In my communications role with Wikimedia Foundation, I'm working on a "Welcome to Commons" print brochure [1], similar to the existing "Welcome to Wikipedia" brochure [2]. It's a very rough draft right now, and I'm eager for community feedback. In particular, I want to make sure it's as accurate as possible without going into the details too far (similar to what the Upload Wizard comic does, but with a little more detail).
Please give it a close read and leave feedback! The next step, after about two weeks of community feedback and revision, will be to hand it off to the designer (then final reviews and revisions but no major structural changes, then printing).
[1] = http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome_to_Commons_brochure
[2] = http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_to_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf
Cheers, Sage Ross
Hi Sage,
What's the target audience for a printed brochure?
Thanks, Nathan
I like this idea, would it be possible to turn this into a GuidedTour as well?
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Sage,
What's the target audience for a printed brochure?
Thanks, Nathan
Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Mono monomium@gmail.com wrote:
I like this idea, would it be possible to turn this into a GuidedTour as well?
Are you volunteering? ;)
I think something like that would be interesting and fun, but it's out of the scope of what I'm doing for now.
-Sage
Unfortunately, I'm not. At this time, the GuidedTours system is under-documented and difficult to deploy (I've tried on Commons already). I was just hoping someone at the WMF might be better at it, as it is a WMF project.
Cheers, Mono
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Mono monomium@gmail.com wrote:
I like this idea, would it be possible to turn this into a GuidedTour as well?
Are you volunteering? ;)
I think something like that would be interesting and fun, but it's out of the scope of what I'm doing for now.
-Sage
Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
On Tuesday, April 2, 2013, Mono wrote:
Unfortunately, I'm not. At this time, the GuidedTours system is under-documented and difficult to deploy (I've tried on Commons already). I was just hoping someone at the WMF might be better at it, as it is a WMF project.
Cheers, Mono
Hey Mono,
What answers do you need you can't find in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Guided_tours, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour and their various subpages with guides (heh) to making tours?
Let me know offlist or in IRC if you want direct help from me or Matt Flaschen, the lead developer on GuidedTour.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com');>
wrote:
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Mono <monomium@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'monomium@gmail.com');>> wrote:
I like this idea, would it be possible to turn this into a GuidedTour as well?
Are you volunteering? ;)
I think something like that would be interesting and fun, but it's out of the scope of what I'm doing for now.
-Sage
Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org');> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Sage,
What's the target audience for a printed brochure?
The audience is people who are interested in Wikipedia and/or Commons, but have never tried to contribute.
The typical use cases for the printed Bookshelf brochures are to hand them out at an outreach event, or an wiki-related information booth at a convention, or a class that is doing a Wikipedia assignment.
-Sage