Hi,
I totally agree with your on "nobody wants to read instructions" but I think that leaving the context is not a very good idea if you really want to have feedback. If I click on "Leave Feedback", I get to an empty wiki page, get confused and never try to give feedback again.
At the moment I'm writing a gadget based on the mediawiki extension I developed for my bachelor-thesis. It allows users to send feedback in the form of a screenshot with annotations.
Here you can try the actual version of this feedback mechanism (the green feedback-button on the right side of the page; when you click on send a screenshot of the page is rendered and appended to the site)
http://lb.bombenlabor.de/ba/test/wikidata.html
Lukas
Am So 05.05.2013 19:45, schrieb Brandon Harris:
Honestly, I just want people to leave their feedback as raw and simple as they can on the wiki page that is linked from the sidebar.
Adding overhead process to giving feedback about design results in less feedback. I don't want people to have to read an instruction booklet before they feel like they can tell me if they like or hate something.
On May 5, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 04/30/2013 05:16 PM, Brandon Harris wrote:
I have thrown together an interactive prototype of Flow. It's fairly functional and I intend to make it even more so.
You can play with it here: http://elohim.gaijin.com/flow/
Thanks for doing this - and thanks to everyone for thoughtful praise, criticism, and questions. Honestly it might be worth choosing a few posts from this thread to link to as examples from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/How_to_give_desig... and to use for the feedback template.
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