[Wikimedia-l] Что делает тебя счастливый на этой неде́ле / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 7 July 2019)

[Pine W]

This past weekend I took time offline to go bicycling
, including bicycling on part
of the Burke-Gilman
Trail . There are photos
of the trail and surrounding scenery on Commons
, and there
is also a Wikidata item for the trail
.

I think that time offline for reflection was good. I had in-person
conversations that helped me to process recent events on English Wikipedia.

This recent Picture of the Day on Commons

appeals to me. Quoting from the file description page: "Sunrise on the Sea
of Japan . The two islands
visible from distance are Sibiryakov Island (right)
 and
Antipenko Island (left). The photo was taken south of Slavyanka
, Khasansky
District of Primorsky Krai, Russia."

What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
language.

Any corrections to the Russian translation of this email's subject line
would be appreciated.

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] An updated design for the Wikimedia Foundation website

[Thomas Townsend]

Andy

> What kind of accessibility audit was undertaken on the new design?

You might like to look at Phabricator ticket T6845 concerning an
accessibility issue dating back to 2006 which remains unresolved.

The Turnip

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] An updated design for the Wikimedia Foundation website

[Paulo Santos Perneta]

Hey Greg,

Looks way nicer than the previous version. The thing always moving may be a
little bit annoying after some time, maybe it could have a stop button, and
it would be nice if we could slide it on our will. But the drawing is very
cool.

+1 to change the bright canary yellow box to a more discrete colour (like a
pale yellow, maybe).

Best,
Paulo



Gregory Varnum  escreveu no dia quarta, 10/07/2019
à(s) 02:32:

> Hello!
>
> Today, we are  thrilled to share an updated visual design style on the
> Wikimedia Foundation website (wikimediafoundation.org)!
>
> This updated design was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Product
> design team. We worked on feedback from Meta-Wiki, emails, Phabricator, and
> hundreds of conversations paired with user testing with people in the
> target audiences for the website. We are incredibly appreciative of the
> great care that team has taken in making strategic, data-led design
> decisions and really helping us amplify the website's ability to convey our
> story to people generally unfamiliar with Wikimedia.
>
> We have also expanded on the information about the website on its Meta-Wiki
> page,[1] and updated the public mirror of the code base to reflect the
> technical changes made to the site for this updated design.[2]
>
> Thank you to the now hundreds of people that have been involved in helping
> us build a website for the Foundation which we can be proud of!
> -greg & the Wikimedia Foundation Communication team
>
> = A bit more about the site =
>
> == How is the site doing? ==
>
> Since the site's soft launch in July 2018, traffic has continued to
> increase. There has also been a significant increase in donations collected
> via this website. Two key audiences, potential staff and partners, have
> shared positive feedback on the site’s content and organization, enabling
> them to find jobs and contact key teams respectively. Additionally, user
> testing has shown a positive response to the content and overall
> architecture of the site.
>
> == What brought us here ==
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation Communications department has been collecting
> feedback on the Foundation's website since late 2016 and beginning in
> early 2017 has been working on addressing the backlog of issues related to
> the website. The original Foundation site, launched in 2004, did not have a
> clear audience, and as a result was not effectively serving any of the
> hundreds of uses people saw for it. Maintaining the site's content beyond
> English had become a growing problem - leaving visitors with different
> information, depending on which language they were using, on basic details
> like our address and executive staff. Additionally, the site had over
> 17,000 pages - a vast majority of which were either out of date or no
> longer in use.
>
> In 2017-18, the Communications department ran a "Discovery" process to help
> inform our decision making. This process included reviews of methods used
> by other organizations, assessment of our current communication channels,
> collecting feedback at Wikimania, and interviews with dozens of volunteers,
> donors, contractors, and staff. The resulting report[3] and recommendations
> helped identify the objectives and audiences of the website,[1] and were
> utilized throughout the initial design and development of the new website.
>
> Shortly after the soft launch, the department began working with the
> Product department's design team to perform user testing, process feedback
> collected in the weeks following the soft launch, and collect additional
> feedback to help us make informed decisions. They helped us collect and
> process feedback from hundreds of individuals within and outside of the
> movement.
>
> Based on feedback, they conducted user testing and developed the updated
> design we deployed this morning. We will continue to use a data and
> feedback informed decision making in managing the site. Given the external
> audience nature of the site, it has consistently proven important to take
> the time to collect feedback and data from a wide variety of sources -
> including volunteers, press, donors, partner organizations, and readers of
> the projects.
>
> == What comes next ==
>
> More languages! The Communications department will continue to work on
> content development and expanding translations to additional languages. If
> you are interested in our plans for translations, please check out the
> information shared recently about the Organization communications
> translators group.[5]
>
> == Providing feedback ==
>
> The Communications department will continue to monitor the talk page for
> the Foundation's website on Meta-Wiki.[6] Additionally, I will be attending
> Wikimania in Stockholm and available to chat with folks.[7]
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_website
> [2] https://github.com/wikimedia/wikimediafoundation-org
> [3]
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1b/Wikimedia_Fo

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] July 17, 2019 at 11:30 AM PDT, 18:30 UTC

[Janna Layton]

Hi all,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, July 17,
at 11:30 AM PDT/18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9vvwV5KfW4

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase

This month's presentations:

Characterizing Incivility on Wikipedia

Elizabeth Whittaker, University of Michigan School of Information

In a society whose citizens have a variety of viewpoints, there is a
question of how citizens can govern themselves in ways that allow these
viewpoints to co-exist. Online deliberation has been posited as a problem
solving mechanism in this context, and civility can be thought of as a
mechanism that facilitates this deliberation. Civility can thus be thought
of as a method of interaction that encourages collaboration, while
incivility disrupts collaboration. However, it is important to note that
the nature of online civility is shaped by its history and the technical
architecture scaffolding it. Civility as a concept has been used both to
promote equal deliberation and to exclude the marginalized from
deliberation, so we should be careful to ensure that our conceptualizations
of incivility reflect what we intend them to in order to avoid
unintentionally reinforcing inequality.

To this end, we examined Wikipedia editors’ perceptions of interactions
that disrupt collaboration through 15 semi-structured interviews. Wikipedia
is a highly deliberative platform, as editors need to reach consensus about
what will appear on the article page, a process that often involves
deliberation to coordinate, and any disruption to this process should be
apparent. We found that incivility on Wikipedia typically occurs in one of
three ways: through weaponization of Wikipedia’s policies, weaponization of
Wikipedia’s technical features, and through more typical vitriolic content.
These methods of incivility were gendered, and had the practical effect of
discouraging women from editing. We implicate this pattern as one of the
underlying causes of Wikipedia’s gender gap.

Hidden Gems in the Wikipedia Discussions: The Wikipedians’ Rationales

Lu Xiao, Syracuse University School of Information Studies

I will present a series of completed and ongoing studies that are aimed at
understanding the role of the Wikipedians’ rationales in Wikipedia
discussions. We define a rationale as one’s justification of her viewpoint
and suggestions. Our studies demonstrate the potential of leveraging the
Wikipedians’ rationales in discussions as resources for future
decision-making and as resources for eliciting knowledge about the
community’s norms, practices and policies. Viewed as rich digital traces in
these environments, we consider them to be beneficial for the community
members, such as helping newcomers familiarize themselves on the commonly
accepted justificatory reasoning styles. We call for more research
attention to the discussion content from this rationale study perspective.

-- 
Janna Layton (she, her)
Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

[Pine W]

I'm continuing to think about the WMF Board's handling of this matter, but
I am experiencing considerable difficulty with wording my comments in a way
that is diplomatic. Hopefully I'll have further comments to share here next
week. In the meantime, and perhaps of greater interest to other
participants in this mailing list thread:

* Discussion about related issues continues on English Wikipedia at [1
],
[2
],
[3 ], and
elsewhere.

* Arbcom has passed a related motion
,
and there is a related case that is under consideration but might be
declined
.
(Disclosure: I made a statement in the latter case, and also participated
in the related discussion at ANI).

* The English Wikipedia page that describes WMF Office actions
 has been changed
,
including being changed to communicate that it describes a WMF policy
 and not an English
Wikipedia community policy
. There
may be further changes to that page; some related discussion may be found
on the associated talk page
.

Regards,

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] An updated design for the Wikimedia Foundation website

[Gregory Varnum]

Hello Andy,

Thank you for raising this concern! We take accessibility very seriously and 
have worked specifically to improve accessibility with this designversion of 
website to the past version.

We performed two audits to compare and improve accessibility:


1. Google Lighthouse 

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/

a. Lighthouse checks if all ui components have aria-* attributes and all 
interactive elements have correct labelling for Screenreaders. 
b. Lighthouse also checks color contrast ratios for all elements on website and 
flags the ones that do not pass WCAG guidelines
c. It also checks for proper navigation methods throughout ordered and 
unordered lists

The new website scored 94/100 on Lighthouse Audit. It passed 18 tests and 
failed 2. 

There are 3 more fixes we need to do which we are planning to submit to bring 
that score to 100/100. Those involve modification to 3rd party extensions that 
are used on WordPress and thus taking a bit of time to get around. 


2. aXe 

https://www.deque.com/axe/

aXe is a testing tool to perform similar audit but can catch some other kinds 
of accessibility issues like page landmarks. 

The previous design had 146 accessibility issues with aXe audit and we brought 
that number down to 43 issues, most of which are WCAG contrast issues which are 
contextual because of line colors or ornamentation that is not essential to 
websites function. However, we are working to improve things to bring it down 
to 0. There are some known easy fixes for this too which we are working to 
deploy.


3. The new Firefox version released this week also has some interesting 
accessibility tests 

We plan to run those as well, it was just released on July 9th.


That was just the audits we performed, but you bring up a good point about 
autoscrolling element. We should definitely include the mechanism to pause/play 
the sliding mural so we pass that test. We will take this into our workboard 
and work towards fixing this.

Accessibility for us is a never ending effort and we always find ways to 
improve it wherever possible. We will keep track of these issues and fix them 
on priority.

- greg and Design team



> On Jul 10, 2019, at 1:59 AM, Andy Mabbett  wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 02:31, Gregory Varnum  wrote:
> 
>> Today, we are  thrilled to share an updated visual design style on the
>> Wikimedia Foundation website (wikimediafoundation.org)!
> 
> Thank you. This is a vast improvement on the previous design.
> 
> However, I'm troubled that there is a scrolling background image, and
> I cannot find a way to stop it moving. This is in breach of this WCAG
> 2 web accessibility guideline:
> 
>   https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/time-limits-pause.html
> 
> and, if that guideline is breached right on the home page, then I am
> concerned that insufficnt thought has been given to accessibility in
> general.
> 
> What kind of accessibility audit was undertaken on the new design?
> 
> -- 
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
> 
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