Hoi,<br>There is some documentation from the sessions on the Usability Wiki. They are notes taken at the sessions. They reflect what was said but not necessarily gives a good impression on the thinking behind it.<br><br>What we agreed on in Paris is that some administrators effectively prevent new users learning how to become Wikimedians. Some say they are a self selecting group of assholes that (may) mean well... By introducing technology that makes it easy to be friendly, we hope that many admins prove not to be assholes. Particularly for Commons there is a need to help people out. Commons is a multi lingual project and it is not easy at all to understand or appreciate the wall of information that is expected to be understood the first time around when you speak English. People who do not speak English do not stand a chance and, this has to be made easier.<br>

Thanks,<br>     GerardM<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/9 Eusebius <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:wikipedia@eusebius.fr">wikipedia@eusebius.fr</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">




  
  

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Hi Gerard, thanks for your report,<div class="im"><br>
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    <li>there is now global usage for images from within MediaWiki
itself.. so no need for using the toolserver... The process of
gathering all the necessary data may now have ended..</li>
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I hadn&#39;t seen that, that&#39;s nice. Results seem to be incomplete, though,
is it working only on a subset of the servers?
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    <li>the workflow of uploads will be reconsidered; this means that a
&quot;working area&quot; will exists where pictures can have a temporary home.
This will allow to upload a batch of images and tag them all with
shared attributes.. It will also allow for the checking of known issues
BEFORE they go live</li>
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I am much interested in that point and the subjects related to this
planned modification of the workflow, where can we find more
information about that?<div class="im"><br>
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    <li>This working or staging area would also exist for GLAMs or
competitions</li>
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What&#39;s GLAM again?
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    <li>Social networking tools help us support newbies, resolve issues
in a quiet way.</li>
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What do you mean? Any specific details available anywhere?<br>
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Thanks again<br>
Eusebius<br>
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