Just wanted to make you all aware of a useful new feature of the Wikipedia mobile app. You can share text from any Wikipedia page as a nice image by highlighting it, pressing share, and then choosing the app you want to share it to, like Twitter. See the images attached. Hope you all find this useful.
Hey John,
I have been using that feature from a very long time, earlier it was known as Share a fact but now it's share an image option on Wikipedia mobile app. I have also shared this feature with a lot of Indian Wikipedians and here you can find a learning pattern about how this works and how we can make use of this feature. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Using_%27Share_a_fact%27_t...
Feel free to update it :)
Thanks
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 at 2:29 PM, John Lubbock john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Just wanted to make you all aware of a useful new feature of the Wikipedia mobile app. You can share text from any Wikipedia page as a nice image by highlighting it, pressing share, and then choosing the app you want to share it to, like Twitter. See the images attached. Hope you all find this useful. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
On 25 July 2018 at 14:14, John Lubbock john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Just wanted to make you all aware of a useful new feature of the Wikipedia mobile app. You can share text from any Wikipedia page as a nice image
Unless there is also a mechanism for including the text /as text/, usually by using the "alt" attribute (sometimes erroneously referred to as "alt text", I hope people won't do this.
Images of text are inaccessible to people with visual impairment (who use software to read text out loud); or with no image display in their user agent (such as the free access to Facebook provided by many mobile telephone providers, like those some of us used at Wikimania last week).
Hi Andy,
"Unless there is also a mechanism for including the text /as text/, usually by using the "alt" attribute (sometimes erroneously referred to as "alt text", I hope people won't do this."
Thanks for highlighting the importance of using the "alt" attribute/"alt text" for making images more accessible to the visually impaired. It's an important point to raise and we need to encourage more people to build it into their practise when uploading images to commons. I don't know if that function is included in the tool that John mentioned but if it doesn't I don't think it should preclude people from using it as you can use other strategies for making these posts available. In fact the more tools get used, the easier it is to make the argument for developers to build in more accessibility features. Inclusion should be about expecting more, not offering less.
Best wishes,
Delphine
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On 25 July 2018 at 14:14, John Lubbock wrote: > Just wanted to make you all aware of a useful new feature of the Wikipedia > mobile app. You can share text from any Wikipedia page as a nice image Images of text are inaccessible to people with visual impairment (who use software to read text out loud); or with no image display in their user agent (such as the free access to Facebook provided by many mobile telephone providers, like those some of us used at Wikimania last week). -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpigsonthew... _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wiki... and https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wiki... New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.wik...,
On 26 July 2018 at 13:03, Delphine Dallison d.dallison@scottishlibraries.org wrote:
I don't know if that function is included in the tool that John mentioned but if it doesn't I don't think it should preclude people from using it as you can use other strategies for making these posts available.
Inclusion should be about expecting more, not offering less.
Indeed. And in this case, people can simply share text and links.
Well, the alt attribute is usually set in an img tag in HTML. So if you are sharing to any place that does not render HTML (like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc) this is not of much help even if the app would try to set it..
But for these places, there should be an option for easily getting the text from the image also added in the actual status update.
Best regards, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com
Den tors 26 juli 2018 kl 12:37 skrev Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk
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On 25 July 2018 at 14:14, John Lubbock john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Just wanted to make you all aware of a useful new feature of the
Wikipedia
mobile app. You can share text from any Wikipedia page as a nice image
Unless there is also a mechanism for including the text /as text/, usually by using the "alt" attribute (sometimes erroneously referred to as "alt text", I hope people won't do this.
Images of text are inaccessible to people with visual impairment (who use software to read text out loud); or with no image display in their user agent (such as the free access to Facebook provided by many mobile telephone providers, like those some of us used at Wikimania last week).
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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