Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread Brandon Harris
nsure that it has been localized to their language as well as determining any other configuration elements (for example, WikiLove requires a localized configuration file). -b. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundatio

Re: [Foundation-l] Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Brandon Harris
M, WereSpielChequers wrote: Hi Brandon, thanks for the explanation, but wouldn't it be easier to just analyse edit summaries? If you edit by section the edit summary defaults to start with the section heading... Were SpielChequers Message: 7 Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:51:49 -0800 From: Brando

Re: [Foundation-l] Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Brandon Harris
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Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-22 Thread Brandon Harris
On 1/22/12 7:32 PM, Theo10011 wrote: P.S. Hi Jorm, whatcha think? ;) I think that trying to school Mike Godwin on Citizens United and IP Law is colossally bad idea. But entertaining. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http

Re: [Foundation-l] A fundraiser for editors

2012-01-03 Thread Brandon Harris
ly working on FBD responses; we think it might be useful to explore its effects on the quality of our help pages, for instance, or even possibly revisions themselves. Of course, the feature may not actually work at all or have so little impact as to be negligible. -- Brandon Harris,

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising update

2011-12-01 Thread Brandon Harris
On 11/30/11 6:11 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > There was a brief outage due to that page, Nathan, a few days ago. > (Because of Brandon Harris's AMA on Reddit.) Sorry about that. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Know

Re: [Foundation-l] Community consensus for software changes (Re: Show community consensus for Wikilove)

2011-10-31 Thread Brandon Harris
can read them here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove#Requests_for_Additional_Deployment -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list fou

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-10-30 Thread Brandon Harris
user talk page. I would say that the > appropriately named Help link at the left of every page is more likely > to be used for this. I would not wish that "help" system to be used by my worst enemies. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Kn

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-10-30 Thread Brandon Harris
no talk page button*. There's a "Discussion" tab. So when someone says "Hey, just leave me a message on my talk page and I'll help you out!" that means. . . nothing.) -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimedi

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-10-29 Thread Brandon Harris
preferable to new users. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Brandon Harris
ave not heard of this. Is there a bug report I can look to? Or if you know of a wiki where this is the case, I can do a search. Thanks! -b. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Banner ads in sitenotice

2010-08-02 Thread Brandon Harris
On 8/2/2010 6:12 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > A lot of the complaints I heard regarding the Vector rollout were based in > the fact that the Wikimedia Usability team has subverted and bastardized the > term "usability" in an attempt to impose purely aesthetic choices on the > broader community.

Re: [Foundation-l] Did you say "usability" ?

2010-06-15 Thread Brandon Harris
On 6/15/10 12:17 AM, Teofilo wrote: > I finally found out how to log out, and I sometimes use different web > browsers, but it is difficult to say this is a nice experience. > Hello! As I'm certain you know, the testing of all browser/operating system/resolution/language combi