This is actually a good point in general. There are the average users,
who are important and then some, but there are always other use cases
too. Even if we can't reasonably support them, they're still there and
still merit considering, if nothing else, and without stories like these
we'd proba
Thank you for sharing this. I could not attend that session, and this was
an interesting read. I would be happy to advise on some of the proposed
ideas if there are people interested in leading them.
A.
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:04 AM, David Cuenca Tudela
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have writ
News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-05-27/News_and_notes
In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-05-27/In_
Hi folks,
Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog:
* What we learned from the Inspire campaign to increase gender diversity on
Wikimedia
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/28/what-we-learned-from-the-inspire-campaign/
* A translation rally invites volunteers to loca
Thanks for sending this, Phoebe. Very relevant and interesting.
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:59 AM, phoebe ayers
wrote:
> This feature on multilingualism online and the digital language divide
> from the Guardian is thought-provoking:
> http://labs.theguardian.com/digital-language-divide/
>
> It s
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
> [...]
> The first lesson learned is that blind (or almost blind) people use always
> a software of speech synthesis with a speed that makes the audio
> almost unintelligible
> for not experienced people. The operating system provides sever
For those who are interested, this is the American Sign Language Wikipedia
on Incubator:
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase
Sign languages are indeed real languages, and for example American Sign
Language is unrelated to English or even British Sign Language (in fact,
it's closest to Fre
Hi all,
We've published a report and blog post sharing some more findings from our
recent Inspire campaign:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/28/what-we-learned-from-the-inspire-campaign/
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Spring_2015_Inspire_campaign
As always, your thoughts are welcome (pr
This feature on multilingualism online and the digital language divide
from the Guardian is thought-provoking:
http://labs.theguardian.com/digital-language-divide/
It summarizes a bunch of recent research on language online, including
the work from the Oxford Internet Institute on Wikipedia.
-- P
Hi I should have sent an update to the list, sorry. The bug was already
filed by The DJ here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75734
I guess you can merge these two together somehow? I am surprised there is
no simple work-around.
Thanks for looking!
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Nick Wilson
Thanks Jane,
I've filed a bug at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100818 and I will
ask a few people to take a look.
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Jane Darnell wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have to login to Wikimedia projects every single time I begin a session
> on my iPad1 now because I
You mean these persons suggested to remove the catches?
Rupert
On May 28, 2015 11:58 AM, "Ilario Valdelli" wrote:
> Sorry if I continue this discussion of January but it may be interesting to
> share my experience had yesterday because I attended to a presentation of a
> young programmer sufferi
My blind mom drives me and my brothers crazy by asking us to read her
Wikipedia articles after she has listened to some book-on-tape or radio
show. It would be great if she could speak the title of the article and
have the article read back to her. If we ignore her, she takes revenge by
turning on
perhaps you're right. But keep in mind that the FDC has been set up
specifically as a committee advising the Board in this specific area, and
is composed of people with particular competence in finance, grants, etc.
Whichever body is chosen though, a longer feedback/comment period is
necessary.
be
Thanks for the initiative!
Micru
El vie., 29 de may. de 2015 8:53, Hasive Chowdhury
escribió:
> Just complete the survey. Nice initiative.
>
>
> -Hasive
> WMBD
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Andy Mabbett
> wrote:
>
> > On 28 May 2015 at 20:57, Fabrice Florin wrote:
> >
> > > If so, we’d
On 24 January 2015 at 22:21, James Heilman wrote:
> Why don't we have a "Listen" button beside our read button that when
> clicked will read the article for the person in question?
Such functionality belongs in the browser, not the web page. So long
as we use valid and accessible markup, the use
Yes I agree that well educated, young and technical blind people from
the developed world have found better solutions for using the internet
that we could produce with a listen button.
I see this more for 1) people who do not read because they do not know
how 2) people who are blind but not techni
Dear all,
I have written a short piece on the WMCON and some interesting aspects
about the organizational future of User Groups.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ew8cVJhqqenGUAVVaTQqkisyPyd1tSX-zbVfi-Uuo8U/edit?usp=sharing
Cheers,
Micru
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