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, teachers,

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

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 wikim...@inbox.org 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

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 pv...@wikimedia.org 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,

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:Logpage=User%3AUsability_Tester_3

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

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] 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:

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 thekoh...@gmail.com 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