Hi Federico
Le 01/01/2013 19:06, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
Emmanuel Engelhart, 01/01/2013 17:12:
WPAR has a permanent "intelligent" notice using a gadget called AdvancedSiteNotice (IMO the best approach).
Thanks. As ar as I can see it's a JS they use to alternate five different messages some of which can be shown only to logged in users, sysop etc., but the one on Kiwix is shown to everyone. Correct?
I don't know exactly how it's configured on WPAR, but I think this is only displayed to anonymous (not logged) users. This is certainly a good approach to not bother logged users who are mostly pretty good informed about such topics. What I find interesting with this notice system is that this is really not intrusive (only a line), each user can remove a message easily, you can specify your audience and vary your messages.
I see since early November they have about 3 thousands visit per day to their project page on Kiwix. https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A:Gadget-AdvancedSiteNotices.js&action=edit
Yes and I get ~500 visitors per day from WPAR... but IMO the WPAR "landing page" could be improved to be more convincing (that's only my opinion).
I now see there's also a page about it: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Case_Studies/2012_ARWP_Site_Notice
Yes, IMO this is important on WPAR.
WPFA and WPES (still running) have had both setup a central notice during two weeks.
I have heard nothing about WPIT.
Ok. On it.wiki we have a rather thin section on Kiwix, https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Download_di_Wikipedia#Kiwix (it links a video, can you upload it to Commons so that it can be embedded?).
Should I? Is that good enough? The video is now two years old? Someone motivated to make a new screencast? This would be really great... especially with the new kiwix server feature in the 0.9rc2.
Where should I prepare a page to point Italian users to? Ideally it would be your main page made translatable with the Translate extension (if you install it, I can do the manual work). Otherwise we can fallback to a Meta translatable page, to a "manual" translation or to that local page.
Great, what I propose is: * A landing page on WPIT, like on WPAR where users are redirected. On this page you can explain with a Wikipedia focus what it is, etc... You may also provide directly a link to download Kiwix or Kiwix with Wikipedia. * Would be great to propose on www.kiwix.org a welcome page in Italian (like we have in Farsi, German, French, Spanish...) at http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page/it
I'll then propose a sitenotice on it.wiki; if we had a translatable page we could also propose a centralnotice.
Would be awesome.
Let us know about your progresses Emmanuel