I wanted to bring the design list's attention to the new Wikipedia Adventure project, which you can now pre-alpha-test. It uses GuidedTours functionality to provide "an educational, interactive, web-game using a simulated Wikipedia interface which leads new users through a series of realistic 'missions' to familiarize them with the mechanics, navigation, philosophy, and practices of actual editing."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure
More information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Timeline
Thoughts on badges, game dynamics, incentives, and motivation...: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Research
The main creator, User:Ocaasi, would love your feedback! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Feedback
Is it just me, or does the page reload on every step? Is that intentional?
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo@gmail.com
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I wanted to bring the design list's attention to the new Wikipedia Adventure project, which you can now pre-alpha-test. It uses GuidedTours functionality to provide "an educational, interactive, web-game using a simulated Wikipedia interface which leads new users through a series of realistic 'missions' to familiarize them with the mechanics, navigation, philosophy, and practices of actual editing."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure
More information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Timeline
Thoughts on badges, game dynamics, incentives, and motivation...: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Research
The main creator, User:Ocaasi, would love your feedback! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Feedback -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
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Le mardi 04 juin 2013 à 16:09 -0700, Sumana Harihareswara a écrit :
I wanted to bring the design list's attention to the new Wikipedia Adventure project, which you can now pre-alpha-test. It uses GuidedTours functionality to provide "an educational, interactive, web-game using a simulated Wikipedia interface which leads new users through a series of realistic 'missions' to familiarize them with the mechanics, navigation, philosophy, and practices of actual editing."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure
Here is some feedback: Blue links on a dark blue background is not ok, hardly readable for most people, and it can even be an accessibility problem for people with various vision problem.
For some reason, I can't click most link of the starting page. Though navigation with keyboard is fine, mouse over won't work. I tested with Iceweasel under Debian stable (wheezy).
At the end of step1, the "Discover more motivations" close the popup and open the exact same popup. However closing the popup I can navigate this extra item (with the keyboard, not the mouse). This pages are close to empty, and give no link to go back to where you came from. Honestly I think a single page with a bigger font for each "title" and the the rest of the text on the next line with a "normal" font would do the trick. And add a link to go to the next step (7), since once you closed the popup, you can't go further without going back.
signup?tour=twa1&step=8 the explanation of the register process have a pop up which point to the search zone, which is odd. Moreover it goes over the form, so you have to close the pop up to fill it.
User:Ocaasi?tour=twa1&step=12 a popup with just "add bold" as a title AND "add bold" as text. Clicking next make nothing happen…
Bio?tour=twa1&step=11 closing the popup will let you with no link to the next step.
So this is it, I could go to the very first page and go with step 2 I guess, but I have other tasks waiting for me. Let me know if this feedback was useful and that you need someone to test an improved version.
More information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Timeline
Thoughts on badges, game dynamics, incentives, and motivation...: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Research
The main creator, User:Ocaasi, would love your feedback! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Feedback
Awesome progress Ocaasi! Very cool to see this so far along.
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Mathieu Stumpf < psychoslave@culture-libre.org> wrote:
Here is some feedback: Blue links on a dark blue background is not ok, hardly readable for most people, and it can even be an accessibility problem for people with various vision problem.
+1 to this. Even a large plain text link that appears normal is better than a button styled this way.
Other feedback:
- The placement of the guiders seems to jump around a lot needlessly. They are often pointing at elements unrelated to the tour contents, for example, at the first "Let's get started" step, it seems to point at the Wikipedia logo for some reason. Pointing at a particular element should ideally only be used when you want the user to interact with that element in some way. If you don't need to point at a particular element on the page, then I believe it's fairly trivial to have the guider be center-aligned and without an arrow. - The button is often the title of the next guider. For example, on the step introducing Wikipedia's mission statement, the button is "It is happening". You should never expect users to actually read all of the guider content line by line before responding the button, and instead expect them to scan.[1] - The button should almost always be an action verb, e.g. next, learn more, let's go, get started, etc., though the question form probably works too (e.g. "Who writes Wikipedia?) - If I click the "Explore more motivations" button, the page just reloads and the same guider seems to appear over and over, leaving me feeling stuck. - I didn't really understand what I was being asked to choose from or why at Wikipedia:TWA/1/Bio - Wikipedia:TWA/1/Reasons -- you and Maryana and I should talk about the content in this step I think. The list of motivations we developed through interviews still holds I think, but just presenting the motivations without context or examples may not make sense to a lot of people, because many of these are intrinsic motivators. We also named a lot of these in ways that may not sound like benefits or be really appealing to people. Terms like autonomy, perfectionism, curiosity are really more attributes of Wikipedians, not ways to describe why contribute is rewarding. I'd probably keep this list in mind, but rewrite it to focus on describing benefits of contributing in plainer terminology.
1. http://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-web-users-scan-instead-reading/