[copy of my reply on the original list]
I've considered it; and decided not to.
For one thing, when a new user sees a diff, either via a link on a
talk page, an article's history, a user's contributions, or their own
watchlist they are exposed to Wikicode, and so need a basic
understanding of
On 30 July 2015 at 14:43, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
I've been doing this in Israel for a while already. (In Hebrew! From right
to left! Thanks to User:Mooeypoo [cced], she is awesome!)
It's pretty successful.
Yes, I recall a blog post explaining bidirectional and
Hoi,
was happy to learn that we made progress. Now I learn that there is always
another rationalisation why it is not good enough for me and for newbies.
I am past the phase of it is not good enough for me and I stopped editing
Wikipedia. Just a thought to reconsider assumptions.
Thanks,
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From: WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com
Date: 30 July 2015 at 12:57
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] visual Editor is now worth using in outreach editathons
To:
If anyone is still running outreach editathons to try and recruit new
editors, you might
Yes, I recall a blog post explaining bidirectional and mixed-script
issues, and that basically VE would have to become the first
mixed-script editor to be any good at all at handling this stuff :-)
So, how usable is it for you mixing up RTL and LTR?
Until summer 2013 it was totally unusable
We (in Amical) always try to teach editing using the visual editor, it's
much easier for newbies, especially for older (+40) people or non-techies.
Obviously we also mention that other tab which leads to some weird code
but we almost never dig into it, it's not necessary for them to know
wikicode
Hello
Same experience in France: workshops/editathons are VE oriented, because VE
is easier to grasp. We also introduce wikitext, but without details. We
have experienced withshops with only wikitext or both technologies, but
they were less successful than VE-only workshops (people are afraid of
I would be interested to see the example of Flickr2Commons-uploaded images
which marked license as CCLv3. AFAIK, all images I had to review had
proper CCLv2 template, or it was... (one of the below)
- Copyvio
- Human error (mistake of user)
- It was licensed under NC or ND in fact.
I haven't been
Hi all,
please find the Wikimedia Foundation's report for the fourth quarter
of the past fiscal year at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Quarterly_Report,_FY_2014-15_Q4_(April-June).pdf
.
Quoting below the foreword by Terry:
We are pleased to bring you the Wikimedia
Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on
Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel
is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be
broadcast as a live YouTube stream.
Each month at the metrics meeting, we will:
*
Dear Wikimedia friends and partners,
We have just published our FDC progress report for the first half of
2015. It’s a quite lengthy document, so I would like to highlight some
shared learning for the Free Knowledge movement that we present in
this report.
Strongly seconded.
This makes copyedits and typo correction - the first step of editing - 15
seconds rather than 150.
(It could be much faster still if the edit summary process weren't so
elaborate :) just let anyone doubleclick to edit a single word, and
autosave it as a minor edit without
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