On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, benedix@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
I read that you are developint with scrum and I wonder who fulfills the Customer- and the User-Roles... In my opinion the customers are either the Foundation or the Wikipedia-Community. The User is definitely not the Foundation and i don't think it's only the Community, everybody uses the wikipedia and will use wikidata in one way or another. To satisfy the needs of your customers and users you should present them the (tested!) product at least after every sprint. This should be easy, because the product is a webservice that should be easy to deploy and easy to test.
Yes that is why we have a demo running at http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de ;-)
You should test it with strangers instead of only wikipedians because someone who is involved in the wikipedia-community is used to the design, knows the bugs in mediawiki and where to click without thinking for a second.
It's more helpful to test with strangers. Show the page and ask what they think they can do, where they would click first. Then you could give them a task to complete, e.g. "add a link to elbonian wikipedia for the item of your choice" or "find the population of your hometown in 1973" and watch how they'll try to complete the task. You'll be supprised what they will think about the design and how much 'erros' and not intendet actions a inexperienced user will make to complete your tasks.
Yes we are aware of that. That is one of the areas the QA person will help with. You also have to understand however that there are about 1000 things that we can do and that time is limited. Any testing and feedback is very welcome - even more so when we come to phase 2 where this will be so much more important.
Cheers Lydia