Thank you for pointing this out, Jutta, and your reply,Lennart.
I see this area of improvement as being critical to participation of
non-tech minded people.
Sydney Poore
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson <
l_guldbrandsson(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
Thanks for the feedback on the account creation process. We finished
testing three diffrent processes against each other during the summer. The
report can be found here:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Report_from_Lennart%27s_Fellowship.…
In theory, the tests are finished, but as you know, getting the community
to come to a consensus can be hard work. I have tried to get a consensus on
the English Wikipedia Village Pump for some time now, and very few have
participated, so I said that unless someone protested, that I would change
the process. The deadline was last Friday, but due to other things going on
in my life after the Fellowship (I am preparing Wikimedia Sverige's stand at
the Gothenburg Book Fair that starts in two days), I have not yet changed
the account process. Of course, anyone with admin rights on English
Wikipedia can help out (I no longer have my staff rights, so I cannot do it
myself anyway).
When we change the process, that version of the account creation process
will not be used.
(Sorry for taking so much space to talk about that angle of the thread.)
Best wishes,
Lennart
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From: jutta.von(a)cancer.org.au
To: gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:07:11 +1000
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Question for the
Foundation about photographs
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> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:33:30 -0700
> From: Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Question for the Foundation about photographs
> of women
> To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
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> Update, and a request:
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> The discussion thread John started has been very active, with I think
about
30 posts
from a wide variety of customer service (OTRS) volunteers.
This could be a good idea, but let's not forget that women who start
editing
Wikipedia first need to find out how to get help and this needs to
be obvious in the interface.
I recently supported a female colleague of mine to join and start editing
Wikipedia and I witnessed her signing up etc. and it was surprisingly hard
and confusing... Unfortunately, we ended up in this testing group for
account creation :
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Account_Creation_Improvement_Project/Tes…
In this testing group, the second screen is the
one about topics.
'Health', the topic that we needed, was not one of them,
so we selected
'biology' instead and a whole list of topics that need improvements was
presented to us... However, she already knew which article she wanted to
create, so it was a bit like 'Ok, how can I get out of here and draft my
article?' I ended up showing her how she can do this and also ended up
putting the Template:New_user_bar manually onto her user page, so that she's
got a nicer profile page. I am sure we would potentially have lost her
without my help...
I thought I share this little experience. I think what I'll do next, is
"test" her and see how she goes in getting some help without asking me ;-)
Cheers,
Jutta
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