user:Jorm (WMF)
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| full name = Brandon Harris
| image name = Brandon Harris courage.jpg
| hover text = Brandon Harris, Senior Designer
| job title = Senior Designer
| organization = Wikimedia Foundation
| short quote = "More Kirk; Less Spock."
| about me = I am made of steel wool and whiskey.
I am easy to find and am willing to help you in whatever way I can.
=Speaking Engagements=
- Wikimania 2014: State of the Wiki, featured speaker
- Wikimania 2014: The Athena Project: Where are We?
- Wikimania 2014: Virtual Community Roundtable, panelist
- Wikimania 2014: The Athena Project: Where are We?, speaker
- Wikimania 2013: Flow: The future of collaboration, speaker
- Wikimania 2013: Presentation clinic, presenter
- Open Source Bridge 2013: [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/1061 The "Oh Shit" Graph: What We Can Learn From Wikipedia's Editor Decline Trend], speaker
- Wikimania 2012: The Athena Project: Wikipedia in 2015, speaker
- Wikimania 2012: Blacking out Wikipedia, panelist
- Wikimania 2012: Engaging editors on Wikipedia: A roadmap of new features, panelist
- Wikimania 2012: Engage or Persish, panelist
- Open Source Bridge 2012: [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/867 Identity, Reputation and Gratitude: Designing for a Community], speaker
- Wikimania 2011: Identity, Reputation, and Gratitude, speaker
- Wikimania 2011: Encouraging Participation in Wikimedia Projects, speaker
| about my work =
Here is a partial list of the things I am or have worked on:
- Winter - a Beta Feature that applies several changes to the default interface (Vector), including a sticky header and modified interactions
- [http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/winter Prototype] - built a functional, interactive prototype
- Flow - a radical re-thinking of discussion and workflow management for MediaWiki sites
- [http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/flow Prototype] - built a functional, interactive prototype
- Search - improvements and rethinking of MediaWiki search system
- SecurePoll Redesign - making the SecurePoll extension more usable and less error-prone
- [http://tools.wmflabs.org/ Wikimedia Tool Labs] - a redesign of the Tool Labs interface
- Designed the blackout screen for the 2012 English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout
- Served on a banner for the 2011 Wikimedia fundraiser, as "Wikipedia Programmer Brandon Harris"
- Also did a [http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mr4pf/i_am_wikipedia_programmer_brandon_harris_ama/ Reddit "Ask Me Anything"] as part of this
- An essay about Collaborative Systems
- Athena - a "universal" skin for Wikipedia, designed to work on mobile, tablet, and desktop resolutions and capabilities.
- Glaucus - a mobile-focused, intermediate step towards Athena.
- Echo - a notifications system.
- New Editor Engagement (formerly -1 to 100) - a master project working on editor retention.
- Article Creation Landing System - a modified workflow for article creation
- Mark as Helpful - working towards 360 degree feedback.
- New Page Triage - a tool to make the process of New Page Patrol better
- Article Creation Workflow - various fixes to make article creation better and saner
- Reference Tooltips - a simple change to make viewing references easier
- Timestamp Position Modification - trying to make the documents appear more alive
- MoodBar - a tool designed to encourage new user feedback.
- Feedback Dashboard - a tool to view and respond to new user feedback (sent via MoodBar)
- WikiLove - a small tool for awarding "WikiLove"
- Quick Comments - a small feature designed to make it easier to leave messages for users
- Global Profile- a system designed to ease difficulty for page patrol, reduce "bite", and encourage identity within the projects
- Interlanguage Design Pass
- 2011 Q2 UploadWizard Design Pass
- LiquidThreads redesign - a rethinking on collaborative systems
- Personal Image Filter proposal - a board proposal concerning controversial content
- MediaWiki Style Guide - A discontinued work regarding MediaWiki interface consistency (replaced by Agora)
- Article Feedback Tool, Phase 1 - Phase one of the Article Feedback Tool
- Article Feedback Tool, Phase 2 - Phase 2 of the Article Feedback Tool. (Design was modified heavily during implementation).
- Account Creation workflows (includes some visual design)
- Pending Changes Design Modifications - Some usability enhancements for Pending Changes (not all were implemented)
- The MediaWiki installer
- TradeTrack - a tool for WMF trademark management
| contact me =
- On irc.freenode.net (as 'jorm') in the channels #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #wikipedia-en
- On MediaWiki.org as Jorm (WMF)
- On the English Wikipedia as Jorm as a volunteer
- [//www.facebook.com/jormosaurusrex Facebook]
- [//www.linkedin.com/pub/brandon-harris/13/444/829 LinkedIn Profile]
- [//twitter.com/jorm jorm] on Twitter
- My category on commons
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