To get the creative juices flowing for our upcoming discussion about our Q4 work, where I am proposing that we set our sights on getting in-line Wikidata description editing on the Wikipedia app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals/Q4#In-line_Wikidata_description_editing_on_the_Wikipedia_app, I spent 30 minutes making a prototype of what I think it could look like to stimulate discussion.
All the interactions are long-presses simply because it was quicker for me to do that, and the copy was written totally off the top of my head. When looking at it, don't think about the visuals or copy, but *do* think about how you think users would respond to it.
Also, don't be afraid to play with the prototype. All of what's happening is only happening on your local device, it's not hitting any APIs to save the descriptions.
If you're the a savvy Android engineer, check out the patch and build your own Wikipedia Alpha app to test it: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/197733/
If you're not, watch a video of it in action: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nx7xmerlyelk963/wddedit.mp4?dl=0
Feedback welcome!
Thanks, Dan
Nice!
I would probably try to think a bit more about the message that explains what is the problem: there's no description, and there should be one. But go figure, maybe it's just me looking for too many explanation.
<nerdrant>It would be nicer to upload videos to a site that doesn't require Flash and doesn't show a confusing log-in box, like Commons or at least YouTube.</nerdrant>
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2015-03-20 2:06 GMT+02:00 Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org:
To get the creative juices flowing for our upcoming discussion about our Q4 work, where I am proposing that we set our sights on getting in-line Wikidata description editing on the Wikipedia app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals/Q4#In-line_Wikidata_description_editing_on_the_Wikipedia_app, I spent 30 minutes making a prototype of what I think it could look like to stimulate discussion.
All the interactions are long-presses simply because it was quicker for me to do that, and the copy was written totally off the top of my head. When looking at it, don't think about the visuals or copy, but *do* think about how you think users would respond to it.
Also, don't be afraid to play with the prototype. All of what's happening is only happening on your local device, it's not hitting any APIs to save the descriptions.
If you're the a savvy Android engineer, check out the patch and build your own Wikipedia Alpha app to test it: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/197733/
If you're not, watch a video of it in action: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nx7xmerlyelk963/wddedit.mp4?dl=0
Feedback welcome!
Thanks, Dan
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On 22 March 2015 at 07:58, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
I would probably try to think a bit more about the message that explains what is the problem: there's no description, and there should be one. But go figure, maybe it's just me looking for too many explanation.
No, I think it's a valid point!
The answer to this question depends pretty heavily on who you're building this for. If this feature is intended for the experienced, power Wikipedian, then any information you give them will simply slow them down unnecessarily; you just want to give them an empty text box, because showing them dialogues with text in will just slow them down. If this feature is for the totally new user, you need a bit more of a walkthrough, but not too much otherwise people will disengage.
We're going to drill down into our personas for this feature next week.
Thanks, Dan