On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 7:51 AM Anne Gomez agomez@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks Nick. We'll keep your feedback about the star in mind as we go forward. The thing that we're really noticing is that the star is pretty confusing to people, especially when paired with another icon with somewhat similar intuitive meaning. If you look at the prototypes, you can see how this is confusing, particularly for autowiki (now saved pages) https://autowiki.surge.sh/en/wiki/cat.
This is also consistent with what the former mobile team discovered when we released the watchstar to mobile [1,2] . To our readers it clearly means favorite.. just as stars do on other websites.
[1] https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikipedia_Mobile_The_Tr...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keJ-_so6U-c
9m10 - Top 10 articles watched on Wikipedia 11m24 - watch star generating more sign ups than editing (Although later in the year this trailed off - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_editor_engagement https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_editor_engagement/Calls_to_a... ) )
We'll see what we get from the second round of testing, but if we do go down the "saved pages" path, this is something we'll likely want to address.
Anne
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Toby Negrin tnegrin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks Abbey - super interesting.
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 13:06 Anne Gomez agomez@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yay! Thanks so much, Abbey. This has been a great learning experience - both in terms of product takeaways and also in terms of process for these regions.
Looking forward to continuing to learn and iterate as we go forward.
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Abbey Ripstra aripstra@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Everybody!
Here https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/15S6T_nZFatNp7tF3Hq9t6D6pD57peNlLskYZq-Js1IE/edit?usp=sharing is the report for this study, where we tested three (online to offline) ideas with a set of users we could reach from here in SF.
Please check it out, and respond here with any questions, thoughts, interesting info that could inform our thinking further, etc. A few things to note:
- The feedback in this report has already been incorporated into the
prototypes, where needed for our next round of research. (Thanks reading web team!)
- We will continue the testing in India because it is MUCH easier to
reach our target users there.
- We will build on the set of learnings in this report with the
outcomes of the research in India.
- The recruit for research in India is starting now, and testing will
begin within a week or so.
- We will upload this to commons and can post it in the next update
More to follow!
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