Hi everyone,
With Wikimania coming up soon, I wanted to invite Wikimedians who are going to help with something new we're trying at the conference.
Like most Wikimanias, there are many sessions in the program that attempt explain software changes that have happened or will happen in the future on Wikimedia projects. These are great, but they don't give people a chance to try out something for themselves and provide feedback.
This year, we're going to have a booth at the conference with several devices set up (including both laptops and mobile devices). There, we'll be inviting whoever is interested and has 5-30 minutes to test out new tools.[*] Whether you're a reader who's never edited, or a longtime Wikimedian with thousands of edits, they'll be something for you to try.
Abbey Ripstra, the new lead on user experience research at the Foundation, will be leading this effort. I just wanted to give a notice because I'm not sure she's on the list, and because some of my team's work will be up for testing. ;-)
So far, we've got the following projects with things to test:
- Updates to VisualEditor, including a new version for tablets - Flow (a new discussion system) - A new system of task recommendations for Wikipedia editors - the new Wikipedia apps for iOS and Android - a prototype of skin and navigation enhancements (codenamed Winter, if you're familiar)
As we nail down the exact location of the booth, we'll be sure to send out an update.
Steven
That'd be very useful. Over the last year, most of the things I did on-wiki ended up involving filing a bug report at some stage, so it'd be great to try them all out in one go. On 27 Jul 2014 06:26, "Steven Walling" steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
With Wikimania coming up soon, I wanted to invite Wikimedians who are going to help with something new we're trying at the conference.
Like most Wikimanias, there are many sessions in the program that attempt explain software changes that have happened or will happen in the future on Wikimedia projects. These are great, but they don't give people a chance to try out something for themselves and provide feedback.
This year, we're going to have a booth at the conference with several devices set up (including both laptops and mobile devices). There, we'll be inviting whoever is interested and has 5-30 minutes to test out new tools.[*] Whether you're a reader who's never edited, or a longtime Wikimedian with thousands of edits, they'll be something for you to try.
Abbey Ripstra, the new lead on user experience research at the Foundation, will be leading this effort. I just wanted to give a notice because I'm not sure she's on the list, and because some of my team's work will be up for testing. ;-)
So far, we've got the following projects with things to test:
- Updates to VisualEditor, including a new version for tablets
- Flow (a new discussion system)
- A new system of task recommendations for Wikipedia editors
- the new Wikipedia apps for iOS and Android
- a prototype of skin and navigation enhancements (codenamed Winter, if
you're familiar)
As we nail down the exact location of the booth, we'll be sure to send out an update.
Steven
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Will love to do the testing. Will be there to give them a try.
rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from smartphone On Jul 27, 2014 6:36 PM, "Deryck Chan" deryckchan@gmail.com wrote:
That'd be very useful. Over the last year, most of the things I did on-wiki ended up involving filing a bug report at some stage, so it'd be great to try them all out in one go. On 27 Jul 2014 06:26, "Steven Walling" steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
With Wikimania coming up soon, I wanted to invite Wikimedians who are going to help with something new we're trying at the conference.
Like most Wikimanias, there are many sessions in the program that attempt explain software changes that have happened or will happen in the future on Wikimedia projects. These are great, but they don't give people a chance to try out something for themselves and provide feedback.
This year, we're going to have a booth at the conference with several devices set up (including both laptops and mobile devices). There, we'll be inviting whoever is interested and has 5-30 minutes to test out new tools.[*] Whether you're a reader who's never edited, or a longtime Wikimedian with thousands of edits, they'll be something for you to try.
Abbey Ripstra, the new lead on user experience research at the Foundation, will be leading this effort. I just wanted to give a notice because I'm not sure she's on the list, and because some of my team's work will be up for testing. ;-)
So far, we've got the following projects with things to test:
- Updates to VisualEditor, including a new version for tablets
- Flow (a new discussion system)
- A new system of task recommendations for Wikipedia editors
- the new Wikipedia apps for iOS and Android
- a prototype of skin and navigation enhancements (codenamed Winter, if
you're familiar)
As we nail down the exact location of the booth, we'll be sure to send out an update.
Steven
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I'd love to. Last year I was debugging VisualEditor with help of Amir especially for Japanese input, however, there was not enough time for doing it thoroughly. (And it took place at a bar :-)
Takashi [[U:Takot]]
On Monday, July 28, 2014, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
Will love to do the testing. Will be there to give them a try.
rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from smartphone On Jul 27, 2014 6:36 PM, "Deryck Chan" <deryckchan@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','deryckchan@gmail.com');> wrote:
That'd be very useful. Over the last year, most of the things I did on-wiki ended up involving filing a bug report at some stage, so it'd be great to try them all out in one go. On 27 Jul 2014 06:26, "Steven Walling" <steven.walling@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','steven.walling@gmail.com');> wrote:
Hi everyone,
With Wikimania coming up soon, I wanted to invite Wikimedians who are going to help with something new we're trying at the conference.
Like most Wikimanias, there are many sessions in the program that attempt explain software changes that have happened or will happen in the future on Wikimedia projects. These are great, but they don't give people a chance to try out something for themselves and provide feedback.
This year, we're going to have a booth at the conference with several devices set up (including both laptops and mobile devices). There, we'll be inviting whoever is interested and has 5-30 minutes to test out new tools.[*] Whether you're a reader who's never edited, or a longtime Wikimedian with thousands of edits, they'll be something for you to try.
Abbey Ripstra, the new lead on user experience research at the Foundation, will be leading this effort. I just wanted to give a notice because I'm not sure she's on the list, and because some of my team's work will be up for testing. ;-)
So far, we've got the following projects with things to test:
- Updates to VisualEditor, including a new version for tablets
- Flow (a new discussion system)
- A new system of task recommendations for Wikipedia editors
- the new Wikipedia apps for iOS and Android
- a prototype of skin and navigation enhancements (codenamed Winter, if
you're familiar)
As we nail down the exact location of the booth, we'll be sure to send out an update.
Steven
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On Jul 27, 2014 11:36 PM, "Takashi OTA" supertakot+wikimania@gmail.com wrote:
I'd love to. Last year I was debugging VisualEditor with help of Amir especially for
Japanese input, however, there was not enough time for doing it thoroughly.
(And it took place at a bar :-)
We (the VE team, and David Chan in particular) are working on a change that should make support for input method editors (IMEs) a lot better. This includes Japanese input, but also Chinese, Indic languages, and many others.
We're aiming for this code to be ready by Wikimania, so we can get people to test it at the conference. So if you use an IME to edit in your language and it doesn't work right in VisualEditor, come see us at Wikimania. If you can show us the problem in person, it's much easier for us to figure out what's going wrong and fix it.
Roan
I could give it a try, would love to test.
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From: Nkansah Rexford Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 5:00 PM To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)
Will love to do the testing. Will be there to give them a try.
rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from smartphone
On Jul 27, 2014 6:36 PM, "Deryck Chan" deryckchan@gmail.com wrote:
That'd be very useful. Over the last year, most of the things I did on-wiki ended up involving filing a bug report at some stage, so it'd be great to try them all out in one go.
On 27 Jul 2014 06:26, "Steven Walling" steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
With Wikimania coming up soon, I wanted to invite Wikimedians who are going to help with something new we're trying at the conference.
Like most Wikimanias, there are many sessions in the program that attempt explain software changes that have happened or will happen in the future on Wikimedia projects. These are great, but they don't give people a chance to try out something for themselves and provide feedback.
This year, we're going to have a booth at the conference with several devices set up (including both laptops and mobile devices). There, we'll be inviting whoever is interested and has 5-30 minutes to test out new tools.[*] Whether you're a reader who's never edited, or a longtime Wikimedian with thousands of edits, they'll be something for you to try.
Abbey Ripstra, the new lead on user experience research at the Foundation, will be leading this effort. I just wanted to give a notice because I'm not sure she's on the list, and because some of my team's work will be up for testing. ;-)
So far, we've got the following projects with things to test:
- Updates to VisualEditor, including a new version for tablets
- Flow (a new discussion system)
- A new system of task recommendations for Wikipedia editors
- the new Wikipedia apps for iOS and Android
- a prototype of skin and navigation enhancements (codenamed Winter, if you're familiar)
As we nail down the exact location of the booth, we'll be sure to send out an update.
Steven
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability_testing
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I could give it a try, would love to test it.
Abdulai, Mohammed Sadat
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From: Nkansah Rexford Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 5:00 PM To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)
Will love to do the testing. Will be there to give them a try.
rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from smartphone
On Jul 27, 2014 6:36 PM, "Deryck Chan" deryckchan@gmail.com wrote:
That'd be very useful. Over the last year, most of the things I did on-wiki ended up involving filing a bug report at some stage, so it'd be great to try them all out in one go.
On 27 Jul 2014 06:26, "Steven Walling" steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
With Wikimania coming up soon, I wanted to invite Wikimedians who are going to help with something new we're trying at the conference.
Like most Wikimanias, there are many sessions in the program that attempt explain software changes that have happened or will happen in the future on Wikimedia projects. These are great, but they don't give people a chance to try out something for themselves and provide feedback.
This year, we're going to have a booth at the conference with several devices set up (including both laptops and mobile devices). There, we'll be inviting whoever is interested and has 5-30 minutes to test out new tools.[*] Whether you're a reader who's never edited, or a longtime Wikimedian with thousands of edits, they'll be something for you to try.
Abbey Ripstra, the new lead on user experience research at the Foundation, will be leading this effort. I just wanted to give a notice because I'm not sure she's on the list, and because some of my team's work will be up for testing. ;-)
So far, we've got the following projects with things to test:
- Updates to VisualEditor, including a new version for tablets
- Flow (a new discussion system)
- A new system of task recommendations for Wikipedia editors
- the new Wikipedia apps for iOS and Android
- a prototype of skin and navigation enhancements (codenamed Winter, if you're familiar)
As we nail down the exact location of the booth, we'll be sure to send out an update.
Steven
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability_testing
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