[Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

[Lennart Guldbrandsson]

Glad you guys brought this question up as I am working on rewriting one of
the things right now. See further discussioner here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Welcome_email

All suggestions and tweaks are welcome.

Best wishes,

Lennart


-- 
Lennart Guldbrandsson, Fellow of the Wikimedia Foundation // Wikimedia
Foundation-stipendiat


2011/4/19 Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>

> On 19/04/11 19:38, Milos Rancic wrote:
> > MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email
> > from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code.
> >
> > The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted
> > emails with some more information (for example, I would like to see diff
> > inside of my email when I get notification about changing my talk page).
>
> The main problem is that they are plain text instead of HTML. You
> don't really need a designer to make that change, all our developers
> know how to use HTML.
>
> > But, then I've realized that we don't have a designer. By "designer" I
> > mean a person who is employed by WMF and who is constantly working on
> > improving MediaWiki look and feel.
>
> Actually we have two: Brandon Harris and Parul Vora.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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