Re: [Foundation-l] Usability study in progress

2009-03-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Naoko is Naoko and Aphaia is someone else.. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Naoko_Komura_December_2008.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Benutzer_Aphaia.jpg Thanks, GerardM 2009/3/25 Ivan Lanin > Dear Aphaia, > > I'm really excited to get the result of

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability study in progress

2009-03-24 Thread Ivan Lanin
Dear Aphaia, I'm really excited to get the result of this study since one of the common input that I got from newbie contributors either online or during workshops are that it's harder for them to write Wikipedia than to write blogs :) Though I still don't get it why they think that way ;) Goo

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability study in progress

2009-03-24 Thread George Herbert
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Naoko Komura > wrote: > > > The remote usability study on > > Thursday (March 26 PDT) will be done remotely, which means we recruit > > participants from Wikipedia through the site notice, and connect with > > them

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability study in progress

2009-03-24 Thread Brian
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Naoko Komura wrote: > The remote usability study on > Thursday (March 26 PDT) will be done remotely, which means we recruit > participants from Wikipedia through the site notice, and connect with > them through web conferencing. This is brilliant - you could a

[Foundation-l] Usability study in progress

2009-03-24 Thread Naoko Komura
Howdy. (adding wikien-l folks to this thread. my apology for not including wikien-l with my initial email.) The usability study has started today as scheduled. The usability team is monitoring the interviews and how ten test participants interact with Wikipedia when they are asked to edit an

Re: [Foundation-l] Board position statement

2009-03-24 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/3/24 Michael Snow : > Actually, > the edit threshold was just changed from 10 to 25 (still pretty low) by > Erik, maybe he can explain the thinking behind that, as I wasn't aware > of that decision. The only reason to tweak the configuration was to move forward the cut-off date (allowing more

Re: [Foundation-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

2009-03-24 Thread Elisabeth Anderl
Hello all, this is a very old and often discussed issue, the problems raised with the logo were not yet addressed (such as copyright issues, which characters to use), and the new 'logo' is IMHO the most ugly thing I have ever seen. Btw.: from alexa.com: Where people go on Wiktionary.org: - en.

Re: [Foundation-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

2009-03-24 Thread Jay Walsh
Hi all, Just wanted to second Cary's note - we talked about it briefly today. A single brand identity for the project would be so much stronger, so I encourage discussion on the matter. I completely appreciate the challenges and how things have evolved up to this point, but it would cert

Re: [Foundation-l] Board position statement

2009-03-24 Thread Robert Horning
Michael Snow wrote: > Robert Horning wrote: > >> I certainly think my voice ought to count for something, together with >> other people who are in my position and situation. >> >> > I quite agree with you, and if you check out the licensing update page > on Meta http://meta.wikimedia.o

Re: [Foundation-l] Board position statement

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Snow
Robert Horning wrote: > My question isn't so much when and where, but rather who can vote on > this proposal. More to the point, stakeholders in the content of > Wikimedia sites includes a whole bunch of people who may not necessarily > fit the criteria that is typical for voting on WMF board m

Re: [Foundation-l] Board position statement

2009-03-24 Thread Robert Horning
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Where can we vote? > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/3/24 Michael Snow > > >> As Sue has mentioned, the board earlier agreed on a statement regarding >> the license transition, which is as follows: >> >> The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation invites t

[Foundation-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

2009-03-24 Thread Cary Bass
Hi all, The two largest Wiktionary projects (English and French) have two completely different logos. [1], [2] The reason for this, from what I understand, is that a vote was taken place about the logo fr.wiktionary currently has, on meta [3]; which the English Wiktionary community chose not to