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@ Ocaasi:: Many of the steps in the tours have message boxes that appear beneath the page text. It's a nice feature, especially when it causes the page to scroll down to reveal that box. The one issue is that the boxes show up well beneath the main body, because they are attached beneath the #footer-info-copyright. Can you attach them instead to #content.mw-body so that they aren't so far beneath the main body (and #wpTextbox1 for boxes in the edit window)?-- Sage Ross (WMF) ( talk) 19:40, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Adventure really helps the new comers to learn and work on Wikipedia. Hats off for people behind this effort. -- Rafiqd ( talk) 23:47, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
<--! Please share your honest, thoughtful, constructive feedback below. Thanks for playing :) -->
was fairly easy to grasp and made sense of the concepts and policy. ...
The text box for the adventure instructions would sometime appear over the text it was trying to get me to read (for example the history of changes on the earth page) and thus I couldn't really see what was back there. I get that it wasn't actually important, but it still made me want to click the box off so I could actually read the information. ...
Editing markup tool use. their are tools up there I didn't use. ...
some of the storyline, but that doesn't mean it wasn't fun and it did make it a user friendly experience. ...
perhaps find a way to make the instruction box Popup (what DO you call that thing?) movable so you can read behind it without closing it. ...
-- Frater UI ( talk) 21:16, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
...Making me think
...Feeling a dimwit when I hadn't grasped a concept/instruction fully first time
...Sound as I played
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...Extremely engaging, well-thought out and technically robust method of teaching.
-- Martypuss ( talk) 20:06, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Fixed There are now 17 project-sites (up from 15). Go to your preferences to verify. Checkingfax ( talk) 17:37, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
@ Ross Hill, Ragesoss, Sbouterse (WMF). Per your fun and thoughtful suggestions, I have tried sounds at both the game end and also the galactic challenge success pages. Let me know what you think!
I searched commons for a variety of interesting clips that are under 20 seconds. If you find other cool ones, let me know. Cheers and thanks for the great idea! Ocaasi t | c 16:08, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
The whole thing was very well put together. I especially like the fact that it's laid out chronologically through a basic project workflow that involves collaboration with another user.
The badges are kinda corny, but I understand how acknowledgement of progress is important.
I'd like to see a rather lengthy section on report programs, mediation, blocking users, and page protection.
I think it was all very necessary.
Great job!
-- GoodBetterBestNeverLetItRest ( talk) 23:32, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
It's a nice way to get to know Wikipedia.
It's a good way to get started.
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I would like to use this also on the Dutch WikiKids. It would be a great way to let children start editing on WikiKids.
-- Gerarddummer ( talk) 16:36, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
...The tone and friendliness
...I couldn't figure out how to add images from instructions. I'm sure I missed something but...?
...Another advanced adventure
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-- KomodoDragon3000 ( talk) 22:01, 11 January 2014 (UTC) KomodoDragon3000 ( talk) 22:01, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, there are now 22 project sites on Wikipedia (up from 18). Time for an update! Checkingfax ( talk) 04:54, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
… Thanks for making learning fun. It's great to be part of this multiverse of knowledge.
… The first time around, I didn't get that I was supposed to participate, rather than simply read and 'click the equivalent of OK".
… Harder questions that didn't have all the answers as "copy and paste" items.
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It was well constructed. Maybe if anything, the "fireworks" image was a teensy bit corny, but not at all a big deal.
… There is a LOT to learn, and I am grateful that this tutorial exists. Thank you!!!
-- Netherzone ( talk) 04:10, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi,
I just went through most of the game and I think that this was quite fun! As always there are of course some minor tweaks that would make it even better:
Finally, I was wondering when it would be possible to create local versions on other language versions?
Best, John Andersson (WMSE) ( talk) 12:59, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
I like everything specially the steps or the way. One new user can easily understand the things.
Some times I felt like I'm doing so much clicks.
The interface need to be more interactive.
The initials training and ideas about the article base.
I'd like to thanks the developers and the concept creator for their work. I can clearly see that many new comers are going to learn very quick using this. -- Jnanaranjan Sahu (ଜ୍ଞାନ) talk 11:50, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
... The Interface and precise information.
... Didn't included anything about adding voice or video
... Adding images
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-- Anwaraj ( talk) 13:24, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Thank you very much for the helpful tutorial. Whew! I did it! :) ...
-- Literally&figurative ( talk) 17:49, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Training was cute but not saccharine, well-structured, and covered important points. The self-pacing worked well. Good amount of practice on key skills.
Awesome unicorn and volcano graphics :)
Thanks much!
-- WilfredSwinton ( talk) 20:19, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
...Well done. Easy to follow and I left feeling more confident.
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...This was probably just right for a first tutorial. But, I wondered if there was a next level tutorial. Or from here, it is just learning by doing?
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...I appreciate the hard work and effort to make a new editor feel welcome.
-- Pcrowelltechview ( talk) 15:10, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
... Creative!
... Setbacks on clicking the "continue" blue buttons.
... Funny and clever references
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-- Mariadavi ( talk) 19:16, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
In a step (I think it's mission 4) I was lead to a fake history of page "(username)/TWA/Earth". Why not go to the REAL one? User670839245 ( talk) 22:53, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Er. got it. BTW in some wikis there're some sort of {{ USERNAME}} template that automatically display current user's username... can that be used? (It's still me, user670839245)23:19, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
in mission 6 the cleanup template... should be on the top of a page, shouldn't it?? User670839245 ( talk) 23:02, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
and the sig, named "you". (It's still me, user670839245.)23:03, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
as title. User670839245 ( talk) 23:22, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
In this wiki auto confirm is got by being for 4 days and make 10 edits... before that users can't save right away before they preview. How did I actually... (until the first REAL edit in the tour, 1 edit is made automatically by the tour... only one.) does the tour grant that right for users??!! (btw, the zh: needs 7 days and 50 edits.. and I am still not autoconfirmed there.) User670839245 ( talk) 23:28, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
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... Nothing -- Jesus on Shrooms ( talk) 16:51, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
... Very interesting and helpful, walked you through very easily
... The differences between the 3 choices of reply were too obvious, perhaps some a little closer to reality?
...Why were some of the words linked to be highlighted and not others, eg methane and not carbon dioxide or oxygen. I understand that it would get too much to link all important terms, but in such an article, how do you decide?
...The audio clips
.A little clearer on the showing the pages we were looking at if possible, I'm not entirely sure which was project, which talk and which history, I'm goinmg to go through it again anyway and it is late here!..
Thanks for doing this, very much clearer than reading through reams and reams of pages! -- Hannahlucy100 ( talk) 22:19, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
My dad was an artist who lived on Martha's Vineyard and died over 10 years ago. I thought it would be of value to write an article about him. I have submitted it, but I would like guidance concerning his name. His legal name is John Stanley Murphy, but he went by Stan Murphy or Stanley Murphy for nearly all of his life. What name do I use for the biography? Thnaks in advance. - David 61Murphyrd ( talk) 15:00, 5 April 2014 (UTC) 61Murphyrd ( talk · contribs), hi, the best place to ask for this kind of help is the Teahouse. They'll have some good guidance for you. Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 15:26, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
...the overall tutorial was good. love the badges!
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...7 repetitions of headings, links, and images. 3 is probably enough
...overall very good.
-- Nuqq ( talk) 13:15, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
... I Like How I Learn to Edit thing
... I Don't Like How the Talks were
... the Words There About the Earth
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... I Just Want to Say Thank you and You are Best to be Here
-- Dardani1997 ( talk) 19:05, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
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... Essential to any one getting started with Wikipedia. -- Ausi1 ( talk) 00:25, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
User:Ocaasi/sandbox Thoughts? Ocaasi t | c 18:10, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
I just went through the Wikipedia Adventure. My main purpose was to review the work that you all have done to see if there are any bugs and problems. I use the Modern skin and Firefox 26.0. Initially when the adventurer has to edit a page by clicking the the edit link button, I was not able to click it and the mouse cursor turned into the highlighting or editing mode instead of the hand which should have shown up while going to click a link ( screen-shot of problem). I faced the problem starting 2 times and then didn't. I had to manually enter the edit link in the address bar to continue the adventure. The same thing happens when I view this page too. Even though I can't see the edit button, I can still click it. This is however not possible while the adventure is on. I hope you all fix this soon but I don't think that many newbies will even know about the modern skin.
Also, it would have been better if the music starts playing automatically (if it is possible). Can you please give me a list of the sound files that were used?
Have a very Happy New Year by the way. - Jayadevp 13 15:05, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
I found this game very ludic and fun. Why not add supplementary quests, for learn more again? If a contributor wants to know more on a specific subject, he can do the quest for learn. For example : -User page quest -Editing war stopping quest (with a false editing war, of course) -Vandalism stopping quest (with false vandals, as the false users of the original TWA) -etc. Also, why not put this awesome game to other Wikimedia projects. The Wiktionnary Adventure, The Wikispecies Adventure, etc... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sosolal ( talk • contribs) 09:25, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
- The art design - The humor, and at times over the top "Aren't you great?" and "Isn't Wikipedia the best thing in the world?" atmosphere to the adventure. - It forced me to use the editing buttons (I had never used them before)
-In Section 3, step 3, the "Search for typos button": The button didn't indicate that I should have searched for typos before clicking on it. -I didn't know why some of the buttons had stars (*) on them -Towards the end being told to hit the edit button was tedious. (E.g step 15 of mission 6 the prompt "Click EDIT so you can add an inline citation.") I would have preferred to be taken directly to the the Edit page. - That wikilinks were introduced so late in the tutorial. For some people this is the defining feature of Wikipedia so I felt it should have been introduced sooner than later. -When told to copy a multiple choice reply for the first time in mission 2, (step 5) it wasn't immediately obvious I was meant to copy the text contained in the prompt, perhaps change the prompt to: "Copy the best reply from the box below and paste it into the editing text box, at the bottom below Will's message to you" and then surround the text ":Thanks so much for your friendly welcome User:WillKomen. I can't wait to start editing!..." with a box.
-The art design could have benefited from further diversity. -Could have incorporated the Show Preview button.
(Again towards the end) explicitly telling users to press the SAVE button each time an edit was made.
-None of the sound clips automatically played for me, I wasn't aware whether this was intentional or not. -Had no idea the tutorial existed until I visited the article wizard. -The usernames used were pretty funny.
-- Neuroxic ( talk) 04:34, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
...clear concise instructions, friendly tone
...It was a little cutsy (with the music and congratulations at end of every session. Seemed geared toward a middle school or early high school level of learning.
...where to find the badge type templates to give to other users.
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...Nicely interactive between interface and user. Very impressive gamification!
-- Chimp1cards ( talk) 05:57, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
The badges, the article about Earth, the popup interface, the plot of the "videogame".
-- Daniele Pugliesi ( talk) 09:45, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
...I learned many things I did not know how to do before in editing pages of Wikipedia.
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...I wanted to learn a bit more on finding the images and references
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-- Erisedstar30259 ( talk) 19:51, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
The way wiki works
Nothing
Scope of editing
easy methods to edit
Some of the things will not have a reliable references those things can be added with special advises I think
-- Bellus Delphina talk 19:00, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
-- AnnaBorgida ( talk) 18:33, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
I enjoyed the tips and pointers
The little pop-ups
More pictures/interactivity
The dragon dude
Liked it
-- KBSully ( talk) 02:08, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
I thought this was a really great and succinct introduction to Wikipedia.
I didn't actually want all the badges that I got, since I felt like they cluttered up my user page (and I've since removed them). I get that it's a sign of positive encouragement, but I think this could be accomplished through fewer badges. Maybe just one cool badge could be awarded if you finished all the missions available.
I liked every opportunity I had to choose the 'best possible' response in a situation. Those were good delineations of community norms.
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I'd be curious to know how you're introducing this to potential new users. Is it going to pop up every time someone creates a new account? Does it do that already?
Also, thanks for creating this! It was really fun and cute without being cloying or condescending.
-- Snarkady ( talk) 22:04, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
This "adventure" is really patronising. I didn't come across it until I had been editing for five years or more. If it had been inflicted on me earlier, I might have been pissed off enough to give up on editing. Who do you think it is aimed at? Maproom ( talk) 23:22, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
I was a great way to know about the basics of being a wiki editor.
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-- RustyDude09 ( talk) 03:16, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Covers the basics, mentions overlinking, pretty picture, friendly, provides links to additional resources. User references in the article "history" are a nice touch.
Imaginary friends are kind of creepy. I guess they're necessary to simulate a collaborative environment, but it expected this (1:20-1:49) to happen all the time. Maybe add an age question in the beginning and replace them with more abstract explanations?
The dialog window gets in the way a few times (it blocked the save button once and text I was supposed to edit a few times). There should be a way to move it around.
Dunno, maybe some reactivity for non-standard responses (like when the user doesn't add the text they're supposed to add and so on)? Probably hard to do...
Some smileys; there should probably be an option to opt out of auto-adding those badges onto the userpage.
Can you delete all these autocreated pages in my userspace?
-- illythr ( talk) 22:52, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
... Most of it
... The long fire works at the end
... Practice. And meanness of Taggy
... GaiaGirl86 saying she '[is] from Earth, too!'
... Longer -- Fred Bloggs ( talk) 22:05, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
It gave me the knowledge I needed to not be afraid to give this a try. ...
Tool bar buttons should be on top and bottom of the edit box to save scrolling. ...
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When I went to copy and paste images in the last exercise, I could only copy and paste one of the images. I was not sure if I was doing something wrong. PeaceofHistory ( talk) 16:50, 9 June 2014 (UTC) ...
-- PeaceofHistory ( talk) 16:50, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Neat Tutorial.
Little bit lengthy.
Nothing as such.
Nothing was unnecessary i think.
Give tutorial on Infobox (which comes i the right side of an article).
--Ronald James Pulpel 06:53, 11 June 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronaldjamespulpel ( talk • contribs)
... It was a great fun and interactive way of learning about Wikipedia editing.
... Sometimes it didn't pick up my edits and seemed stuck in a loop. I realized and made a further minor edit (like additing a space) to make it happy but I can see how someone could drop off at that point.
... A page administration tutorial?
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... Excellent resource. I need to show some colleagues how to use Wikipedia and I'll start by pointing them to the Adventure!
-- Cxw1044 ( talk) 13:51, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
ahaha. I love Taggy McTaggerstein.
Mission 2 I think mentions that my contributions are "just from my user page and talk" which (being a long time user before this tutorial) it's not. Maybe reword it so it says something like "Unless you have been editing before this tutorial, then it's just from your user page and talk"
mission 5 step 7 ("Which sentence best summarizes Verifiability") the floating box ("Challenge yourself") should be fixed in place.
For some reason the image function wasn't working completely in mission 7. (I pasted the file names in the prompt box but it wouldn't let me actually insert them in to the article)
explanation of certain templates like for example when creating a page about a famous person, how do you make the box to the right with their details. And how to link pages to certain categories.
The badges and the tutorial populated messages seem like a kinda lame thing to have on my page <:D.
A nice thorough tutorial :). Was a bit hard to find though. Maybe it needs it's own advertisement on the front page or at the top (If you're not already linking new users to it). That or maybe an obvious banner when you go to look up help editing.
-- Msmarmalade ( talk) 13:40, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
The music, the friendly tone, the easy steps, and the general warm atmosphere around the adventure.
Sometimes while editing, I would go ahead and save the page before the "box" told me so. Seems the system had trouble if I was a step ahead without "letting it know" and I would sometimes have to restart the mission.
Perhaps additional "missions" with more complex mechanisms covered
Nothing unnecessary :)
This was a good intro to wikipedia!
-- ONBaneth ( talk) 15:16, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
...Nice tutorial!
...At the step for adding 5 images, the menu method stopped working after the first image. I had to copy-paste the first entry four times, and then substitute in the names of the image files. Not sure why since the entire Adventure worked fine otherwise.
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This was really helpful and who doesn't like earning badges?!
Nothing. This was a great breakdown of the fundamentals.
Maybe more on the images thing. It's still a hard thing to figure out. Also, the various ways to cite sources.
I understand the need to go back to the article and choose responses but it got a little tedious.
This should be sent as soon as someone creates their account! I didn't find it until well after making my first edits. I could have saved myself some trouble if I had been given this at the start.
-- Kobuu ( talk) 15:20, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
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Occasionally, the tutorial froze. Hard to go back sometimes (if I got directed to to the wrong screen) ...
The image section & copyright could have used some more depth, similar to the neutral pov information earlier. ...
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Science shows that Earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago. The organisms that live on Earth have completely changed its air (atmosphere); this is called a biosphere. 71% of Earth's surface is covered in salt water oceans. Earth is the only place in the Solar System where liquid water is known to exist at present. The other 29% is made of rocky land in the shape of continents and islands. Earth interacts with other objects in the Solar System, particularly the Sun and the Moon. The Earth orbits the Sun roughly once every 365.25 days. One spin is called a day and one orbit around the Sun is called a year. This is why there are 365 days in a year, but a leap day added to the calendar once every 4 years. Shamiek01* ( talk) 21:18, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
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I'm here to learn, explore, understand, create and, hopefully, contribute something of meaning. JessKiddinU ( talk) 21:51, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
I am Racha128, acting is my passion, i'm a sophomore in one of the biggest cuny colleges. i want to be a pediatric nurse because i love children.i love to gain new knowledge and i'm very open to learn new stuffs.i describe myself as an addicted of success unfortunately there no rehab for that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Racha1289 ( talk • contribs) 02:06, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
i am Racha1289, i am Haitian i was born in croix-des-bouquets the oust side of Haiti. actually i am a sophomore in one of the biggest Cuny colleges in Manhattan. i describe myself as an addicted of success. i want to be a pediatric nurse. i believe in education. my main belief is knowledge is the fundamental core to success. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Racha1289 ( talk • contribs) 02:31, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
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-- MrskKathleenjohnson ( talk) 03:52, 4 September 2014 (UTC) i thought the Wikiadventure was very helpful. Thank you. I look forward to participating in making knowledge more accessible to all. MrskKathleenjohnson ( talk) 03:52, 4 September 2014 (UTC)mrskathleenjohnson
The tutorial, smooth and fun.
Nothing, everything was to the point.
I guess this is all I can imagine for now, LOL!!!
Nothing, everything was perfect.
I will try my best to use this knowledge and improve Wikipedia. Cheers!!!--Saurabhworld 05:53, 6 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saurabhworld1 ( talk • contribs)
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Kaitybah ( talk) 04:40, 7 September 2014 (UTC) Thanks so much for your friendly welcome User:WillKomen. I can't wait to start editing! Kaitybah ( talk) 04:40, 7 September 2014 (UTC)-- Kaitybah ( talk) 04:40, 7 September 2014 (UTC)kaitybah
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Thanks for the warm welcome
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Interactive learning experience was fantastic, although formatting will take a bit of getting used to!!
It was addictive so kept me past my bedtime!
Want to learn more so I eventually I can contribute to something I be proud of.
The whole journey was necessary and fruitful.
Keep up the great work. I have been pondering taking the wiki leap. Now i am glad I took it. Apologies for nothing more constructive but I hope to make up for it by contributing to the this fantastic project and community.
-- Loveoflearning1 ( talk) 00:04, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
The friendly tone and style of the guide text!
If I have to nit-pick, it would be that the purpose of the starred blue buttons wasn't clear in the general flow of things. Do they indicate something optional? Or just a little more detail? There was an information box about it right at the start of the tour, but I couldn't easily apply what I'd read there to the context of the starred blue buttons.
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-- Fvisagie ( talk) 14:22, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
I'm by no means a new editor, but I can't seem to click the big start button. (I've tried this on Firefox 32 and Chromium 37.) Anon126 ( notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 22:23, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
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HSEINI.MOHAMMED ( talk) 13:32, 15 September 2014 (UTC) Hi I'm Mohammed
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Bonjour, je comprends que ce soit ta planète favorite, c'est vraiment super ! Nicocoo ( talk) 13:52, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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Thoughts on a reliable source Nicocoo ( talk) 14:09, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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I'd love to help Aron.banyasz ( talk) 14:54, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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ZACH bong ( talk) 21:40, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
... The sound files and skimming the text.
... Not being able to type and edit!
... The color blue and more pictures!
... The > button when the white button with text appears
... > and < should be changed to forward and back to be more simplistic -- The FedExitor.exe ( talk) 23:54, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
Greetings Adventurers,
I am working on a project to support the development of current and future newcomer support programs on Wikipedia.
Because you recently participated in The Wikipedia Adventure, I would like to interview you about your experience in this program.
If you are interested, please email me at gmugar [at] syr.edu and hopefully we can find a convenient time to conduct an interview via Skype or Google hangout.
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Social.S ( talk) 15:38, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
... I was fun, friendly,and totally above my expectations
... it told you exactly what to do and left little room for freedom
... the little tracks every time you earned a badge or answered a question correctly or completed a level.
... nothing really (i'm not too good with poining out unneccesaties)
... the cretor of this game uses a lot of graphics (for wikipedia) and knows a wide variety of music.I think both are cool -- Quiet Wanderer ( talk) 02:15, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
...I really liked how everything was guided, and how one thing led to another.
...Some of the transitions between activities were a bit choppy, and closing the windows was trouble, because they couldn't come back.
...How to use the new beta source editing features (although honestly those are more straightforward and maybe don't need further explanation)
...All those replies to GaiaGirl. They were useful at first but got repetitive near the end.
...Developers, GREAT JOB on this tutorial. I really liked it. Even though I've been helping out on Wikipedia here and there for years, I didn't know some of the things this tutorial taught me. It was informative and fun. Again, great job, and thank you for your work on Wikipedia!
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-- PrismAira ( talk) 14:13, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Learning how to edit Wikipedia.
How childish and slow it is.
Information about how to utilise the editor and navigate through the facilities.
The space theme.
I don't get why this tutorial seems to be aimed at children. Do you expect children or idiots to edit Wikipedia? I would think you would prefer intelligent adults who are capable of grasping a straight forward tutorial orientated toward adults.
-- Graham McCormack ( talk) 10:28, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
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Please replace the contents of this page with the contents of the sandbox for HTML5 compliance. Thank you. — {{U| Technical 13}} ( e • t • c) 21:11, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
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Can this not be so confusing? E-e-bayer_lover (Annoy me) 21:09, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Kc2015 ( talk) 18:10, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
The Little Blue Creature That Showed Me Around! :-)
Nothing.
Hmm... Wikilinks?
Nothing. I learned a lot of new things that I didn't know yet! :-)
No. -- TheTalkerBot ( talk) 14:09, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm in the process of testing. I spotted a bug: when creating one's user page, if you save before proceeding with the dialog box, after the page saves, the TWA interface pops up again but you can't advance further because it tells you to save the page first (which you already have done. Thanks, BethOne ( talk) 15:19, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
I finished testing. Generally, I think that it seems effective in pointing out the key skills for editing Wikipedia; I am not concerned that newbies are not bombarded with the finer points of eg square brackets for links, as they can notice it as they go. The lack of mention of ref templates is a concern. Also the tone is pitched towards a younger demographic. I don't think adult newbies need to be constantly told how amazing they are – a simple "that's correct, well done" would suffice. Similarly you get badges every other click, which IMO demeans them; maybe just one per mission?
Generally, though, good work; if this is effective at attracting good contributors, which I think it should do well (better than the current situation at any rate), I'm happy with it, since it covers most of the basic skill set. Also, to whoever wrote the code, I envy your JavaScript skills! Thanks, BethOne ( talk) 15:59, 26 December 2014 (UTC) (alt. of User:BethNaught)
I was thinking of using this in a class but found it too confusing. Great start though! Some feedback:
- Reagle ( talk) 21:50, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
I like rodents but why is there one in the welcome message? Is this the mascot? Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:04, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
It teaches you how to use the editor and some of the basic rules you need to know to be an asset to Wikipedia.
This really doesn't need to be 7 missions. The name "adventure" makes it seem like it's going to be some crazy wild ride through a bunch of portals, where we would learn lots of cool new stuff as we learn to use Wikipedia, but we end up with something fairly underwhelming.
Why not just make the course "Wikipedia for beginners" and then quickfire teach people how to use the editor: editing text, using sources, referencing the sources, etc. And then once people know the basics, take them through a bunch of easy portals. Like animals and plants, food, hobbies, etc. Give them experience editing a wide array of topics and then let them loose.
The badges :/
The music and the art were cool. The NPCs? were also pretty fun to read. -- Singdavion ( talk) 20:02, 18 January 2015 (UTC) I liked the badges they kept track of my progress. It took me awhile to understand about the sound recordings. I got confused after Mission 7. Lbhiggin ( talk) 00:47, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
... Very simple and easy to follow. A lot to learn and absorb
... Nothing really. Some of the editing process is not so familiar as with other text editors.
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... I just look forward to becoming part of the community and sharing my well of useless knowledge. ;) -- Kaphoen ( talk) 09:30, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Perfectly designed for new-users. It teaches new user the basic techniques in editing and some basic policies and is very user-friendly
Instructions is a little bit confusing in Mission 1.
More complicated staff. These missions are a bit too basic. Many things are left unexplored
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The adventure needs more promotion. Many new users will not know the adventure exist unless they were welcomed by that particular template. My suggestion is that the project can send a talk page message to new users, similar to the Teahouse message.
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...Real time learning made interactive, easy to go back if I missed a point and the page is very much helpful to start with.
...It is quite good enough.
...I wish to have more of an inline reference making process.
...For any beginners nothing would go in vain. Everything has put from grassroot level and that is not burden some.
...I am much satisfied. The Adventure part is really helping me to understand things in a creastive and collaborative manner! Thanks Wiki Team.
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The interactive game had some good examples of how to cite and edit pages. It was much to simple for a beginner though
...The page was never lost. I could always go back to user talk page and click on where I left of in the mission.
...Nothing really. Just theme was childish.
...Citing references and also section editing.
...more practice with exterior links.
...If it were any easier I wouldn't have learned a thing.
-- Metlifecc ( talk) 19:03, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
It was a great tool for beginners. I really liked the stars and the celebration music at the end of each mission.
Sometimes, when I had to add the summary comment and save, the game stacked and I had to start from the begging the section.
This is a great tool for beginners. Maybe it could be nice if you add some more advanced tools.
Hmm, I didn't feel that anything was unnecessary.
Really nice concept and very helpful.
-- EVDiam ( talk) 02:40, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
It is a very simple tutorial that allows to have a look at all the functions of Wikipedia. Feels like a game and makes it easy to learn.
I didn't like the fact that sometimes they were some bugs. Sometimes it blocked and I had to edit and save several times in order to get to the next page.
It would be good to be able to go even more into details as an option.
Nothing, very good indeed.
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Everything shown was decent.
Opened multiple browser windows (10 to be exact), the window that I wasn't allowed to close without starting over kept blocking the edit box and making it harder to complete tasks, didn't show me how to get rid of that annoying red box up top, some of the sections were too drawn out with multiple clicks.
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...Quick to provide information, not stuffed down your throat, engaging.
...Missed out some core features, told you to copy and paste images etc from the box instead of finding them, and doesn't teach how to type the shortcuts. Didn't teach how to check new notifications etc.
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...This was great and informative, thanks! I've been editing anonymously for a while so I new most of this, but it was still helpful.
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@ Ocaasi:: Many of the steps in the tours have message boxes that appear beneath the page text. It's a nice feature, especially when it causes the page to scroll down to reveal that box. The one issue is that the boxes show up well beneath the main body, because they are attached beneath the #footer-info-copyright. Can you attach them instead to #content.mw-body so that they aren't so far beneath the main body (and #wpTextbox1 for boxes in the edit window)?-- Sage Ross (WMF) ( talk) 19:40, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Adventure really helps the new comers to learn and work on Wikipedia. Hats off for people behind this effort. -- Rafiqd ( talk) 23:47, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
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was fairly easy to grasp and made sense of the concepts and policy. ...
The text box for the adventure instructions would sometime appear over the text it was trying to get me to read (for example the history of changes on the earth page) and thus I couldn't really see what was back there. I get that it wasn't actually important, but it still made me want to click the box off so I could actually read the information. ...
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-- Frater UI ( talk) 21:16, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
...Making me think
...Feeling a dimwit when I hadn't grasped a concept/instruction fully first time
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-- Martypuss ( talk) 20:06, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Fixed There are now 17 project-sites (up from 15). Go to your preferences to verify. Checkingfax ( talk) 17:37, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
@ Ross Hill, Ragesoss, Sbouterse (WMF). Per your fun and thoughtful suggestions, I have tried sounds at both the game end and also the galactic challenge success pages. Let me know what you think!
I searched commons for a variety of interesting clips that are under 20 seconds. If you find other cool ones, let me know. Cheers and thanks for the great idea! Ocaasi t | c 16:08, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
The whole thing was very well put together. I especially like the fact that it's laid out chronologically through a basic project workflow that involves collaboration with another user.
The badges are kinda corny, but I understand how acknowledgement of progress is important.
I'd like to see a rather lengthy section on report programs, mediation, blocking users, and page protection.
I think it was all very necessary.
Great job!
-- GoodBetterBestNeverLetItRest ( talk) 23:32, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
It's a nice way to get to know Wikipedia.
It's a good way to get started.
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-- Gerarddummer ( talk) 16:36, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
...The tone and friendliness
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Hello, there are now 22 project sites on Wikipedia (up from 18). Time for an update! Checkingfax ( talk) 04:54, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
… Thanks for making learning fun. It's great to be part of this multiverse of knowledge.
… The first time around, I didn't get that I was supposed to participate, rather than simply read and 'click the equivalent of OK".
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… There is a LOT to learn, and I am grateful that this tutorial exists. Thank you!!!
-- Netherzone ( talk) 04:10, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ocaasi,
I just went through most of the game and I think that this was quite fun! As always there are of course some minor tweaks that would make it even better:
Finally, I was wondering when it would be possible to create local versions on other language versions?
Best, John Andersson (WMSE) ( talk) 12:59, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
I like everything specially the steps or the way. One new user can easily understand the things.
Some times I felt like I'm doing so much clicks.
The interface need to be more interactive.
The initials training and ideas about the article base.
I'd like to thanks the developers and the concept creator for their work. I can clearly see that many new comers are going to learn very quick using this. -- Jnanaranjan Sahu (ଜ୍ଞାନ) talk 11:50, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
... The Interface and precise information.
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-- Literally&figurative ( talk) 17:49, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Training was cute but not saccharine, well-structured, and covered important points. The self-pacing worked well. Good amount of practice on key skills.
Awesome unicorn and volcano graphics :)
Thanks much!
-- WilfredSwinton ( talk) 20:19, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
...Well done. Easy to follow and I left feeling more confident.
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... Creative!
... Setbacks on clicking the "continue" blue buttons.
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In a step (I think it's mission 4) I was lead to a fake history of page "(username)/TWA/Earth". Why not go to the REAL one? User670839245 ( talk) 22:53, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Er. got it. BTW in some wikis there're some sort of {{ USERNAME}} template that automatically display current user's username... can that be used? (It's still me, user670839245)23:19, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
in mission 6 the cleanup template... should be on the top of a page, shouldn't it?? User670839245 ( talk) 23:02, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
and the sig, named "you". (It's still me, user670839245.)23:03, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
as title. User670839245 ( talk) 23:22, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
In this wiki auto confirm is got by being for 4 days and make 10 edits... before that users can't save right away before they preview. How did I actually... (until the first REAL edit in the tour, 1 edit is made automatically by the tour... only one.) does the tour grant that right for users??!! (btw, the zh: needs 7 days and 50 edits.. and I am still not autoconfirmed there.) User670839245 ( talk) 23:28, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
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... Very interesting and helpful, walked you through very easily
... The differences between the 3 choices of reply were too obvious, perhaps some a little closer to reality?
...Why were some of the words linked to be highlighted and not others, eg methane and not carbon dioxide or oxygen. I understand that it would get too much to link all important terms, but in such an article, how do you decide?
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Thanks for doing this, very much clearer than reading through reams and reams of pages! -- Hannahlucy100 ( talk) 22:19, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
My dad was an artist who lived on Martha's Vineyard and died over 10 years ago. I thought it would be of value to write an article about him. I have submitted it, but I would like guidance concerning his name. His legal name is John Stanley Murphy, but he went by Stan Murphy or Stanley Murphy for nearly all of his life. What name do I use for the biography? Thnaks in advance. - David 61Murphyrd ( talk) 15:00, 5 April 2014 (UTC) 61Murphyrd ( talk · contribs), hi, the best place to ask for this kind of help is the Teahouse. They'll have some good guidance for you. Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 15:26, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
...the overall tutorial was good. love the badges!
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User:Ocaasi/sandbox Thoughts? Ocaasi t | c 18:10, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
I just went through the Wikipedia Adventure. My main purpose was to review the work that you all have done to see if there are any bugs and problems. I use the Modern skin and Firefox 26.0. Initially when the adventurer has to edit a page by clicking the the edit link button, I was not able to click it and the mouse cursor turned into the highlighting or editing mode instead of the hand which should have shown up while going to click a link ( screen-shot of problem). I faced the problem starting 2 times and then didn't. I had to manually enter the edit link in the address bar to continue the adventure. The same thing happens when I view this page too. Even though I can't see the edit button, I can still click it. This is however not possible while the adventure is on. I hope you all fix this soon but I don't think that many newbies will even know about the modern skin.
Also, it would have been better if the music starts playing automatically (if it is possible). Can you please give me a list of the sound files that were used?
Have a very Happy New Year by the way. - Jayadevp 13 15:05, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
I found this game very ludic and fun. Why not add supplementary quests, for learn more again? If a contributor wants to know more on a specific subject, he can do the quest for learn. For example : -User page quest -Editing war stopping quest (with a false editing war, of course) -Vandalism stopping quest (with false vandals, as the false users of the original TWA) -etc. Also, why not put this awesome game to other Wikimedia projects. The Wiktionnary Adventure, The Wikispecies Adventure, etc... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sosolal ( talk • contribs) 09:25, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
- The art design - The humor, and at times over the top "Aren't you great?" and "Isn't Wikipedia the best thing in the world?" atmosphere to the adventure. - It forced me to use the editing buttons (I had never used them before)
-In Section 3, step 3, the "Search for typos button": The button didn't indicate that I should have searched for typos before clicking on it. -I didn't know why some of the buttons had stars (*) on them -Towards the end being told to hit the edit button was tedious. (E.g step 15 of mission 6 the prompt "Click EDIT so you can add an inline citation.") I would have preferred to be taken directly to the the Edit page. - That wikilinks were introduced so late in the tutorial. For some people this is the defining feature of Wikipedia so I felt it should have been introduced sooner than later. -When told to copy a multiple choice reply for the first time in mission 2, (step 5) it wasn't immediately obvious I was meant to copy the text contained in the prompt, perhaps change the prompt to: "Copy the best reply from the box below and paste it into the editing text box, at the bottom below Will's message to you" and then surround the text ":Thanks so much for your friendly welcome User:WillKomen. I can't wait to start editing!..." with a box.
-The art design could have benefited from further diversity. -Could have incorporated the Show Preview button.
(Again towards the end) explicitly telling users to press the SAVE button each time an edit was made.
-None of the sound clips automatically played for me, I wasn't aware whether this was intentional or not. -Had no idea the tutorial existed until I visited the article wizard. -The usernames used were pretty funny.
-- Neuroxic ( talk) 04:34, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
...clear concise instructions, friendly tone
...It was a little cutsy (with the music and congratulations at end of every session. Seemed geared toward a middle school or early high school level of learning.
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-- Chimp1cards ( talk) 05:57, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
The badges, the article about Earth, the popup interface, the plot of the "videogame".
-- Daniele Pugliesi ( talk) 09:45, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
...I learned many things I did not know how to do before in editing pages of Wikipedia.
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The way wiki works
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Scope of editing
easy methods to edit
Some of the things will not have a reliable references those things can be added with special advises I think
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-- AnnaBorgida ( talk) 18:33, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
I enjoyed the tips and pointers
The little pop-ups
More pictures/interactivity
The dragon dude
Liked it
-- KBSully ( talk) 02:08, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
I thought this was a really great and succinct introduction to Wikipedia.
I didn't actually want all the badges that I got, since I felt like they cluttered up my user page (and I've since removed them). I get that it's a sign of positive encouragement, but I think this could be accomplished through fewer badges. Maybe just one cool badge could be awarded if you finished all the missions available.
I liked every opportunity I had to choose the 'best possible' response in a situation. Those were good delineations of community norms.
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Also, thanks for creating this! It was really fun and cute without being cloying or condescending.
-- Snarkady ( talk) 22:04, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
This "adventure" is really patronising. I didn't come across it until I had been editing for five years or more. If it had been inflicted on me earlier, I might have been pissed off enough to give up on editing. Who do you think it is aimed at? Maproom ( talk) 23:22, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
I was a great way to know about the basics of being a wiki editor.
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-- RustyDude09 ( talk) 03:16, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Covers the basics, mentions overlinking, pretty picture, friendly, provides links to additional resources. User references in the article "history" are a nice touch.
Imaginary friends are kind of creepy. I guess they're necessary to simulate a collaborative environment, but it expected this (1:20-1:49) to happen all the time. Maybe add an age question in the beginning and replace them with more abstract explanations?
The dialog window gets in the way a few times (it blocked the save button once and text I was supposed to edit a few times). There should be a way to move it around.
Dunno, maybe some reactivity for non-standard responses (like when the user doesn't add the text they're supposed to add and so on)? Probably hard to do...
Some smileys; there should probably be an option to opt out of auto-adding those badges onto the userpage.
Can you delete all these autocreated pages in my userspace?
-- illythr ( talk) 22:52, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
... Most of it
... The long fire works at the end
... Practice. And meanness of Taggy
... GaiaGirl86 saying she '[is] from Earth, too!'
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-- PeaceofHistory ( talk) 16:50, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Neat Tutorial.
Little bit lengthy.
Nothing as such.
Nothing was unnecessary i think.
Give tutorial on Infobox (which comes i the right side of an article).
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... It was a great fun and interactive way of learning about Wikipedia editing.
... Sometimes it didn't pick up my edits and seemed stuck in a loop. I realized and made a further minor edit (like additing a space) to make it happy but I can see how someone could drop off at that point.
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... Excellent resource. I need to show some colleagues how to use Wikipedia and I'll start by pointing them to the Adventure!
-- Cxw1044 ( talk) 13:51, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
ahaha. I love Taggy McTaggerstein.
Mission 2 I think mentions that my contributions are "just from my user page and talk" which (being a long time user before this tutorial) it's not. Maybe reword it so it says something like "Unless you have been editing before this tutorial, then it's just from your user page and talk"
mission 5 step 7 ("Which sentence best summarizes Verifiability") the floating box ("Challenge yourself") should be fixed in place.
For some reason the image function wasn't working completely in mission 7. (I pasted the file names in the prompt box but it wouldn't let me actually insert them in to the article)
explanation of certain templates like for example when creating a page about a famous person, how do you make the box to the right with their details. And how to link pages to certain categories.
The badges and the tutorial populated messages seem like a kinda lame thing to have on my page <:D.
A nice thorough tutorial :). Was a bit hard to find though. Maybe it needs it's own advertisement on the front page or at the top (If you're not already linking new users to it). That or maybe an obvious banner when you go to look up help editing.
-- Msmarmalade ( talk) 13:40, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
The music, the friendly tone, the easy steps, and the general warm atmosphere around the adventure.
Sometimes while editing, I would go ahead and save the page before the "box" told me so. Seems the system had trouble if I was a step ahead without "letting it know" and I would sometimes have to restart the mission.
Perhaps additional "missions" with more complex mechanisms covered
Nothing unnecessary :)
This was a good intro to wikipedia!
-- ONBaneth ( talk) 15:16, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
...Nice tutorial!
...At the step for adding 5 images, the menu method stopped working after the first image. I had to copy-paste the first entry four times, and then substitute in the names of the image files. Not sure why since the entire Adventure worked fine otherwise.
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This was really helpful and who doesn't like earning badges?!
Nothing. This was a great breakdown of the fundamentals.
Maybe more on the images thing. It's still a hard thing to figure out. Also, the various ways to cite sources.
I understand the need to go back to the article and choose responses but it got a little tedious.
This should be sent as soon as someone creates their account! I didn't find it until well after making my first edits. I could have saved myself some trouble if I had been given this at the start.
-- Kobuu ( talk) 15:20, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
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Science shows that Earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago. The organisms that live on Earth have completely changed its air (atmosphere); this is called a biosphere. 71% of Earth's surface is covered in salt water oceans. Earth is the only place in the Solar System where liquid water is known to exist at present. The other 29% is made of rocky land in the shape of continents and islands. Earth interacts with other objects in the Solar System, particularly the Sun and the Moon. The Earth orbits the Sun roughly once every 365.25 days. One spin is called a day and one orbit around the Sun is called a year. This is why there are 365 days in a year, but a leap day added to the calendar once every 4 years. Shamiek01* ( talk) 21:18, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
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I'm here to learn, explore, understand, create and, hopefully, contribute something of meaning. JessKiddinU ( talk) 21:51, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
I am Racha128, acting is my passion, i'm a sophomore in one of the biggest cuny colleges. i want to be a pediatric nurse because i love children.i love to gain new knowledge and i'm very open to learn new stuffs.i describe myself as an addicted of success unfortunately there no rehab for that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Racha1289 ( talk • contribs) 02:06, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
i am Racha1289, i am Haitian i was born in croix-des-bouquets the oust side of Haiti. actually i am a sophomore in one of the biggest Cuny colleges in Manhattan. i describe myself as an addicted of success. i want to be a pediatric nurse. i believe in education. my main belief is knowledge is the fundamental core to success. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Racha1289 ( talk • contribs) 02:31, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
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-- MrskKathleenjohnson ( talk) 03:52, 4 September 2014 (UTC) i thought the Wikiadventure was very helpful. Thank you. I look forward to participating in making knowledge more accessible to all. MrskKathleenjohnson ( talk) 03:52, 4 September 2014 (UTC)mrskathleenjohnson
The tutorial, smooth and fun.
Nothing, everything was to the point.
I guess this is all I can imagine for now, LOL!!!
Nothing, everything was perfect.
I will try my best to use this knowledge and improve Wikipedia. Cheers!!!--Saurabhworld 05:53, 6 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saurabhworld1 ( talk • contribs)
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Kaitybah ( talk) 04:40, 7 September 2014 (UTC) Thanks so much for your friendly welcome User:WillKomen. I can't wait to start editing! Kaitybah ( talk) 04:40, 7 September 2014 (UTC)-- Kaitybah ( talk) 04:40, 7 September 2014 (UTC)kaitybah
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Thanks for the warm welcome
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Interactive learning experience was fantastic, although formatting will take a bit of getting used to!!
It was addictive so kept me past my bedtime!
Want to learn more so I eventually I can contribute to something I be proud of.
The whole journey was necessary and fruitful.
Keep up the great work. I have been pondering taking the wiki leap. Now i am glad I took it. Apologies for nothing more constructive but I hope to make up for it by contributing to the this fantastic project and community.
-- Loveoflearning1 ( talk) 00:04, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
The friendly tone and style of the guide text!
If I have to nit-pick, it would be that the purpose of the starred blue buttons wasn't clear in the general flow of things. Do they indicate something optional? Or just a little more detail? There was an information box about it right at the start of the tour, but I couldn't easily apply what I'd read there to the context of the starred blue buttons.
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-- Fvisagie ( talk) 14:22, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
I'm by no means a new editor, but I can't seem to click the big start button. (I've tried this on Firefox 32 and Chromium 37.) Anon126 ( notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 22:23, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
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HSEINI.MOHAMMED ( talk) 13:32, 15 September 2014 (UTC) Hi I'm Mohammed
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Bonjour, je comprends que ce soit ta planète favorite, c'est vraiment super ! Nicocoo ( talk) 13:52, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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Thoughts on a reliable source Nicocoo ( talk) 14:09, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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I'd love to help Aron.banyasz ( talk) 14:54, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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ZACH bong ( talk) 21:40, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
... The sound files and skimming the text.
... Not being able to type and edit!
... The color blue and more pictures!
... The > button when the white button with text appears
... > and < should be changed to forward and back to be more simplistic -- The FedExitor.exe ( talk) 23:54, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
Greetings Adventurers,
I am working on a project to support the development of current and future newcomer support programs on Wikipedia.
Because you recently participated in The Wikipedia Adventure, I would like to interview you about your experience in this program.
If you are interested, please email me at gmugar [at] syr.edu and hopefully we can find a convenient time to conduct an interview via Skype or Google hangout.
Gabrielm199 ( talk) 23:29, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
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Social.S ( talk) 15:38, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
... I was fun, friendly,and totally above my expectations
... it told you exactly what to do and left little room for freedom
... the little tracks every time you earned a badge or answered a question correctly or completed a level.
... nothing really (i'm not too good with poining out unneccesaties)
... the cretor of this game uses a lot of graphics (for wikipedia) and knows a wide variety of music.I think both are cool -- Quiet Wanderer ( talk) 02:15, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
...I really liked how everything was guided, and how one thing led to another.
...Some of the transitions between activities were a bit choppy, and closing the windows was trouble, because they couldn't come back.
...How to use the new beta source editing features (although honestly those are more straightforward and maybe don't need further explanation)
...All those replies to GaiaGirl. They were useful at first but got repetitive near the end.
...Developers, GREAT JOB on this tutorial. I really liked it. Even though I've been helping out on Wikipedia here and there for years, I didn't know some of the things this tutorial taught me. It was informative and fun. Again, great job, and thank you for your work on Wikipedia!
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Learning how to edit Wikipedia.
How childish and slow it is.
Information about how to utilise the editor and navigate through the facilities.
The space theme.
I don't get why this tutorial seems to be aimed at children. Do you expect children or idiots to edit Wikipedia? I would think you would prefer intelligent adults who are capable of grasping a straight forward tutorial orientated toward adults.
-- Graham McCormack ( talk) 10:28, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
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Please replace the contents of this page with the contents of the sandbox for HTML5 compliance. Thank you. — {{U| Technical 13}} ( e • t • c) 21:11, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
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E-e-bayer_lover (Annoy me) 21:00, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Can this not be so confusing? E-e-bayer_lover (Annoy me) 21:09, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Kc2015 ( talk) 18:10, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
The Little Blue Creature That Showed Me Around! :-)
Nothing.
Hmm... Wikilinks?
Nothing. I learned a lot of new things that I didn't know yet! :-)
No. -- TheTalkerBot ( talk) 14:09, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm in the process of testing. I spotted a bug: when creating one's user page, if you save before proceeding with the dialog box, after the page saves, the TWA interface pops up again but you can't advance further because it tells you to save the page first (which you already have done. Thanks, BethOne ( talk) 15:19, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
I finished testing. Generally, I think that it seems effective in pointing out the key skills for editing Wikipedia; I am not concerned that newbies are not bombarded with the finer points of eg square brackets for links, as they can notice it as they go. The lack of mention of ref templates is a concern. Also the tone is pitched towards a younger demographic. I don't think adult newbies need to be constantly told how amazing they are – a simple "that's correct, well done" would suffice. Similarly you get badges every other click, which IMO demeans them; maybe just one per mission?
Generally, though, good work; if this is effective at attracting good contributors, which I think it should do well (better than the current situation at any rate), I'm happy with it, since it covers most of the basic skill set. Also, to whoever wrote the code, I envy your JavaScript skills! Thanks, BethOne ( talk) 15:59, 26 December 2014 (UTC) (alt. of User:BethNaught)
I was thinking of using this in a class but found it too confusing. Great start though! Some feedback:
- Reagle ( talk) 21:50, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
I like rodents but why is there one in the welcome message? Is this the mascot? Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:04, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
It teaches you how to use the editor and some of the basic rules you need to know to be an asset to Wikipedia.
This really doesn't need to be 7 missions. The name "adventure" makes it seem like it's going to be some crazy wild ride through a bunch of portals, where we would learn lots of cool new stuff as we learn to use Wikipedia, but we end up with something fairly underwhelming.
Why not just make the course "Wikipedia for beginners" and then quickfire teach people how to use the editor: editing text, using sources, referencing the sources, etc. And then once people know the basics, take them through a bunch of easy portals. Like animals and plants, food, hobbies, etc. Give them experience editing a wide array of topics and then let them loose.
The badges :/
The music and the art were cool. The NPCs? were also pretty fun to read. -- Singdavion ( talk) 20:02, 18 January 2015 (UTC) I liked the badges they kept track of my progress. It took me awhile to understand about the sound recordings. I got confused after Mission 7. Lbhiggin ( talk) 00:47, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
... Very simple and easy to follow. A lot to learn and absorb
... Nothing really. Some of the editing process is not so familiar as with other text editors.
... Practice.
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... I just look forward to becoming part of the community and sharing my well of useless knowledge. ;) -- Kaphoen ( talk) 09:30, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Perfectly designed for new-users. It teaches new user the basic techniques in editing and some basic policies and is very user-friendly
Instructions is a little bit confusing in Mission 1.
More complicated staff. These missions are a bit too basic. Many things are left unexplored
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The adventure needs more promotion. Many new users will not know the adventure exist unless they were welcomed by that particular template. My suggestion is that the project can send a talk page message to new users, similar to the Teahouse message.
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...I thought this was really awesome and for a complete beginner like me it was perfect. Thank you!!
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...Real time learning made interactive, easy to go back if I missed a point and the page is very much helpful to start with.
...It is quite good enough.
...I wish to have more of an inline reference making process.
...For any beginners nothing would go in vain. Everything has put from grassroot level and that is not burden some.
...I am much satisfied. The Adventure part is really helping me to understand things in a creastive and collaborative manner! Thanks Wiki Team.
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...great concept and very helpful AJAYGEORGEAKKARA ( talk) 15:34, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
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... Easy access, quick learning, and pretty much everything.
... Nothing
... Nothing everything was covered
... Nothing it was all good
... no -- Reaper50 ( talk) 19:25, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
The interactive game had some good examples of how to cite and edit pages. It was much to simple for a beginner though
...The page was never lost. I could always go back to user talk page and click on where I left of in the mission.
...Nothing really. Just theme was childish.
...Citing references and also section editing.
...more practice with exterior links.
...If it were any easier I wouldn't have learned a thing.
-- Metlifecc ( talk) 19:03, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
It was a great tool for beginners. I really liked the stars and the celebration music at the end of each mission.
Sometimes, when I had to add the summary comment and save, the game stacked and I had to start from the begging the section.
This is a great tool for beginners. Maybe it could be nice if you add some more advanced tools.
Hmm, I didn't feel that anything was unnecessary.
Really nice concept and very helpful.
-- EVDiam ( talk) 02:40, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
It is a very simple tutorial that allows to have a look at all the functions of Wikipedia. Feels like a game and makes it easy to learn.
I didn't like the fact that sometimes they were some bugs. Sometimes it blocked and I had to edit and save several times in order to get to the next page.
It would be good to be able to go even more into details as an option.
Nothing, very good indeed.
No thanks
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Everything shown was decent.
Opened multiple browser windows (10 to be exact), the window that I wasn't allowed to close without starting over kept blocking the edit box and making it harder to complete tasks, didn't show me how to get rid of that annoying red box up top, some of the sections were too drawn out with multiple clicks.
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...Quick to provide information, not stuffed down your throat, engaging.
...Missed out some core features, told you to copy and paste images etc from the box instead of finding them, and doesn't teach how to type the shortcuts. Didn't teach how to check new notifications etc.
...Basically, the above.
...None.
...This was great and informative, thanks! I've been editing anonymously for a while so I new most of this, but it was still helpful.
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