We're figuring out the use of ranking, it's cool but imho it would be great if the results of the discussions are injected back directly into the Wibibase data model. If we give cleat labelling to ranks and the two or three use case that are identified are clearly labelled as such this could be great for usability and would not look like a bit of black magic recepies to the newcomer.

Something I would avoid is "If you label this as normal this will be shown is the query data result but not in the infoboxes who will show the results only with preferred ranks with two sources". So maybe we could encode some rules on Wikibase itself, such as "no claim can be ranked as preferred if they are properly sourced", which could display a useful error message to the user if he tries that out, or a tip to why the option is deactivated ?


2013/12/11 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Lukas Benedix
<benedix@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> A few notes on usability:
>
> First: the load time is extremely bad right now! Even on actual hardware
> with a good interent connection it takes ~40seconds to load Q42.

Yes we're doing firefighting right now.

> Ordering:
> * moving statements is anoying
> * * if you have more claims in one statement its not easy to move the
> whole statement block.
> * *  you have to move a claim all the way down in the block before the
> block moves.

You can just move the last one in the block?

> Table of content:
> * there should be a link back to the top in the headlines so a user
> don't have to scroll all the way up if he clicks the wrong item by accident

Will keep that in mind for the UI redesign. Not going to happen before that.

> Ranks:
> * The three squares on the left are not really self explaining

Do you have a better suggestion for the symbol?

> * I think this will lead to big discussions (e.g. the population of
> Israel: which value should be prefered and which deprecated)
> * In my opinion the sources and qualifiers should be used to represent
> the value of a claim (and the clients should decide which claim is the
> best for them)

Yes there will be discussion but we need to have a way to distinguish
for example old data from the current one. Since it is possible to
mark several as preferred I hope this will not be too bad however.


Cheers
Lydia

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