[Wikipl-l] Prośba od Wikimedia Foundation

[Tomasz Ganicz]

Hejkum,

Dostałem prośbę, żeby to puścić na listę. W skrócie:

 Lennart Guldbrandsson chce zreformować sposób zakładania kont w
projektach Wikimedia i poszukuje osób z polskiej Wikipedii do
współpracy. Chodzi generalnie o to, że statystyki pokazują, że bardzo
niski odsetek osób, które zakładają konta wykonują choćby jedną edycję
i również bardzo wysoki odsetek osób, które zakłada konta zniechęca
się do edytowania po pierwszej nieudanej próbie. W związku z tym idea
jest taka, aby sama procedura logowania zachęcała do rozpoczęcia
edytowania. Potrzeba mu osób, które będą testowały różne scenariusze
tej procedury. Jak ktoś się chce przyłączyć to niech pisze do
Lennarta:

  	"Lennart Guldbrandsson" <l_guldbrandsson w hotmail.com>


== Oryginalny mail ==
Hello,

My name is Lennart Guldbrandsson. Some of you may know me
as the chair of Wikimedia Sverige, or met me on any of several Wikipedia
 related events. Some I have even been in contact with about this project.

Recently I became a fellow to the Wikimedia
Foundation
(http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/07/announcing-our-fourth-fellow-lennart-guldbrandsson/).
 For the next couple of months I will be working to make it easier for
newcomers to create their accounts. This is one part of the Wikimedia
Foundation's goal to increase the number of new users. This type of
project that I am working with haven't really been tried before, but we
have been doing research and talked to a lot of people. We have great
hopes that we can not only make it easier, but also make the new users
better prepared for what awaits them on Wikipedia, which in turn will
make them more likely to stay.

And now we would like you
to be a part of a series of experiments. We have chose the Polish
Wikipedia and Wikimedia Polska with quite a lot of care. Frankly, we
think you haven't received the attention you deserve. This offer to be a
 part of these experiments is our way of try to rectify that situation.

So, what are planning?

In
 short, we want to improve the entire process of creating a new account.
 But we want to test different solutions against each other to see what
works best. This is called A/B testing. You can read more details about
it here:

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Account_Creation_Improvement_Project/Research_overall

Your part in this experiment entails several things:

* translating and coming up with good language for the testing pages

* bounce ideas with us and be willing to try various things to see what works

* help us analyse the results

The
 work load should not be too heavy, especially if you are two-three
people that can chip in a few hours from time to time. On the other
hand, the results from this (and a selected few other language
versions/chapters that we are approaching) will make ripples all through
 the Wikipedia movement. And we will of course mention your work when we
 present our findings at Wikimania and try to encourage all language
versions to roll out these changes.

So, what do you say? Do you want to become part of this experiment?

Whether you do or don't, please answer during the next 9 days (before Friday the
11th). We will start the first tests in a few weeks, which means that
we need to get
to work soon.

If
 you have any questions, please don't hesitate to write to me. And if
you want, we can do Skype conversations as well (or any other method of
videoconference that you prefer).

Best wishes,

Lennart


Lennart Guldbrandsson,
Fellow of the Wikimedia Foundation / Wikimedia Foudation-stipendiat
Chair of Wikimedia Sverige / ordförande för Wikimedia Sverige
http://wikimedia.se
Tfn: 031 - 12 50 48
Mobil: 070 - 207 80 05
Epost: l_guldbrandsson w hotmail.com
Användarsida: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndare:Hannibal
Blogg: http://mrchapel.wordpress.com/




-- 
Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek
http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/
http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz