Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-27 Thread stevertigo
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Boy the Wikipedia GUI could be a lot better, but small tweaks aren't going to do much. I assume the various studies about its usability are intended to drive some new GUI effort. It bears mentioning that monobook and

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-26 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Isabell Longisabell...@gmail.com wrote: I don't use it much either and I didn't in the beginning.  It's not very visible to me using the Monobook skin and I only glance at it once or twice when I'm browsing, nothing more than that really unless I want to seek

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-25 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Fred Bauderfredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: The Community Portal is semi-protected, so its not that vulnerable to vandalism. On the skin I'm using it is in the sidebar on every page under Interaction, so it's pretty prominently placed. No way. I was over 5000

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-25 Thread Carcharoth
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Fred Bauderfredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: The Community Portal is semi-protected, so its not that vulnerable to vandalism. On the skin I'm using it is in the sidebar on every page

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-25 Thread Isabell Long
2009/6/25 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Fred Bauderfredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: The Community Portal is semi-protected, so its not that vulnerable to vandalism. On the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-25 Thread Fred Bauder
2009/6/25 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Fred Bauderfredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: The Community Portal is semi-protected, so its not that vulnerable to vandalism. On the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-25 Thread Carcharoth
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: snip Well, we could, as is done in online games, create a little school for people to go through and learn the ropes before we let them into the game itself. Not sure how we would set that up, certainly very

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-25 Thread Emily Monroe
I can see that much of the trouble people get into is due to a lack of basic orientation. I see that too on new page patrol. I'll, through twinkle, put a you're article might be speedily deleted temp on somebody's talk page, and it'll be the first thing that they get on their talk page.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-24 Thread Emily Monroe
The Community Portal is semi-protected, so its not that vulnerable to vandalism. Good to know! On the skin I'm using it is in the sidebar on every page under Interaction, so it's pretty prominently placed. I use monobook--I was thinking about that. I've tried out other skins, that should've

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-24 Thread Emily Monroe
A link to the community portal could be included in more of Wikipedia's new user welcome messages. That's a good idea if anybody actually reads the welcome message. I'm not saying this sarcastically--I didn't read mine. Emily Is there any way to better advertise the community portal, so

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-24 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com wrote: A link to the community portal could be included in more of Wikipedia's new user welcome messages. That's a good idea if anybody actually reads the welcome message. I'm not saying this sarcastically--I didn't read

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-24 Thread Emily Monroe
It might be an idea to survey new(er) users to find out this sort of thing. Maybe create some sort of software that tells us how many links are clicked? Emily On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Carcharoth wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com wrote: A

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-24 Thread Fred Bauder
The Community Portal is semi-protected, so its not that vulnerable to vandalism. Good to know! On the skin I'm using it is in the sidebar on every page under Interaction, so it's pretty prominently placed. I use monobook--I was thinking about that. I've tried out other skins, that should've

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-23 Thread Emily Monroe
An idea just struck me. Is there any way to better advertise the community portal, so those who are new to wikipedia can more easily find it? It'll be more easily vandalized this way, but I think any such thing will be swiftly reverted. Emily On Jun 22, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Carcharoth wrote:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-23 Thread Fred Bauder
An idea just struck me. Is there any way to better advertise the community portal, so those who are new to wikipedia can more easily find it? It'll be more easily vandalized this way, but I think any such thing will be swiftly reverted. Emily The Community Portal is semi-protected, so its

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-23 Thread AGK
Is there any way to better advertise the community portal, so those who are new to wikipedia can more easily find it? It'll be more easily vandalized this way, but I think any such thing will be swiftly reverted. A link to the community portal could be included in more of Wikipedia's new

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-22 Thread Carcharoth
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:41 AM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote: snip I myself am wondering if anyone has seen any userboxes made into bumperstickers. I'm sure I've seen some made into T-shirts. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-19 Thread philippe
Not exactly a userbox, but I did see a bumper sticker that said {{fact}} on it once :-) ___ philippe [[en:User:Philippe]] On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:41 PM, stevertigo wrote: I myself am wondering if anyone has seen any userboxes made into bumperstickers.

[WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

2009-06-18 Thread stevertigo
Stevertigo wrote: But do I understand correctly, Emily, that by social aspects you mean more what we might call community, or collective, or perhaps synergetic aspects? Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com wrote: Yes, that's what I mean! I'll be interested to see where this discussion goes.