Hoi, There is no point in usability studies when the lessons learned are not applied. At the Boston Wikimania there was another person who had done studies on usability and MediaWiki. She even presented about it at the "Hacker days"...
Given the current opportunity, we should make the most of it. We should improve our usability and learn from the existing usability studies. They are far more relevant to us then most of the other studies performed on us. These studies help us to do better, to be more inclusive, to grow our projects.
As to Commons, it is effectively useless to the people that do not speak English. There is a proof of concept solution to this. In my opinion, it does not make sense to ask people to upload to Commons if the images are lost once loaded because for them there is no way to find these pictures again. So while the wizard may help load the pictures and provide license info, they do not solve the more important problem. Thanks, GerardM
2008/12/1 geni geniice@gmail.com
2008/12/1 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, The software has been tested but not all extensions are considered ready
for
WMF production. I am establishing contacts with, among others, people at UNICEF to make sure that we identify the outstanding issues carefully and fix them efficiently. Given that the CreatePage extension requires
changes
to the skin, it may make sense to consider using a superset of monobook
(I
do not know how feasible this is).
We need to find a way to make this kind of usability tests a more regular thing. There was one done in german way back that highlighted the issue of image uploads but I have no idea if the current commons upload form and and english upload wizard help with that.
-- geni
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