For those of you with a taste for a bit of GLAM in your life, you might
enjoy this 50+ page presentation of the 2030 strategic plan for Victorian
Public Libraries
http://www.plvn.net.au/sites/default/files/20130527%20FINAL%20VPL2030%20Full
%20Report_web.pdf
or you can settle for my quick su
I've been curious about it, but hadn't tried it before now. I kind-of wish
I hadn't. I took a basic article and tried to do a couple of things that a
typical new editor would try.
First, I tried adding a reference to a web page for an unsourced claim.
This is particularly important to me, as I was
The team working on the VE needs this feedback and is asking for it.
Can we collate it and send it to them?
Whiteghost.ink
On 3 July 2013 18:19, Adam Jenkins wrote:
> I've been curious about it, but hadn't tried it before now. I kind-of wish
> I hadn't. I took a basic article and tried to do a
Good idea: but post it on-wiki?
Tony
On 03/07/2013, at 7:04 PM, G. White wrote:
> The team working on the VE needs this feedback and is asking for it.
> Can we collate it and send it to them?
>
> Whiteghost.ink
>
>
> On 3 July 2013 18:19, Adam Jenkins wrote:
> I've been curious about it,
Thanks Kerry,
I'm keen to respond in any way you thought appropriate if it meant
realising this potential. I'm based on Melbourne at the moment, happy to
run workshops, especially regional Victoria.
On 03/07/2013 5:51 PM, "Kerry Raymond" wrote:
> ** **
>
> For those of you with a taste for a bit
My short opinion is that it's promising, but it clearly needs work. It is
not ready for a global go-live yet, but its deployment seems to be driven
by considerations other than whether it's ready for Production use.
The good: From my work at outreach workshops, this is by a long shot the #1
reque
I disagree that it is good for basic editing tasks, unless those tasks are
the simple addition of text without references, templates or media. The
problem is that it feels like an editor designed for everyone - it should
have been designed with two modes, not one. One for beginner users, with
simpl
My current beef is that proper section editing is *never* going to be
implemented by the WMF because they "cannot justify using donor funds".
The status quo is that when you ask to edit one section only, it loads up
the entire page, and just locates you in the vicinity of the top of the
section you
For myself (not a committee position or anything), I would like to see us
roll out a general 1-hour presentation about Wikipedia for the public. So,
not edit training, just stuff like stats about it, how its funded, how it
operates, how vandalism is managed, what WMAU does, etc. I'd probably throw
Most of my issues with the Visual Editor (as an experienced markup,
cite, and general template editor) have already been mentioned, but I
should mention I found (admittedly only for one of my first edits a
couple of weeks ago) that the Visual Editor touched many other
templates (IIRC it modified da
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