Author Archives: guillaume

Customizing the WordPress meta widget

How to customize the standard WordPress meta widget to add or remove stuff. Continue reading

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Service announcement

This site has been dormant for the past year or so. Because I’m currently working on a new version, I was reluctant to spend a lot of time to fix this one. The downside is that I couldn’t really post … Continue reading

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Wikimedia Commons gets user galleries

A long-awaited feature added by volunteer developer Bryan Tong Minh. Continue reading

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Wikimania 2010 notes

My notes from Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk Continue reading

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Wikimedia Commons licensing tutorial: the making-of

A behind-the-scenes tour of the project. Continue reading

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Meetingitis

Why you should prepare your next meeting if you expect me to attend. Continue reading

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One-click reuse buttons on Wikimedia Commons

Reusing media files from Wikimedia Commons just got a lot easier, thanks to volunteer Magnus Manske. Continue reading

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The Universal Language Picker

Have you ever had a hard time finding your language in a web interface? The Universal language picker aims to solve this problem by accepting any valid input from the user and associating it with the language value stored in the software. Continue reading

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WikiSym 2010

Three weeks ago, I attended the WikiSym conference, an academic symposium about wikis & open collaboration. Its collocation with Wikimania, a community event, was a great opportunity for researchers and Wikimedians to meet, build understanding and collaborate. Continue reading

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Wikimedia Multimedia UX testing videos

Over the past few months, I’ve been coordinating the preparation of a formal User experience (UX) study for the Multimedia usability project. Basically, it means observing how “real” users interact with the Wikimedia Commons in order to improve it. Videos of the testing have now been published in order to share them with the community. Continue reading

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