Hi Wayne & Patricia I just tested & everything I checked worked fine. I am using Chrome. Warm wishes Gita Mathur
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Patricia Schlicht <[email protected]> wrote: > Non of the suggested ones (;-))) > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Wayne Mackintosh > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Patricia, >> >> Appreciate the feedback and testing -- thanks. Not sure why the video >> justification did not work first time round --- but as you say, seems to be >> working now. >> >> What browser did you use for testing (IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome?) >> >> Cheers >> Wayne >> >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Patricia Schlicht >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Wayne >>> >>> I followed the steps and found that after some initial hickups, this >>> works fine. I couldn't find anything that didn't resolve when I retried it >>> again and repeated the steps. Initially the intro video became off center, >>> so I went back, switching from Monobook to Vector Skin and reversed, to see >>> if the problem would reoccur, it didn't. Seems fine to me so far. >>> Cheers, >>> Patricia >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Wayne Mackintosh >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Everyone, >>>> >>>> For some time we've been thinking about changing the default skin (the >>>> look and feel of the WikiEducator site - see: >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin). >>>> >>>> The Wikimedia Foundation have conducted extensive usability research >>>> resulting in the development of the new "Vector" skin. The Vector skin has >>>> removed much of the clutter of the standard Monobook skin (the current >>>> default skin you see on WikiEducator.) You've gotta love the open source >>>> model -- together we all benefit from collaborative improvements. >>>> >>>> You can preview the new Vector skin by: >>>> >>>> Visiting the Wikipedia website (unless you log in to Wikipedia and have >>>> another skin as your default) >>>> Changing your preferences to use the Vector skin in WikiEducator (see >>>> below). >>>> >>>> In practice this decision will mean that the default skin will change to >>>> the Vector skin. (This will not effect the user preferences of existing >>>> users who prefer to use a different skin.) >>>> >>>> How you can help >>>> >>>> Over the next two weeks, we request that users (especially our advanced >>>> editors) test the new Vector skin and let us know by return post to this >>>> list if you're experience any problems. Instructions for changing the skin >>>> are provided below. >>>> We will need a little help to revise any screenshots based on the old >>>> skin. Please let me know if you can help out with changing the existing >>>> screenshots. >>>> >>>> Assuming there are no major objections or problems resulting from out >>>> test period above, I propose that we change our default skin on >>>> WikiEducator >>>> to Vector. >>>> >>>> How to change your skin and assist with testing >>>> >>>> Login to WikiEducator >>>> Go to "My preferences" >>>> Click on the Skin tab >>>> Select the "Vector" option >>>> Click on Save. >>>> >>>> I think the new skin will have considerable benefits for newbies joining >>>> our project. >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Wayne >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. >>>> Director OER Foundation >>>> Director, International Centre for Open Education, >>>> Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. >>>> Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator >>>> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 >>>> Skype: WGMNZ1 >>>> Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >>>> To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org >>>> To visit the discussion forum: >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >>> To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org >>> To visit the discussion forum: >>> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. >> Director OER Foundation >> Director, International Centre for Open Education, >> Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. >> Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator >> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 >> Skype: WGMNZ1 >> Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >> To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org >> To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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