Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

[Gabriel Wicke]

On 05/07/2014 10:47 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote:
> One interesting idea might be what Reddit does:
> 
> For a moderator of a subreddit, whenever they make a post it just appears
> normally. However, after posting they can choose to "officiate" it. All
> that does is highlight their username a different color and indicates they
> are acting in their position as moderator rather than a regular user.
> 
> This idea could be applied to edits in core, and maybe posts in Flow. WMF
> employees in a special user group could make an edit, and then press a
> button on the history page to highlight that as an "official" edit.

A similar proposal for per-edit affiliation selection came up recently in
Zürich. It does sound more usable than having to log in using different
accounts.

In our context it might make more sense to let the user select the
affiliation at save time though, rather than making it an extra step after save.

Gabriel

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

[Ryan Lane]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Jared Zimmerman <
jared.zimmer...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Affiliations change, and user names are quite difficult to change, this
> sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not for
> a user name.
>
>
Indeed, or in the user preferences so that it could be accessed natively.

- Ryan
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

[Gryllida]

On Thu, 8 May 2014, at 6:22, Jared Zimmerman wrote:
> Affiliations change, and user names are quite difficult to change, this
> sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not for
> a user name.

One of the times I wish I could rename a thread.
Someone with spare time may want to take notes of everything said here onto 
Meta for further discussion.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

[Tyler Romeo]

One interesting idea might be what Reddit does:

For a moderator of a subreddit, whenever they make a post it just appears
normally. However, after posting they can choose to "officiate" it. All
that does is highlight their username a different color and indicates they
are acting in their position as moderator rather than a regular user.

This idea could be applied to edits in core, and maybe posts in Flow. WMF
employees in a special user group could make an edit, and then press a
button on the history page to highlight that as an "official" edit.


*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Jared Zimmerman <
jared.zimmer...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Affiliations change, and user names are quite difficult to change, this
> sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not for
> a user name.
>
>
>
> *Jared Zimmerman * \\  Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation
>
> M : +1 415 609 4043 |   :  @JaredZimmerman<
> https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Gryllida  wrote:
>
> > On a second thought, do we want to add an optional "affiliation" field to
> > the signup form, so the affiliation goes at the end of username in
> braces?
> >
> > - DGarry (WMF)
> > - Fred (DesignSolutionsInc)
> > - David (MIT)
> > - ...
> >
> > So the signup form would look like this:
> >
> >  -
> > | |
> > | [ Username preview in large green font ]|
> > | |
> > | Username:   |
> > |  ___|
> > | Password:   |
> > |  ___|
> > | Password 2: |
> > |  ___|
> > | Email (optional):   |
> > |  ___|
> > | Affiliation (optional; if your editing is related to work): |
> > |  ___|
> > | |
> >  -
> >
> > I.e.
> >
> >  -
> > | |
> > | [ "Gryllida (FOO)" in large green font ]|
> > | |
> > | Username:   |
> > |  _Gryllida__|
> > | Password:   |
> > |  ___|
> > | Password 2: |
> > |  ___|
> > | Email (optional):   |
> > |  ___|
> > | Affiliation (optional; if your editing is related to work): |
> > |  _FOO___|
> > | |
> >  -
> >
> > Gryllida.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, at 1:25, rupert THURNER wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > could wmf please extend the mediawiki software in the following way:
> > > 1. it should knows "groups"
> > > 2. allow users to store an arbitrary number of groups with their
> profile
> > > 3. allow to select one of the "group"s joined to an edit when saving
> > > 4. add a checkbox "COI" to an edit, meaning "potential conflict of
> > interest"
> > > 5. display and filter edits marked with COI in a different color in
> > history
> > > views
> > > 6. display and filter edits done for a group in a different color in
> > > history views
> > > 7. allow members of a group to receive notifications done on the group
> > page,
> > >or when a group is mentioned in an edit/comment/talk page.
> > >
> > > reason:
> > > currently it is quite cumbersome to participate as an organisation. it
> is
> > > quite cumbersome for people as well to detect COI edits. the most
> > prominent
> > > examples are employees of the wikimedia foundation, and GLAMs. users
> tend
> > > to create multiple accounts, and try to create "company accounts". the
> > main
> > > reason for this behaviour are (examples, but of course valid general):
> > > * have a feedback page / notification page for the swiss federal
> archive
> > > for other users
> > > * make clear that an edit is done privat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

[Jared Zimmerman]

Affiliations change, and user names are quite difficult to change, this
sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not for
a user name.



*Jared Zimmerman * \\  Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation

M : +1 415 609 4043 |   :  @JaredZimmerman



On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Gryllida  wrote:

> On a second thought, do we want to add an optional "affiliation" field to
> the signup form, so the affiliation goes at the end of username in braces?
>
> - DGarry (WMF)
> - Fred (DesignSolutionsInc)
> - David (MIT)
> - ...
>
> So the signup form would look like this:
>
>  -
> | |
> | [ Username preview in large green font ]|
> | |
> | Username:   |
> |  ___|
> | Password:   |
> |  ___|
> | Password 2: |
> |  ___|
> | Email (optional):   |
> |  ___|
> | Affiliation (optional; if your editing is related to work): |
> |  ___|
> | |
>  -
>
> I.e.
>
>  -
> | |
> | [ "Gryllida (FOO)" in large green font ]|
> | |
> | Username:   |
> |  _Gryllida__|
> | Password:   |
> |  ___|
> | Password 2: |
> |  ___|
> | Email (optional):   |
> |  ___|
> | Affiliation (optional; if your editing is related to work): |
> |  _FOO___|
> | |
>  -
>
> Gryllida.
>
>
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, at 1:25, rupert THURNER wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > could wmf please extend the mediawiki software in the following way:
> > 1. it should knows "groups"
> > 2. allow users to store an arbitrary number of groups with their profile
> > 3. allow to select one of the "group"s joined to an edit when saving
> > 4. add a checkbox "COI" to an edit, meaning "potential conflict of
> interest"
> > 5. display and filter edits marked with COI in a different color in
> history
> > views
> > 6. display and filter edits done for a group in a different color in
> > history views
> > 7. allow members of a group to receive notifications done on the group
> page,
> >or when a group is mentioned in an edit/comment/talk page.
> >
> > reason:
> > currently it is quite cumbersome to participate as an organisation. it is
> > quite cumbersome for people as well to detect COI edits. the most
> prominent
> > examples are employees of the wikimedia foundation, and GLAMs. users tend
> > to create multiple accounts, and try to create "company accounts". the
> main
> > reason for this behaviour are (examples, but of course valid general):
> > * have a feedback page / notification page for the swiss federal archive
> > for other users
> > * make clear that an edit is done private or as wmf employee
> >
> > this then would allow the community to create new policies, e.g. the
> german
> > community might cease using company accounts, and switch over to this
> > system. this proposal is purely technical. current policies can still be
> > applied if people do not need something else, e.g. wmf employees may
> > continue to use "sue gardner (wmf)" accounts.
> >
> > what you think?
> >
> > best regards,
> > rupert
> > ---
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