On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:13 AM, <benedix(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Yes that is
why we have a demo running at
http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de ;-)
I think you missunderstood what i wrote.
presenting != testing
Yes I know. As I said this will be one of the things the QA person
will look into. Until then this is what we have. It is much better
than nothing ;-)
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.
So you think that phase 1 is not important enough to properly test the
usability?
No that is not what I said. I just said that it will be much more
important in the second phase because the interactions there are much
more complex.
Cheers
Lydia
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