User:Waykup
I am a jack-of-all-trades, but my profession is in the field of training and adult education. I am currently a social software trainer and consultant, focusing on the integration and application of enterprise 2.0 technologies to improve collaboration and communication within organizations.
I hold an MA in industrial/organizational psychology from George Mason University. My recent fascination with web 2.0 has been both in the development of alter-ego virtual identities (and the cultures that develop around them) as well as the application of social technologies to learning solutions.
I maintain a blog at [http://www.evercurious.com evercurious.com] where I chronicle my rants and raves about technology.
Pages I Watch
The following are pages I've either created or contributed to substantially (with my current or former accounts - see note below):
Articles on my to-do list
- Section 504 (will need to break redirect)
- Section 501
Wiki Interests
As an enterprise user of MediaWiki, I'm interested in improving its usability, partly through the implementation of a graphical editor. I've found the following resources and plan to get involved initially by ensuring proper linking between them:
- Usability study
- [http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Main page]
- [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/09/usability-study/ Wikia blog: Announcing the usability study]
- [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/24/usability-study-results-sneak-preview/ Wikia blog: Usability results]
- [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_to_become_more_user-friendly_for_new_volunteer_writers Press release]
- [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Stanton_Grant_Q&A Info about the Stanton Grant]
- Graphical editor - finally!!!!!!
- [http://mybrute.wikia.com/wiki/Sandbox Sandbox page for the new rich editor]
- [http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:New_Visual_Editor:_Problems_and_Suggestions&t=20090505230731#Where_is_the_new_editor.3F Problems with the new editor (on the forum)]
- [http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:New_editor Help page for the new editor]
- Source code for [http://code.google.com/p/wikia/ Wikia] and [http://code.google.com/p/wikia/source/browse/wikia/trunk/extensions/wikia/Wysiwyg/ the WYSIWYG editor]