On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, <benedix(a)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
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