Jorm

Brandon Harris

From May 2010 until November 2014, I was an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation. My title was "Senior Designer." My user account (now locked) was Jorm (WMF).

I am still easily findable and am still willing to help you in whatever way I can.

I can be found on irc.freenode.net, often in the channel #wikipedia-en, but if not just /msg jorm

I can be emailed at bharrisgaijin.com

Foundation Works

While at the Foundation, I worked on:

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: 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: Identity, Reputation and Gratitude: Designing for a Community, speaker
• Wikimania 2011: Identity, Reputation, and Gratitude, speaker
• Wikimania 2011: Encouraging Participation in Wikimedia Projects, speaker

Projects

• Winter - a Beta Feature that applies several changes to the default interface (Vector), including a sticky header and modified interactions
  • Prototype - built a functional, interactive prototype
• Flow - a radical re-thinking of discussion and workflow management for MediaWiki sites
  • 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
• 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 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