Posts about Design
Every language in the world: Introducing Wikitongues
Wikitongues is a movement for human rights. Together with speakers and signers of every language in the world, we’re building the most inclusive cultural archive ever made, raising awareness about linguistic diversity and rallying to defend it. We’re a non-profit organization and volunteer community from around the world, which I...
Lingua Tech: Multiple authors per-post is here!
As promised in my last post about changes to credits display on Lingua, today we are launching a whole new feature across GV: The option to set more than one person as contributor in a post!
Lingua Tech: All your posts on all your sites!
Hi GV! I'm Jeremy the Tech Director of Global Voices. Along with our coding contractor Carl, I've been working on a really big update to the plugins that control the Lingua translation system. Today we're launching the first piece, so I wanted to share it with you to avoid surprises...
Brand New Lingua System Feels Pretty Much The Same
Hi everyone! Today we're launching an update to the Lingua Translation system used on GV sites that I've been working on for many months now. To make the transition easy on you the goal was to keep it working almost exactly the same from the perspective of authors and translators,...
Geolocating Global Voices: Add your stories to the map!
The geolocation feature has been working on this site (GV Community) since we launched it, but has been notably missing from the rest of the GV family of sites. The reason is we wanted to test it out here and work out all the major technical issues first. Well that's...
We Are Advox! Re-Branding Global Voices Advocacy
Advox IS our brand. Now how do we show that? Check out some sample logo designs and vote on your favorite!
Vagina Art, Penis Pictures, and the Internet: How Do We Handle Sex and Nudity on GV?
Are there limitations to the type of art we're willing to publish on Global Voices?
Redesigning the RisingVoices logo, hands?
While we're willing to use a variant of the old logo (GV adinkra icon rising over the horizon like the sun) we also want to explore completely new directions to see if there is a simpler visual metaphor that would work better on it's own.