Author Archives: guillaume

Customizing the WordPress meta widget

Posted on January 26, 2012 by guillaume

How to customize the standard WordPress meta widget to add or remove stuff. Continue reading →

Posted in Coding, Wikimedia Technology | Tagged meta, widget, WordPress | 1 Comment

Service announcement

Posted on January 26, 2012 by guillaume

This site has been dormant for the past year or so. Because I’m currently working on a new version, I was reluctant to spend a lot of time to fix this one. The downside is that I couldn’t really post … Continue reading →

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Wikimedia Commons gets user galleries

Posted on March 16, 2011 by guillaume

A long-awaited feature added by volunteer developer Bryan Tong Minh. Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Technology | Tagged gallery, usability | 4 Comments

Wikimania 2010 notes

Posted on November 22, 2010 by guillaume

My notes from Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk Continue reading →

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Wikimedia Commons licensing tutorial: the making-of

Posted on November 19, 2010 by guillaume

A behind-the-scenes tour of the project. Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, Multimedia Usability | Tagged copyright, free licenses, information design, licensing tutorial, open collaboration, translation, Wikimedia Commons | 2 Comments

Meetingitis

Posted on October 9, 2010 by guillaume

Why you should prepare your next meeting if you expect me to attend. Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, General | Tagged meetingitis, meetings, rant | 5 Comments

One-click reuse buttons on Wikimedia Commons

Posted on October 4, 2010 by guillaume

Reusing media files from Wikimedia Commons just got a lot easier, thanks to volunteer Magnus Manske. Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, Wikimedia Commons | Tagged UX, Wikimedia Commons | 10 Comments

The Universal Language Picker

Posted on September 29, 2010 by guillaume

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

Posted on July 28, 2010 by guillaume

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

Posted on July 23, 2010 by guillaume

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