Hoi,
When we recognise that an editor has different needs we should provide
editors with different tools. Readers in turn do not need all the tools of
editors but we do want to convert them to editors. It does not follow that
they will be enticed to become one by all the clutter.
The objective is therefore to invite them in a less cluttered way and give
them the option to enable the "clutter" an editor needs. This can be done
in different ways.. It just takes the recognition what it is we want and
need and that one size fits all is plain stupid.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 31 March 2016 at 16:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequ...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I don't know about the WMF's position re Wikiwand, but I see Wikiwand as a
> more reader friendly way to view Wikipedia. We have far more readers than
> editors so in some sense this is a good thing. I can understand a reader
> being more interested in seeing the table of contents in the left hand
> margin than a bunch of links to "recent changes" and even "what links
> here". But the more you hide the various functions that are of interest to
> editors the more difficult it becomes to recruit editors from amongst our
> readership, and in the long run without new editors we can't maintain the
> site. Despite many attempts we don't yet have a viable alternative way of
> recruiting new editors other than the edit buttons on our sites, so any
> attempt to make the editing features less obvious is a threat to our future
>
> The problem is that most designers don't like clutter, and to a non editor
> many of the bits of the interface that are most useful to editors are
> clutter. I'm not sure what the solution is to this. One possibility would
> be a more gradualised interface, one that always shows you one or more
> editing options than you have used, and ideally different ones or in
> different form so you notice them. I seem to remember some successful tests
> a while back that simply modified the edit button to make it more prominent
> or even just different. In theory simply changing the edit button to so
> that for a month IPs see it as "fix this" or "correct an error" should
> stop people mentally blanking the edit button out as part of the furniture.
>
> We also have a problem that some of our metrics value visits to Wikimedia
> sites above viewing Wikimedia content on mirrors such as WikiWand. We've
> had a similar problem in the GLAM program trying to convince museums etc
> that such a view is illogical and if your mission is to make content
> available to all humanity you should value hits to your content on mirrors
> equally to hits to that same content on your own website. Hopefully it is
> just a historic problem that will recede as it becomes easier to get
> metrics that include mirrors, but it is a barrier that prevents some GLAMS
> from sharing media onto Wikimedia Commons and hugely ironic that we have
> the problem ourselves in our own metrics.
>
>
> Jonathan / WereSpielChequers
>
>
>
>
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:39:46 +0200
> > From: Anders Wennersten <m...@anderswennersten.se>
> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiwand
> > Message-ID: <56fcc632.2090...@anderswennersten.se>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
> >
> > What is WMFs position on Wikiwand [1]?
> >
> > is it a complement or a commercial run interface that is better that we
> > can offer?
> >
> > Anders
> >
> > [1] http://www.wikiwand.com/about
> >
> >
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