Hello,
I'm about to submit a couple of proposals for presentations at FOSDEM
[1]. One will be a lightning talk about how to contribute to MediaWiki
and get the results of your work running in Wikipedia and similar sites.
The other one will be a session for the Community development and
Marketing DevRoom, explaining the MediaWiki community, how does it
relate to Wikipedia, ongoing activities, ways to get involved...
Maybe the second will be an extended play of the first. We'll see.
Regardless of whether the FOSDEM proposals are accepted or not, I will
work on them between now and the end of January. We need those
presentations so badly, especially now that we are ramping up MediaWiki
Groups [2] and many people will need exactly this kind of materials for
their own presentations and event.
I'm not bad at creating stories, even with slides. But I suck designing
and, what is worst, I spend a lot of time just to get average results.
Especially because I hate slides with bullet points. This is why I come
here looking for a volunteer teammate full of MediaWiki/Wikimedia love
and with some free time in the following weeks.
Interested? Just reply explaining your interest in this project, your
availability and links to works you have done. Thank you in advance!
PS: on a collateral note I just proposed MediaWiki Group Marketing [3] -
you might be interested in joining/endorsing, or you might prefer to
propose other groups with other scopes [4].
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Marketing
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Bit out dated but resurrecting this thread.
I think we would benefit from having a better strategy / better
thought process around copy text.
http://www.mail-archive.com/mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg00134.html
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From: Maggie Dennis <mdennis(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [WikimediaMobile] Copy text on mobile site
To: Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Interjecting, I think it's a great idea to try to find the most
friendly, effective language to draw people in that we can get. Wish I
had expertise myself to help out, but, alas, writing short has never
been my strong point. The idea of bringing in community feedback on
mobile language is an interesting one. :) We have all kinds of
expertise out there, although finding it can be hard. Obviously, we'd
just have to be clear that we're bringing in advice from multiple
streams, so that people aren't disappointed if the ideas they propose
prove unworkable for some reason, such as if they are not accessible
to ESL users.
I've been trying to think of any discussions that could be useful
already on Wiki for this kind of thing, but it's such a different
skillset, writing this succinctly.
In terms of copy-text experts, there must be somebody out there who
teaches people this stuff. Not sure how easy they are to find, though,
or if they'd be in budget.
Maggie
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WikimediaFoundation.org
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Please respond on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013#Straw_Poll . Thanks!
-Sumana
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Subject: [Toolserver-l] Amsterdam Hackathon 2013
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:43:18 +0100
From: Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl>
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To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org,
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Hi everyone,
Unlike previous years the big European Hackathon won't be in Berlin, but
in Amsterdam. We're aiming to do the hackathon in May 2013 with a
preference for the weekend of Saturday the 25th. To make sure this is a
good weekend I've set up a straw poll at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013#Straw_Poll .
Please fill it out so we can finalize the date!
Thank you,
Maarten
Wikimedia Nederland
Ps. Please forward to any relevant lists I might have missed.
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Hello Design,
This is a little frivolous, but I thought it'd be pleasant if the Vagrant MediaWiki instance (https://github.com/wikimedia/wmf-vagrant) was configured with its own logo, rather than the "Set $wgLogo to the path to your own logo image" default image.
There is a crop of rejected Wikidata logos here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Logo_voting
Some are quite nice and graphically generic, and I bet the authors wouldn't mind if the logo was appropriated for a different use (they're all CC, but it'd still be nice to ask.)
I'm emailing the list (a) to see which one you'd choose, and (b) on the off-chance that one of you would enjoy making a new one.
Thanks!
O
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Ori Livneh
ori(a)wikimedia.org
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html
Some good stuff to learn from here, and partly supports my not-so-hidden
agenda of making sure Agora buttons and icons aren't *too* flat. :-)
Munaf
At this point it's about creating variants of the theme that received
the most votes in the first round, a kind of arrow-y maelstrom of
doom:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/Logo
Would love to see some WMF submissions in these contests. ;-)
Cheers,
Erik
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For your information. You are invited / encouraged to take this
survey. Thank you!
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From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Subject: Please take this survey about new contributors
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi, if you joined the MediaWiki / Wikimedia tech community in 2010 or
later please consider taking this survey:
Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities
https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151&lang=en
The survey is open for sporadic contributors or full time Wikimedia
employees, developers or any other profile. Anybody is welcome to
leave their feedback as long as you have started contributing to this
community in the past 3 years.
11 mature and well established open source projects are taking part in
this survey: Debian, FreeBSD, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, NetBSD,
OpenSUSE, Python, Ubuntu and Wikimedia. Some of them started some days
ago and have more than hundred responses by now. The data of this
survey is anonymous and will be released under a ‘share-alike’ Open
Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).
Some background:
>From Kevin Carillo, the researcher:
http://kevincarillo.org/survey-invitation/
>From OpenHatch, a non-profit working on the bridge between free
software projects and new contributors:
https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/a-research-project-to-understand-what-does-…
PLEA
If you, like me, became a bit tired of survey requests like this
please consider filling this one anyway. It focuses in a specific area
where we don't have much data. As fresh technical contributor
coordinator at the WMF I'm looking forward to the results of this
research and the lessons it will bring.
Thank you. :)
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Wikimedia Foundation
Hey all,
This is a note of prior explanation about a small design enhancement
upcoming.
*## Background*
You might remember that part of the original Vector plans was to redesign
section edit links to make them more accessible to new contributors. (Look
at the Acai release on usability.wikimedia.org).
Later on, Trevor collaborated with the Community Dept. to run an A/B test
on English Wikipedia of his redesign, which conclusively showed that the
new look increased both clicks and the net number of edits by a significant
amount.
At the time, there was no big push to productize the changes, but the code
has been sitting around inside the ClickTracking extension. My team became
the de facto maintainers of ClickTracking since we were its most heavy
users, and are now deprecating it in favor of EventLogging.
Skipping the big analytics discussion there, suffice it to say that we
don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater, and are working to
productize Trevor's road tested new design for section edit links in
Vector. (No change in Monobook et al.)
*## Plan of action*
Here's the plan for execution, which I've discussed with Howie Fung and
some of the design team so far:
1. We'll deploy the current version of the section edit redesign, which
you can see at http://piramido.wmflabs.org/wiki/Hipster_ipsum. I've
committed to handling the necessary community announcements and final QA.
2. For the second iteration, Munaf and Vibha will work on a redesigned
icon to fit with Agora style, and we'll explore the idea Munaf had -- the
icons appearing only on hover in the section. It's a good one.
The current iteration is perhaps not perfect, but it was tested with users
and showed an improved conversion across the board. It also appears to be
using the previous localization message, so we can safely deploy it
everywhere Vector is in use.
The caveat Howie and I have discussed is the fact that no quality
measurements were done on the increase in editing. This change is really a
basic necessity as far as Product is concerned, so we aren't going to make
that a blocker, but should be prepared to roll it back if it makes the
wikis explode with vandalism etc.
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