2008/12/23 Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk(a)googlemail.com>om>:
Thank you very much for these explanations for us
curious Wikipedians.
:-)
Oh, you just want to show how the place will look
like? I cannot find
something Wikipedia-related on that US Congress site.
No, it was just to give you an impression you how it _could_ look like.
My experience
so far: you can't imagine how many people don't know
that everyone can edit Wikipedia. You give a lecture, everybody knows
Wikipedia, and suddenly someone asks: "but what happens when I click
on the edit button?" Every Wikipedian knows that uploading pictures on
Yes, but it is not only a technical questions, but also about the whole
concept of wiki authorship: Am I entitled to edit?
Yes, that's perfectly true. For some of our target groups this is
certainly a bigger obstacle than the wiki markup.
But the
questions by the people in the audience were very, very basic.
Again, I agree. Our first step should be to figure out which of these
very basic questions we should answer. I'm sure that will have a high
impact.
When I showed Wikipedia to elderly people, it was not
only Wikipedia and
Internet related stuff they did not know of. Basic computer skills are
missing, like drag and drop, copying text, open several windows. Will your
future how-to video provide also that, Frank?
We should at least think about ways to make the how-to screencast
tutorials as comprehensible as possible. Would you personally be
interested to join the screencast team? Your participation is highly
welcome!
The German she speaks at the end sound to me as if she
were German.
She's living in Berlin ;-)
Thank you for your helpful comments which I appreciate as always.
Frank