2008/12/23 Ziko van Dijk <[email protected]>: > Thank you very much for these explanations for us curious Wikipedians.
:-) > Oh, you just want to show how the place will look like? I cannot find > something Wikipedia-related on that US Congress site. No, it was just to give you an impression you how it _could_ look like. >>My experience so far: you can't imagine how many people don't know >>that everyone can edit Wikipedia. You give a lecture, everybody knows >>Wikipedia, and suddenly someone asks: "but what happens when I click >>on the edit button?" Every Wikipedian knows that uploading pictures on > > Yes, but it is not only a technical questions, but also about the whole > concept of wiki authorship: Am I entitled to edit? Yes, that's perfectly true. For some of our target groups this is certainly a bigger obstacle than the wiki markup. > But the > questions by the people in the audience were very, very basic. Again, I agree. Our first step should be to figure out which of these very basic questions we should answer. I'm sure that will have a high impact. > When I showed Wikipedia to elderly people, it was not only Wikipedia and > Internet related stuff they did not know of. Basic computer skills are > missing, like drag and drop, copying text, open several windows. Will your > future how-to video provide also that, Frank? We should at least think about ways to make the how-to screencast tutorials as comprehensible as possible. Would you personally be interested to join the screencast team? Your participation is highly welcome! > The German she speaks at the end sound to me as if she were German. She's living in Berlin ;-) Thank you for your helpful comments which I appreciate as always. Frank _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
