On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:40 AM, benedix@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know how you organize the testing process for the front-end? Where are the final users (the Wikipedia community) involved in this process?
We have a demo and there have been several calls for testing of said demo system. There will be more of these calls. Everyone is welcome to join this of course. We have published mock-ups and drafts that people were asked to comment on. We will have more of these as well. Do you have more ideas that I should consider?
I see more than one open point to improve in the demo-system since i discovered the Demo a few weeks ago:
* The table-sorting should be the same in repo and client * * removing and re-add a link changes the order in the repo but not in the client * The feedback-dialogue behaves strange when clicking on "What is this?" (the width of the dialogue changes) * I have to write "Deutsch" into the laguage-textbox to add a link to the german wikipedia even if the demo-system-language is english * "specify site" may be changed to "language" and "specify page" to "article" * when crating a new item I have to click "add" before entering the first language-link * * the textboxes for adding a new link should not be hidden * it is not obvious how to edit a link without hovering the existing links * it is possible to edit more than one link but not to add more than one
I think you should test the Demo with real people. With people who are not involved in the develpment and haven't read or heard about the WikiData-Project.
* Show them the site, and see if they get it do they understand the purpose of the site, the value proposition, how its organized, how it works, and so on. * give them tasks to fulfill and watch them
Above all, I noticed that there was no response to the feedback I've given.
Hmm can you let me know where that was? This shouldn't happen.
I was referring to the feedback function of the demo site. I entered a mailadress, clicked "send" and nothing happened for about one week.
Maybe you can use the built-in discussion-page and not only the mailing-list.
Cheers Lydia
-- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata