Welcome
I am a French physicist, photographer & Wikimedian, currently living in Toulouse, France, where I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia.
Read more.Elsewhere
See also
-
Recent articles
Journal de Guillaume PaumierMeta
Category Archives: Wikimedia
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
Posted in Featured, Wikimedia Technology
Tagged language, multilingualism, universal language picker
8 Comments
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
Posted in Featured, Wikimedia
Tagged academics, ACM, conference, free knowledge, Gdańsk, open access, open collaboration, WikiSym
6 Comments
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
Posted in Featured, Multimedia Usability
Tagged gotomedia, IxD, testing, upload wizard, usability, user-centered design, UX, video, Wikimedia Commons
4 Comments
Wikimedia at KDE Akademy 2010
Three weeks ago, I attended the KDE Akademy 2010 conference in Tampere, Finland. Beside the talk Parul and I gave to share experience about User experience, I also took this opportunity to meet with the KDE community and discuss collaboration opportunities. Continue reading
State of the language selection in MediaWiki and Wikipedia
This article is meant as an introduction to my next article, about language selectors, which is the one I originally intended to write. As it was growing longer and longer, I decided to split this review into a dedicated post. There are two main use cases for language selection across Wikimedia projects: the language of the content, and the language of the interface. In this article, I am reviewing a few examples of tools related to language selection on MediaWiki websites, and particularly on Wikimedia wikis. Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Wikimedia Technology
Tagged language, language selection, MediaWiki, multilingualism
4 Comments
Photo gallery
Journal en français