In nothing more then unscientific 'hand my laptop over to a friend, wait,
switch themes, wait, ask opinions', repeated with 11 guinea pigs (i mean
friends), it came out a wash. After 15 minutes in each theme, it was close
to a split. 7 said they preferred monobook, 4 vector. When asked to compare
v
It's a chicken and egg thing. The elections arent important so they dont
know about the candidates and they dont know about the candidates because
the elections not important.
-Brock
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 21 March 2011 09:49, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> > Even in
I agree with helping wikiprojects collaborate but couldn't disagree more
with making them more powerful or in charge of certain wikis. It seems like
at some point, anecdotally pegged as somewhere in early 2006 from those I've
discussed this with, we as a community stopped enculturating our new user
A second solution could be the return of the verification edit... I vaguely
recall needing to provide a diff with an edit summary stating 'I am xx on
whatever wiki'. Storing a link to that from meta keeps all needed
information on meta. The sticking point with the steward im discussing
becoming com
and provide
a simple 'somethings not right, fix it' red flag for a user that would
(presumably) be interested in making sure they get things right.
-Brock
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:18 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:54 PM, brock.wel...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
Indeed, you've hit the nail on the head. In the talkpage exchange I already
accepted this election is tallied. This is more about fixing the election
process now. Something as simple as using a bot to template all
non-qualified votes pointing to an easy to follow list of whats needed to
achieve tec
So I had an enormously unsatisfying experience in the recent steward
elections, and I'm hoping there might be some lessons learned from this
going forward. I don't spend much time on Meta, notwithstanding the fact
that im almost inexplicably mentioned at the top of the Live mirrors page
the only vi
