usable MediaWiki

[Harald Krichel]

Ilario Valdelli schrieb:
 On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Gerard Meijssen
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
 Hoi,
 Over the last weeks I have been rather active in promoting improved
 usability for the MediaWiki software. What really got me going was learning
 from a Wikimania presentation that a UNICEF usability study done in Tanzania
 showed that 100% of the test subjects were unable to create a new article.
 UNICEF has created extensions to improve on this, extensions that make a
 difference. The fact that our usability is poor does not only hurt what some
 call minority languages. A professor in Austria I know, a veteran user of
 software, was also hard pressed to collaborate on a wiki.

 

 The problem for usability is that sometime there is not a better
 selection of users to have a real sampling.

 Naturally if this sampling is formed by users with a poor or no
 knowledge of computers, probably they will not have problems with
 Wikipedia because they would not able to switch on a computer. The
 usability, in this case is the minor problem.

 Probably is better to know if they were not able to use the edit
 button because the edit button is not usable or if they were not
 able because they don't have seen an edit button in the past.
   
Great.

Wikipedia is a software made by programmers for computer nerds, it is
far from being usable to normal people.
But the first two answers come from nerds who tell us that the software
isn't the problem.

Of course there is a problem with the sample, but with the sample of
wikipedia-users, which do not nearly represent our possible contributors
of content.


Harald Krichel
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