A while ago, I started experimenting with the idea of an interactive tour:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Eloquence/Tour_01&oldid=1...
Not so much a tutorial how to edit Wikipedia, but what's in there (a broad selection of content), how to use categories/portals, how the community collaborates, what Wikipedia _is_, etc.
This kind of thing would be really useful for the orientation of new staff, as a resource for autonomous exploration. But I think it would be generally a cool thing for Wikipedia (and other projects) to showcase what they are at their best.
Is there any volunteer interest in building such a thing?
I know - web site tours often suck and are kind of a thing of the 90s - but I think this could be different: it would be more of a living slideshow with captions.
Erik Moeller wrote:
A while ago, I started experimenting with the idea of an interactive tour:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Eloquence/Tour_01&oldid=1...
Not so much a tutorial how to edit Wikipedia, but what's in there (a broad selection of content), how to use categories/portals, how the community collaborates, what Wikipedia _is_, etc.
This kind of thing would be really useful for the orientation of new staff, as a resource for autonomous exploration. But I think it would be generally a cool thing for Wikipedia (and other projects) to showcase what they are at their best.
Is there any volunteer interest in building such a thing?
I know - web site tours often suck and are kind of a thing of the 90s
- but I think this could be different: it would be more of a living
slideshow with captions.
I might be able to help around a bit, but I'm not good with code.
On 14/02/2008, Jonathan jonathan.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
A while ago, I started experimenting with the idea of an interactive tour: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Eloquence/Tour_01&oldid=1... I know - web site tours often suck and are kind of a thing of the 90s
- but I think this could be different: it would be more of a living
slideshow with captions.
I might be able to help around a bit, but I'm not good with code.
I think putting together an interesting and compelling tour would be most of the work.
Is anyone here good with fourteenth-century Tuscan dialect? "Over here we have the sixth circle, where AFDs are conducted. Down here we have the seventh circle, in which RFAs are held ..."
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
On 14/02/2008, Jonathan jonathan.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
A while ago, I started experimenting with the idea of an interactive tour: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Eloquence/Tour_01&oldid=1... I know - web site tours often suck and are kind of a thing of the 90s
- but I think this could be different: it would be more of a living
slideshow with captions.
I might be able to help around a bit, but I'm not good with code.
I think putting together an interesting and compelling tour would be most of the work.
Is anyone here good with fourteenth-century Tuscan dialect? "Over here we have the sixth circle, where AFDs are conducted. Down here we have the seventh circle, in which RFAs are held ..."
- d.
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Yep.
~Jon
I'm pretty good at creating user tutorials, maybe we should have something like the Introduction on the Homestar Runner Wiki (http:// www.hrwiki.org/index.php/HRWiki:Introduction)
-Soxred93
On Feb 14, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Jonathan wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 14/02/2008, Jonathan jonathan.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
A while ago, I started experimenting with the idea of an interactive tour: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Eloquence/ Tour_01&oldid=191502665 I know - web site tours often suck and are kind of a thing of the 90s
- but I think this could be different: it would be more of a living
slideshow with captions.
I might be able to help around a bit, but I'm not good with code.
I think putting together an interesting and compelling tour would be most of the work.
Is anyone here good with fourteenth-century Tuscan dialect? "Over here we have the sixth circle, where AFDs are conducted. Down here we have the seventh circle, in which RFAs are held ..."
- d.
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Yep.
~Jon
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Soxred93@gmail.com soxred93@gmail.com wrote:
I'm pretty good at creating user tutorials, maybe we should have something like the Introduction on the Homestar Runner Wiki (http:// www.hrwiki.org/index.php/HRWiki:Introduction)
Done!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AIntroduction
Ha, not really, they copied enwiki on that. :)
Well which came first? It looks more like http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Wikipedia:Create an article/Wizard-Introduction to me...
-Soxred93
On Feb 14, 2008, at 6:16 PM, cohesion wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Soxred93@gmail.com soxred93@gmail.com wrote:
I'm pretty good at creating user tutorials, maybe we should have something like the Introduction on the Homestar Runner Wiki (http:// www.hrwiki.org/index.php/HRWiki:Introduction)
Done!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AIntroduction
Ha, not really, they copied enwiki on that. :)
Judson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion
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