Hi guys,
For those of us who are at Wikimania 2013, here's a handy list of talks about products + editor engagement:
http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/p/ProductTalksWikimania2013
Feel free to update this Etherpad as needed, to add missing talks or schedule info.
For folks who are not at Wikimania, we'll post links to session reports after the conference is over.
Good luck to all presenters! I look forward to some great conversations with our community.
Fabrice
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Quoting from https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/30/listen-to-wikipedia/:
Listen to Wikipedia
is a visual and audio illustration of live editing activity on
Wikipedia. Tune your headphones or speakers accordingly and enjoy the
sound of people writing the free online encyclopedia.
Listen to Wikipedia creates sounds and circles based on a
real-time feed of contributions to Wikipedia articles. The pitch of the
note corresponds to the size of the edit — a bigger change makes a
deeper note and a larger circle. A bell indicates when content is added
to the encyclopedia and a string sound indicates when content is
removed. Edits by unregistered contributors are marked with green
circles and edits by automated bots are marked with purple circles.
Occasionally, you may hear a chord welcoming the newest user who
registers and joins the project.
Go ahead, make some noise by editing Wikipedia!
This project is a follow up to the Recent Changes Map visualization, which displays edits by unregistered users around the world. Both the Recent Changes Map and Listen to Wikipedia are based on Wikipedia’s live public data feed. Source code and additional information about this project are available on github. Listen to Wikipedia was inspired by and partially based on Listen to Bitcoin by Maximillian Laumeister.
Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi
I recommend checking it out if you have a free minute.
Pine
Greetings!
If you are interested in multimedia, we would like to invite you to join our new Multimedia mailing list, which we just started this week.
The purpose of this mailing list is to discuss software tools that support the viewing, contribution, curation, discovery and use of multimedia content on Wikipedia, Commons and other MediaWiki projects.
Click here to learn more and subscribe to this multimedia list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
Participants include team members from the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as volunteers from the Wikipedia, Commons and other wiki communities. We all share an interest in adding images, sounds and videos to our free knowledge base.
In coming days, we will start posting on that list about some of our first plans for new multimedia features and infrastructure improvements, and hope to improve these plans and software tools with your help.
To learn more about our current work, visit this multimedia project hub:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia
We look forward to some great conversations with you!
Fabrice
P.S.: I have now joined our new multimedia team as product manager, but will continue to work in coming months on Notifications, Thanks, Page Curation, Article Feedback and other tools I helped launch as part of our editor engagement group. To be continued … : )
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Last Thursday 7/25 saw a spike in new account registrations (5,814) for enwiki [1], making it the 4th highest converting day for daily registrations in the last 2 years. The spike was not due to campaigns such as login CTA or anon edit warning [2] or mobile registrations [3]. We're not running new acquisition campaigns and I suspect the cause might be the fundraiser (I'll check with them on the timing of campaigns targeting enwiki). There might be also external causes we're not aware of.
Aside from this single peak, the hourly trend suggests that the gradual year-to-year decline in new registrations has considerably slowed down [4], which is certainly great news for editor engagement on the English Wikipedia.
Dario
[1] http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_daily_reg
[2] http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_campaigns
[3] http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_daily_reg_mobile
[4] http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_hourly_reg_y2y
Hi folks,
I'm happy to announce that we have just deployed HTML Email notifications on the English Wikipedia.
We developed this feature to provide a more appealing email experience, with clear visual cues and less clutter, as outlined in this feature requirements page (1). Another related feature we also deployed today is an improved notification structure (2) that makes notifications easier to read by removing confusing edit summaries.
Note that you can control which email notifications your receive and how they are displayed in your Preferences page (3). For example, if you would like to get email notifications when someone mentions your name on a talk page, check the 'Email' box next to 'Mentions', then click 'Save'. Or if you would rather receive plain text emails instead of HTML emails, select 'plain text' next to 'Email format' and click 'Save'. Easy as pie :)
Please let us know how these new features work for you. We're particularly interested in feedback on how HTML emails work on your mobile phone. Can you see the notifications well? Is it easy to click on the notification buttons? If you experience serious issues, please report them by email here -- or on Bugzilla (4). Please include screenshots if you can, as well as the name of the application, operating system and device you were using. To learn more, check our Help page (5).
Next, we plan to release notifications on the French Wikipedia, then incrementally on other wiki sites throughout the next few weeks, as outlined in this Notifications Release Plan (5). If you are active on another Wikipedia project and would like to get notifications deployed on your site, please read the checklist on that page and contact me to discuss.
We hope that you will find these new features helpful. They are part of an overall initiative to improve the user experience on Wikipedia by modernizing some of our tools to better match the expectations of our users. We think that these new features meet that goal -- and look forward to enhancing them in coming weeks with your help.
Thanks to all the community and team members who helped make this release possible! We are particularly grateful to Benny Situ and Vibha Bamba for taking these two new features through the finish line today.
Onward!
Fabrice, on behalf of the Editor Engagement team
(1) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#HTML_single_email_n…
(2) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#Improved_Notificati…
(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo
(4) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions…
(5) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications
(6) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Release_Plan_2013
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Editor Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Dario Taraborelli, Steven Walling, James Forrester had a discussion
about how we can make article issues ("needs copyediting", "needs more
references", etc.) more accessible to software like GettingStarted,
Mobile, and VisualEditor.
The categories that some of the templates already use work for simple
cases (such as one language, one project), which is how GettingStarted
currently works. However, different languages have their own categories
and conventions for issue templates. Another issue is that it's not
always clear whether the issue applies to a single section or the
article as a whole. And some templates are used on the article, and
others on talk.
Mobile is moving the article issues to a separate area (with a pointer
to that), which requires identifying which templates identify issues.
An initial solution we discussed, with the goal of making the
GettingStarted extension cross-wiki, is using a Wikidata Q-item to
identify a cross-wiki maintenence category. An example is "Category:All
articles needing copy edit" (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8235695).
We also discussed how Wikidata could be used further. They are already
planning on having badges
(https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Sitelinks#Badges), which describe
aspects of a page (such as Featured Article), rather than the real-world
concept. This could be extended further to include properties for
issues with that page as well (needs copy-editing: true).
A possible way to populate those Wikidata properties is by adding Lua
calls to existing templates.
We hope this can eventually make possible a lot of interesting ways to
see, work on, and flag article issues.
Matt Flaschen
Hi everyone,
I'm happy to announce that we just released Notifications on Meta-Wiki today.
This version of the tool works in much the same way as on the English Wikipedia, to notify you about important activity that relates to you on Meta-Wiki. The only differences are that page reviews are not supported on this site -- and no notifications are sent for global user right changes -- only for local changes on Meta.
To learn more about this release, visit this special Notifications FAQ here on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Notifications
Notifications continue to be used widely on the English Wikipedia, and we now have a wealth of metrics data on that usage, which you can view on these new metrics dashboards:
http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/enwiki-features
Next week, we plan to deploy HTML Email notifications (1), which can be tested now on test.wikipedia.org, if you feel so inclined. We are also working on an improved notification structure (2), which will make notifications easier to read. If all goes well, these changes should be available on Tuesday afternoon.
Many thanks to Benny for all his fine work on these features and deployments!
In coming weeks, we will be deploying Notifications on the French and Polish Wikipedias and a few other wikis, before making them available to all MediaWiki projects in the fall of 2013. If you are interested in getting Notifications for your project sooner, please contact me to discuss.
We will send you a more detailed report after next week's releases.
Enjoy,
Fabrice, on behalf of the E2 team
(1) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#HTML_single_email_n…
(2) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#Improved_Notificati…
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Hi all,
Checking the list membership again, I see only 94 members on this list,
including some clearly inactive accounts like old staff members no longer
with us.
I wonder if it's time again to do a little recruitment for joining this
list, perhaps on the Village Pumps etc.?
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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