It's looking good! I have two questions right now.

Firstly, technically, you're helping Wikidata directly, and only helping Wikipedia indirectly. What is the thought process behind saying "Help Wikipedia!" and not something more accurate?

I find it a little frustrating to not know how it is that I've helped Wikipedia. I thought "Sure, I'll help Wikipedia! No, he didn't go the Pratt Institute. Oh, well, what did I do?". It actually slightly disinclined me from wanting to do it again, because I wasn't really sure what I'm doing. On the other hand, you don't want to be overly verbose and show people too much information. Have you thought about adding a prompt to get more information for those that are curious?

These questions are kind of idealistic and not so practical, but I enjoy being able to take off my very practical product owner hat from time to time. :-)

Dan

On 18 August 2014 17:37, Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk@wikimedia.org> wrote:

During Wikimania, me + Kaldari + Sherah did some in-person testing of a prototype mobile Wikidata game that Sherah built during the hackathon.[1] I've finally transcribed the notes from the testing sessions & thought it might be useful/interesting for folks to read through the summary and raw notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Research/Guerilla_testing_Wikigrok.

The tl;dr is that we've definitely got some iterating to do on the UX and copy to make this a better, more understandable, less intimidating experience for less experienced/non-Wikipedian users – but it was great to get that feedback early on so we can act on it before writing any of the live code :)

Lemme know if you have any questions – and Kaldari + Sherah, feel free to add anything you remember from the testing :)

1. Check it out for yourself on a phone or iOS emulator: http://wikigrok-proto.meteor.com/

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