On 9/25/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 25/09/2007, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
On 25/09/2007, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com > wrote:
Yeah. The image interface in general really sucks, I believe we have a usability report to hand that details how it sucks, so if there's any coders with a good feel for UI who are keen on making things easier then they should hop onto wikitech-l and #wikimedia-tech for a chat with the devs.
Link?
On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Usability , I believe it's one of the two PDFs linked at the bottom.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Usability/Test_Februar_20...
is on de:wp, but is in English. I think this is the report in question.
There's lots and lots of things wrong other than the image interface, of course.
Wwwolf has a page here too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wwwwolf/MediaWiki_Usability
Ah, thanks! I didn't know about these. There's also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability which could stand some updating.
The pdf link you mention seems to be broken though :( -- does anyone know if the .pdf report was the same as what's posted at de:? http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Usability/Test_Februar_20... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/UsabilityDoes anyone have a copy of the pdf?
I still think it'd be worth getting another outside usability assessment*; it looks like the German report was likely based on an old version of the de: upload page, which is pretty different from the giant pages full o' instructions that we have on en: now.
-- phoebe
* hopefully from someone with a clue about licenses!