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The Wikipedia Usability Project aims to make Wikipedia easier for everyone to use.

This group's goal was to promote the application of usability best practices and/or web usability. Many other projects focus on the content of Wikipedia; this project focused on the presentation of that content. The group was active from about 2005 to 2010.

Especially in 2009 and 2010, much of the work coordinated with Wikimedia Foundation staff at the usability: wiki. Among other things, this group's work informed the creation of the Vector 2010 skin.

Issues

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Logo of WikiProject Usability, a green dot with a red oval above it to make an exclamation mark and two light blue ovals to the upper left and upper right
The logo of the project by Kooky. Green represents the user, the three branches represent the web of information Wikipedia provides, and the middle path is the clearest, the one the project strives for. The shape recalls a blooming flower and the Wikimedia logo, as well.

This project hopes to make Wikipedia easy and pleasant to use by applying itself to the following areas:

Past projects

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Ideas for projects

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See Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Future projects for ideas.

Queries

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  • Wikipedia talk:Community Portal#Request [1] - "is there no way to get a better interface? most people have javascript its just that its all so very confusing- maybe that is supposed to put most people off? NO indication where one is supposed to join up/post/ pages and pages....protocols... and all the jargon offputting. you need to attract people who don't necessarily have computer knowledge but subject knowledge you should make it easy for eg. my grandfather, who is an expert on aviation history to contribute to this online resource- its all so very confusing!!!!!"
  • At Talk:Isotope table (complete) we are debating a proposal by User:Greg L to put the article's full isotope table, and Isotope table (divided)'s table, in a single larger article. Much of the argument is about usability, as well as performance. Input from the Usability project might be useful. --JWB (talk) 16:49, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sub-pages

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Templates

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Participants

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If you'd like to join (please do!), add yourself and optionally your areas of interest/expertise to the list of participants. Feel free to add {{User WPUsability}} to your list of userboxes.

Listing yourself does not obligate you to do anything. This section serves primarily as a gauge of project interest, and to provide links to users who may be contacted in regards to this WikiProject, their interests, or usability in general.

See also

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Articles:

Wikipedia:

WikiProjects:

Proposals:

Other:

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