Hi Wikipedians,
please note, that you can find first results of the second usability test ("Editing Information in the German Wikipedia") from OpenUsability.org here: http://openusability.org/download.php/89/germanwikipedia_usabilitytest_edit....
This isn't only interesting for Germans.
Bye, avatar.
On 3/7/06, Tim 'avatar' Bartel wikipedia@computerkultur.org wrote:
Hi Wikipedians,
please note, that you can find first results of the second usability test ("Editing Information in the German Wikipedia") from OpenUsability.org here: http://openusability.org/download.php/89/germanwikipedia_usabilitytest_edit....
This isn't only interesting for Germans.
I think it's interesting that it mentions the "Don't know" license trap.
I created the initial version of this on enwiki. It was actually intended to be somewhat unhelpful to the uploader: The problem we were having is that uploaders were selecting licenses at random because they did not take the time to read the instruction. This was creating a huge problem of incorrectly tagged images which was very difficult to clean up.
The initial version on enwiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Don%27t_know&oldid=23...) intentionally underplayed the importance of the template. It does not feature the stop hand or alert icons which most warning templates have, and it did not have the deletion warning in bold.
The idea was the users who are just care about getting something uploaded will be satisfied, and the image will survive only with the help of more established users. We don't want new users changing the notice, even if this means that some users who could have selected the right license will not do so... it's better to have 5 more images flagged for review than 1 incorrectly flagged as free licensed.
I see on english wiki that someone has bolded the text mentioning deletion, I've changed that.
Hi Wikipedians,
Gregory Maxwell schrieb am 07.03.2006 08:38:
I think it's interesting that it mentions the "Don't know" license trap.
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I see on english wiki that someone has bolded the text mentioning deletion, I've changed that.
I pointed Ellen to your reply. She wrote (she isn't subscribed to this list):
hey - interessant! Das fruehere Template war sehr viel weniger Furcht einfloessend :) Waere zusaetzlich gut, wenn die Anweisung, wie man Tags einsetzt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Image_namespace) nicht gleich zu Anfang die "gefaehrlichen" Tags zeigt, sondern die gebraeuchlichsten. Ausserdem waere im Einleitungssatz
These are tags to be placed on the image description pages, i.e., the pages that open up when pictures in articles are clicked. This is not the complete list (at the moment). When tagging images, please see the full text list at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags.
der Zusatz "These are tags to be placed in the License section on the image description pages..." hilfreich, evtl durch einen Screenshot veranschaulicht.
I try to translate (sorry for my bad english):
hey - interesting! The former template was much less awesome :) It would be better if the instruction how to insert tags (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Image_namespace) don't list the "dangerous" tags at the bginning, but the ones most often used. Also in the beginning sentence
These are tags to be placed on the image description pages, i.e., the pages that open up when pictures in articles are clicked. This is not the complete list (at the moment). When tagging images, please see the full text list at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags.
the addition "These are tags to be placed in the License section on the image description pages..." would be helpfull, perhaps illustrated by a screenshot.
Bye, Tim.
On 3/6/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
The idea was the users who are just care about getting something uploaded will be satisfied, and the image will survive only with the help of more established users. We don't want new users changing the notice, even if this means that some users who could have selected the right license will not do so... it's better to have 5 more images flagged for review than 1 incorrectly flagged as free licensed.
I wonder if we should prompt more explicitly for image sources in the upload?
-Matt
Interesting usability survey - and yes, most of it is common to most Wikipedia editions (and indeed to most Wikimedia projects).
-Matt
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