EE September 2013

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Im building a tool to visualize the edits in a an article
by jeph 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

Hi, Im an IEG grantee working on building a tool to visualise the edits in a wikipedia article. - My proposal https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits - A live demo<https://googledrive.com/host/0B1hJO1N6piYFTTVZdW1mU2c0S28/visualise.html> Would love to hear your feedback. You could add feature wishes here<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Replay_Edits#Features_for_t…> . <https://googledrive.com/host/0B1hJO1N6piYFTTVZdW1mU2c0S28/visualise.html> Thanks Jeph

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Fwd: Rough draft of Workflow design
by Terry Chay 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Begin forwarded message: > From: Adam Wight <awight(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: Rough draft of Workflow design > Date: September 10, 2013 5:11:56 PM PDT > To: Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk(a)wikimedia.org>, fr-tech <fr-tech(a)wikimedia.org>, Terry Chay <tchay(a)wikimedia.org> > > Hi, > I've outlined some thoughts about how to design a workflow engine, at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RFC/Workflow > > My main concern is that we produce something that is appropriate for general on-wiki use, and for Fundraising's internal needs. > > Please review, > Thanks! > Adam

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Account creation campaigns
by Steven Walling 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hi everyone, Last week the Editor Engagement Experiments team deployed a new extension to all wikis, Extension:Campaigns ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Campaigns). The campaigns extension does one thing: if you add "campaign=example" to a link pointing at the account creation form, it logs the campaign name at the time of signup. This capability has been around a long time in some form or another, but we disabled it so we could get to work on our redesign of account creation and login. Now that's it's finished, we wanted to make it available again. There's more in the documentation I linked to above, but the general point is that this gives us a low cost, minimally invasive way to figure out how many people are coming to sign up via a particular avenue. Among our first test cases, my team would really like to know if significant numbers of people are signing up via the links English Wikipedia puts in system messages directed at those viewing semi-protected pages and anonymous editors. I've put up a proposal about this on-wiki at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Let.27s_fi… If you have any questions about how campaigns work and how they might be applied elsewhere, please speak up. :) -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Notifications Update
by Fabrice Florin 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

Hi folks, Here's a quick update on today's notifications release on the English Wikipedia. The main features this week are new links to diff pages, which were requested by a number of power users for talkpage messages (1), as well as for mentions and thanks notifications. These diff links now appear both on the notifications flyout, near the timestamp ('View changes') -- as well as in the plain text emails. We are now working on a couple more features in coming weeks: * HTML Email notifications (2) * Improved Notification Structure (3) * More Metrics Dashboards (4) Once these final features are done, we plan to start deploying Notifications on more wiki projects, starting with Meta and a couple non-English Wikipedias. In the fall, we hope to take on more features, as time and resources allow. For more information about our next steps for this project, check our 2013 plan for the E2 team (5). I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ryan Kaldari for all his fine work on Notifications: he has now joined the Mobile team, where I am sure he will continue to amaze us with cool new features. Many thanks as well to Benny Situ, who will be leading our development work on Notifications going forward, and is the man to talk to about engineering questions for this project. Please let us know if you have any questions about notifications. Enjoy the new features! Fabrice, on behalf of the E2 team (1) Bugzilla Diff Links - Bug #48183: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48183 (2) HTML Email Spec: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)/Feature_requirements#HTM… (3) Improved Notification Structure: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)/Feature_requirements#Imp… (4) Notifications Metrics Dashboards: http://toolserver.org/~dartar/en/echo/ (5) Editor Engagement Features Plan: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor_Engagement/2013_strategy_planning_(Fea… _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)

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"Negative captcha"
by Oliver Keyes 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Something I saw today that has me amused - https://github.com/subwindow/negative-captcha E3 team, since you're doing work on the registration/login screen - this might interest you :). -- Oliver Keyes Product Analyst Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [EE] [Analytics] [Wikimedia-l] Office hour with WMF researchers
by Jonathan Morgan 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hi Christian, The transcript is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-09-23 I've set a calendar reminder for myself to organize another office hour next month, probably somewhere around the 20th-25th. We'll coordinate through the analytics list and try to push out the announcement through as many other channels as possible. Cheers, Jonathan On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian(a)gmail.com>wrote: > 2013/9/23 ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com>: > > Reminder, office hour is happening now. > > Hi, > > I have missed the announcement, but I would have enjoyed to join. > Are there some minutes or transcript of the Office hours? > > Thank you. > > Cristian > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Learning Strategist Wikimedia Foundation

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No more comments on PopSci.com – because science says they're hurting people
by Maryana Pinchuk 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Popular Science is turning off its online comments section: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-were-shutting-our-comment… . Why? Turns out, incivility ruins people's ability to think clearly and rationally: "Uncivil comments not only polarized readers, but they often changed a participant's interpretation of the news story itself. In the civil group, those who initially did or did not support the technology — whom we identified with preliminary survey questions — continued to feel the same way after reading the comments. Those exposed to rude comments, however, ended up with a much more polarized understanding of the risks connected with the technology. Simply including an ad hominem attack in a reader comment was enough to make study participants think the downside of the reported technology was greater than they'd previously thought." Food for thought... (h/t to Jared Zimmerman) -- Maryana Pinchuk Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org

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Office hour with WMF researchers
by ENWP Pine 23 Sep '13

23 Sep '13

Hi everyone, WMF researchers have agreed to participate in an office hour about WMF research projects and methodologies. The currently scheduled participants are: * Aaron Halfaker, Research Analyst (contractor) * Jonathan Morgan, Research Strategist (contractor) * Evan Rosen, Data Analytics Manager, Global Development * Haitham Shammaa, Contribution Research Manager * Dario Taraborelli, Senior Research Analyst, Strategy We'll meet on IRC in #wikimedia-office on April 22 at 1800 UTC. Please join us. Pine

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New "make your first edit" guided tour for VE
by Steven Walling 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

As promised,[1] today we deployed a guided tour that shows new users how to make their first edit using VisualEditor. This tour is a complement to the similar one we created, which shows users how to use the basic functions of the wikitext editor. Append ?tour=firsteditve to any article URL (where guided tours are available) to see it in action, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornate_Cowfish?tour=firsteditve or https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphaenogaster_fallax?tour=firsteditve There are some bugs to iron out (like https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54352) and translations are partially complete at best, but this is one more step toward finalizing the GettingStarted onboarding experience for newly-registered editors, and rolling out across language editions of Wikipedia. For reference, this is one of the tours we will be delivering to basically all new editors in our next A/B test of GettingStarted.[2] -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ 1. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-September/000659.html 2. mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians#Proposed

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Reminders: DIPECC2013 - Approaching Deadline!
by Jackie Blanco 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION Approaching Paper Submission Deadline: October 15, 2013 =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Name: The International Conference on Digital Information Processing, E-Business and Cloud Computing (DIPECC 2013) Dates: October 23-25, 2013 Location: Dubai, UAE URL: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/dipecc2013/ Paper Submission link: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/dipecc2013/openconf =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=

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