Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread Brandon Harris
that it has been localized to their language as well as determining any other configuration elements (for example, WikiLove requires a localized configuration file). -b. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Brandon Harris
://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free

Re: [Foundation-l] Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Brandon Harris
/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Brandon Harris
On 1/22/12 7:32 PM, Theo10011 wrote: P.S. Hi Jorm, whatcha think? ;) I think that trying to school Mike Godwin on Citizens United and IP Law is colossally bad idea. But entertaining. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http

Re: [Foundation-l] A fundraiser for editors

2012-01-03 Thread Brandon Harris
on the quality of our help pages, for instance, or even possibly revisions themselves. Of course, the feature may not actually work at all or have so little impact as to be negligible. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising update

2011-12-01 Thread Brandon Harris
On 11/30/11 6:11 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: There was a brief outage due to that page, Nathan, a few days ago. (Because of Brandon Harris's AMA on Reddit.) sheepish Sorry about that. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http

Re: [Foundation-l] Community consensus for software changes (Re: Show community consensus for Wikilove)

2011-10-31 Thread Brandon Harris
here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove#Requests_for_Additional_Deployment -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-10-30 Thread Brandon Harris
leave me a message on my talk page and I'll help you out! that means. . . nothing.) -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-10-30 Thread Brandon Harris
that the appropriately named Help link at the left of every page is more likely to be used for this. I would not wish that help system to be used by my worst enemies. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-10-29 Thread Brandon Harris
take away from this experience of yours could be that the process of utilizing talk pages is extremely arcane and horrible from a user experience perspective, while using WikiLove to communicate - even though it is the wrong channel - is far easier and preferable to new users. -- Brandon

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Brandon Harris
of this. Is there a bug report I can look to? Or if you know of a wiki where this is the case, I can do a search. Thanks! -b. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

Re: [Foundation-l] Banner ads in sitenotice

2010-08-02 Thread Brandon Harris
On 8/2/2010 6:12 PM, MZMcBride wrote: A lot of the complaints I heard regarding the Vector rollout were based in the fact that the Wikimedia Usability team has subverted and bastardized the term usability in an attempt to impose purely aesthetic choices on the broader community.

Re: [Foundation-l] Did you say usability ?

2010-06-15 Thread Brandon Harris
On 6/15/10 12:17 AM, Teofilo wrote: I finally found out how to log out, and I sometimes use different web browsers, but it is difficult to say this is a nice experience. Hello! As I'm certain you know, the testing of all browser/operating system/resolution/language