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Bonjour Dodoïste! You asked me for some help in hope that I might be bilingual, mais alors, je ne suis pas. I can carry on a simple conversation (and my French accent is fairly good!), but I'm not able to translate. Regarding the "flagged revisions" thing, I'm not sure what that is about, even though it's written in english! PKT ( talk) 15:08, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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...who has been working at accessibility for some time now. Some months ago, I worked with him but he became inactive. I wondered if you might take a look and see if you can lend a hand? User talk:Hopiakuta#Your message. Maybe this is something for the usability group? – xeno talk 01:54, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I was surprised to see you revert my edit, since you are the one who showed me how to do the CSS lists. However, I see your point. I still would like to try a different format for the list. So I tried converting it to a simple MediaWiki table format (see Bach-Busoni Editions#References). To me this is both easier to read AND easier to edit. But before I continue using this new idea, I would like to know whether you think this will be an acceptable alternative to the bullet list. Thanks for feedback. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 19:33, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
li { padding-bottom:5px; }
I really appreciate all your feedback. Sorry but I obviously did get confused about HTML vs. CSS. Anyway, what I'm mainly concerned about are the pages that I work on and edit. When the items in a list are long and wrap to second and third lines, I find the bullet lists to be difficult, not only to read but also to edit (because there isn't any white space between the list items, so they all sort of run together to my eye.) So I'm trying to use an alternative kind of list. Since you said I should preferably use Wikicode, I tried making the lists with a simple Wikitable without borders. This certainly seems to work well: it's easier to edit (each item in the list is nicely separated from the others in the edit window) AND to read on the rendered page, because there is also enough of a gap between the items, that my eye can pick out each one very easily. (At least in in the two browsers I have, Safari and FireFox; I don't know about others.) I also like it because it gets rid of all the bullet clutter and improves my ability to quickly scan the list. So I guess my bottom-line question is: is it OK for now to use the Wikitable list on the pages I am editing as an alternative to the bullet lists? -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 02:39, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Sure, I have some time this weekend. Are there any other usability issues with it that should be fixed as well? Cheers, — Ruud 14:17, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
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I notice you have previously commented on the use of colour on Wikipedia talk:Using colours. You may be interested in commenting at this discussion. 81.111.114.131 ( talk) 17:31, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Dodoïste, I wanted to update you personally since you've been so helpful. Here's the update I provided on the Pending Changes issue page:
Sounds great! Yes, my version of JAWS supports the scope attribute. I can't think of any complex examples off-hand. Graham 87 01:40, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Dodoïste, I got the wrong talk page when I mentioned WT:DISCOG at WT:ACCESS#How to make accessible tables. The correct talk page is one of the project's sub-pages and I've started the discussion which can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Discographies/style#Accessibility issues. I think I've got all the pertinent points across, but feel free to jump in and correct any mistakes I may have made. Thanks, -- JD554 ( talk) 11:57, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
You recently !voted on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Microformats. This is a courtesy note to let you now that I have now posted, as promised, my view there, and to ask you revisit the debate. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:11, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
I've had a go at simplying a few accessibility changes specifically for music editors and I thought the completed essay could be distributed amongst those in the community. Since i know many of the high profile editors I thought that if they saw me adopting the policy it might have a knock on affect. See User:Lil-unique1/Accessibility and let me know what you think. Please do not edit the page but if there are errors do let me know. ... -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 (talk2me) 23:00, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
As you commented in the pending closure discussion I am notifying you that the Wikipedia:Pending changes/Vote comment is now open and will be for two weeks, discussion as required can continue on the talkpage. Thanks. Off2riorob ( talk) 00:09, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
With regards to all the recent developments for discographies your comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Discographies/style#Time to update would be appreciated. -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 (talk2me) 22:10, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I have followed your suggestion at Template talk:Expand language#Link to talk page. Unfortunately, as I have mentioned there, the change has not been 100% successful (though it is an improvement). I don't know whether you can come up with a better idea? I can't. JamesBWatson ( talk) 08:44, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for that Dodieste. I will read through it later on today and update my essay. -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 | talk2me 13:07, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Your table tutorial is exceptionally helpful and well put together. Thank you! I've watchlisted everything, and will try to help out if I can, or at least learn. -- Quiddity ( talk) 18:34, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Salut, comme je n'arrive pas à dormir j'ai feuilleté Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/All : apparemment ce que j'ai fait le 11 aurait dû suffire, il faudrait peut-être en reparler au bistro... JackPotte ( talk) 04:22, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Ok Dodieste, I have a plan of action...
Meanwhile I suggest we add underconstruction to the top of WP:DISCOGSTYLE. Then we update discogstyle. It will need a new header message ... something like:
WP:DISCOGSTYLE was updated in September 2010 to reflect the changes in the Manual of Style for Wikipedia. The examples shown here may differ from existing works but are most up to date and correct format for discographies.
If maybe you could work on the page in your sandbox... and in the next few hours/day I will create the new examples with Kelly Rowland discgraphy and convert it to the new format? How does that sound? -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 | talk2me 02:26, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
style="font-weight:normal;"
of the row headers: why not. But from what I understand, some users already want to have the albums in bold. And some do not. Now that it's becoming a normal row header it might be easier to go for the default bold layout. It makes editing easier when you don't need a lot of complex code to make a table. But this is only my opinion, and has nothing to do with accessibility. Which means if you disagree on that I won't insist. :-)New issues:
The layout I went for was to keep the default styling for albums but I accept that the use of bold and non-bold formats will confuse people. We could make the singles bold as well but the the problem is that when singles have featured artists it looks messy. See what I mean, by giving it a try in mh example. Alternatively for the singles we could use |scope="row"
instead of !scope="row"
. RexxS informed me that it will have the same effect and is a lesser evil than using style="font-weight:normal;"
constantly. I will re-instate the peak chart headers. --
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Just a heads-up; you seem to be more familiar with the accessibility parts of this, and you've seen it in action in frwp for a long time. / ƒETCH COMMS / 03:38, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Bonjour, Dodoïste. Two items, only mildly related:
Regards, — JohnFromPinckney ( talk) 14:26, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
! scope="col" |
added to the column headers. And it's the simplest thing to do: it's only a little bit of code, and it doesn't change the layout. Adding ! scope="row" |
changes the layout, so it's harder to apply.! scope="col" |
to the column headers is enough to solve the biggest accessibility issue. The rest are important too, but considering the reactions we might want to prioritize. :-)
Dodoïste (
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01:08, 5 October 2010 (UTC)We appear to have a new accessibility issue. A good editing friend of mind has said that sometimes if text is formatted larger tahn 85% in discogs it causes issues. See that latter comments here. You're input in the accessibility area of this would be useful. -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 | talk2me 22:23, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
See this. Many thanks are due to you for your efforts. -- RexxS ( talk) 13:10, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Something new for your "bad examples of tables" list. Don't look if you just ate. — JohnFromPinckney ( talk) 07:02, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
I didn't realise this accessibility stuff would be so difficult. Please can you get involved at the discussion page of FL ( here) where I have attempted to explain the issues facing wikipedia and tried to engage some community action to support WP:ACCESS. But its not really working as planned and it looks like its going to be bulldozed. -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 | talk2me 22:17, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Could you explain what was the problem you just fixed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility? I don't see any difference between the two versions.
Except that you just introduced a layout table, which is a bad practice on the web. Web designers and web developers who care about quality have been actively fighting against layout tables for almost a decade now. This layout table also slightly worsen accessibility, although it's not detrimental. So I'd really like to get an explanation. ;-) Kind regards, Dodoïste ( talk) 20:28, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
In case it escaped your attention: WT:WikiProject Accessibility#Featured list candidate and accessibility. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 13:53, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Dodoïste, the skip links were only intended for use by browsers and other products that did not support CSS. I actually complained about them when they were introduced in October 2005; see this thread at the technical village pump (my username at the time was Pianoman87). As I later found out, the version of JAWS that I used at the time, JAWS 5.1, did not fully support CSS. However, contrary to the above message, A user of JAWS 7.0 reported to me by email that he encountered the skip links, and he thanked me for asking the developers to add an option to disable them. IIRC JAWS versions above 7.1 have full support for Wikipedia's CSS system, so they never show the skip links. I personally found them to be a nuisance and I never used them. Graham 87 00:44, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
If you have time, would you do a favour for me, please? I have two versions of a table at User:RexxS/List of symptoms of diving disorders, and I'd appreciate it if you could see what faults you can identify in each one. I've made space at User talk:RexxS/List of symptoms of diving disorders to collect comments. Thanks in advance if you're able to help me. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 00:00, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
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I did not realize you had an account here at en:wikipedia. I left you a message at fr:Discussion utilisateur:Dodoïste#Help with bad links. We are trying to fix the problem of links going dead. We saw that you and fr:Utilisateur:Pmartin have been using Wikiwix for about 2 years on fr:wikipedia ( fr:Wikipédia:Prise de décision/Système de cache). Could you help us here, please? We are discussing this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject External links/Webcitebot2#fr.wiki archiving method. Thanks very much. - Hydroxonium ( H3O+) 17:18, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks. - Hydroxonium ( H3O+) 21:21, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Dodoïste. I wasn't able to follow the outcome of Template_talk:Infobox/Archive_5#Collapsible_headers due to busy schedules. Was any thing done to add this feature (or was it already available)? If not, why? Kind regards. Reh man 06:01, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the recognition. I don't really have time to do stuff specifically related to WP Accessibility, but I tend to improve the accessibility of articles as I work with them. I mainly use Wikipedia to unwind by working on the articles about states of the Holy Roman Empire.
I don't really work in front-end Web work any more (though I used to). These days, I run a tech team at an ad agency, working in a different discipline ( C# development). But I'll keep looking for ways in which I can improve things :o) — OwenBlacker ( Talk) 21:52, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
I drafted a new RfC. Please take a look and comment; the specific suggestion for implementing a test may not be the best, feel free to improve on it. – SJ + 20:58, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
In Talk:American Idol (season 10)#Tables and accessibility, you seemed uncertain about where I got my example of:
Perhaps you didn't realise that JAWS allows vertical as well as sequential navigation? Have a read of Tables with JAWS and MAGic and you'll see that each cell can have its row and column header announced. My example was that of reading a single cell in the fourth column of the third row from the table at American Idol (season 10)#Males. If anyone using Jaws wanted to read down the column headed Result, that's what they would hear for each cell by default (as I understand it): "[Row header], [Column header], [Cell contents]" - which makes a number a much poorer choice of row header than the name. I hope that helps, but I can see it's sorted now anyway.
Merci mille fois pour tes mots gentiles à WT:Manual of Style (accessibility)#CSS version 2, mon ami! À bientôt, -- RexxS ( talk) 17:43, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello there. Please see this suggestion of mine about a subpage of WikiProject Usability. Thanks! -- Hoary ( talk) 07:42, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I noticed on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject External links/Webcitebot2 you seemed to be speaking for Pmartin, who seemed to be speaking for Wikiwix/Linterweb.
I've been developing a bot which archives URLs in the IA (through 2 ways), WebCite, and an optional arbitrary shell command (I use wget). Wikiwix is the only other archive service I know of, and I'd like to use it. But browsing through the discussions, I don't see any information or links to how one would archive a URL in Wikiwix - only discussions of how to display a Wikiwix archive page on Wikipedia.
Do you know how, or could you ask Pmartin how/where the documentation is? (I know only a little French.) -- Gwern (contribs) 18:21 24 June 2011 (GMT)
You're most welcome. Looked like an important thing to cover. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 15:19, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
May I - again - draw your attention to Template talk:Documentation#Heading fix redux. I can't believe this is still dragging on..! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:55, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Salut mon ami!
If you've seen the Signpost article "Horizontal lists have got class", you'll know that the .hlist class is now stable and being rolled out across the English wikipedia. However, a comment from Erwin at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#nocontent class reminded me that there would be problems of portability between wikis if we remove in-line styling in favour of Common.css. It would be best if such styles were to be incorporated into Core, but that may not be a quick process.
In the meantime, I'm hoping to encourage some inter-project collaboration by suggesting .hlist to other large wikis, and I thought of you as someone who could make that link into the French Wikipedia. I see you've been very busy recently, but there's no deadline :) - it's a task to work on, if you're interested, in whatever time you can find. Regards, -- RexxS ( talk) 14:53, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hey Dodoïste, no worries! I've always been around here; I just haven't been doing much accessibility-related work lately. I'm doing very well ... see my Facebook page! I trust that things are going well for you also. Graham 87 06:22, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi there Dodoïste. I've been thinking a bit about the table that you proposed at Talk:List of Hot 100 number-one singles of the 2000s (U.S.). I quite like it, and it works well, but I've been wondering whether there might be a stronger way to indicate where one year ends and another begins. Would having a single, empty cell that spans all seven columns meet the MOS:DTT requirements? It'd look something like this:
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851 | January 15, 2000 | Christina Aguilera | " What a Girl Wants" | RCA | 2 | [ref] |
852 | January 29, 2000 | Savage Garden | " I Knew I Loved You" | Columbia | 4 | [ref] |
853 | February 19, 2000 | Mariah Carey & Joe & 98 Degrees | " Thank God I Found You" | Columbia | 1 | [ref] |
868 | February 3, 2001 | Shaggy & Ricardo 'Rikrok' Ducent | " It Wasn't Me" | MCA | 2 | [ref] |
869 | February 17, 2001 | Outkast | " Ms Jackson" | Arista | 1 | [ref] |
870 | February 24, 2001 | Joe & Mystikal | " Stutter" | Jive | 4 | [ref] |
882 | February 23, 2002 | Ja Rule & Ashanti | " Always on Time" | 2 | [ref] | |
883 | March 9, 2002 | Jennifer Lopez & Ja Rule | " Ain't It Funny" | 6 | [ref] | |
884 | April 20, 2002 | Ashanti | " Foolish" | 10 | [ref] |
My reasoning is that, since the cell would be empty, there would be nothing for a screen reader to read, but I'm not entirely sure. Let me know what your thoughts are. Thanks very much. A Thousand Doors ( talk | contribs) 13:04, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Year | # | Reached number one | Artist(s) | Single | Record label | Weeks at number one |
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2000 | 851 | January 15, 2000 | Christina Aguilera | " What a Girl Wants" | RCA | 2 | [ref] |
2000 | 852 | January 29, 2000 | Savage Garden | " I Knew I Loved You" | Columbia | 4 | [ref] |
853 | February 19, 2000 | Mariah Carey & Joe & 98 Degrees | " Thank God I Found You" | Columbia | 1 | [ref] | |
2001 | 868 | February 3, 2001 | Shaggy & Ricardo 'Rikrok' Ducent | " It Wasn't Me" | MCA | 2 | [ref] |
2001 | 869 | February 17, 2001 | Outkast | " Ms Jackson" | Arista | 1 | [ref] |
870 | February 24, 2001 | Joe & Mystikal | " Stutter" | Jive | 4 | [ref] | |
2002 | 882 | February 23, 2002 | Ja Rule & Ashanti | " Always on Time" | 2 | [ref] | |
883 | March 9, 2002 | Jennifer Lopez & Ja Rule | " Ain't It Funny" | 6 | [ref] | ||
884 | April 20, 2002 | Ashanti | " Foolish" | 10 | [ref] |
It looks messy in my small table, but I'm sure it will be fine in a large table. The second solution is to display the row "2002" at the top of the line. Yours, Dodoïste ( talk) 21:07, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Firstly, thank you for fixing the problem with signatures. Now they all default to purple, which makes them easy to read. Also, many tables/templates now use a black background, which is great.
However Template:Cladogram seems to use black lines, which aren't visible. Are you able to fix this? Thanks. Axl ¤ [Talk] 12:10, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Dodoïste. Could you take a look at this page please? Most of the page has a white background. With the bright green text, this is particularly unpleasant to look at. Thanks. Axl ¤ [Talk] 23:02, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi again, Dodoïste. Can you take a look at Wikipedia:Article_feedback please? Both the colours and the formatting are messed up. Thanks. Axl ¤ [Talk] 23:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Another one please, Dodoïste. This page uses white backgrounds for the closed discussions. Thanks. Axl ¤ [Talk] 11:12, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Dodoïste, yes, Wikimania was amazing, and so was the rest of my trip! Some presentations were great (such as the panel about the treatment of newbies and the presentation about motivations for editing Wikipedia) and some were not so great, but it was definitely worth the trip! I received a braille program which was very useful to me, so I knew where each presentation was. I've written my thoughts about the accessibility presentation at the accessibility WikiProject's talk page. Graham 87 10:36, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hello,I am Frankfurt55.Many many thanks for your helping attitude.In fact;i edited Bangladesh Liberation war which was removed by Mr.Kabir now I have reedited the paragraph in my talk page.Could you please go to my talk page and check if all are ok?And If I can post it to main article? Also advice me the regulation of editing.Because I was blocked by Future Perfect at Sunrise for editing. -- Frankfurt55 ( talk) 21:30, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter. It's been another busy month in the world of Wikipedia help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article. Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon. In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist. I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
Hi Dodieste, How are you? Long time no see. You might remember me from a whole host of issues we had with trying to implent accessibility over at discographies. I wondered if I could ask your advice/get your help. We have a commonly used {{ track list}} which i actually despise for its column and formatting. One of my major gripes is the font size particularly on the "note field". I'd like to get this changed to the approved 85%. whats the best way of going about it? also whats your general opinion on how accessible the template is. — Lil_℧niquℇ №1 [talk] 00:01, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dodoïste, I believe that message box was introduced about five or six years ago. I never had any problem with it then, but now it seems to disappear faster than it used to, perhaps too fast ... is it just my imagination? Graham 87 08:07, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the notification. I've redirected the template to {{ Abbr}} since it's pretty much the same template; if you don't think this is a good idea, feel free to revert. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 03:13, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Please see my reply at Template talk:Storm colour#Alternative proposals. Kaldari ( talk) 23:57, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Dodoïste. I use the green-on-black view. Can you take a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history please? Most of the text there is obscured. Thanks. Axl ¤ [Talk] 12:31, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hello again from the Help Project! In the last newsletter (which was quite a while ago sorry!) I talked about my fellowship and the plans for improving the main portal page, Help:Contents. Well I'm sad to say that my fellowship is now over, but very happy to say that the proposed improvements to that page have been completed and implemented. Do check it out if you haven't already. Another important and frequently used help page, Wikipedia:Contact us, has also seen a significant revamp. You may recognise the design inspiration from the new tutorial pages. In project news, we now have a subscription to the "article alerts" service. Any deletion nominations, move discussions, or requests for comments on pages within the Help Project's scope will now show up at Wikipedia:Help Project/Article alerts. So that's definitely a page which project members might want to watch. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
— Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 06:10, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
The Help Project Newsletter |
Issue VI - April 2013 |
Open Help Conference The Open Help Conference will be taking place June 15-19 in Cincinnati Ohio, USA. The conference includes two days of presentations and open discussions, followed by team "sprints" - collaborative efforts to write and improve documentation. It has been suggested to send a team from Wikipedia/Wikimedia: to share our own knowledge about help, learn from others in the open source community working on similar problems, and to carry out a sprint to improve some aspect of Wikipedia's help. There may be support available for volunteers to attend from the Participation Support program (and your editor is certainly hoping to be there!) Please join the discussion in Meta's IdeaLab if you're interested, and/or have suggestions about what we could work on. |
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Help Project Newsletter
Issue VII - August 2013
Hello from Hong Kong, and the Wikimania DevCamp! Just a quick bulletin to update everyone on recent goings-on:
Suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter.
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-- EdwardsBot ( talk) 06:17, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I hope you're well. It has been awhile! :)
I'm trying to learn about how exactly editors use the Wikimedia sites, with accessibility tools like screen magnifiers. I recall you as being knowledgeable about screen magnifiers, hence this personal request. Please see the short list of questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility#Visual impairment - what settings, software, or other tools are used to compensate, and if you know of anyone else, help me get the word out to other editors who might be able to give comments on this? Much thanks! – Quiddity ( talk) 02:23, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Accessibility for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. –Mabeenot ( talk) 02:12, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Can you please advise on if the colours in " Template:Storm colour" were ok, as the were presented before this edit? Id rather not see such a significant change to the colours if we don't have too. Thanks. Jason Rees ( talk) 11:15, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
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13:49, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Dodoïste.
We have conversed in the past regarding my view setting, which is green-on-black. Recently, this setting has stopped working properly. The Wikipedia globe logo is shifted across to the right, and its link (to the main page) overlies the Talk page tab, so I cannot easily go to an article's talk page. (I had to directly edit the url to reach this page.)
Also, wikilinks now appear dark blue, which makes them difficult to see on the black background. (Previously, wikilinks were bright purple.) Because of these changes, I have stopped editing Wikipedia.
These problems occur both on my home PC (Windows 10, Chrome), at work and in my local library (Internet Explorer). I have not changed any of my own settings. Thanks for your help. Axl ¤ [Talk] 11:56, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Dodoïste. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)