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  • Wikipedia pins arranged into a W

    More Wikimedia documents!

    During the meet-up of Wikimedians from the San Francisco Bay Area last week-end, people were talking about the need for various kind of documents and goodies to hand out at the Maker Faire. I realized that we could actually organize some sort of Marketing Marathon during the next meet-up.

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  • IRC

    IRC office hours: Multimedia usability project

    I will be available on IRC to answer questions related to the Multimedia usability project this Thursday, February 4, 2010 @ 1700 UTC. Please join us in #wikimedia-office on Freenode

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  • Back in the game

    Back in the game

    The last couple of weeks have been quite busy for me. I moved from Toulouse, France, to San Francisco, California as a consequence of my hiring by the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit that runs Wikipedia) where I work as Product Manager for Multimedia Usability. I...

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  • usability interview

    Help us collect good ideas to improve Wikimedia Commons

    As part of the Wikimedia Multimedia Usability project, we are currently doing what is called "Domain research". Basically, it means that we look at how similar websites work and how they deal with the same issues we encounter. Since our goal is to make Wikimedia Commons more usable, we want to look at other media sharing platforms, such as Flickr, Youtube, Fotopedia, Picasa web, Panoramio, etc. I would like to ask for your help to accomplish this research.

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  • Close-up on a green Japanese Cast Iron Tea Kettle

    UX & IxD news – 23 November 2009

    For a few months now, I have been maintaining a newsletter on my weblog in French called "Actualités Wikimedia"; it consists typically of very short stories and links about happenings in the Wikimedia universe that I find noteworthy. I also follow RSS feeds related to User experience (UX), Interaction design (IxD) and Usability in general. With my new job, it makes sense to pick a few interesting pieces of information for Wikimedians who want to better understand the work of the Wikimedia usability team(s).

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