On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Steven Zhang <cro0016(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds like a great way to get insight from our new
editors :)
If video reactions are desired, I think at one point we (WMF) videoed
people that had never edited before, try and edit with the source code
editor, and they described their experience after. Might also be helpful in
addition to this. I recall viewing it during Sue's Wikimania keynote in
Hong Kong.
Steve
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On 29 May 2014, at 6:24 pm, Lila Tretikov
<lila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I wanted to share my first editing experience and ask for your help. Here
it is:
Today I have made the first edit on English Wikipedia. As I said in my
first meeting -- I believe in traveling the path of our editors, so I can
better understand them and so taht we can make their experience more
natural.
I have edited in private wikis before and I have edited the talk pages. I
used the Visual Editor, even though I am well-versed in the syntax. I had
the advantage of a very very experienced user by my side and it went
pretty
smooth -- so this report is not entirely fair.
Even though, I did stumble
in a few places, however, and this is a learning experience for me and
for
our team.
Overall I wish I had this on video. It is a bit like an experience of a
kid
making their first goal. Exhilarating.
So now I have a challenge back to you:
- Please pick a friend who has never edited before.
- Ask them to make an edit. Any edit in any language.
- Please have them write one paragraph about their experience.
- Have them send it to lila at wikimedia with the subject: #1
Thank you!!!
Lila
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