Re: [Design] Are people actively editing?

I think that good design requires a deep understanding of user needs. Experiencing those yourself is always helpful, very helpful, but you should be careful that this does not lead you to "design for yourself", and you keep a broader view. Our users are the experienced editor on Catalan Wikipedia that creates new articles about Pritzker laureates, the anonymous reader from Kerala that has a hard time fixing a typo because the lack of input methods for Malayalam in her computer, the guy at the Tate museum reading more about Malevich on his mobile phone, an editor in Nigeria fixing and adding categories to Commons new uploads through a slow internet connection... It is seems quite hard to learn about all their needs through personal experience. Personally I have been involved in our projects in ways I could experience how our projects work in practise. For example, working on the Content Translation project I have been translating several articles myself between Spanish and Catalan Wikipedias in my spare time, but when I started working in the project I focused on learning by observing how our actual users (trying to reach a group as diverse as possible) were currently translating articles as well as going throug research info and policies about translation in Wikipedia. All this requiresbtime and you need to be deliberate on what is more effective. To design an opera house, learning how to sing may not be the most time-effective approach to learn about the needs of singers and the audience. So my advice to a new member of the design team would not be to edit as much as they can, but to learn as much as possible about our user needs and consider getting involved in the projects as one of the tools to achieve it. I think that as a team (with the formation of the user research team) and individually is something which is already in our minds, but it is always helpful to remind ourselfs. Pau El 31/12/2014 8:03, "Nick Wilson (Quiddity)" <nwilson(a)wikimedia.org> escribió: