Hi everyone,
Here's this week's software updates from the Editor Engagement Experiments team. Today, we deployed some changes to the Guided Tour extension,[1] including...
New languages! Guided Tours are now available to use or create on the following Wikipedias: Catalan, Hebrew, Hungarian, Malay, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. Look on your local Village Pump for an announcement. Particularly exciting is that Hebrew is our first real test of use on a RTL language wiki.
A new tour! In support of our work onboarding new Wikipedians,[2] we've launched a general "make your first edit" tour. Try it by appending ?tour=firstedit to an article URL.[3] This tour is brand new, and probably needs translation for non-English speakers.
Note that this tour is for wikitext editing only, regardless of whether VisualEditor is deployed to your wiki or not. Soon (likely next week), we'll have an equivalent first edit tour that guides you through the basics of using VE. In the onboarding experience, we're going to point to VisualEditor if it exists for that user, but we'll have this wikitext tour as a backup.
Please speak up if you have any questions about how to use guided tours, or create your own.
1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians#Proposed 3. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michikawa_Station?tour=firstedit
2013/9/6 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org
A new tour! In support of our work onboarding new Wikipedians,[2] we've launched a general "make your first edit" tour. Try it by appending ?tour=firstedit to an article URL.[3] This tour is brand new, and probably needs translation for non-English speakers.
Yes, where do you find the text to translate the firstedit tour?
*Med vänliga hälsningar, Jan Ainali*
Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida 0729 - 67 29 48
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ainali@wikimedia.se wrote:
2013/9/6 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org
A new tour! In support of our work onboarding new Wikipedians,[2] we've launched a general "make your first edit" tour. Try it by appending ?tour=firstedit to an article URL.[3] This tour is brand new, and probably needs translation for non-English speakers.
Yes, where do you find the text to translate the firstedit tour?
It should be updated as translation strings on translatewiki. I'm seeing it as untranslated there now. (There's no rush FYI, since it's not getting delivered to users yet automatically in non-en wikis, unless someone adds the tour link to a common URL, like to the Sandbox.)
I found it :) (and translated it).
*Med vänliga hälsningar, Jan Ainali*
Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida 0729 - 67 29 48
2013/9/6 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ainali@wikimedia.sewrote:
2013/9/6 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org
A new tour! In support of our work onboarding new Wikipedians,[2] we've launched a general "make your first edit" tour. Try it by appending ?tour=firstedit to an article URL.[3] This tour is brand new, and probably needs translation for non-English speakers.
Yes, where do you find the text to translate the firstedit tour?
It should be updated as translation strings on translatewiki. I'm seeing it as untranslated there now. (There's no rush FYI, since it's not getting delivered to users yet automatically in non-en wikis, unless someone adds the tour link to a common URL, like to the Sandbox.)
-- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Awesome! One more step toward being able to release GettingStarted and Guided Tours fully on Swedish Wikipedia. :)
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ainali@wikimedia.se wrote:
I found it :) (and translated it).
*Med vänliga hälsningar, Jan Ainali*
Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverigehttp://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida
0729 - 67 29 48
2013/9/6 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ainali@wikimedia.sewrote:
2013/9/6 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org
A new tour! In support of our work onboarding new Wikipedians,[2] we've launched a general "make your first edit" tour. Try it by appending ?tour=firstedit to an article URL.[3] This tour is brand new, and probably needs translation for non-English speakers.
Yes, where do you find the text to translate the firstedit tour?
It should be updated as translation strings on translatewiki. I'm seeing it as untranslated there now. (There's no rush FYI, since it's not getting delivered to users yet automatically in non-en wikis, unless someone adds the tour link to a common URL, like to the Sandbox.)
-- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
2013/9/6 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org
Awesome! One more step toward being able to release GettingStarted and Guided Tours fully on Swedish Wikipedia. :)
Thanks for the note and helpful pointers - French is done as well.
You can start translating immediately if you're logged in and have translator rights: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-guidedtour
If you do not have a user with translator rights yet, please proceed to https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:FirstSteps
Thanks for your help!
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Jan Ainali jan.ainali@wikimedia.se wrote:
2013/9/6 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org
A new tour! In support of our work onboarding new Wikipedians,[2] we've launched a general "make your first edit" tour. Try it by appending ?tour=firstedit to an article URL.[3] This tour is brand new, and probably needs translation for non-English speakers.
Yes, where do you find the text to translate the firstedit tour?
*Med vänliga hälsningar, Jan Ainali*
Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverigehttp://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida
0729 - 67 29 48
Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org