On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote:
> (Spun off the Advertising changes to MediaWiki messages in core.) > > 2012/12/4 S Page <[email protected]>: > > I wrote a little script last night to check for the existence of the > > old and new messages, and it seems there are 205 wikis that did > > override welcomecreation (!!?), so ideally someone should find the > > [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki messages]] or [[Village pump (technical)]] page > > for those 205 wikis, or otherwise contact their admins. The list of > > wiki messages is at > > < > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:S_Page_%28WMF%29/welcomecreation_messages > > > > This made me feel very \o/. > > Research about current customizations of messages on projects is > probably the number one thing that I'd like to see happen in the > Wikimedia dev community. > > These customizations didn't go through the thorough user testing > process of the kind that your team does, but they are nevertheless a > wonderful source for ideas for improvements that can be useful for any > language, and for identifying things that communities need and the > software doesn't provide out of the box. > > > I'm curious if any of those 205 wikis are doing inventive "Welcome > > aboard, now read a tutorial/say hi/fix a page/play in the sandbox" > > things. It's an area our team (Editor Engagement Experiments) cares > > about. > > In the languages that I know (Hebrew, Russian, Catalan) - yes, mostly. > > The most inventive is probably the Hebrew Wikipedia ( > https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcomecreation ), which has a > lot of graphics. It has three big buttons: > 1."writing style tutorial for beginners" (equivalent of Wikipedia:Tutorial) > 2. "adopt-a-user" (equiv. of Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user or Teahouse) / > "Help Desk" (equiv. of Wikipedia:Help desk) > 3. Special:Preferences > > Most customized welcome pages say a few words that are specific to the > project, such as "Welcome to the Russian Wikiversity. Sign up to your > school." > > One message was just a punctuation correction that was made to its > primitive 2005 version. Things like this happen a lot, too. > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > Interesting. Yeah, I clearly need to set up a global notification for the relevant projects. :) Steven _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
