Category Archives: Wikimedia

The Universal Language Picker

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Guillaume Paumier

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

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Guillaume Paumier

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

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Guillaume Paumier

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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Wikimedia at KDE Akademy 2010

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Guillaume Paumier

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 →

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State of the language selection in MediaWiki and Wikipedia

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Guillaume Paumier

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 →

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