EE August 2013

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squee notifications
by Sarah Stierch 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

was so stoked to see my screen light up with red and yellow on meta. GO TEAM! great work everyone!!!! Sar -- *Sarah Stierch** Wikimedia Foundation Program Evaluation & Design Community Coordinator *Donate<http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Donate/en&utm_source=&utm_…>today and keep it free! Visit me on Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch>!

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Engaging users with the old plain newsletter
by Quim Gil 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

Upon account creation or in your user profile: "Send me important email updates" You have seen this feature in many collaborative sites, but not in Wikimedia sites. Unless I'm missing something, this common feature doesn't seem to be available in MediaWiki core or through extensions. Users can get notifications based on activity on wiki pages and they can also get emails from another users, but is there a way for an admin to send an update or a newsletter via email to all users that ticked the box? While new users will be hardly used to watchlists or user talk pages, and while it will be difficult for them to find the Wikimedia blog, The Signpost, etc... all of them have email and a nice % would be happy to receive emails from time to time with interesting information. Has this option been discussed? PS: as a mediawiki.org admin I wish we had something like this to engage new and old contributors. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Functional Specification Work
by Brandon Harris 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

I've gone ahead and written up two Functional Specification documents: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal/Functional_Specifications/Moderat… * This reflects the conversations we had on Thursday and Friday and fleshes out some behaviors. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal/Functional_Specifications/Search_… * This describes (mostly) how the local Board search will work. It gets kind of technical with the language (e.g., "compositional intersection tokens") but I think it's readable for the audience. I did this one because I was getting asked about it. I'm going to be creating several of these and breaking them up into sections. Stuff like "this is how timestamps behave" and "this is how edit windows behave" and the like. Where necessary I'll start making mockups (some of this will be easier to do in photoshop than making interactive ones, especially given the speed at which Andrew and Erik are producing code). Off the top of my head, here is my current list of TODOs: * User renames / Account merges (merge boards) * Board * Single Topic * Feed * Editors * Scratchpads * Timestamp behavior * History behavior --- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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ICEEE2013 - IEEE Extended Paper Submission (Aug. 25)
by Jackie Blanco 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

ICEEE2013 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: August 25, 2013 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ The Second International Conference on E- Learning and E- Technologies in Education (ICEEE2013) September 23- 25, 2013 Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/iceee2013/ The ICEEE 2013 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Poland. All papers will be submitted to IEEE for potential inclusion to IEEE Xplore. Best selected papers will be published in one of the following special issues: - Journal of Higher Education - International Journal of Knowledge and Learning - International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation - International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications - International Journal of Technology and Educational Marketing - International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies - International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications - International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications Workshop Presenter: �� Simon Wardman, South Nottingham College, UK Special Session Organizers: �� Sanwar Ali, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA �� Hocine Cherifi, Universite de Bourgogne, France �� Yoshiro Imai, Kagawa University, Japan Conference General Chairs: �� Jacek Stando, Lodz University of Technology, Poland �� Yoshiro Imai, Kagawa University, Japan +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ For inquiries, please send an email to cn(a)sdiwc.net

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Fw: Functional Specification Work
by Andrew Garrett 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Reply to all fail. — Andrew Garrett Forwarded message: > From: Andrew Garrett <agarrett(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: Sunday, 18 August 2013 7:23:10 PM > Subject: Re: [EE] Functional Specification Work > > On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 7:14 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris(a)wikimedia.org (mailto:bharris@wikimedia.org)> wrote: > > > Scratchpads > > What is a scratchpad, ten words or less? :-) > > Mini wiki page inside a Flow board. > > Used for: > Topic summaries > Page headers > Work in progress. > > —Andrew Garrett >

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Re: [EE] Recruiting and retaining highly active editors
by ENWP Pine 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Enhanced notifications may be useful for recruiting or retaining power users, which I am attempting to measure under what Analytics calls very active editors. Have there been any studies done about the effect of enhanced notification on the statistics for very active editors? Power users are useful to projects in ways that occasional active editors are not. The decrease of approximately 7% of very active users on English Wikipedia from June 2010 to June 2013 may be more significant than the loss of approximately 12% of active users during that time. There was a 21% decline in total edits to English Wikipedia during that time. That last number worries me the most, and I'm guessing that the loss of the 7% of the very active contributor population has disproportionately contributed to the decline of total edit counts. Has there been any research done on what it takes to convert active editors into very active editors? Is WMF's focus on the total population of active editors the best focus, or should it focus on very active editors, edit count, or bytes changed? From what I've seen I think there should be more investment in addressing the latter three while continuing the investment in addressing the active editor statistics. I suspect that the VE will do little to change the very active editor statistics so other measures will be necessary, such as initiatives with a social focus. I also think social media sites and computer games of all kinds should be seen as Wikimedia competitors and there should be initiatives directly aimed at recruiting and retaining people who would otherwise be playing games or spending time on social media sites for minutes or hours. Pine

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Recruiting and retaining highly active editors
by ENWP Pine 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

Has there been any significant EE efforts to recruit and retain highly active editors, or converting active editors into highly active editors? English Wikipedia could use some more editors who have enough knowledge and dedication to participate frequently in activities like Wikiprojects or community leadership roles. I'm sure other projects could also use more highly active editors. Thanks, Pine

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ICEEE2013 - IEEE Extended Paper Submission (Aug. 25)
by Jackie Blanco 17 Aug '13

17 Aug '13

ICEEE2013 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: August 25, 2013 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ The Second International Conference on E- Learning and E- Technologies in Education (ICEEE2013) September 23-25, 2013 Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/iceee2013/ The ICEEE 2013 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Poland. All papers will be submitted to IEEE for potential inclusion to IEEE Xplore. Best selected papers will be published in one of the following special issues: - Journal of Higher Education - International Journal of Knowledge and Learning - International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation - International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications - International Journal of Technology and Educational Marketing - International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies - International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications - International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications Workshop Presenter: �� Simon Wardman, South Nottingham College, UK Special Session Organizers: �� Sanwar Ali, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA �� Hocine Cherifi, Universite de Bourgogne, France �� Yoshiro Imai, Kagawa University, Japan Conference General Chairs: �� Jacek Stando, Lodz University of Technology, Poland �� Yoshiro Imai, Kagawa University, Japan +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ For inquiries, please send an email to cn(a)sdiwc.net

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Update to the GettingStarted experience today
by Steven Walling 15 Aug '13

15 Aug '13

Hey all, This is our weekly software deployments update from the Editor Engagement Experiments team (e3). This is our first week back from Wikimania, so there weren't a lot of big changes to go out. We did make one interesting alteration to the GettingStarted workflow though: the guided tour for GettingStarted now points to VisualEditor again. Explanation follows... Recently VisualEditor changed its configuration, from the edit buttons being [ edit | edit source ] everywhere to [ edit source | edit beta ]. In other words, making wikitext more prominent and labeling VE as a beta. When that change happened, our GettingStarted guided tours automatically pointed at the primary edit button, which in this case had been changed to the wikitext source editor. We let that stand during Wikimania when deployments were frozen, but wanted to change it asap. During July when the previous configuration existed, 67% of edits made via GettingStarted by new users (i.e. not autoconfirmed) were done with VE. This is strikingly higher than the general rate of edits made with VE, which during July seems to have hovered between 10-15% on an hourly basis.[1] That data, plus the fact that GettingStarted grew slightly to above 3,000, leads us to conclude that VE is superior for first-time editors being asked to make simple changes like copyediting and adding wiki links. For the foreseeable future, we're going to be directing brand new editors to use VE, if possible. If their browser is blacklisted or they otherwise can't use VE, they'll get a tour of the basic mechanics of editing via wikitext. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ 1. http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_ve_hourly_perc_by_ui

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Echo
by ENWP Pine 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

Thanks to the devs who created Echo. I'm finding it increasingly useful. Is there a place to list requests for feature enhancements and see planned enhancements for Echo? Thanks, Pine

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