Hi all,
This is a (couple hours late) notice about what Editor Engagement Experiments deployed today.
First up: after weeks of controlled testing and lots of follow up work, our redesigns of account creation and login are available for testing on all Wikimedia projects. Per our blog post,[1] we're doing this on an opt-in basis for about a week, to ensure localizations have time to be done correctly and that there are no critical bugs undiscovered. After that, we'll enable the new forms as defaults.
Along with this, we deployed a change to the CAPTCHA extension used across Wikimedia projects to add a refresh button, whether you're viewing the CAPTCHA on login, account creation, or the edit window. Hopefully this will lessen frustrations for new or anonymous editors when trying to fill out one of our security checks.
If you want to talk further about the login and account creation updates, I've posted to the Village Pumps of the top ten Wikipedias, and will shortly to the English version of the other sister projects. We're also holding an IRC office hours on Saturday, at 18:00 UTC, to discuss these changes.[2]
Hi
Thank you for these new forms. We really need it!
Unfortunately, this announcement on French Wikipedia was not really appreciated. :-( You have posted in English, and the form is still in English. Badly, we have a lot of French language defenders, who totally dislike English posts. This is not cool at all, and I'm deeply sorry of their attitude.
All the translation has been updated on Translatewiki. I hope you will change the Enghish words to the French ones on the forms soon ! :-)
Thanks again for your work !
Benoît
2013/4/26 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org
Hi all,
This is a (couple hours late) notice about what Editor Engagement Experiments deployed today.
First up: after weeks of controlled testing and lots of follow up work, our redesigns of account creation and login are available for testing on all Wikimedia projects. Per our blog post,[1] we're doing this on an opt-in basis for about a week, to ensure localizations have time to be done correctly and that there are no critical bugs undiscovered. After that, we'll enable the new forms as defaults.
Along with this, we deployed a change to the CAPTCHA extension used across Wikimedia projects to add a refresh button, whether you're viewing the CAPTCHA on login, account creation, or the edit window. Hopefully this will lessen frustrations for new or anonymous editors when trying to fill out one of our security checks.
If you want to talk further about the login and account creation updates, I've posted to the Village Pumps of the top ten Wikipedias, and will shortly to the English version of the other sister projects. We're also holding an IRC office hours on Saturday, at 18:00 UTC, to discuss these changes.[2]
-- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/
- http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/try-new-login-accountcreation/
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
EE mailing list EE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee
On Friday, April 26, 2013, Benoît Evellin wrote:
Hi
Thank you for these new forms. We really need it!
Unfortunately, this announcement on French Wikipedia was not really appreciated. :-( You have posted in English, and the form is still in English. Badly, we have a lot of French language defenders, who totally dislike English posts. This is not cool at all, and I'm deeply sorry of their attitude.
All the translation has been updated on Translatewiki. I hope you will change the Enghish words to the French ones on the forms soon ! :-)
Thanks again for your work !
Benoît
It's okay. I totally understand. I'll just post at the Anglophone Bistro next time, if I don't have a translated message. :)
The translations are not yet complete, which is why some messages are in English. I gave a link to the translatewiki list for French, and it will get fixed before we roll it out to frwiki as the default.
We should let Oliv (the latest post) know that if French Wikipedia already has pages for help about logging in etc. you are of course encouraged to redirect or change the links in the login page to point there.
2013/4/26 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org
Hi all,
This is a (couple hours late) notice about what Editor Engagement Experiments deployed today.
First up: after weeks of controlled testing and lots of follow up work, our redesigns of account creation and login are available for testing on all Wikimedia projects. Per our blog post,[1] we're doing this on an opt-in basis for about a week, to ensure localizations have time to be done correctly and that there are no critical bugs undiscovered. After that, we'll enable the new forms as defaults.
Along with this, we deployed a change to the CAPTCHA extension used across Wikimedia projects to add a refresh button, whether you're viewing the CAPTCHA on login, account creation, or the edit window. Hopefully this will lessen frustrations for new or anonymous editors when trying to fill out one of our security checks.
If you want to talk further about the login and account creation updates, I've posted to the Village Pumps of the top ten Wikipedias, and will shortly to the English version of the other sister projects. We're also holding an IRC office hours on Saturday, at 18:00 UTC, to discuss these changes.[2]
-- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/
- http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/try-new-login-accountcreation/
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
EE mailing list EE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee
-- Benoît Evellin Membre de Wikimédia France www.wikimedia.fr
On 04/26/2013 01:45 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
We should let Oliv (the latest post) know that if French Wikipedia already has pages for help about logging in etc. you are of course encouraged to redirect or change the links in the login page to point there.
Yes, you can point them to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/Testing#Thin... ( Things to pay attention to while testing both interfaces) for the messages containing these page names.
Matt Flaschen