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Welcome to the Wikimedia Usability Initiative wiki. This wiki serves as a knowledge collective and collaboration space used by both the usability team and the community. Currently two projects are active: Wikipedia Usability Initiative and Multimedia Usability Project.
There is an IRC channel available for chat sessions (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia_usability) with public logs available here.
News
Text display problem in editing dialogues
From November 27th to November 30th, the text in editing dialogues for inserting links, creating tables and search&replace was displaying the code instead of actual text. The problem should be resolved. We apologize for inconvenience this problem might have caused.
Beta enhancements were released on November 18th
A star tab for watch/unwatch feature, cascading tabs for lower resolution screens and enhanced toolbar icons will be released on November 18th to enhance the current beta. Read more about the beta enhancements.
Babaco is ready for testing
The second usability release, Babaco, is now released to all Wikipedia and Wikimedia's sister projects. Navigable outline allows you to jump to the section you want to visit without scrolling and the outlines are updated as you updated the headers. Dialogues for links and tables assist you to find links easily and define the size of tables without dealing with wikisyntax. You can enable these features from your preferences under "Experimental Features" in "Editing" tab in preferences. Let us know what you think. More about Babaco is found on the blog.
Second Usability Study in San Francisco
The second usability study took place in San Francisco on October 14th and 15th. The full report is under development here.
Wikimedia Foundation's "backstage" projects
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Meta-wiki Community coordination |
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Wikimedia Strategy Wikimedia Strategis planning |
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Wikimedia Outreach Wikimedia Outreach wiki |
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MediaWiki MediaWiki software coordination |
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Bugzilla A bug tracker for MediaWiki |
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Incubator For potential new language versions |
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Toolserver Wikimedia Toolserver |
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Wikimedia Mailservices Wikimedia Mailing Lists |
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Wikitech Wikimedia technical documentation |
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Wikimania The International Conferences |
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Test Wikipedia For testing software changes |
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Wikimedia Surveys Wikimedia surveys website |
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Wikistats Wikimedia Statistics |
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Wikimedia Laboratories Developing new extensions and features |
