Re: [Foundation-l] Can it get any worse?

On 10/04/11 22:47, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > Of course. No doubt about it. We have now reached a level beyond > personal attacks. Now my name is used as a thread. So much for "focus > on the comment, not the person making the comment." > > Will I ever address the comments made? As sure as day

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28026 which could probably be fixed without too much effort. Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundatio

[Foundation-l] HOWTO turn your scholarly journal into an open access journal

This is not directly relevant to WMF projects, but it's of great importance in helping the free content world along. http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/13/howto-turn-your-scho.html http://repository.alt.ac.uk/887/ Is there anything we can do to push this along?e.g. Would a blog post be apposite?

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > We have a range of ideas about how e-mail could be used for > retention/engagement Here's one more for the idea pile... If the operations reasons for not mass-enabling email notifications can't be overcome (or even if they can be), somethin

Re: [Foundation-l] Dynamics of Online Interactions and Behavior

Hi everyone! Thanks for your interest in our Harvard – Sciences Po study! I just wanted to jump in and add a few comments to Steven's answer. As Steven has rightly pointed out, we are currently conducting a quite large scale research project on the dynamics of online interactions and behavior, a

Re: [Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

On 19/04/11 19:38, Milos Rancic wrote: > MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email > from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code. > > The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted > emails with some more information (for exam

Re: [Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

On 19 April 2011 11:59, Chris Keating wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > > > MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email > > from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code. > > > > The first idea was that it would be better t

Re: [Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email > from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code. > > The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted > emails with some more infor

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

"Oh gods yes. +1 Ja ja D'accord" FT2 On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > >> it's just not enabled on > >> larger sites such as the English Wikipedia. It's being tracked by bug > >> . > > This is definitely needed.

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF privacy policy & a third party web clone of et.wikipedia.org

Raul Kern, 19/04/2011 08:25: > an unknown third party has made a web proxy of Estonian Wikipedia > at his webaddress (let's not promote this address here any futher, but > You can guess it -- it's in form of > www."popularwebencyclopedianame".ee ). At least they aren't adding any banner, as happen

[Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code. The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted emails with some more information (for example, I would like to see diff inside of my email

[Foundation-l] [wiki loves monuments] Voting has opened for Wiki Loves Monuments logo contest!

[xpost foundation-l/commons-l] Hello all, By now surely you have heard of Wiki Loves Monuments, an event destined to populate Wikimedia Commons with photos of listed monuments across the world. As advertised some time ago, a logo contest has been launched to find a great logo for Wiki Loves Monum

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

>> it's just not enabled on >> larger sites such as the English Wikipedia. It's being tracked by bug >> . This is definitely needed. (I remember the debates about implementing this at all when it was first under development; I am quite glad tha

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF privacy policy & a third party web clone of et.wikipedia.org

> Hi, > > an unknown third party has made a web proxy of Estonian Wikipedia > at his webaddress (let's not promote this address here any futher, but > You can guess it -- it's in form of > www."popularwebencyclopedianame".ee ). > > His web clone looks just like real Wikipedia site. How can an > unk

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

Erik Moeller wrote: > 2011/4/18 MZMcBride : >> Even on some Wikimedia wikis, it's the e-mail notifications that get me to >> go back to the site. I only ever visit strategy.wikimedia.org when someone >> edits my talk page, as it triggers an e-mail notification to me. The smaller >> sites have had t

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011/4/18 MZMcBride : > Even on some Wikimedia wikis, it's the e-mail notifications that get me to > go back to the site. I only ever visit strategy.wikimedia.org when someone > edits my talk page, as it triggers an e-mail notification to me. The smaller > sites have had these types of notification

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

On 19 April 2011 07:55, MZMcBride wrote: > There's been a lot of talk about getting new editors and keeping them. I > would think something like working e-mail notifications would be a high > priority. There are plenty of features and enhancements that could improve > the user experience and user