[WikiEN-l] Upcoming Changes to the User Interface

2010-05-08 Thread Howie Fung
Everyone, As many of you already know, the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience team has been running a beta program focused on improving the user interface for over six months now. More details may be found here http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Usability_Initiative [a], but

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged protection and patrolled revisions

2010-05-08 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com wrote: How about this. No message on the edit page itself. When they save the edit, they're redirected to the draft page of that article, with a message at the top saying something

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Ramping up the Flagged Revs trial

2010-05-08 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi folks, As we've gotten down to brass tacks in planning the deployment of Flagged Revisions on en.wikipedia.org, it's become obvious that we'll probably need to limit the number of articles put under Flagged Protection at first. A couple of reasons for doing this: a) Performance - we know

Re: [WikiEN-l] Upcoming Changes to the User Interface

2010-05-08 Thread James Alexander
I know this was discussed a little while ago but do we have anything set up in the way of global notices etc? Obviously a large portion of our userbase (especially readers) don't see the mailing lists and we probably want to warn them and give them some subtle pokes to learn about some of the new

Re: [WikiEN-l] Upcoming Changes to the User Interface

2010-05-08 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:01 PM, James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com wrote: I know this was discussed a little while ago but do we have anything set up in the way of global notices etc? Obviously a large portion of our userbase (especially readers) don't see the mailing lists and we probably

Re: [WikiEN-l] Upcoming Changes to the User Interface

2010-05-08 Thread AGK
I want the vector skin but not the new toolbar. (I prefer to do my wikimarkup by hand.) Is there a way to use the new interface but the old edit box? AGK ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Upcoming Changes to the User Interface

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:34 AM, AGK wiki...@googlemail.com wrote: I want the vector skin but not the new toolbar. (I prefer to do my wikimarkup by hand.) Is there a way to use the new interface but the old edit box? Everything should be customizable from Special:Preferences. See Editing =