EE September 2013

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Re: [EE] Newsletters (was Account creation suggestion)
by ENWP Pine 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:39:24 -0700 > From: Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org> > To: ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [EE] Flow and newsletters (was EE Digest, Vol 20, Issue > 5) > Message-ID: <522E400C.7050800(a)wikimedia.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > On 09/08/2013 11:00 PM, ENWP Pine wrote: > > Steven, that's a great idea for wider visibility. Can you talk to the > > right people to implement this notification, along with an opt-out > > feature, forward compatibility with Flow, and the capacity to add other > > newsletters such as Kurier or This Month in GLAM on any wiki that uses Echo? > > Flow and Echo are mainly E2, which is led by Maryana (although other > features will/do leverage Flow and Echo when useful). > > Matt Flaschen > > > > > ------------------------------ Maryana, can you comment on when we could get functionality from Echo or Flow resembling what we've discussed in this thread? Pine

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Re: [EE] Notifications Live on Spanish, Dutch, Hebrew and other Wikipedias
by Fabrice Florin 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '13

Thanks, Bartosz, Good point. I have raised the priority of this bug and we will include these recommendations into a page of next steps for Notifications which I am preparing this week. We really appreciate all your help with this project! Thanks again, Fabrice On Sep 17, 2013, at 5:44 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 02:33:09 +0200, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> we're seeing a lot of activity for talk messages on most sites, but welcome, mentions and thanks notification levels vary quite a bit from site to site. More on this later. > > This might be caused by the mention feature being broken on wikis using gendered (or other) aliases for user namespace. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53132 > > -- > Matma Rex _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)

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Re: [EE] EE Digest, Vol 20, Issue 5
by ENWP Pine 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '13

> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 07:42:21 -0700 > From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Editor Engagement <ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [EE] Account creation suggestion > Message-ID: <6D4B5705-6306-42C9-8006-C457A98FB577(a)wikimedia.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Sep 5, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:25 PM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > As a part of the AC process on ENWP can we automatically sign up users for Signpost talkpage deliveries, or at least strongly encourage them to sign up for delivery, and offer them a choice of our many interest specific newsletters? I think this could help to further engage new editors with the broader Wikipedia community and its diverse activities and interests. > > > > Pine > > > > Before we do that, let's make Signpost delivery a notification (i.e. instead of dropping it on your talk page, just notify you when a new edition is released). Then it's quite easy to opt everyone in, new or existing. > > > +1 excellent idea > > Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 22:35:25 +0100 > From: Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> > To: Editor Engagement <ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [EE] Account creation suggestion > Message-ID: > <CAE4f==fYu0KL0kHomuwXn-n=fQuOz=qurwBsdAGx8XNqo+d1PA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I have a vague recollection of discussing this before with someone (Steven?) > > I'd love to see this done, but one caveat - since it effectively means > a weekly message to them, some clear way to unsubscribe would be > needed, preferably without the technically complex solution of "edit > this page, find your username, remove it". > > Thinking ahead... > > There's around a dozen projects both on enwiki and elsewhere that have > active newsletters, as well - the most obvious is the research > newsletter, but This Month In GLAM, some wikiproject-specific > newsletters, etc etc. A single easy way to sign up for more than one > of these, plus other opt-in messaging services like SuggestBot, would > be very nice. > > For more advanced users, if we had such an interface, you could add > features like the randomised RFC recruitment feature. > > But starting with the Signpost sounds great :-). I recommend you talk > to Ed (user:the_ed17) ASAP if you're interested in pushing ahead with > something like this. > > Andrew. > > > On 6 September 2013 07:25, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > As a part of the AC process on ENWP can we automatically sign up users for > > Signpost talkpage deliveries, or at least strongly encourage them to sign up > > for delivery, and offer them a choice of our many interest specific > > newsletters? I think this could help to further engage new editors with the > > broader Wikipedia community and its diverse activities and interests. > > > > Pine > > > > _______________________________________________ > > EE mailing list > > EE(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee > > > > > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk > > > Hi Andrew, you may be thinking of Flow. I have seen a reference to Flow handling newsletters. We don't need Ed's permission to distribute the Signpost but I agree that an opt-out option should be included in the notification in a way that's easy for the user to select so that the Signpost's talk pages aren't flooded with opt-out requests. Steven, that's a great idea for wider visibility. Can you talk to the right people to implement this notification, along with an opt-out feature, forward compatibility with Flow, and the capacity to add other newsletters such as Kurier or This Month in GLAM on any wiki that uses Echo? Pine

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Account creation suggestion
by ENWP Pine 06 Sep '13

06 Sep '13

As a part of the AC process on ENWP can we automatically sign up users for Signpost talkpage deliveries, or at least strongly encourage them to sign up for delivery, and offer them a choice of our many interest specific newsletters? I think this could help to further engage new editors with the broader Wikipedia community and its diverse activities and interests. Pine

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DIPECC2013: Paper submission deadline approaching (Sept. 23)
by Jackie Blanco 06 Sep '13

06 Sep '13

Please accept apologies for cross-posting. Kindly try contributing to following conference. CALL FOR PAPERS and PARTICIPATION : DIPECC2013 : DUBAI Paper Submission Deadline is on September 23, 2013 =================================================== The International Conference on Digital Information Processing, E-Business and Cloud Computing (DIPECC2013) October 23-25, 2013 Dubai, United Arab Emirates http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/dipecc2013/ All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library, and in the proceedings of the conference. The conference aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. DIPECC2013 provides opportunities for the delegates to share the knowledge, ideas, innovations and problem solving techniques. The conference welcome papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: * Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management * Network Security * Semantic Web and Ontologies * Wireless Communications * Biometrics Technologies * Cloud Engineering * Real-Time Systems * E-Commerce Security * E-Technology * E-Business * Web Services Security * Wireless Sensor Networks * Image Processing * Information and Data Management * E-Learning * Embedded Systems and Software * Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems * Information Content Security * Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity * Multimedia Computing * Cloud Computing * Cloud Gaming * Computational Intelligence * Cryptography and Data Protection * Data Embedding and Watermarking * Cloud Security * Computer Architecture and Design * Data Compression * Data Management in Mobile Networks * Distributed and Parallel Applications * Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications * User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling CFP link: http://goo.gl/R7dKoS

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Updates to guided tours: new languages and a new "first edit" tour.
by Steven Walling 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Hi everyone, Here's this week's software updates from the Editor Engagement Experiments team. Today, we deployed some changes to the Guided Tour extension,[1] including... New languages! Guided Tours are now available to use or create on the following Wikipedias: Catalan, Hebrew, Hungarian, Malay, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. Look on your local Village Pump for an announcement. Particularly exciting is that Hebrew is our first real test of use on a RTL language wiki. A new tour! In support of our work onboarding new Wikipedians,[2] we've launched a general "make your first edit" tour. Try it by appending ?tour=firstedit to an article URL.[3] This tour is brand new, and probably needs translation for non-English speakers. Note that this tour is for wikitext editing only, regardless of whether VisualEditor is deployed to your wiki or not. Soon (likely next week), we'll have an equivalent first edit tour that guides you through the basics of using VE. In the onboarding experience, we're going to point to VisualEditor if it exists for that user, but we'll have this wikitext tour as a backup. Please speak up if you have any questions about how to use guided tours, or create your own. 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians#Proposed 3. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michikawa_Station?tour=firstedit -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Changes to language in gender preferences
by Dario Taraborelli 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Anyone analyzing gender data in Wikimedia projects via the public 'gender' setting stored in user_properties? This is to give you the heads up that the language in the preference UI recently changed: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/30756/7/languages/messages/MessagesEn.php See this bugzilla ticket for more context: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31816 Dario -- Dario Taraborelli Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org http://nitens.org/taraborelli

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Account creation on Wikipedia
by Benoît Evellin 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hi EE team! I have two comments about the account creation process on (French) Wikipedia. The GettingStarted extension is not deployed on French Wikipedia, but we are thinking about it. In the meantime, we propose to newbies to introduce themselves. This was made by an adapted message on our local MediaWiki:Welcome creation-msg (see<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcomecreation-msg>). Was, because since an undefined time, the return link after the sign-up form don't redirect to this message. How can we fix it? This profile creation step is highly appreciated by the PRC and users involved in new users help. During my tests in order to verify that, I've created some accounts, and I've seen a UX issue. The notification badge was a red sign between to red links. This should be tested, but I think some new users will not see the notifications badge. On French Wikipedia, we suggest(ed) to create the profile page asap and send a welcome message by bot to each newbie, which may increase the contrast (blue/red) near of the notifications badge. What else should be done? Have a good Sunday! :) -- Benoît Evellin Volunteer, Wikimédia France www.wikimedia.fr

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