[WikiEducator] Improving usability -- a new skin for WIkiEducator?

2010-03-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Everyone, To paraphrase Newton: If [WE] have seen [any] further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. The Wikipedia Usability Team have been doing amazing work relating to improving the user experience of wiki editors. ( http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). This is an

[WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Improving usability -- a new skin for WIkiEducator?

2010-03-11 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Wayne, Gee - I really like it too -and with the new skin, comes the OO converter. http://wikieducator.org/Special:OOoConverter - Randy On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, To paraphrase Newton: If [WE] have seen [any] further

[WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Improving usability -- a new skin for WIkiEducator?

2010-03-11 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:07, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Gee - I really like it too -and with the new skin, comes the OO converter. http://wikieducator.org/Special:OOoConverter The OpenOffice.org document converter is a bit of cleverness being tried by Catalyst's Piers Harding

[WikiEducator] Re: Editing WikiEducator pages

2010-03-11 Thread Alan
Hi Jorge and others, I have also had to use the CAPTCHA box but not when adding an external link. When I have created an new page I am required to enter the words to proceed. Not that I have taken note of the operations of this but it did appear to me that it was inconsistent when editing pages.